The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-05-30
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The President is back among Us. Is
1t significant that his homecoming hap
pens on the day when c1nuaIIy the
nation mourRs for its brave sons who
fell in battle to preserve the Constitu-
ton, and this year has a new cause
for mourning in the death Of the Con
ntuuon itself. which occurred on Capt.
toI Hill last Monday
But while we weep, Europe laughs
and is happy over the breaking of an
instrument which often has prodded the
nations of the Old World with its sharp
points, and formed the model for like
productions in the republics which
have come into being since the late
American Constitution was adopted
The British press leads in the general
song Of delight. The London Chron-
icle" in its issue Of today says:
a second empire has been born from Anglo
Saxon stock HeucefoTth there viii be Amer
lean subjects vel as American citizens To
many minds the new departure viii seem q de-
scent from the cid lofty American ideals. On
q broader view We see an expansion OF we'll
ordered Government, and the extension IN due
time Of reasonable liberty The sovereignty
conferred by the Supreme Courts judgment,
although technically Irresponsible Is a moral
rs.ygEs5biijty OF the kind 8lr. Gladstone recog-
g trust and function given by Providence It
IS IN such spirit we may be sure the United
States VIII administer its empire
What a joy it must be to England to
think that at last the United States
has broken loose from its old fOunda-
tions- While the Constitution was in
force and respected, there was no pos
sibility that a part or all of Alaska
could be wrested from the American
people, except under the precarioUs sub
terfUse Of a modus vivendi. Now, how
ever, since il has been decided that our
Territories have no rights which Con-
gTess is bound TO respect there is every
prospect that by a sufficient employ
ment of cash and influence England
can secure what she wants on our Pa
cific Coast British statesmen know the
comparative ease with which Iegisla-
ton is to be had in this country when
the demand for it is backed by gold
and the stock ticker. Under the Brown
dictum Congress has power to divide.
sell, or give away any Of the Territor-
les In theory. at least it could not
only eede Alaska 10 Great Britain, but
IL could transfer Oklahoma TO the
Crown Of italy, and present the Dis
trict Of Columbia to the Kaiser for
use as naval station In short. in
single afternoon, and by the voice of a
single Supreme Court Justice, the pro-
lection and immunities which the
American people have enjoyed outside
Of the boundaries Of the constituent
States, under the Constitution. have
been swept away. The Constitution I'D
to Monday. May the twenty-seventh.
Of the Twentieth Century's first year.
was the supreme and inviolable law Of
the land Now the supreme law is the
VIII Of Congress, which can be, as It
has been for four years, controlled by
the executive branch Of the Govern
ment, itself governed and directed by /
close combination Of capitalists and I
monopolists. Prior 10 the day, which !
should ever be remembered in succeed /
ing years as a day of national sorrow /
and humiliation, the trusts and their
Wall Street and political allies had cap
tured the executive and legislative
branches, but as yet had failed to gain
control Of the judiciary The effect OF
the Brown dictum is 10 give them that
also.
With exceeding cheerfulness. the
London Morning Leader remarks TO-
day that the decisions Of the American
Supreme Court constitute a revolution
that Overturns the very basis Of the
Declaration Of Independence. It saws
that the United States IS now about 10
tax Porto Rico much as King George
taxed the colonies: They have thrown
aside completely the old dogma about
the natural equality of man. France.
after all, has been truer to the repub-
lican ideal, for even Algiers and Ton
Quin are departments sending represen-
tatiyes TO Paris. The Anglo Saxon race
no longer leads in the matter Of free
dom"
This is an unpleasant verdict Of for
sagn opinion, but it is more than justi-
fed We shall hear more uncomfort-
able truths from across the Atlantic.
should President Mckinley permit him
self to submit TO III advice and decide
10 exercise the Illegal powers sought to
be conferred upon him BY the Spooner
resolution, and continue to be the sole !
legislator, and judge in the :
Philippines. Il must be remembered
that Mr. Justice Brown was willing 10
preserve a shred Of the Constitution in
the implication that Congress has not
the right to delegate its legislative au-
thority 10 Mr. Mckinley. If it be held :
10 the contrary, then the conclusion is
necessary that It could delegate exec
Itiye legislative, and judicial power to
sir. Hanna, Mr.. Morgan, OF Mr. Rookie
teller equally as well. and authorize one o
u mole Of these eminent patriots TO b
-ule Arizona, New Mexico, or the Dis 9
-rict Of Columbia according TO his or ],
heir sweet viii and pleasure without c
OF accountability TO any I.
NE We do not assert that under Il
Providence there is not chance that :
he sacred Constitution Of Our Fathers
nay be resUrTected, but at this hour it
S as dead as Lazarus before he was
eleaseG from death by the divine n.
ouch Of the Master. 81
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