The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-11

ary bureau has dug up an opinion deliv- cred by Judge aPrker, when he declar- 1 ed the New York anti-ticket scalping bill unconstitutionai. This opinion shows that Judge Parker is unswerving in his de- votion to the constitution and the De- claration of Independence In the course of Judge Parkers opinion he quoted the declaration follows: 'We hold these trusts to be self-evident"-tha Is, so plain that their truth is recognized by their mere statement-'that all men are en- dowed'-not by edcts of emperors or decrees of parliament. or acts of congress -"by their Creator with certain inaliena- ble rights"-that is, rights that cannot be bartered away or given away or taken away except In the punishment of crime -"and that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and to secure these"-not to grant them, but secure ethem-"governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"
 strikea Blow at Trusts.
 Then Judge Parker said Among these inalienable rights as secured in the great document Is the right of men to pursue their happiness, by which is meant to pursue any lawful business or vocation in manner which may increase their pros perity or develop their faculties so as to give to them their highest endowment. The common business and callings of life. the ordinary trades and pursuits, which are innocuous in themselves and have been followed in all communities iron, time immoral must therefore, be free in this country to all alike upon the same conditions.
 Ine right to pursue them without let or hlndrance, except to that which is applied to all persons of the same age sex ana condition, is a distinguishing privilege Of citizens of the United States, ana an essential element of that freedom. which they claim as their birthripht In this country 1t has never been held and never In so odious form as is here cIaim- ed. that an entire trade and business could be taken from citizens and vested in certain corporations. Such leeisIatio,, has been regarded everywhere else as inconsistent with civil liberty. That exists only where every individual has the power to pursue his own happiness according to his own views, unrestrained except by equal just, and impartial laws"
 TiIlman Is Very Inquisitive.
 Senator Tillman never fails to ask for an explanation about anything he does not exactly understand Under the rough surface of the South Carolinian is hidden mass of information, which he obtain cd by asking questions since his entrance into the senate. This week Senator Rev. eridge and Senator Tillman were en- gagged in a long drawn out colloquy about the reasons for large increases in the number of Indians on reservations where tho tribes own large estates. Senator Tillman said he could not understand it, so Senator Beveridge started to explain. Its question of how many white men become Indians" volunteered Senator Sn0nnpr about how white men crowded upon the reservations and married the Indian wom- en and themselves became enumerated as Indians "I would like to know said Senator Tilman. what becomes of those Indian men who have married Indian women" The Indanian replied that he had not gone into the martial affairs of the Indians sufficiently to explain. and the remainder of his reply was lost in the general laughter.