The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-22
A BIG BATTLE.
MORE JUDICIAL UsURPAT1oN.
The Rights of the States to Be
Overridden In the Interests of
Intemperance.

Gainesville. Fla. May 1o.-In response to
Of judges Goff and and o simontcn, relative t to
rssgsistration laws United States Senator
No general election will be held in South
Carolina this year and the decision will
interfere only with the election Of dele
gates to the constitutional convention.
Evidently conspiracy. is a-foot, and this
Virginia to do the work. which it was
hoped by some would overthrow the will
Of the people IN our state; simonton. in
think, a member Of the legislature at tho
time the registration law was passed in
lS na It. was good then because he
been watched with such interest by people
outside, with almost absolute certainty OK
being adopted by other states. that bar
keepers and liquor manufacturers could
well afford to raise million to buy judg6
Congress has decided by enactment that
liquors upon their arrival in state shall
be subject, to the laws of that state, tho
therein. It be6ooves lovers Of tempersnee
to make their influence heard and felt at
this crisis. Simonton has once declared the
practically reversed himself. From the
sweeping nature Of the injunction think
that he has been improperly influenced.
me diSpensary law Is so popular In the
state that 1t will continue its beneficial
work IN reducing drunkenness. Judges. by
their decisions and injunctions and con-
gressmen by their votes rapidly maxi
ing this country a despotism, in which the
rights and interests Of the masses are Of
SO vigorously. It will only bring revoiu-
ton that much sooner. and relief we must
South Carolina passed law to
abolish the saloons and have all
liquor sold by the agents of the stas-,
1t is not necessary to enquire whether
this was or was not the best method
Of treating the disease Of intempef.
ance. 1t is sufficient that the people
OF South Carolina, one of tho original
thirteen states of the Union, believed
that it was, and have sustained the
law even when the liquor sellers broke
out into armed revolt.
Defeated at the polls, defeated in
the Legislature, defeated at the muz-
zle of rifles, the Saloon-interest turn
ed to the last refuge to which wrong
doors always fly in this Countrywide
courts; and the supreme court Of the
United States has held that to stop
the use Of liquor in South Carolina,
when shipped in there by citizen Of
New York or Virginia, is an in.
fringement of the citizen of New
York or Virginia. This decision
wipes out state rights and state lines
as effectually as If they had never
exis ted:-it subverts the whole fabric
of our national government, for We
are the United States-a union Of
states;-and the constitution expressly
declares;
Art. X. The powers not delegate6
to the United States by the consyitu-
tion, nor prohibited by it To the
states, are reserved ITO the states. respec-
tively or to the people,"
Hence the national government 10
a government of limited and dele.
gated powers; and any powers not so
delegated cannot be exercised by it.
And yet the Supreme Court holds
that it has the power to take a citizen
Of New York, with lot of whiskey,
and send him down to South Carolina,
and protect him in drinking that whis-
key, despite the law of the state of
South Carolina! 1t is terrible usur-
patton, and shows whittier things are
drifting. We are now q consolidated
despotism; our states are less than
counties; and nine judges Of the Su-
preme Court exercise absolute power,
under their assumed right to strike
out all acts Of Congress, or parts Of
acts. that do not meet with their ap-
prevail; and these judges are named
by the president Of the United States,
but selected by the great robbers who
furnish the funds to carry on presi-
Dental campaigns. And this is what
the worlds great republic has culmi-
mated in, in little more than one
hundred years.
Is not a new party, filled with the
spirit of the fathers, dire necessity
in this crisis?