Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-10
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we'll condensed in the first inaugural address of President Jefferson. and points out with force and directness the course to be. pursued through their proper application in order to in- sure needed reforms in both the leg. islative and administrative depart ments of the government. While un- hesitating in it's promise to correct abuses and to right wrongs wherever they appear or however caused; to investigate the several administrative departments of the government. the conduct of whose officials has created scandals, and to punish those who have been guilty of a breach of their trust; to oppose the granting of spe. cial privileges by which the few may profit at the expense of the many: to practice economy in the expenditure of the moneys of the people. and to that end to return once more to tho methods of the founders of the repub. lie by observing in disbursing the pub lie funds the care and caution pru- dent individual observes with respect to his own; still the spirit of the plat. form assures conservative. instead of rash action; the protection of the in nocent as we'll as the punishment of the guilty; the encoura cement Of in- NAu9 9eA Jb% CSOAlOAIy uAQ tHFHt, tue pro- lection of property and a guarantee of the enforcement for the benefit of all of mans inalienable rights. among which, as said ill the Declaration of Independence, are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Liberty as understood in this country, means not only the right of freedom from actual seryitude, Imprisonment Or re- straint, but the right of one to use his faculties i'll all lawful ways. to 1 live and work where he will and to pursue any lawful trade or business. These essential rights of life, liberty and property are not only guaranteed to the citizen by the constitution of each of the several states, but the states are by the fourteenth amend. ment to the constitution of tile United States forbidden to deprive any per- son of any oile Of them without due process of law.
 Occasionally, by reason of unneces, sary or Impatient agitation for re- forms, or because the limitations placed upon the departments of gov ernment by the constitution are dis regarded by officials desiring to ac. conplish that which to thein seems good, whether the power exists ill them or not, it becomes desirable to call attention to the fact that the people. in whom all power resides have seen fit, through the medium of the constitution, to limit the govern mental powers conferred and to say to departments created by it. "Thus far shalt thou go and no farther" To secure the ends sought the people have by the constitution separated and distributed among the three de- nf ka1af fIar tive, legislative and judicial-certain powers, and it is the duty of those administering each department so to act as to preserve, rather than to de- stroy, the potency of the coordinate branches of the government. and thus secure the exercise of all the powers conferred by the people
 Thomas Jefferson, in letter to William c Jarvis, touching the per- petuity of our institutions. written many years after he had retired to private life, said: If the three DOW CTS of our government maintain their mutual independence of each other, it may last long, but not so if either can assume the authority of the other" It must be confessed that in the course of our history executives have employed powers not belonging
  that were expressly forbidden by the Constitution and statutes have been set aside as unconstitutional when it was difficult to point out the provfs. ions said to be offended against ia their enactment; all this has been done with good purpose, no doubt, but in disregard, nevertheless. of the fact that ours is a government of laws not of men, derived it's just powers from the consent of the gov. erned." If we would have our gov ernment continue during the ages to come, for the benefit of those who shall succeed us, we must ever be oA our guard against the danger of usurpation of that authority which re- sides in the whole. people, whether senting one of the three great de- partments of government, or by a body of men acting without a com mission from the people.
 Impatfence of the restraints of law. as we'll as of it's delays, is becoming more and more manifest from day to day. Within the past few years many instances have been brought to our attention, where in different parts of our beloved country supposed criIn. inals have been seized and punished by mob, notwithstanding the fact that the constitution Of each state guarantees to every person within it's Jurisdiction that his life, his liberty or his property shall not be taken from him without due process of law. Tn a struggle between employers and employees, dynamite is said to have been used by the latter, result, ing in the loss of life and the destruc- ton of property. The perpetrators of this offense against the laws of God and man, and all others engaged in the conspiracy with them, should, after due trial and conviction, have had meted out to them the most rig orous punishment known to the law. This crime, added perhaps to others, led to the formation of a committee of citizens that, with the support of the military authority, depo1ts from the state, without trial, persons sus- pected of belonging to the organize ton of which the perpetrators of the dynamite outrages were supposed to be members. Tn both cases the reign oP law gave way to the reign of force