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Show TAFT LECTURES ON MODERN GOVERNMENT NEW HAVEN, Coan., May J. Prof. William Howard Taft gave Friday the first of a aeries of lectures at Yale on "Questions of Modern trovern-ment." trovern-ment." in which he declared that he did not believe the new school of political po-litical thinkers that haa sprung np within the last decade ultimately would , cl rnpS He said the new school had It. tacked the wisdom of our fathera and would reject the fundamental principles princi-ples of our democratic form of government govern-ment aa embodied in the constitution. "I cannot believe." ha aaid. "that this school of philosophy ultimately will triumph. That it may contain some elements of troth and useful principle, leading to some changes and amendments in our laws of a permanent perma-nent character may be so; but that It is going to make a radical change in the structure of our government and do away with the fundamental princi plee I eaanot believe. " Ha discussed at considerable length the preamble of the constitution, dwelling particularly on the meaning of the words,-"We the people." Mr Taft interpreted those words to mean those men who represented the people in the framing of the document, lie aaid there never waa and never will be a time when the whole people will have a direct voiee in the framing of our laws. This will have to be done by the people 'a representatives and a basic principle of our popular form of government. Popular government, he said, ia not an end but a meaaa, and if it gave the greatest measure of prosperity pros-perity and happiness to the people it must' be regarded as a success. He aaid the real objection to woman suffrage Is that women would not improve im-prove their opportunity by means of the ballot. |