The San Francisco call., 1898-06-28
THE EXAMINERS DEMOCRACY.

authority to back up its "great national policy
 including the annexation of Hawaii, debts and coolies, and the purchase of West Indian coaling stations, creates what wants and argues from It as II the fact existed. Advising that the example of England be followed 1t says: * England s institutions free and democratic as our own
 This throws light on the Examiners ideas of free dom and Democracy. England maintains state church, supported by tithes, and not by voluntary contributions. Of this church the monarch IS the head It is true that there is religious federation and the coronation oath has clause protecting the independence of the Scottish church, provided in the Act of Union I7oI. But all bodies of noncon- formsts exist and are administered by voluntary act Of their communicants.
 Again England has entail and primogenlture. When Jefferson who used to be quoted authority on freedom and democracy, set up in Virginia h1s working model of this republic, he separated church and state, abolished tthes and put an end to entail and primogenture. This gave absolute religious equality and freedom, and enabled the partition ot equally between the lawful heirs, instead ot entailing to the oldest According to the Ex- aminer, Jefferson was wrong, and union ot church and state primogenture and entail right, and constitute institutions "as free and democratic our own" It has been held heretofore that freedom of inheritance and liberty to acquire and to distribute real property, and non-union of church and state, were peculiarly the jewels in the crown of American democracy. Perhaps the Examiner will now put their abolition and return to all that Jefferson abol- shed among the features of its great national policy
 England has House of Lords, as the upper cham Der of her Parliament It is composed of Peers and Bishops the lords spiritual and temporal These are not elected by the people They hold their of fees by virtue of their birth. The lords temporal are the benefciaries of prinogeniture and entail As such an institution is declared by the Examiner to be a5 free and democratic as own, 1t should go back to the policy of the Federasts and advocate a Federal Senate, wherein the members hold for life and transmit their office with their estate to their old est sons
 The Examiners idea of our Government is fur ther expounded in the editorial utterance, to this effect "It is in the power and right of Con- gress to devise any sort of system that may apply to the conditions of such outside dependencies, and ths pousr TO soiss l.nttsd by the national stitution."
 That is enough to make the framers of the con- stitution groan and shiver in their dust The Ma tional Constitution Article I, Section VIII, says: The Congress shall have power" and proceeds to enumerate under eighteen heads the powers and authority granted to Congress Then, in the ninth amendment, adopted by Congress its first session in I78o, is this "The powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution nor prohibited by 1t to the States, reserved to the States respec lively to the people" Hence not even the widest atitudnaran in construction of the constitution has pretended that Congress, either of the CO., o1 1dnate branches Of the Federal Government, can exercise any power authority granted to it by the constitution
 The Federal Government, created In that instru- ment by the people, is of granted and enumer- ated powers and is limited to those powers excu- sivcly. The historic rule of construction laid down day. is that the Federal Government may do only what the constitution grants and the States may do nothing which it prohibits. The Federal limitation of power is in the of granted authority The State limitation IS in the terms of prohibited author ity The Examiner jumps this all, and declares Con gress to be in wise limited by the constitution and that powers and exercise authority not granted by that instrument which creates it. In the light of this monstrous proposition the people may what lies ahead in the annexation of Hawaii. Unlimited by the constitution Congress may up in the islands such labor system as the conditions require, system at war with that given to us by the same body. In this way the addition of every such dependency" will mean the adapation of legislation to tropical conditions and the need of cheap and servile labor to compete with home labor paid and living on a white scale and in temperate zone conditions.
 Ii anything were needed to alarm labor here and warn of coming distress this Examiner declaration supplies it.