Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-10-01

well, it has been challenged, and let US
resolve in Wisconsin to so Overwhelmingly
wipe that gang out of existence that that
doctrine will never be challenged again.
[Applause1 No wonder, ladies and gentle
men, that gallent old Ed. Bragg can't
stand it. [Applause.]
Words of Chief Justice Marshall.
Excuse me Il 1 read for a moment. i
do not read it so much for the benefit of
this audience as do in the hope that it
will some how find its way into tht news
papers. [laughter], and that sometime and
somehow Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Altgeld will
see it and learn something about the con-
stitution of the United States. [Applause.]
First, what are the relations of the gem
eral government to interstate commerce
and the transportation OF the mails !? They
are those of direct supervision, control and
management. While under the dual sys-
tenn which prevails with us, the powers of
the government are distributed. between
the states and the nation; and while the
latter is properly styled a government of.
enumerated powers, yet within the limits
of such enumeration it has all the attrib-
utes of sovereignty, and in the exercise of
those enumerated powers acts directly up,
on the citizens and not through the In
termediate agency of the state. The gov
eminent of the union, then, Is emphatical-
In form and in substance it emanates from
them. It's powers are granted by them,
and are to be exercised directly on them
and for their benefit Listen: NO trace
is to be found in the constitution of an
intention to create, dependence OF the
government of the union on those of the
states for the execution OF the great powers
assigned to it. It's means are adequate to
it's ends. and on these means alone was 1t
expected to rely for the accomplishment
of it's ends. To impose on it the necessity
of resorting to means which 1t cannot con-
troll, which another government may furn-,
ish or withhold, would render It's course
precarious the result of it's measures I'M
certain, and create dependence on other
governments; which might dtsapp0int its
most important designs, and is tncompati-
BILE with the language Of the constitution
That is good law. It sounds we'll, doesn't
it? Who do you suppose wrote it? Chief
Justice John Marshall. in Mccullough
against the state Of Maryland, many, many
years ago. ssl@ 3t& s'ast@ 7 Is
away with this idea that the president
Of the United States cannot enforce fed
eral law and protect the federal property
of the state of Illinois without first OBJ
tanning the permission Of Gov. Altgeld.
Laughter and applause.] Do we propose
to make that man president Of the United
States who fought for that doctrine and
who will maintain it?
Integrity of the Courts.
"There is another proposition in that
platform which ought to strike terror to
the heart of every good citizen, whatever
his political affiliations heretofore may
have been, and that is the proposition
which even shocked David Bennett Hill
[laughter], whom / am family hoping will
come out after little for sound money,
and that is the suggestion that whenever
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in the exercise of the jurisdiction vested in
that tribunal by the constitution, renders
a decision which is not agreeable to con-
gress, they shall proceed to pack that
court in some way, with judges who will
reverse it, and who will be more COM
plaisent. You recollect, ladies and gen.
tlemen, that the Supreme court of
the United States is created by
the constitution. There are three subdi-
visions of our government, each independ-
ent Of the other: The executive, the legis-
lative and the judiciary. The Supreme
court of the United States has been, from
the beginning, an honor to this country;
and it's line of decisions, the great men
who have been upon that bench shedding
the jurisprudence of the world, have
INDICATED the wisdom of the
trainers of the constitution in creating 1t,
in making it perpetual and in providing
for the independent and fearless action by
reason of the life tenure of it's judges.
81 do not like to hear men cast suspi-
cion upon judges Our last reliance is in
the integrity, the courage and the inde-
pendence of our judiciary. When the peo-
pie are swayed by passion, when congress
may go wrong, when the senate, which
was interded to be a conservative body.
may be revolutionary body, we take COM
fort in the fact that we can rely upon the
ri r he w iS6n
of the judiciary. [Applausel
The man who makes it his business in pub
lie or private life to destroy the confidence
Of the people in the judiciary is a public
enemy. [Applause.] 1t is cowardly
thing to do. 1t is the next mean
est thing, to whispering something
about the character of woman; and moth
ing on earth can be meaner than that.
1t is the next thing to 1t, to
pass unfriendly comment and impeach-
ment on judges, and the integrity of their
purposes; because judge cannot come
down from the bench and resent an insult
like that. I say the people in this election
ought to see to it that no president is
elected upon platform which calmly pro-
poses, by unmistakable suggestion, to make
the Supreme court of the United States,
and other courts in our system, the mere
football of politics, the mere tool of pas
sions. [Applause.l
i tuIuh NIL Dlydu Illus ldI LA LIS IolhS
and he says. l understand, that he never
sees crowd without wanting to talk to
it-and I sympathize with him little in
that respect; l used to feel that way my
self lLaughter], but it was when I was
good deal younger than am now, and did
MT know a great deal; when I was about
SO years old [laughterl, although I never
expect to know as much as I thought /
knew then [laughterl-Mr. Bryan in his
speeches has not had much to say about
this packing of the Supreme court, but
it is in their platform. That fact itself
Is another reason which justifies the Dem
ocrats of character and responsibility in
a revolt against the nomination made and
platform promulgated at Chicago.
The Right to Issue Bonds.
''Now, what else? They declare in the
platform, ladies and gentlemen, that the
president of the United States should not
in time of peace exercise the power given
him by the statute of the United States, in
q certain emergency, to issue interest
bearing bonds of the government. That is
intended as a condemnation of Mr.. Cleve-
land for issuing within the last two years
two hundred and odd millions Of dollars of
bonds with which to purchase gold and
maintain the redemption fund in the treas
ury. There are some things connected
with the financial policy of Mr.. Cleveland
in that respect, and in others, which from
our standpoint are to be criticised. I
think he never ought to have per-
mitted that free trade tariff bill, all tainted