Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 22, 1912, Page 2

(koo Twecanos || A CHARTER- OF 800 RAILROAD 162 East Bound Leaves 9:54 a. m. 163 West Bound Leaves 4:37 p. m. 186 East Bound Leaves 2:45 p. m. 187 West Bound Leaves 10:38 a. m. GREAT NORTHERN 33 West Bound Leaves 3:30 p. m. 34 East Bound Leaves 1 8 p. m. 356 West Bound Leaves 3:42 a. m. 36 East Bound Leaves 1:16 a. m. 106 North Bound Arrives 7:45 p. m. 106 South Bound Leaves 6: 3 a. m Freight West Leaves at 9:00 a. m l‘reight East Leaves at 3: 3 p. m. 32 South Bound Leaves 8:15 a. m. 31 North Bound Leaves 6:20 p. m. 34 South Bound Leaves 11:45 p. m. 33 North Bound Leaves 4:30 a. m. Freight South Leaves at 7:30 a. m. Freight North Leaves at 6:00 . m Mian, Red Lake & Man. 1 North Bound Leaves 3:36 p. m 2 South Bound Leaves 10:30 8. m PROFESSIONAL CARDS LAWYERS RAHAM'M. TORRANCE LAWYER - Telephone 560 Miles Block H. FISK » ATTORNEY AT LAW Office over Baker's Jewelry Store. HARRY MASTEN {Piano Tuner ermerly o l“.lhut_ & Ceo, of 81. Pau Instructor of Viokn, Piano, Mando- iin ‘and Brass Instruments. Music furnished for balls, hotels, weddings, banquets, and all occasions. Terms reasonable. All music up to date.§ NARRY MASTEN, Plaze Tuser Room?36, Third floor, IBrinkman Hotel Telephone 535 PHYSICIANS AND SURCEONS D® R. E. A. SHANNON, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEGN Office in Mayo Block Res. Phone 397 R. C. K. SANBORN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office—Miles Block A. WARD, M. D. *® Over First National Bank. Phone 5! House No. Phone 351 R. A. E. HENDERSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON wver First National Bank, Bemidji, Minn. ‘0ffice Phone 36. Residence Pone 72. R. E. H. SMITH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office in Winter Block R. E. H. MARCUM PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office in Mayo Block Phone 18 Residence Phone 21» INER W. JOHNSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office over Security Bank. DENTISTS R. D. L. STANTON DENTIST Office in Winter Block R. J. T. TUOMY DENTIST 1st National Bank Build'g. Telephone 230 R. G. M. PALMER DENTIST Miles Block Evening Work by Appointment Only EDUARD F. NETZER, Ph. C. RECISTERED PHARMACIST Postoffice Corner ROWLAND GILMORE PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office—Miles Block whone 396 Phone 304 Personal attention to prescriptions OM SMART DRAY AND TRANSFER SAFE AND PIANO MOVING Wesidonce Phafia 58 818 Amorica Ave. Office Phane 12 C. 6. JOHNSON Lands Loans Stocks Come in and look over my list of lands in Polk and Red Lake Counties. Office—Bacon Block. DEM OCRACY, Rooseveli’s Address Before the Ohio Gonstitutional Convention. FAVORS HEGALL OF JUDGES. Control of Trusts Should Be Adminis- | | public servant and of every man who trative and Not Judicial—Lincoln Pointed the Way We Must Foliow. Approves Initiative and Referendum, Direct Nominations and Popular Election of Senators. Mr. President and Members of the Ohio Constitutional Convention: 1 am profoundly sensible of the hon- or you have done me in asking me to address you. You are engaged in the ifundamental work of self government. You are engaged in framing a consti- tution under and in accordance with which the people.are to get and.to do Justice and absolutely to rule them- selves. . No representative body can have a higher task. To carry it through successfully there is need to combine practical common sense of the most hard headed kind with a spirit of lofty idealism. I believe in pure democracy. With -Lincoln I hold that “this country, with its-institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing govern- ment they can ‘exercise their constitu- tional right of amending it.” We pro- gressives belleve that the people have the right, the power and the duty to protect themselves and their own wel- fare; that human rights are supreme over all other rights; that wealth should be the servant, not the master, of the people. We believe that unless Tepresentative government does abso- lutely represent the people it is not representative government at all. We test the worth of all men and all meas- ures by asking how they contribute to the welfare of the men, women md- children of whom this nation is com- posed. We are engaged in one of the great battles of the age long contest waged against privilege on behalf of the common welfare. We hold it a prime duty of the people to free our government from the control of money in politics. This country, as Lincoln said, be- longs to the people. So do.the natural resources which make it rich. They supply the basis of our prosperity now and hereaffer. In preserving them, which is a national duty, we must net forget that monopoly Is based on the control of natural resources and nat- ural advantages and that it will help the people little to conserve our nat- ural wealth unless the benefits which 1t can yield are secured to the people. Let us remember also that conserva- tion does not stop with the natural re- sources, but that the principle of mak- Ing the best nse of all we have re- quires with equal or greater insistence that we shall stop the waste of human ‘ent the waste of human welfare which flows from the uafair nse of concentrated power and wealth in the hands of men whose eagerness for profit blinds them to the cost of what they do. We have no higher duty fhan to promote the effi- clency of the individual. There is no surer road {o the efficiency of the na- tlon. Power Is the People’s. I am emphatically a believer in con- stitutionalism, and because of this fact I no less emphatically protest against any theory that would make of the constitution a means of thwarting in- stead of securing the absolute right of the people to rule themselves and to provide for their own social and in- dustrial well being. All constitutions, those of the states no less than that of the nation. are designed and must be interpreted and administered so as to ftit human rights. Lincoln so in- terpreted and administered the na- tlonal coustitution. Buchanan at- tempted the reverse, attempted to fit human rights to and limit them by the constitution. It was Buchanan who treated the courts as a fetish, who protested against and condemmned all criticism of the judges for unjust and unrighteous decisions and upheld the constitution u instrument for the protection of privilege and of vest- ed wrong. It wa coln who ap- pealed to the people nst the judges when the judges went wrong, who ad- voeated amd cured what S prac- tically the recall of the Dred Scott de- clsion and who treated the constifu- tion as a living force for righteous- ness. We stand for :xm)l\ln;: the con- stitution to the issues of today as Lin- coln applied it to the issues of his day. Lineoln, mind you, and not Buchanan. was the real upholder and preserver of the constitution, for the true pro- gressive, the progressive of the Lin- mp. is the only true constitu- . the only real eonservative. If the constitution is successfully in- voked to nullify the effort to remedy injustice it is proof positive either that the coustitution needs immediate amendment or else that it Is being wrongfully and improperly construed. I therefore very earnestly ask you clearly to provide in this constitution means which will enable the people readily to amend it if at any point It works injustice and also means which will permit the people themselves by popular vote, after due dellberation and discusgion, but finally and with- out appeal, to settle what the proper construction of any constitutional v S from the view that it is either wise or | shows Lincoln’s .homely, kindly..com- ot T _of 'protection as any- other rights. ) {80 as to encourage legitimate Lonest { bound to fail. and the effort, in so far | point ls, It is often sald that onu |l a government of checks and balances. But this should only mean that these checks and balances obtain as among the several different kinds of repre- sentatives of the people—judiclal, ex- ecutlve and legislative—to whom the people have delegated certain portions of their power. 1t does not mean that the people have parted with their.pow- er or cannot resume it. The “division of powers” is merely the division among the representatives of the pow- ers delegated to them. The term must not be held to mean that the people have divided their power with their delegates. The power is the peo- ple’s and only the people’s. Make Popular Rule Effective. T hold it to be the duty of every in public or in private life holds a posi- tlon of leadership in thought or action to endeavor honestly and fearlessly to guide his fellow countrymen to right decisions, but 1 emphatically dissent necessary to try to devise methods ‘which under the constitution will auto- matically prevent the people from de- clding for themselves what govern- mental action they deem just and prop- er. It is impossible to invent constitu- tional devices which will prevent the popular will' from being effective for ‘wrong without also preventing it from being éffective for right, The only sife course to follow in this great American democracy is to providefor making the popular judgment really effective. Lincoln, with his clear vision. his i grained sense of justice and his s of kindly friendliness to all. for our present struggle and saw the way out. What he said should be pondered by capitalist and workingman alike. He spoke as follows (I condense): I hold that while man exists it is hLis duty to improve not only his condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankmd Labor is prior to and independent of. c: ital. Labor is the superior of capital 'nu] deserves much, the higher consideration. { Capital has its rights, which are as worthy | should this lead to & war upon prope: Property is the fruit of labor. Property is ‘desirable, is ‘a positive good in the world. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him ‘work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. This - last -sentence characteristically mon sense. His is the atfitude that/we ought to take. He showed the proper sense of proportion in his relative esti- mates of capital and labor, of human rights and the rights of wealth. Prosperity Must Be Distributed. The ends of good government ia our democracy are to secure by genuiune ; popular rule’'a high average of umml{ and material well being among our citizens. It has beén well said that in | the past we have paid attention only to the accumulation of prosperity. and that from henceforth we must pay equal attention to.the proper dish'ibu-| tlon of-prosperity. This is true. The! only prosperity worth having is (hat | which. affects the mass of the people. We are bound to strive for the fair dis- tribution “of prosperity. ' But it Dbe- : hooves us to remember that there is no} use in devising methods for the proper distribution of prosperity unless the prosperity is there to distribute. I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage- i the ordi- | worker, the small producer, nary consuwmer, shall- get their fair share of the benefit of business pros- | perity. But it cither is or ought to be evident to every one that business has to prosper before anybody can get any benefit {rom it. Therefore I hold that | he is the real progressive, that he isi the genuine champion of the people. | who endeavors to shape the policy alike of the nation and of the several states | business at the same time that he wars | against all crookedness and injustice | and unfairness and tyranny in the busi- | ness world, for of course we can only get business put on a basis of perma- sperity when the element of in- Justi aken out of it. 'This is the reason why I have for so many years insisted as regards our nationzl gov- | ernment that it is both futile and mis- chievous to endeavor ‘to correct the evils of big husiness by an attempt to restorec business conditions as they were in the middle of the last century, before railways and telegraphs had ven- | dered larger business organizationys both | inevitable and desirable. The effort to restore such conditions | and to trust for justice solely to such proposed r ation is as foolish as if we should attempt to arm our troops with the flintlocks of Washington's Continentals instead of with modern weapous of precision. Flintlock legis- | lation of the kind that seeks to pro- hibit a1l combinations, good or bad, is accomplishes anything at all, | some of the worst not checked and that honest business is checked. What is needed is, first, the recognition that modern business conditions have come to stay, in so far at least as these con- ditions meam that business must be done in larger units, and then the cool | headed and resolute determination to introduce an effective method of reg- ulating Dig corporations €o as to help legitimate bhusiness as an incident to thoroughly and completely safegnard- ing the intevest of the: people as a | whole. We are @ business people. The tillers of the soil. the wageworkers, | the husiness men-*these are the three big and vitally important divisions of our population. The welfare ‘of each | division is vitally necessary to the wel- fare of the people us a whole. The great mass of business is, of course. done Ly men whose business is mther small or of moderate size: Should Be Fixed_Policy. The average business man of this type is, as a rule, a leading citizen of Bis community, foremost In everything | e e s e as it merely means th combination: flmt.tells for its betterment, a man whom his neighbors. lcok up to and re- spect: He is in no sense dangerous to| his community just because he is an in- tegral part of his community,bone of its bone and flesh of its flesh. His life fibers are intertwined with the life fibers of his fellow citizens. Yet nowadays many kind when they come to trade agreements with one another ml themselves in danger of becoming unwitting transgressors of the law and are at & loss to know what the law forbids and what it per- mits. This is all wrong. There should be a fixed governmental policy, a policy which shall “clearly define and punish wrongdoing aud shall give in advance full information to any man as to just what he can and just what he cannot legally and properly do. It is absurd and wicked to treat the deliberate law- breaker as on an exact par with the man eager to obey the law, whose only desire. is to tind out.from some compe- tent governmental authority what the law is and then live up to it. It is ab- gdrd to endeavor to regulate business in the interest of the public by means of long drawn lawsuits without any dccompaniment of administrative con- trol and regulation and without any attempt to discriminate between the honest man “vho has succeeded in busi- ness becausc of rendering a service to the public and the dishonest man who has succeeded in business by cheating the public. So much for the small business man and the middle sized business man. Now fur big business. It is imperative to exel e over big business a control on which are unnecessary 1l business. All busi- ness must be conducted under the law, i husiness men, big or little, must But a wicked big interest iy more dangerous te the iu the past has been resporsible for much of the spe- Washington's Birthday. February 22 elal privilege whkh must. be nnspar ‘lngly cut out of our mtional life. "1 do ot believe in lnuldng ere size of and by itself criminal. The mere fact of size, however, does unquestionably carry the potentiality of such grave wrongdoing that there should bLe by law provision made for the strict super- d regulation of these great in- I concerns doing an interstate business, much as we now regulate the transportation agencies whieh are en- gaged in interstate business. The anti- trust Iaw does good in so far as it can be invoked against combinations which really are monopolies or which restrict production or which artificially raise prices. But in so far as its workings are uncertain or as it threatens corpor- ations which have not been:guilty. of anti-social conduct it does harm. More- over, it cannot by itself accomplish more than a trifiing part of the gov- ernmental regulation of big business which is needed.. The nation.and.the, states must co-operate in this matter. Among the states that have entered this fleld Wisconsin has taken a lead- \ing place. * Following Senator La Fol lette, a number of practical workers and thinkers in Wisconsin have turned that state into an experimental labora- tory of wise governmental action ii aid of social and industrial justice. They have Initiated the kind of progressive government which means not merely the preservation of true democracy, but the extension of the principle of true democracy into industrialism’as well as into politics. One prime reason why the state has been o successful in this policy lies in the fact that it has done justice to corporations precisely-as it has exacted justice from them. This is precisely the attitude we should take toward big business. It is the practical application of the prin- elple of the square deal. Not only as .| & matter of justice, but in our own interest. we should scrupulously re- spect the rizhts of honest and decent (Cdnéinued on. Page [3) Telephone Dr. J.A. McClure your horse troubles. No charge to answer Phones, No trouble to ry Remedies for sale A. McCire, Phone. 105. .. show goods, Vet rd. WANTED POULTRY RAISERS to know that Dr. J. A. 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They could use cheaper cloth, cheaper | i { i i trimmings, cheaper tailoring, and you'd probably never know the difference; but they won't. These clothes are made to give you, the wearer, the best service; theyre the cheapest i clothes you can buy for that reason. They’re the best for us to sell for that reason. We profit by your profit o fSugTfi $18 and up Overcoats $16 50 and up .