Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-28

send them to the penitentiary. The dock cts of the federal courts were filled up with indictments against men who were al- legged to have violated these laws. They enactments of these laws to keep them out of the reach and judgment of the supreme court of the United States, as far as they possibly could, by denying an appeal to men who might be convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary, and by denying to them the writ of habeas corpus. Hundreds of cases were pending in the federal courts, men were in jail and they repealed the writ. What did they mean by that? It WAS sim- ply an arbitrary denial of justice. Why, the right to vote was right that came down to us from the colonies. It was right never denied to the people of the provinces; never denied to the people, of the states. The control of the right 10 5te and elect their represen tatives accordiT to the laws enacted by the United Statef was and is the very quintescence of constitu- tional liberty in the United States. Leave it to the congress of the United States to declare who shall succeed to the places made vacant therein from time to time, both in the house Of representatives and In the senate-leave that to congress and, after awhile, you would have nothing to do as American citizens but to look on at this plan for destroying your liberties. You would simply become poor, miserable, cowardly slaves.
 Well, we suffered under this law; we fought against it; we spoke against it; we voted against it, and finally, for the first time since 1860, when we got president of the United States aud senate, by very narrow margin, and house of represe nta- tives, the very first thing the democratic party did was to repeal and strike down this unconstitutional and malicious enact- ment. Have they given up the fight? Never. They have found little construc- tion of phrase in one article of the con- stituton where they think they can find an entering point for the wedge, and they will put it there every time the democrats are in the minority in the government of the United States. They will drive 1t home whenever they have got the power to do It, for the reason that the constitution of the United States and the rights of the peo- pie. of these sovereign states indiyid- ually and collectively are the barriers against this dominating and tyrannical power that the republican party has never failed to lay it's hand upon. whenever in reach, and never will. So, in the accom- plishment of that great result, in the vic- tory thus achieved in the breaking down of this favorite republican movement on the part of the congress of the United States to subjugate the states and the thing else but to break It down this gem eration of men would be entitled to have peans sung to their memories by genera tions to come for thousands of years from A0"' 'Appas'ri THE TAxrNe POWER.
 They then laid their hands upon the tax ing power of the United States, another despotic way of harming the people. Taxes are just as essential to the existence and preservation of the government as blood IS to the preservation of the body. the warm ing of the brain, the prosperity of thought and all that. The taxing power must nec- essarily, in it's nature, be arbitrary. Per haps you will be surprised when say 1t, but you ought not to be ifyou have thought of it for a moment, that when congress has the power to tax, as Judge Miller has said in one of his great opinions, It has the power to destroy. The power to tax IS the congress of the United States can im- pose tax of cent 8 pound upon the in- troduction into this country of salt or su- gar or medicine or anything of that sort, at and 'aa there impose ls no law, ,A no ' iadse. that can set aside that tax on the ground that 1t appears to be overbearing. The consultation of the United States in con- when 1t does taxsccording to the proper uses of that power, nly DO limit( upon the amount they shan t67- pie. So, as to the subjects Of there are very few, perhaps none ist in the nature Of property that the reach of congress. They the tax laws over everything y and upon many things that are aginary, such as licenses to f1 professions, or licenses to the wholesalers of whisky, tobacco They have to take out licenses indication of what congress fellow citizens, the taxing I gress is an extremely arbitrd power in it's nature. Now resentatives of the people q districts and states in the United States undertake power, which no jud2 which no judge can int undertake to handle th cenary purposes, to bu1 : viduals, certain indust of people, in certain or longitude of our coq dertake to handle it fQ not for the single puI enue for the supper there is tyranny, th the constitution sbe as congress is concq cannot get hold of
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