Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-05-17

fight they have planned for the future.
The six Caesars notify them in advance
that they are with them in protecting
the North against the South, the East
against the West, and in extending the
advantages OF protection to the pluto
Gratis of special States and sections.
''The six CseSsrs notify Congress that
while they will not permit duty 10
be placed upon Alabama iron sent
into other States for sale, it may for
bid the importation Of that iron from
Alabama into Pennsylvania or any
other State in the Union where IL will
interfere with Republican iron mas
ter. The six Caesars notify Congress
that il has their permission to say
what products Of labor in any one
State may be sent into any other States
and what may not be sent. The six
Caesars notify Congress that they have
conferred upon If the same power over
the trade between States that il has
over foreign commerce, with the sole
exception that 1t may not couple fine
with permission to import frem one
State into another State, as it does with
unportations from foreign countries.
Instead OF dutiable list and free list
as with foreign nations-Congress
must prepare for each State a Forbid
den list and Permitted list Of articles
it may import and export, the list to
be made mp for each State so as TO best
protect the mill owners and capital
lists of it against the competition OF
other States.
"The pretense under which the six
Caesars change the whole character Of
our Government is found in the power
conferred upon Congress "to regulate
commerce with foreign nations and
between the several States"
Commerce is one OF the sub-divi-
sions Of trade. 1t is trade carried on
in ships 1t had no other meaning
when the Constitution was drafted,
and it has no other proper and exact
meaning now in connection with ex-
change Of produces. In I7S9 at least
90 per cent Of the trade between the
States was Commensurate carried on
in ships-snd all trade with foreign
nations was commerce. To give Con-
gress power TO regulate commerce
with foreign nations and withhold
from it the power TO regulate conn
merce' between the States, was absurd.
There would be conflict Of jurisdic-
ton over the ships, over the water,
over the control of ports Of entry.
The whole Question OF shipping was
given to Congress, fot this was federal
matter.
But the camel's nose Of commerce
then inserted under the tent flap Of
trade has been followed by his whole
body and the expulsion Of his master
into the storm. There never was any
intention Of giving Congress the
slightest control over trade whether
inside or outside Of a State, or between
two States II such a claim had been
set up, not State would have Joined
a union that required it.
Under the Supreme Courts meth
cd OF defining the word Commerce.
no State in the Union has any right to |
pass any law regulating maria ges, or |
defining the marriage relations, or
limiting the social evil. These are
commerce, and quite as properly |
under the exclusive control of Con-
gress as the railway traffic between
New York and Chicago. Certainly |
the marriage Of male citizen Of New
York 10 female citizen Of Illinois is
as truly commerce between the States
as the shipment by him OF package |
10 her.
THE leaders of the Republican
party who proclaimed in 1858 that
"ihe Constitution was Covenant with
Death and a League with He'll" de-
clared in 1850 that the "Consiitution
should be rolled up like a scroll and
put away forever" We who have
lived through thirty years control OF
the country by that party have lived
to see the Constitution "rolled up"
and east into the flames" and the
Union Of our fathers change into a
despoiism as absolute as any on earth.
The Republicans who hated the stars
and Stripes of the Free Republic and
Joined in the yell started by the New
York Tribune to
Tear down that nIuntinE lie,
Half mast the starry nag,
Insult no sunny sky
With Hates polluted rag.
may now begin TO be satisfied. The
end of their plotting and scheming
and bowling for despoiism built up
on the destruction Of the Union is in
plain sight. I. E. WILSON"