Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 9, 1912, Page 2

| { | | 1 i | 1 ‘G E. CARSON. THE BEMIDJT DAILY PIONKER Published every afternoon except Sun- day by the. Remidji Ploneer Publishing Company. i E. K. DENU HAROLD J. DANE, Editor. In the City of Bemidji the papers are delivered by carvier, Where the deliv- ery is frregular please make immed complaint to this oflice. Telephone out of town subscribers will con favor it they will report when do not zet their papers promptly. AlL papers are continued until an ex- plicit order to discontinue is received, Al untibare are paid. 5 J8 a they postage stage postage . The Weekly Pioneer. Might pages, containing a sumn of the news of the week. and sent p for §1.50 in ad R SECOND CLASS MAT- AT THE POSTOFFICE AT BE- JI, MINN.,, UNDER THE ACT OF RCH 3, 1879. BN TER MI THIS DATE IN HISTORY. March 9. 1661-—Cardinal Jyles Mazavin, prime minister to Louis XIV of France, died in Paris. Born in Nuples, July 14, 1602. M. de I'Epinay arrived from VFrauce to take office as governor of 1743-—Gen. Oglothrope made a sudden attack on St. Augustine, Fla., but captured only a few Spaniards. 17 -Count de Mirabeau, French orator, statesman and revolutionist, born, Died April 2, 1791, 1837-—Bank of British North America opened, its first office in Montreal. 1862—Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac in Hampton Roads. 1888-—William, the first German emperor, died. Born March 22, Read Taft’s Speech. How soon will we be hearing of another Cook-Peary serap? “Untied”—What a difference between the two. “United” and Those balmy breezes up from the south this morning felt good. Bryan was in the Twin Cities yesterday and he i s good for a warm atmos- nherie distnrbance alwa This is the last issue in which the Pioneer blank ballot for presidential and gubernatorial be printed. 1If you have not done it, do it Ballots received after Monday noon will not be in time for the final count. The past two days has seen more votes cast than in the entire proceeding period. We like to work, so come on with the votes. candidates will now. The plan of the state central com- mittee of the Republican party to allow party voters to express their presidential candid4 dates must appeal to every man as a just measure. While the vote will not bind the central committee and convention, it is believed that should any decided preference be shown it will be taken into consideration. If the vote was binding, it would be a party referendum such as the Social- ists are using at present. preferences of Falls has a fire similar to the one in a recent International signal system advocated for Bemidji issue of the Pioneer. The other night, a house burned in Interna- tional. The big whistle on the paper mill gave the alarm and then blew another signal showing the ward in which the fire was located. The firemen and volunteers were able to save some valuable time in getting on the blaze. The system used in Bemidji was all right ten years ago but the city has outgrown it. water Some time ago, the Pioneer printed a method by which corn seed could be cested before planting. By plac- ing the seed between two damp cloths, placing a cover over them, and setting in a warm place the good seed will begin to sprout in a few days. This method can also be used in other seeds than corn so that there is no good reason why a farmer can- not be sure that his seed will come up and bring him a full crop. The time 1o test the seed is before it is put in the ground and not to wait for nature. You judge a man not by what he promises to do, but by what he has done. That is the only true test. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy judged by this standard has no superior. People everywhere speak of it in the highest terms of praise. For sale by Barker’s Drug Store. _—— BIDS FOR 'nvl;t‘x. OF CITY PAU- Sealed bids will be received hy the undersigned, for the burial of city pau- pers, to be opened before the city coun- cil, of the city of Bemidjl, at a regular meeting to be held in the council room, city hall, on the 18th day of March, 1912, at 8 o'clock p. m. Bidders to furnish coffin, and cheap clean underclothing and dig grave. City to turnish the burial ground. Contract will be awarded to lowest and hest bid- der. . Council reserves the right to reject any and all bids. GFO. STEIN, City Clerk. 3-9—8.11 PESEL ) THE JUDICIARY At Toledo, Ohio. GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE Checks and Balances of the Constitu tion—Duties of the Executive— Enforcement of the Laws by the Judiciary. Following is the speech deliverec by President Taft at Toiedo, Obio Friday evening: { In the last year or two we hav heard much of radical methods o changing the jucickuy systew. 1 we wonld properly consider these pro posals aund stand on solid and safe ground we must ve-examine the fund amental principles of stable popula government. The history of the worlc seems to show that our form ol o ernmeut is move enduring and satis factory than any other. We began a a small union of thirteen states strung along the \tlantic coast, o 3,000,000 people auni under the same constitntion we hava enlarged to ie world power of forty-eight sovereigr states bound into one of more thar 90,000,000 of people and with a humat guardianship of 10,000,000 more, nine in the Pacific -and one in the Atlantic We have fought, beginming with the revolution. four foreign wars, anc we have survived a civil war of the | greatest proportions vecorded in his- tory and have united the bat'ling sections by an indissoluble tie. From our body politic we bave excised the cancer of slaverly, the only thing pro- tected by the' constitution which was inconsistent with that liberty, the preservation of which was the main purpose of establishing the union | We have increased our business and productive activities in every diree: tion, we have expanded the develop- mentiof our natural resources to he continent wide and all the time we have maintained sacred those inalien able rizhts of man, the right of liter ty, the right of private property and the right to the pursuit of happiness. Greatest Good to Greatest Number. For these reasons, we believe in | popular ernment. Government is a human instrumenity—to secure the greatest good to the greatest number (lnd the greatest hapiness to the in- dividual. Experience, and especially the growth of popular government in our own history, has shown that in the long run every class of people, and by that T mean those similarly situ ated, are better able to secure atten tlon to their welfare than any othe: class, however, altruistic the latter class may be. Of course, this assumes that the members of the class have reasonable intelligence and capacity for knowing’ their own rights and in- terest. Hence, it follows that the best government, in the sense of the gov- ernment most certain to provide for and protect the right and governmen- tal needs of every class, is that one in which every class has a voice. In recognition of this the tendency from earliest times in our history has been the enlargement of the electorate to include in the ultimate source of governmental power as many as pos- sible of those governed. But even today, the electorate is not more in number than one fourth of the total number of those who are citizens of the nation and are the people from whom the government is maintained and whose rights and happiness the government is Intended to secure. More than this, government by unani- mous vote of the electorate is im- possible, and therefore the majority must rule. We find,“therefore, that government by the people is, under our present system, government by a majority of one fourtu of thnse whose rights and happiness are to be affecter by the course and condition ot the government. This is the nearest to a government by the whole people we have ever had. Woman’s Suffrage Coming. ‘Woman's suffrage will change this, and it is doubtless coming as soon as the electorate can be certain that most women desire it and will assume its burden and responsibility. But even then the electorate will only be part of the whole people. In other words, the electorate is a vepresentative gov- erning body for the whole people for which the government was establish- ed, and the controlling majority ot ‘the electorate is a body still less num- erous. It is thus apparent that ours s a government of all the people by a representative part of the people. Now the object of the ‘government is not only to secure the greatest good to the greatest number, but also to do this as near as may be by securing the rights of each individual in his lberty, property and pursuit of hap- piness; hence it was long ago recog- nized that the direct action of a tem- porary majority of the existing elec torate must be limited by fundamen- tal lawv—that is, by a constitution in- tended to protect the individual and the minority of the electorate and the non-voting majority of the people agalnst the unjust or arbitary action of the majority of the electorate. This made it necessary to introduce into the constitution cetain declarations as to the rights of the individual ‘which it was the purpose of the whole people ‘to' maintain through the gov- ernment against the aggression of any temporary majority of-the - electorate and to provide in the same instru ment certain procedure by which the individual might assert and vindicate those rights than to protest against the momentary impulse of a temporary majority of the electorate to change fundumental law and deprivethe in- dividual or the voting minority or the non-voting majority 'of . inallenable rights. The constitution provided a number of checks.and balances where- by every amendment to the constitu: tion must be adopted under = forms and with delays that are intended tc secure much deliberation on' the part of 'the ‘électorate “in ‘ adopting such AND PRGRESS President Taft Expresses Viewt | Makes delicious home- baked foods of maximum quality at minimum cost. Makes home baking a pleasure The only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar No Alum — No Lime Phosphates amendmens. i Quotes from Daniel Webster. | T cannot state ithe necessity fm“ maintaining the checks and balances! in a constitution to secure the guar| anty of individual rights and well or | dered liherty better than by quoting| from Dauiel Webster, He said: ! “The first object of a free people i the prescrvation, if only to be pre! served hy maintaining constitutiona | restraints angd just divisions of polit | feal power. Nething is more decep tive or more dangerous that the pre | tense of a desive to simplify govern | ment. The simplest governments arc! despotism, the next simplest limites| monarclies, but all republics, all gov ernments of law, must impose numer ! ous limitations and qualifications o authority and give many positive and many qualified rights. Tn other words | they must be subject to rule and ree ulation. This is the very essence of | { free polilical institutions. The spirii ! of liberty is indeed a bold and fea less spivit, hut it is also a sharp-sieht | ed spirit. 1t is a wautious, sagacious | diseriminating, far-seeing intelligence | It is jealous of encroachment, jealous of power, jealous of man. It demands | checks. It seeks for gourds. Tt in sists on securities. It entereth itsell behind strong defenses and fortifies itself with all possible care against the assaults and ambition of passion It does not trusf the amiable weak-| nesses of hnman nature, and there fore it will not permit power to over step its prescribed limits though be nevolence, =ccd intent and patriotic purposes ceme along with it. Neither does it satisfy itself with flashily and temporary resistance to illegal anth ority. Far otherwise. It seeks for duration and permanence. It looks before and after, and, building on the experience of ages which are past, il labors diligently for the benefit nf ages to come. This is the nature o! constitutional liberty, and this is cm liberty, if we will rightly understand and preserve it. “Every free government is necessar 1y complicated because all such rov ernments esfablish restraints as well on the power of government itself as on that of individuals. Tt we will.aho! ish the distinclion of branches anc¢ have but one branch, if we will aho! ish jury trials and leave it all to the Judge, if we will then ordain that the legislator himself be that judge, an¢ if we will place the executive powe: in the same hands. we may readily sim plify government. We may easily bring it to the simplest of all possihle forms—a pure despotism, but a sepa ration of departments so far as prac- tical and the preservation of clem llnes of division Letween them is the fundamental idea in. the creation of all our constitutions, and doubtless the continuance of regulated liberty depends on maintaining those boun: daries.” . o Three Branches of Government, These checks and balantes,-as has been pointed out, include the division of the government into three independ- ent branches, the legislative, execn: tive, and the judiciary and the prov!- slons by which usurpation by one of the functions of another is forbidden. The executive, while he is bound to .act in behalf of all the people and to regard their rights, is properly influ. enced by that ciscretionary poliey ‘which he was elected by constituents to warry out. Tn that sense, he rep; resents the majority of the electorate. So to, the legislative members elected to uphold certain governmental view of the marority, will properly favor the embodiment of such views in valid ‘legislation. But the judiciary are not representatives in’ any such senmse, whether appointed or elected. The moment they assume their duties: they must enforce the law as they find it. They must not only interpret and en- force valid enactments of the legis- lature according to its intention, but when thie legislature in its enactments has transgressed the limitations set upon its power in the constitution. the judicial branch of the government must enforce the fundamental and higher law by annulling and declaring invalid the offending legislative en- aetments. Then the judges are to de- cide between individuals on principles of right and justice. The great hody of law is unwritten, detérmined by precedent and founded on eternal principles of right and morality. This the courts have to declare and enforce. As between the individual and the state, as between the majority and the minority; as between. the: powerful and; the weak, financially, socially, politic ally, court. must hold an:even han gnd give judgement without fesr | favor. Tn so doing, they are perform-] ing a government function, but it is complete misunderstanding of our form of government, or any kind of government that exalts justice and righteousness, to assume that judges are hound to follow the will- of the majority of an electorate, in respect of the issue for their decision. In many ca before the judges, that temporary majority is a real party to the controversy to be decided. 'Tt may be .seeking to deprive an individual or a minvority of a vieht seenred Vo (he .fundamental law. In, such a case, if (he judges were mere representa- tive, or agents of the majority to ea. ry out its will, they would lose their Judicial character entirely, and the so-| called administraticn of justice woulé] be a farce. Reform of Judicial Procedure. i Having made clear what tions of ofir courts is under oux form of government in maintaining the constitutional suaranties of 1igits am n preserving againsl the usurpatior ©f the majority the rights of the non- voting part of the people and of the voting minority and of the individual We come now to examine the charges made against the existing system. 1 concede that the system is no perfect or as good as it can and.oughi to be made. I have been preaching the fune for reform, especially in the enforce | ment of the criminal law, for years Then tooj-I have pointed out in ad dresses and presidential messages. thi great need for cheapening the “est ¢ civil litigation and expediting it soa¢ to put-as little burden on the paor.) gant as possible. The defeats.in ou. Judiciary have not been in.the corpup: tion of judges but.mainly in the pro- cedure and in the helplessness of the judges in jury cases to assist in reach- Ing right conclusions. The popular impluse has been to take away the power from the judge and to give it all to the jury, and this has not heer for the public good -in . the .enforce- ment of the criminal law. Such-de- fects as ] have .dascribed are com- pletely within the control of the legis- latures of the state and congress, anc I am glad to szy that the movemen! for reform has been accelerated by ac: tion of the state and mational barvas: sociations, and. we mav lool: for de elded progress in the near future. But these humdrum defects anc their tedious remedies are not of th¢ spectacular character to.call for politi cal discussions. or to attract effort frow | (Continued: on last page) Cut this out and brin-g-it to the Pioneer office and secure one of our handsome \ iBemidji -Pioneer Office - Have YOU figured up YOUR PROFIT and LOSS accountfor 19117 ; : Why not decide to “CUT OUT” the LOSS items during 1912. ONE of the most common “LOSS” to OWN YOUR OWN HOME. 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Wholesale BREAD, GANDIES ICE CREAM Office and Works 315 Minnesota Ave. Phone _ Bemidjl, Minn. 128 WE ARE JOBBERS OF PIN TICKETS AND GUMMED LABELS No need to send outside of Bemidji for them THE Pioneer Supply Store Can Save you Money Bemidji Pioneer. Pub. Co. Send yourMail Orders to GEO. T, BAKER & G0, Manufacturing Jewelers and. Jobbers NORTHERN . GROCERY COMPANY «-WHOLESALE -GROGERS C. E. BATTLES Light and Hoavy Hardware Engine and Mill Supplies Smithing.Coal Mail Orders Solicited The Given_' - Hardware Co. Wholesale and Retall “Hardware They are “especially prepared to mpdyfllldlmm in their various Largest stock of Diamonds and ‘Watches and the finest equipped work- shop in Northern Minnesota, Special ® POV OOV O OH OO = LODGEDOM IN BEMIDJI. * £ 6600666660060 06 Wall Pocket House Calendars .‘ A. 0. U. W. Bemidjl Lodge No. 277. Regular meeting nights—first and third Monday, at § o'clock, ~—at 0dd Fellows hall, 402 Beltrami Ave. B.P. 0. E. Bemidji, Lodge No. 1052, Regular ‘fneeting nights— first and third Thursdays, 8 o'clock—at Masonic hall, Beltrami Ave.,, and Fifth t. c. 0. F every. second and fourth Sunday evening, at 8 o’clock in basement of Catholie church. DEGREE OF HONOR Meeting nights every second and fourth Monday evenings, at Odd Fellows > Hal. = F. 0. E. Regular meeting nights every 1st and 2nd Wednes- day evening at 8 o'clock. Eagles hall. G.A.R. Regular meetings—First and third Saturday after- noons, at 2:30—at 0dd Fel- 1 0. 0. F. _ Bemidji Lodge No. 110 @ Regular_meeting nights —every Friday, 8 o'clock at 0dd Fellows Hall, 402 Beltrami. 1. 0. 0. F. Camp No. 34 Regular meeting every second and fourth Wednesdays at § Hebecca Lodge. Regular meeting nights — first, and third Wednesday at 8o'clock. —1. 0. 0. F. Hall ENIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Bemidji Lodge No. -168. Regular meeting nights—ex- ery Tuesday evening at 8§ o'clock—at the BEagles' Hall, Third street. LADIES OF THE MAC- CABEES. Regular meeting night last Wednesday evening MASONIC. A. F. & A. M., Bemidji, 233, Regular meeting nights — first and third ‘Wednesdays, 8 o'clock—at Masonic Hall, Beltrami Ave., and Fifth St. Bemidji Chapter No. 70, R. A. M. Stated convocations . —first and third Mondays, & o'clock p. m.—at Masonic Hall Zeltrami Ave., and Fifth street. gfi l 2 i E - i 37 bom. ™ trami Ave., and Fifth St. t Masonic Temple, Bel- . Chapter No. 171, 0. Regulur meeting nights— first and third Fridays, 8 o'clock — at Masonic Hall, gpllr.nmi Ave., und Fifth St. M. B. A, Roosevelt, No. Regular 1523. meeting nights v evenings at 8 n 0dd, Fellows M. W. A Camp No. 5012 meeting nights — first and third Tuesdays at 8 o'clock at 0dd Fellows Hall, 402 Beltrami Ave. MODERN SAMARITANS. Regular meeting nights on the first and third Thursdays in the I. O. O. F. Hall at 8 D m. SONS OF HERMAN. Meetings held third " Sunday afternoon of each month at Troppman's Hall. Bemidji Regular YEOMANS. Meetings the first Friday evening of the month at the home of Mrs. H. I Schmidt, 306 Third street. order work given prompt attention R. F. MURPHY FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER Office 313 Beitrami Ave. Phone 318-2. William C. - Klein INSURANCE Tentals, Bonds, Real Estate First Mortgage Loans on City and Farm Property B and 6, O’Leary-Bowser Bidg. Phone 19. Bemidji, —