Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-09


avoid the conclusion that Judge Emer-
son belongs to the school of Hamilton,
rather than that of Jefferson.
If the constitution is delegation OF
powers, it seems to us that in article
~. Sec. 4, power is first delegated to
the general government to guarantee
to every state in the Union a republic
can form of government. Second.
power is delegated to it to protect
each State from Invasion; aud, third.
at the request of the State legislature,
or OF the Executive. if the legislature
cannot be convened, against domestic
violence. 1t seems to US that in this
provision of of the constitution, the
fathers of the Republic intended to Sc
cure to each state the fullest protec-
ton, and at the same time prevent
usurpation on the part of the general
government by prescribing the condi-
ton under which it may exercise its
power of Interference. Does Judge
Emerson maintain that the President
of the United States is the sole judge
as to whether the domestic disturb
ances in a state are of sufficient extent
to warrant him in sending his soldiers
there? and that the State authorities
are not to be consulted? or, if they are
consulted, their decision is not to be
binding upon him? What wide door
for Federal usurpation this throws
open! Every election at the South
furnishes an opportunity for Federal
supervision. if the Judges construc-
ton of the Constitution is correct. 1t
is the President, and not the local
authorities, that must judge of the
magnitude of local riot! Such
construction of the Constitution can
have no other effect than to destroy
the autonomy of the States, and cause
local self-government, as we'll as liber-
ty, to disappear from the land.
''Is your neighbor to be denounced
if he venture to step into your yard to
help extinguish the flames that are
consuming your dwelling, without first
receiving polite invitation from you
to aid, especially if you were NON COM
pos naentis and refused to ask, but
chose to stand on your right to put
the fire out alonep" inquiries the Judge.
If our neighbor has a fire department
of his own. and protests against our
interference, we think we would let
his affairs alone. The suggestion that
the authorities of Illinois were SO i'm
beetle that they did not know what
was best to do, is purely gratuitous
and wholly unfounded.
If in every inch of the territory over
which the flag of the United States
flies, its power is supreme and is to
be exercised whenever the president
of railroad corporation deems it ad-
NlSdOIC, VIC "Oulu AAOSb iOSPSSeAaiAy
ask, where is the necessity for the ex
istence of the State Or for the shadow
of local self-government? The Judge
can see no authority that will be re-
spected but that of the general gov
eminent, and no safety but in it's arm
of power. Our local machinery to
preserve public order, he would have
US believe, is as paralytic as the arm
of the general government when it is
urged to collect the millions upon mil
lions that the Pacific railroads have
stolen from the people. Further on
he says: "Pray who is to enforce my
rights or your rights in Chicago, or
while our families are being
side-tracked and starved, and our
burned by strikers and in
while Altgeld and Waite
and the like of them are prating about
State Rights! In Heavens name do
not mention it in a civilized country
with government worthy the name,
the respect of anybody"
We pause to remark how interest
ing all this is, and suggest that ASA
fntida is an excellent remedy for hys-
terics. If the Judge had not assumed
so many things to be facts that have
never had an existence, he would not
have been in a condition to make the
pill a necessity to him.
For instance, he assumes that the au-
thorities of the State of Illinois were
wholly helpless to deal with the strike,
when. as a matter of fact, the State
were not appealed to. but
aid was sought from the general gov
eminent direct. He assumes that the
disorder growing out of the strike was
by Federal troops, which
is not the case. The State was found |
strong enough to deal with the disturb
ance, and the display of Federal au-
thority seems to have aggravated the
the difficulty.
His luxuriant Imagination fills his
sleeping and waking hours with Wis
ions of burning trains, starving pas
sengers, engines down embankments,
murdered citizens, broken box-cars,
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