Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-11
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InlnlStTdtlEe departments VI ~
eminent. While unhesitating III lts
promise to correct abuses ana 10 rish'
wrongs wherever they appear or no"
ever caused; to investigate the se'era'
administrative departments OF the gov
eminent the conduct of whose ofnclai9
has created scandals. and to PUNISH
those who have been guilty of breach
Of their trust: to oppose the granting
of special privileges by which the lew
may profit at the expense OF the ili"hs -
to practice economy in the expehuIluie
of the moneys of the people, ana u
that end to return once more W IN
methods Of the founders of the repupIi'
by observing in disbursing the pupilc
funds the care and caution a pruden'
individual observes with respect to MS
own. still the spirit of the platform
assures conservative, instead of rasn
action. the protection of the innocent
as we'll as the punishment OF the
puilty: the encouragement of industry.
economy and thrift: the protection OIL
property and guarantee OF tne en-
forcement for the benefit of all of man
jnalienable rights. among WHICH, as
said in the Declaration of Indepen-
Of happiness" Liberty. as understood
in this country, means not only the
right Of freedom from actual servltuhe'
imprisonment or restraint. but tne rish.
of one to use his faculties IN all Id" III
WAYS. to live and work Wnere he VIII
and to pursue any lawful trade or busl-
ness These essential rights or lie,
liberty and property are not only
guaranteed to the citizen by the Con-
stitution of each of the several states.
but tho states are by the Fourteenth
Amendment to the Constitution or the
United states forbidden to deprive any
nerson of any one Of them without due
process Of law.
Occasionally, by reason of unneces-
gary or inpatient agitation for reforms,
or because the limitations placed upon
the departments Of government by the
Constitution are disregarded by Off
Gals desiring to accomplish that which
70 them seems good, whether the power
exists In them or not, it becomes de-
sirable to call attention to the fact that
the people in whom all power resides
have seen fit, through the medium OF
mental powers conferred and to say tc
departments created by it: Thus faI
shalt thou go and no farther" To Sc
cure the ends sought the people have
by the Constitution separated and dis
tributed among the three departments
of government-the executive. legiSla
tive and judicial-certain powers, and
it is the duty Of those administering
each department so to act as to pre-
serve, rather than to destroy, the po-
tency of the coordinate branches of
the government. and thus secure the
exercise of all the powers conferred by
the people.
Thomas Jefferson. I'm letter to Will
liam c. Jarvis, touching the perpetuity
of our institutions. written many years
after he had retired to private life
said: IF the three powers of our gov
eminent maintain their mutual inde-
pendence of each other. it may last
long, but not so If either can assume
the authority of the other" 1t must be
confessed that in the course of our his
tory executives have employed powers
not belonging to them; statutes have
been passed that were expressly for
hidden by the Constitution and statute:
have been set aside as unconstitutiOna
when 1t was difficult to point out the
provisions said to be offended agains
| in their enactment; all this has beer
done with good purpose, no doubt
| but in disregard, nevertheless. of the
| fact that ours is a government of laws
| not of men, deriving it's Just power!
| from the consent of the governed" L
| we would have our government con
tinue during the ages to come. for thu
benefit of those who shall succeed us
| we must ever be on our guard agains
| the danger of usurpation of that au
| thority which resides i'm the whole pco
pie. whether the usurpation be by Off
| Gals representing one of the thre,
! great departments of government, o.
by body of men acting without ;
| commission from the people.
Impatience of the restraints of law
as well as of it's delays, is becoming
| more and more manifest from day {,
day. Within the past few years man,
| INSTANCES nave Deen Drought TO our at
| tentiOn. where in different parts of ou
| beloved country supposed criminals
have been seized and punished by
mob. notwithstanding the fact that TIL
Constitution of each State guarantees t,
| every person within it's jurisdiction
that his life, his liberty or his propert,
shall not be taken from. him withou
| due process of law.
In struggle between employers an,
employees. dynamite is said to hav
been used by the latter, resulting IL
the loss of life and the destruction o
property. The perpetrators of this of
fence against the laws of God and man
and all others engaged in the conspira
cy with them, should, after due tria
and conviction have had melted out t
them the most rigorous punishment
known to the law. This crime. adde,
perhaps to others, led to the formation
of committee Of citizens that, Will
the support of the military authority
deports from the State. without trial
persons suspected of belonging to tn,
organization of which the perpetrators
of the dynamite outrages we're sup
posed to be members. In both case.
the reign of law gave way to the reigl
| nf force These i'm. ,>ro.a,,