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J The Commoner. 15 APRIL 21, 1911 favored the Jackson amendment. Twenty-eight of them stood by their former action, and voted against the motion to recommit the bills; but the democratic leaders mustered enough votes to carry their point, 157 to 149; and the bill technically was gent back to the cdmmittee,, "Mr. Ruckor gathered the mem bers of- the committee around him and without leaving the floor they instructed 'him to report the bill again without the Jackson amend ment. "He at once did so and this action carried, 164 to 139. The bill, in its original form, then passed the house without a dissenting vote. "The Rucker bill, as finally passed, makes more stringent the campaign publicity law passed in 1910. That law requires publicity of funds by the campaign committee ten days previous to election and the filing of supplemental statements every three days thereafter until election day. "The Rucker bill limited publicity of campaign expenditures to sums' of $100 or over, but Mr. Rucker ac cepted an amendment of Mr. Kopp, republican, of Wisconsin, requiring the publicity of all payments in sums of $10 or over for campaign pur poses. Throughout the debate Perry Belmont, president of the National Publicity Law Association, and a a former member of the house, occu pied a seat on the floor." SENATOR MYERS OF MONTANA At a banquet given at Hamilton, Mont.,. March 11, Henry L. Meyers, the new senator from Montana, de livered an interesting speech, from which the following extracts are taken: "There are too many good things in this world to talk about for me to talk about myself, but as this is Bomewhat t of.; ji -personal' -occasion 1 suppose .that you. expect something personally;- It lw.e.r,fi askgd what Is my highest ideal of a man in pub lic life, if I were asked what I would rather be than anything else in pub lic life, I know I cannot attain to It, I have not the ability, but, if I were" asked what I most admire In public life and what I would rather be in public life than anything else, I would say, to be a conscientious, Christian statesman. (Applause.) Every man cannot be a statesman,, it depends upon the fidelity, the ability and patriotism with which he flfls a position. But there is one thing a man in public, life can be and that, with the help of God, I intend to be and that is, a conscientious public servant. (Applause.) I feel that that this position is not within Itself an honor. Any position is only an honor, my friends, if filled worthily. No position, no matter how high, is an honor to a man or to the people who put him into it, unless he fills it worthily; . the man who fills any position -finds in that position an honor to him If he fills it worthily. A man who might fill the highest position in' this land would not find it an honor to him unless he filled it worthily. The man who works on the street and fills the humble posi tion, finds his position an honor to liimj if he fills it honestly and with fidelity and worthily. I appreciate these tokens of esteem and of good fellowship and of respect. I am not worthy of them, but I hope, my friends, to become worthy of them. That will be my highest aim and in public life I will say that my slogan Is, my principle is simply this, and it covers all, that Is, the people must rule. (Applause.) A few years ago a very eminent statesman, who was "before the American public, adopted as the slogan of his campaign issues, the question: "Shall the people rule?" I say, as far. as my official career and conduct is concerned, every vote, every act, every piece of -conduct will bo so.--The people must rule. That is my position and it en compasses all. There must bo no one faction or factor rule, there must be no one interest or sot of interests rule, but the peoplo, the source of all power, if this government is to be a success, must rule all the timo. I might perhaps, in modern parlance, be called a progressive in politics, if I had the timo to express my views in full. I think that is a misnomer; I think it is only going back to old fundamental Jeffersonian and Lln colnian principles that they call pro gressive. It is going back to the principles of Jefferson and Lincoln, two of tho greatest men thaf the world ever produced. Wo want to get back to their principles, my friends, wo have strayed from them in a great measure In my honest and humble opinion, and the greatest safeguard to this country is to got back to those original principles tho declaration of Thomas Jefferson of "Equal rights to all and special privileges to none," is simply para mount to the undying declaration of Abraham Lincoln that this Is "a government of the people, for the people and by the people." (Ap plause.) And they both represent the principles upon which I stand, that the people must rule. (Ap plause. It ifr the same thing, tho same principle, my friends, and I wili say, in representing the state of Montana in a legislative body, that I intend to represent no one faction or element, no one interest, but repre sent every element and every interest and the whole people of the grand state of Montana. (Applause.) "I am glad to be able to say that I go into the position without any obligation, save obligations of grati tude to the gentlemen who chose me and save obligations of fidelity to the people, which, every public ser vant" buKht to -know, if ha is an honest man; save these obligations I go into tho position, that irf owing to the manner in which I was chosen, without being under any obligations, without any strings on me and with out wearing any collar; free to do the right as I see it and as God gives me light to see it. (Applause.) And they shall be my only, guide. Of course I am a party man, every in telligent citizen in this day and generation affiliates with some party more or less, whether he acknowl edges it or not, whether he knows it or not. And I believe in parties in their proper sphere, but I say there is one thing which should be above party and that is right. (Applause.) I will say that my ideal public ser vant is the man upon whose back no party lash can be laid to make him bow his neck to the yoke of party against what is right. (Ap plause.) Right is above all parties; politics is not the only thing in this world, party is not the highest thing under our form of government. I be lieve that there is something higher and there is a friend of mine here this evening, who has been referred to as my side partner and I am a be liever, to a large measure and as far as I know them, in his political policies and principles, a man who has been criticised for leaving this party or that and going to another, but I say I' honor him for being above the party lash of any party, when he is asked in the name of party to do something that is not right. I honor him for it. (Ap plause.) We need more men like that in this country of ours and that man is none the less than my friend Charles S. Htvrtman, ('Applause.) I admire his honesty, his political in tegrity and independence. "As far as filling high positions Is concerned, my friends, I loqk on It In this way, that no high position makes a man groat. In my opinion tho jgrcatest man, however humble, unknown or obscure ho may bo, the greatest man Is the man who does tho most for his fellow man; that Is my standard of greatness, my friends. Theso principles, those declarations, somewhat briefly laid down my indicate to you my vlows of tho duties of a man In public lifo. I heartily subscrlbo to the declara tion that I read In tho papers that was so frankly and so nobly mado by my young friend, Ronald Hlgglns, who, I seo hero, (applause) when ho said that a man should bo honest In Don't Go to Law-tS That' what the farmer or business man who owns Parson's "Laws ol Business" can do If he wants legal advice of any kind. 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