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Volume 9 October 27, 1911. Number 43 
On the Welfare of the Young 
At the Civic Forum in New York 
former President Theodore Roose- 
velt delivered an address on ‘‘The 
Conservation of Womanhood and 
Childhood’’ before the Civic Forum. 
The address turned upon two prob- 
lems in democracy which are en- 
grossing the attention of every 
thinking man and which directly or 
indirectly affect all, namely to pro- 
vide for the maintenance of the 
authority of the constitution and 
the authority of the judges duly ap- 
pointed and to provide for an as- 
sured opportunity for public opin- 
ion to become law. Mr. Roosevelt 
is a careful thinker and while open 
to the criticism of bluntness, it is a 
bluntness the American people like. 
The demands which he makes ap- 
pear simple but the political ob- 
stacles in the way seem insurmount- 
able. To guard womanhood and 
childhood and correct the moral and 
industrial wrongs being done he 
suggests a bureau to be created by 
an act of Congress to collect and dis- 
tribute accurate information on all 
matters relating to child welfare. 
He also makes a strong appeal for 
some method of government where- 
by the will of the people especially 
in progressive social laws shall not 
be nullified by the judiciary. It 
appears that in many social laws the 
determined will of the people has 
not become operative because of the 
judicial decisions which have nulli- 
fied the demand of publie sentiment. 
- 
G. BE. WILLMONTON 
-Attermey and Counsellor at Law- 
The two demands are characteris- 
tic of Mr. Roosevelt and his voice 
crying in the wilderness will be 
heard. The possibility of a bureau 
created by Congress is both desir- 
able and possible by congressional 
enactment and in line with the pro- 
gressive traditions of both houses of 
Congress. The question of judiciary 
control by the people opens a great 
question in government. It is one 
that cannot easily be solved. While 
in many cases the will of the people 
has been subverted by adverse de- 
cisions it must be unanimously 
affirmed nevertheless that the great 
check and helpfulness of the judi- 
ciary system of the United States 
has been due in no large measure to 
their independence of any and all 
influence, political or otherwise. 
Any control of the judiciary must 
necessarily open the way for a mis- 
use of that control. 
President Taft made a courageous 
stand in his vetoes of the Statehood 
bills on a similar ground. He de- 
sired to place the judiciary of the 
State above any control. 
method of control that Mr. Roose- 
velt suggests is not parallel with the 
Statehood bills, that is, by election 
or recall, but is nevertheless a com- 
ment in act on the principle. It is 
of importance that the will of the 
people be executed but it is an open 
question whether it can be. gained 
by a control of the judiciary. Mr. 
Roosevelt is no dreamer and his 
pointed arguments are thought pro- 
voking and every careful student of 
governmental affairs will watch 
with interest the current of affairs 
to note whether the idea will take 
root. The argument is interesting 
and is sane. He says: 
“‘T, for one, hold that if a major- 
ity of the people after due delibera- 
tion come to champion such social 
and economic reforms as these, they 
have the right to see them enacted 
into law and become a part of our 
settled governmental policy, and I 
shall never abandon the effort to see 
this view triumph. 
‘Tt is, I believe, an advantage to 
have fixed in the court the power to 
state that a legislative act is uncon- 
stitutional, but only provided that 
the power is exercised with the 
greatest wisdom and _ self-restraint. 
If the courts continue to use it with 
the recklessness that has too often 
been shown in the past it is almost 
inevitable that efforts will be made 
to amend it. It is a rank absurdity 
Willmonton’s Agency 
SCHOOL AND ONION STS, MANCHESTER GLO S@0TH BLBG, Boston 
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to hold that the violation of the con- 
stitution is ‘evident’ in a case where 
the present chief justice of the Uni- 
ted States and enough of his col- 
leagues to come within one of a ma- 
jority held strongly the 
view. 
‘‘Moral — Be a Hog’”’ 
The honorable Eugene H. Porter, 
health commissioner of the State of 
New York and the rightful posses- 
sor of accredited university degrees, 
one in arts and the other in medi- 
cine, made-a striking appeal for 
better government provisions for tu- © 
berculosis sufferers in two simple 
stories, the one of a sick little 
mother and the other of the sick 
hog. The little mother fell sick and 
she applhed to the government for 
information as to how she could get 
well and the government replied ‘‘it 
was not the business of the govern- 
ment to care for little mothers’’ and 
the little mother died and they bur-_ 
ied her. A sick hog was discovered 
by a farmer and he wrote the gov-— 
ernment and the government did not 
wait for a letter, but sent a govern- 
ment man with government medi- 
cines and government instruments 
to see the hog and the hog lived. 
Moral: be a hog. The telling stories 
carried their point and the visiting 
delegates, from one hundred higher 
institutions of learning present at 
the reception of delegates in the 
event of the inauguration of Lemuel 
Herbert Murlin as 
Boston University, applauded  ap- 
provingly, both the skill of the 
writer and the protest so artfully 
made. It often appears that the 
government is more engrossed with 
economic schemes than interested in 
helpful benefiting legislation. For- 
tunately Massachusetts is not so 
-great a sinner as some of her sister 
states. 
The High Cost of Living 
The high cost of living is not a 
state affair, as some _ candidates 
would prove, nor yet a national 
matter, as some parties affirm, but 
seems to be an international prob- 
lem. All continental Europe is pro- 
testing against the high price of 
living. The protests sound strangely 
familiar and advices from Berlin 
place the blame upon retailers and 
political parties. The protests are 
exactly such as can be read in 
American papers or heard in con- 
versation in America. There is 
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