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Show FALSE FEARS OF THE MINORITY. The Herald-Republican labors heavily while trjing to convince the people that Roosevelt has suffered a dreadful malady of the J mind. That paper says: i Popular government, however, and representative gov- i ernment arc, in one aspect, synonymous, and in another they are thoroughly dissimilar. Popular government is government gov-ernment by the people, such as Colonel Roosevelt advocates, without limitations of any sort, by constitution or otherwise. other-wise. Such injustice as the minority may suffer by reason rea-son of majority control, under this theory, must not and cannot be rectified, because the people have spoken and the majority must rule. "The king can do no wrong' 'was the accepted truth under tho rule of the Bourbons; under direct goverment, the popular will can do no wrong. That is the idea upon which Colonel Roosevelt is working, work-ing, and his usually fine mind has become distorted by this application of first principles which, in theory, sounds splendid but in" practice would do grave injustice. The minority in whose behalf the Herald-Republican labors and for whom that paper is most concerned are the predatory rich who have controlled legislation and have clogged the machinery of the law and made a farce of our judicial system for the past twenty years or more. Why not allow the majority to control, cvcnHhough a mistake be made now and then? The mistakes of the great body of the people cannot be more damaging to the welfare of the masses and the country as a whole than have the intrjgues and corrupt practices prac-tices ofltheV'capitalistic minority, that in power and prestige has long dominated the affairs of this nation. tn |