| Show LET PEOPLE RULE SAYS ROOSEVELT altitude oo on popular PEOPLES VOICE MUST faust PREVAIL P cheered for speech in opening active campaign for nomination buot taft as opposed to the majority i stands squarely on n his hi columbus 0 address the salient passages la in colonel Roosevel ts forceful campaign speech delivered ieH vered in carnegie hall new york wednesday evening are given below the great fundamental issue zio W before tho the republican party and be fore our people can bg b stated briefly IL 1 la Is are thi th i American people fit to sovern overn themselves to rule rille themselves 10 to lo control themselves I 1 believe they are am my opponents do not I belleve believe in tho the right of at the people to rule I 1 bellevo believe that the ma bority ot of tile the plain people of the unit ed states will do day dabin ari and day out biake fewer mistakes in fit governing themselves than any similar class or tody body of dpn no matter what thelt their training braining will make in trying to gov era them I 1 believe again that tart the american people as a whole ire are capi capa ble cleot ot self control and ami of learning aarn ns by their mist mistakes alces our opponents pay VV up r loyalty loya liy to this doctrine do trine but they show their real beliefs lv by the way in which they ambion clam cl plon every devico davice to the nominal ruc of th tha people a shani i I 1 have scant patience with this talk of ff the tyranny of the major majority aty whenever there Is tyranny ot of the majority I 1 shall protect against it with all my heart beart and soul cut but we are today tut af fering from tho the tyranny ot of the minorities ft la Is a small minority that Is ii crabbing our coal de deposits our latr powers and our harbor fronts A small a fattening on the sale of 0 adulterated foods and drugs drues it t Is a 3 small minority that lies behind roo iro nop nopo olics lips and trusts trust it is a small minority that stands behind the present prent law ot of master and servant the sweat sho the whole calendar of so cial atif anil industrial injustice it is a smal mal minority that is todar using our convention system to defeat the will of 0 a majority ot of the people in ho apo rholie of dele delo sates ates to the chicago con my M opi opponents charge that two things ii 11 program tire are arong because intrude into abe thc sanctuary of the Judi judiciary elary I 1 the first Is the recall recal of judges and alid the second the lie review by tile the cople 61 d judicial on an ertain excel dional questions I 1 have said asan agan and again that I 1 do not advocate the recall of judges fudges in all states and in al all communities the integrity of 01 our r judges from marshall to white and holmes tind and to cullen aud many others in our state is a fine ray rage of i american history dut cut I 1 siy it s so q herly berly democracy has a rieba to approach the sanctuary of the court when a special interest lias has corruptly found too and this Is exact ly what has happened in some of the states where the recall of tile the judges Is 1 1 ti levinz issue Is it not equally plain that the question whether a given social policy is for the public good Is riot not of a judicial nature but should resettled be settled by bv the legislature legia lature or in the final instance ty by the them selves the president of the united states iff taft devoted most of a recent speech to criticism of this proposition ile he says sans that it la Is utterly without merit or utilla nil ad instead of being in the friter filtered ert I 1 ul all the people and ef ct the copular op ular lar government Is sowing the Is of contusion and tyranny by he of course meint meant tho the tyranny ni e majority that is tle the tyranny of r american people as s whole ile he i i says that my pro bosil which az aa to ie rightly sees it la Is werely a peoro ni 1 l to give the people a real instead ot of only a nominal chance to const constine cons lue and amend state les with rapidity would mae artal e such sih and in on pj end or the fT erIsh tarn and ui ai stalle of ive votes on different din law by y temporary ind cl arbing charging ar ging major atles and that I 1 it iab lais s the axe at the loot odthe of he tree of well ordered free doca zad and suba ts the guarantees of life liberty and property without r reni rr cady fit the impulse of a demro o rry majbritt maj mij of an electorate this criticism is really less a cr tt tl easm ot of my proposal than a citi of el a 1 l popular govern government it la is wholly unfounded unless it Is founded on tte tle belief that the deorle atre untrustworthy this ills la 19 that I 1 propose to sil ib tiit to the people ilow how can the tiro rr 14 tailing morality or a 1 Doin lon be better and more exactly as than hy by a vote of the hect geoia io tho the rr cyst ast know better tn tin ue oe court what ahat their own and their own opinion is I 1 ask that you i lere bere yott yc ii and others like you you the people le be given the chance to state your lour own views of 0 justice and public morality and not sit meekly by and have bave your views announced tor for you by b litell all moaning adherents OU of outworn philosophies who exalt the pedantry i ot of form formulas ulai above the vital needs of 0 luman union life amr mr tafts position Is the position t I 1 agathas A hathas hat has agen en held tom thet beginning our our gove government goven ment although althou eh not at w openly held by ft a nom nata ler of and honorable mel who ho down at this the bottom distrust kopik lar government and when they accept it 11 accept it with reluctance and hedge around it with every species of rasit alon and check aud and balance so as to rat the rower of 0 tile the people as limited and as a ineffective as ble mr ir tift taft fairly defines the isgut issus when he says that our government Is 14 and should bo be a of all the people by a part pail of the people this is an in excellent and moderate mod orate tion of 0 an oligarchy it defines out oui government ai a government of all el cl tile tho people by a few ew of a the people I 1 am not net speaking jokingly nor do I 1 to be unkind lor for I 1 repeat that many bon honorable oraLle and well meaning men inon of high character take this view and acil have taken it from the time of the formation of eliw nation essentially this view la Is that the lite constitution Is a jacket to be used for the con trot of in an unruly patient the people now kow I 1 hold that this view is not only false but brt mischievous that our consal are ara instruments designed to so se cure justice by securing the dellb deliberate rate but effective expression of the popular hilll T 11 II that the cheaks and balances arc valuable a far and only so far az as they accomplish that deliberation and that it Is a warped and unworthy and aad improper construction ot of our form ol of to see in it only a mears means of thwarting the popular will and ol of preventing jL justice stice tir mr taft says that every class should have a voice la ia the government that seems seeing to io me mea very serious misconception ot of the american political situation the rea I 1 troi ikle with us la Is that soai some classes have had too much voice oue one of the most important of all the lessons to la be taught and to be learned is that a man should vote not as a re presenta tive rive of i class but merely as a good citizen whose prime interests are the same as those of all other good citizens tafts taft disbelief lief in the 11 mr tift taft again acain and again la in quotations I 1 haie given and elsewhere through his speech expresses his dis belief in the people when nhen they vote at the polls in one sentence ho he says that the proposition L ves powerful effect to the momentary impulse of a majority of an electorate and prepares the way for the positive exercise of the gross est tyranny elsewhere he ol of the fever feverish sli uncertainty and un stable determination of laws by temporary and changing majorities and again le be says say that the system I 1 propose would result in suspension or application of constitutional guaran tees fees to popular whim which iT would tild destroy all 11 poss ihla con sis tency iu in constitutional interprets inter preta tion I 1 elioud much like illie to know the exact ast dst unction distinction that is to be made between what nhat mr taft calls the fitful impulse of a temporary majority when applied to a question ques tiou such as that I 1 raise ral lse and nd any other question remember member ne that ti at under my proposal to review a rule or derison lc ciji on by popular vote art tending or construing ton to that extent the constitution ion would certainly take at least two tio years from tho the time of UP tha elet election tion of the legislature which passed the act now only four months elapse between the nomination and the be el election eLtion or of a man as president to fill tor for four spart the most office in the land in one of mr tafts speeches lie he speaks of the voice of 0 the people as coming next to the voice of god apparently then the decision of tho people about the prest dency after four codr icara cars of 0 de delibera liber a tion is to bo bf treated as next to the voice of god od but it if after tv 0 yeara beani of thought they decide that wom en and children shall be protected in industry or men protected floal excessive hours of labor under unhygienic conditions ons or wage workers compensated when they lose life or limit limb in fit the lie service of others then their decision forthwith becomes a whim and feverish and unstable and an of the grossest ayi ryian n ny and tha laying of the axe at the foot of the lie arc tree e of freedom that is the od oli oh doctrine which has been abtil d upon for thousands of years abroad and which here in am arar amr r ia tins lins ben acted upon openly some sometimes for orty forty years br b many men in public arid and in private vre and I 1 arn am sorry to many judges a doctone which chivi in fit fact to reate create a bulwark fo privileges a bulwark unjustly lai ing special interests ag against chist tte the ri alst ta of the people e as a bhole this ti bioc wile trine is to nin mn a doc doclie lne tie fo its effect is 13 ard con can anly le be t to bakr the contorts art the 1 ne shield shipia or of g against lights ev CT ry ari of val rk ed prill eze flonly applauds alp eop OP wile trine it is s Iel ird the asbjeld ehi 1 l of aja doctrine that crooked creep in fit to laws thit that men of hillh control legislation r I 1 am riot not discussing discus sinz U alte recall tt of although alt lough I 1 wish vish it distinctly understood that the tha recall Is a mere place of machinery to taa tair the plane place of the unworkable impeachment which mr tatt taft in effect defends d teals and that it if the days of maynard haynard ever came back again in the state of now york f should favor it I 1 bareno wish to come to it but our opponents when they object to all efforts to secure real justice from the courts are the hands of those thosa who demand tee recall in a great many st states ates there has been for many years a real recall of judges as regards appointments point ments promotions reappoint ments menta and re elections and this re call was wa through the turn ot of a thumbscrew at tho the end of 0 a long distance rod in the hands ol of great interests I 1 believe that a ant judge juda would frel feel tar far safer inthe in the hands of 0 the people than in the hands of those interests my remedy Is S not the result of a library study ot of constitutional law but of Ot actual and long iong continued experience la in the use of governmental tower power to 0 o redress odal and catli again and atrin again earnest workers worker lor for social justice have baid to mo me that the most serious obstacles that they have hava encountered during the many years that they have been trying to savo save american women and children from destruction I 1 est ruction in american industry have been the courts that Is the judgment ot of almost all the social workers I 1 know and of dozens of parish priests and clergymen and of every executive and nd legislator who has been seriously attempting to use government as an asem agency y for social and industrial betterment what is the result ot of this system of judicial it vei accurately stated by the court of appeals new york in lite hie employers lia bality case where abere it was calmly anil and judicially declared that the people un der our republican government ara less free to correct the evils that oppress them than are tho the people ot of the monarchies of europe to any man with vision to any man with broad end call real social sympathies to an any man who believes with all his heart in this great democratic republic ot of ours such a condition Is intolerable it la Is riot not government by tho the people but mere sham shain government in which the will of fit the people tested it Is out ot of this experience that my remedy hastad and let it bo be tried in this field when agthe result of years scars of edit cation callon mid and debate a majority of the people have decided upon a remedy for an evil from born which they suiter suffer and have chosen a legislature pledged to embody that remedy in law and the he uw law has teen been finally passed and approved I 1 regard it as monstrous that a bench of 0 judges shall then say to the people you must begin all over again first amend your constitution which will take four years second secure the passage ot of a new law which illich will take two years more third carry cari that new law over it id weary course of litigation which will wil j take no human burnan being knows how long fourth submit the whole matter over again to tha very cry samo same judges who have rendered the decision to which you object then it if your patience holds out and you finally prevail tho the dillof will of the majority ot of A tha people may have its way such abys a system is not popular government but a mere mockery 0 of popular government the decisions of which we complain are as a rue based on the constitutional pro provision vison that no person shall be deprived ot or life libert yand property without due process ot of law the terms life liberty and property have been used in in the constitutions of 0 the english speaking people sines magria magna charta until within the last sixty years they wine were treated as having sp specific cefic meanings property moans mean tangible property liberty meart meant freedom from personal restraint cr iu in other wards word from imprisonment in its largest definition about 1870 ofir coarts began to attach to thesa the ilginis new mew meaning now property has ome come to mean cery c ery right of oc which a person pemon could enjoy and liberty has beau mado made to include includes the right to make contracts As a result lien i tho state limits the hours for alich v vl aich ich women may labor it is told by tire me courts that this law deprives them of liberty lad and when it restricts the manufacture of tobacco in a teno ment it Is told that the law deprives the landlord of his property now I 1 do not believe that any people and especially our tree free american people will long consent that the term liberty shall ce be defined tor for them by a 1 bench of judges every L aery people has defined that term tor for itself in tho the course of its development the task is to strive for justice jus lico first of our tasks as is americans Is to strive for social and industrial justice achieved through the genuine 1 tile rule ot of tile the people this is our end our purpose the methods for achieving tho the end are merely expedients to be finally acce accepted of oe rejected according as actual experience shows that they her voik well or ill but brit in our 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