The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-10-25
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Have our opponents given consdera-
ton asks Mr.. Coler. ITO the scope of
the programme which has been outlined
BY the Chief Executive. that a constt-
tutional amendment shall confer upon
Congress the control Of State corpora
tons? Do they realize that this would
mean the transfer from the State to the
Federal courts of the great mass Of bus
mess affecting personal rights and local
law wherever they come in contact with
any corporate body? Do they realize
that this policy would mean the degra-
dalton Of the State courts to little more
than the functions Of Justice of the
peace or a police Judge to try cases of
individual assault and battery and petty
larceny?
Are they prepared to advocate a pol
icy Of such sweeping Capitalization,
which would do away with the dignity
of those courts whose life is interviewer
with the foundations of Anglo-Saxon lib
erty. which are the offspring Of
the earliest aspirations and highest
achievements Of our race. and have
been the safeguard through ten cen-
turtles OF the right of our ancestors and
ourselves to pursue each in his own way.
with due respect for the rights of others.
such aims and objects as seem to him
1itting?''
These questions are timely and it Is
vel. for the people to take them to heart
and answer them candidiy.
He also puts question to the laborers
of the country and asks them II they
want all their cases tried before Federal
judges Mr.. Coler proceeds:
with Federal control OF all corpora
tons such as the President desires, and
with many Of these corporations mo-
nopolies dealing in the necessaries Of
life. what relief may the people expect
II once these concerns hold by proxy
the reins of the national government
Some day may we not awake and find
even our liberty vanished? If they do
not realize the scope Of their proposal.
then they have very narrow view and
a very insufficient comprehension OF our
institutions and the foundations on which
thew rest. If they do realize the scope
OF their proposals. then they are
strangely deceiving the American peo-
pie that they do not reveal them in all
their strength and breadth.
FOR this policy or Capitalization. this
rol;cy of taking from the State courts
jurisdiction over the bodies they have
created and limiting their functions in
corporate matters to the most trivial
known TO our law. is giant stride to-
ward Capitalization and bureaucracy at
which even the cenral'zinE genius OF
Napoleon I. might we'll have stood
aehast It involves the sweeping away
Of ti.at structure Of well ordered liberty
regulated by the law which has been the
srowti. of ten centuries and the substjtu-
ton of a system as despotic in its form
and dangerous in its possibilities as that
which Diocletian erected upon the RUNS
Of Roman liberty when all power OF tree
thought and individual intia tive had d cd
ou+ il, the decadeDt empire of Rome. or
which. Napoleon 1. sought to engraft
alaca the ruins of the Revolution. and
which. under his degenerate nephew.
led france into the ABYSS of corruption
nd disaster which eliminated at
Sedan.
..TheH u 81 csal to strike down the local
ana State courts and substitute great
centralized machine is a confession that
the people Of the States have lost their
own virilily and their capacity to govern
themselves and that only centralized
Surea,ie,a ry is capable of giving them
laws. Such a system would concentrate
,pon the Federal Congress, heretofore
comparatively free from corruption. all
the forces Of intrigue and corporate
pressure which is now charged upon
state legislatures. and would make
place in the Federal lawnaking body
the most valuable prize of the political
I,lackInailer and freebooter
Magnificent, That's the doctrine, That
;e +r,a Iemocratic doctrine and we hope
:l,at tl;ose ringing words of the leader
IF tie New York Democracy will go
horne TO the hearts Of the people It
is q critical time in our history. It S
time for the Democrats OF the country
to be rallied Every sentence and every
word of Mr. Coler's is a reputation OF
the sccalistic plank in the New York
platform and a hugle call to Democrats
to forsake all forms of heresy and fanati-.
cisrn ard re1rrE to the principles Of JEFF
fe-son.