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The Commoner.
VOLUME 10; NUMBER 44
Commoner Clubs
If the People Rule Why Don't
They Get What They Want?"
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Prof. J. I. Kellogg, Rocky Ford,
Colo. This question Has elicited
many articles with diversified opin
ions regarding the evils of a repre
sentative government. However,
those who have contributed their
opinions have pretty generally agreed
that the people do not rule. The
history of the past has demonstrated
beyond all doubt the inability of the
people to secure just legislation
through representatives. The effi
cacy of any government is deter
mined by the greatest good it brings
to the greatest number. Since this
is true, the irresistable conclusion
a representative government is not
the best form of government. It is
utterly absurd for one to labor un
der the delusion that you can dele
gate your power to another and re
ceive thereby a true representation.
Tho race, as a whole, has not ar
rived at that goal where all men are
brothers and each is interested in
the welfare of all as much as he is
in his own and until we have as
cended the ladder of justice and
equity to enter the portals of this
higher type of manhood a represent
ative government will be a failure in
its true sense. This leads us to the
conclusion that the only solution of
the evils of our present system of
government Is by educating mankind
so that they can see the inconsistency
of our present economic and social
conditions. We need to cite but one
instance of the people's representa
tives legislating for the welfare of
the nation and that is the last tariff
bill recently enacted by the congress
of the United States. A solution of
this seemingly Intricate proposition
can be readily obtained if our legis
lators entirely eliminate those nefa
rious influences which have to do
in shaping the present bills. It is
startling, indeed, when one fully com
prehends the magnitude of those
Titanic combinations wielding unlim
ited power for their express benefit
and at the expense of the masses of
mankind who are persistently strug
gling against the inconsistency of
such measures. The immense va
riety of interest included in tho field
of tariff legislation is strikingly
evinced by the multiplicity of lobby
ists present on the floor of our legis
lative halls, and the most striking
feature of the whole drama is the
absence of anyone lobbying in the in
terest of the people. We may talk
of justice and her charms, but It is
needless for us to hope to obtain any
semblance of it as long as we per
mit one man or set of men to ac
cumulate a million dollars. When
we find a nation full of multi-millionaires
we may rest assured that
its economic structure is permeated
with unsoundness, flagrant with un
truth, and diametrically opposed to
every known law of right. Tho logi
cal archway leading Into the field of
pure politics is the Initiative and
referendum. This will give to the
people a mighty weapon which can
bd easily wielded In the struggle to
.obtain the rights which have always
been theirs. Tho time is coming but
slowly when we will have done with
our ancient and Ill-devised system of
obtaining what the people want. We
need clearness, simplicity and brev
ity In the making of our laws.
party lines will they ever rule. You
must vote for the principle, not tho
man. Any man running on a stand
pat platform, of which ever party
has bad principles. He must be pro
gressive to have good principles, and
if tho initiative, referendum and re
call were in effect he would be com
pelled to carry out the good princi
ples or bo recalled. You talk to any
man of average common sense and
he will admit the people ought to
rule. But why don't they? Simply
because they go to the polls on elec
tion day and vote the same old ticket
and for the same men that have been
fooling them all these years. Oh,
why be so foolish? Make a study
of the different questions and decide
your own case, don't let Teddy, Taft,
Aldrich, Cannon or any other man
who has had a chance to prove him
self, but has failed, attempt to de
cide these questions for you. Vote
for the men who will work for what
you want, and then the people will
get what they want and will rule.
H. L. Clark, Ottawa, Kan. In the
first place, do they really rule? Don't
wo remember how Mr. Sherman of
New York, candidate for vice presi
dent in 1908, ranted, charged and
foamed at the mouth, because Mr.
Bryan, In his notification speech,
dared to presume that possibly the
people didn't rule in the strict sense
of the term, because he used as a
keynote the question, "Shall the peo
ple rule?" Well, after it was all
over and a special session of congress
convened to revise the tariff accord
ing to platform promise, what do we
find the people really ruling now?
And are they getting what they want
now? Or are the interests which
contributed to the republican cam
paign fund ruling and getting what
they want? Mr. Bryan said, "Shall
the people rule?" Mr. Sherman said,
"The people do rule, they always
have and they always will rule." If
the people ruled during the- special
session of congress called by Presi
dent Taft, why is -there now such
widespread dissatisfaction with the
new tariff law. Who, then, was tho
nearest right, Mr. Bryan or Mr.
Sherman? Un Questionably Mr.
Bryan was right. Granted then that
tho people didn't rule, the other
question is easily answered. It is no
wonder that they didn't get what
they want. I have read a number of
articles on this subject in The Com
moner by subscribers, and would like
to see one written by Mr. Bryan.
L.. P. Palmer, Paducah, Ky. Tho
people don't rule. We know it,
'cep'n we be a fool. The trusts are
in the saddle. If you kick, 'twere
addle; So, please skeedaddle! O,
people, skeedaddle; For your lives,
skeedaddle!
Q. W. Hollenbaugh, Fostoria, O.
Tho people don't rule and will not
rule until they get the initiative,
referendum and recall. They got
what they want, so they must be sat
isfied. But the people that did not
vote for what they got have to suffer
too. Not until tho people drop old
W. H. Peel, Dolores, Colo. Tho
people do not rule. First, for the
reason the majority of their repre
sentatives betray them; second, the
people give the republican party the
balance of power. If the people
really want to rule themselves, why
don't they read The Commoner and
follow Mr. Bryan's teachings. How
about the split in the republican
party? Is it not reasonable to be
lieve there Is a joker somewhere, or
a bait 'to catch the people's votes? I
the insurgents are sincere in what
they say, why are they advocating
Mr. Bryan's teachings? If the in
surgents have to advocate democratic
principles in order to hold the bal
ance of power, why not vote tho dem
ocratic ticket straight? Can it &
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