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Show ' W1CKERSHAI1 If! CLEVELAND SPEECH SCOPES RECALL AND BOOSTS FOR RECIPROCITY CLEVELAND, O.. March 11. Dedicatory Dedica-tory xrctM of Owl&n4'a f4.vO.no Mi ltd in wf concluVl la at nta-ht with banquat nmltr the anrrca of ha ehaiubar of oomnwrf. at which S0 of tha tyg t4inc mon awl diatlnculaaotf Twata wrm prnaic. j Tha main addi vaa by Attorn 7 Owral Gf nra-a W. . wickrham. who poho on "Too "tat and Nation."' air. Wrckantrmm ma 4 a ati-ona oloa for an Indpndant Judic.arr and acorM th recall aa "tha latent Invention of a4f. rharactarlaed 'pniarroaatvo awarnaaaat.' Wickonlum on eoTemment. "lUpraaentatlv rpublW-aji tvrrn mant. ' aakt h. "waa founded on a practical prac-tical rocoailtlon of tha faota that in a - buay, proapamua community tha avarar cltixet. ran flv but llttla tlma to tha dtalt of hla aorerri merit. Ho thare-for thare-for Jolna with hla fellow 4rtora la a-lectin a-lectin raoraacatatlToa to fram tho law from which to b governed, and la rhooa-tn; rhooa-tn; tha principal offlcora who ar to axecuta thorn. Hla life, liberty and property prop-erty ar protected from undue Invasion In alt her branch of th aT"Trnmnt by mean of oonatltutlonal restriction upon thlr no were; and by ltmttlnT tha tarma for which they are rhneen thr la re quired of (Hero a periodical account of Ueir at e wardship "Thfa avstam eecyrea to th acenta freeVam from undu Interference, duiinjt their terms of office), thua (rtvtruj thm tlma to work out any problem and to aubmlt It to tho teat of experience before be-fore U la condemned. Abueea of power occur under all forma of icovarnnient. "Repreaentatlvea rhoaen to make law for siat or nation hava not alwaya been faithful to their truat. The vreater Importance Im-portance of th national lesiaUtiire upon which th rea of the nation ar direct- 1 ed haa. aa a rule, preserved It from th 1 corruption and the Inefficiency of many ! of th atata leaialattirea. The hlatory I of the latter haa been too of tan a history his-tory of venality and stupidity. Mlataa of Reformers. "But la tha remedy to he found In tha overthrow of th whole evatem of representative repre-sentative government ? Political and an-ciaj an-ciaj reformer alike ar prone to advocate th overthrow of a ayatem rather than the more difficult taak of selecting ftt arenta to conduct the avstem and of th biinftln of unjuat stewards to account. "What are Judg-ee but Impartial arbitrator arbi-trator to whom any one of ua may be compelled at any moment to turn for protection of life, limb or property? What will become of that protection If our system sys-tem of trnvernment should subject htm to the rase of the moh. when he aeaerts the supremacy of the law In the face of unjust clamor? Who of us will ha ae-mre ae-mre In all that we hold dear If our Judges can only retain their places by consulting the pasains fever of the crowd Instead of the laws of the land? "A prllb, cheap answer Is made by the advocates of purely democratic sjovern-ment sjovern-ment when objection Is made to their scheme: 'Ton do not truat the people. they say. On the contrary. It Is they who do not truat the people. Their whole pmgr&mm Is based on the assumption that the people are unfit or unahle to chooea honest and faithful representative. representa-tive. "Under such a sytem the people abandon aban-don all self-restraint and the neoeealty of sober second thought, baaed on accurate Information and thorough dlscuaalon before be-fore condemning the servant." Advocates Reciprocity. The attorney general in conclusion strongly Indorsed President Taft'e plan for recrlpocliy with Canada. He pointed out that the total groea tonnage of the American mercantile marine for the year 1W registered at all Atlantic and gulf porta waa I,0v,8M tons, and at tha lake ports 3.783,41 tons. "Only a vexatious revenue tariff burden bur-den the exchange of trade and commerce com-merce between us," he said. "The aggregate ag-gregate amount of Canadian product Is not large. The amount of out lea collected col-lected by us upon them I inconsiderable; inconsider-able; the amount collected by Canada upon our exports to her shore Is trivial. Her labor Is of th same character as our. No principle of protection to our home Industry la, therefore. Involved In establishing the greateet freedom of trade and commerce between the United States and Canada. "The days of Isolated national life are past. We can not longer look at our next door neighbor aa aliens or strangers. strang-ers. Their Interests are In large measure ! bound up with ours. In the continued and closer union of th Anglo-Saxon peo- plea He the world's heat hope for Its ' continued peao and prosperity." |