Certainly we should proceed prudently in dealing with them upon the basis of ascertained facts rather than hastily and without knowledge to make a reduction of the tariff to satisfy a popular desire.

I have always regarded this language as fixing the proper measure of protection at the ascertained difference between the cost of production at home and that abroad.

If I fail to recommend the reduction of excessive duties to this extent, I shall fail in my duty to the consuming public.

No honest, clear-headed man, however great a lover of popular government, can deny that the unbridled expression of the majority of a community converted hastily into law or action would sometimes make a government tyrannical and cruel.

I return herewith, without my approval, House joint resolution No. 14.

I must therefore withhold my approval from this resolution if in fact I do not approve it as a matter of governmental policy.

In dealing with the courts, which are the cornerstone of good government, and in which not only the voters, but the nonvoters and nonresidents, have a deep interest as a security for their rights of life, liberty, and property, no matter what the future action of the State may be, it is necessary for the authority which is primarily responsible for its creation to assert in no doubtful tones the necessity for an independent and untrammeled judiciary.

Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority.

Judges to fulfill their functions properly in our popular Government must be more independent than in any other form of government, and that need of independence is greater where the individual is one litigant and the State, guided by the successful and governing majority, is the other.

If I sign this joint resolution, I do not see how I can escape responsibility for the judicial recall of the Arizona constitution.

We believe that this benefit is best accomplished by popular government, because in the long run each class of individuals is apt to secure better provision for themselves through their own voice in government than through the altruistic interest of others, however intelligent or philanthropic.