Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-09-29

| blunder as to have declared that the COM
mon law would be found sufficient to deal
with all the trust questions which come
up. Parker must have known, but he
probably forgot that, from the very ma
ture OF things. you cant apply the com
| mon law i'm a national court. Our federal
courts derive all their power from the
| Constitution of the United States. Com
gress can only legislate under the Consti-
! tuition, and, while we apply general prin-
cipes in interpreting the law, it is i'm
| possible to secure any affirmative action
| in the United States court, except ms the
result OF n statute law duly passed by
Congress and approved by the President
of the United States. 4 man like Omey,
who has been interested in public af-
| fairs at Washington, would never have
| made the bunder Parker made. He
seemed to have written his speech of ac-
| ceptance as If he were dealing entirely
in abstract questions which had been pre-
scented for settlement by his own court.
His exposition of the general principles
OF the Constitution was not bad from a
legal standpoint, but when he came to
deal with the question of trusts he seem
ed to have forgotten that he was respond
vention. which had selected him to act as
President of the United States, in which
capacity he would have to execute Unit
ed States laws only, and would have alb
solutely nothing to do with the common
law This alusion of Parker to the
common law, as means of attacking
the trusts. has been n source of surprise
and amnzement to the profession all over
I,,1,
New York State have always taken high
rank, and it was this which made the
amazcment all the greater. We could
not understand how it could possibly be
that any good lawyer could have made
such bunder, and we have been forced
to the conclusion that Judge Parker alb
solutey forgot that he was writing on
national topic. This is only an in
stance going to show the unwisdom of
taking man off the bench for political
position, especially such position as
that of President of the United States.
Experience Necessary.
"To administer the affairs of the gov
eminent successfully, experience is just
as necessary as it is to run a hotel or a
railroad. a lawyer in active practice is
I''tSSllIs WI III W II liISt fAlttll
with the ordinary business affairs of the
country, but with a judge on the bench
it is entirely different He deals with
matters of abstract right and wrong,
and all his training goes to remove him
from business problems. In point of
fact, the successful judge in a court of
last resort should be as far removed
from the influences of daily life as posi-
bic. The ideal judge is legal machine,
settling abstract principles of law, where
as the ideal President is exactly the oppo-
site. He executes the laws as he finds
them, suggests new ones to meet new
conditions and acts as the personal rep
resentative of the people who make the
laws. 1t is not his business to interpret
but to do, and the things which make a
man good judge make him bad Presi-
dent, and vice versa. Parker would new
er have made that awful blunder if he
| had had any recent experience in Con
gress or in an executive position at
Washington, where he would have been
in touch with current opinion on this
| subject | don't wonder that Roose-
welt picked him up on this, and. in my
| opinion, the Presidents paragraph about
| the common law as applied to the federal
| control of trusts is a most luminous eX-
position of the powers and the limitations
of the federal government. But it's Ger
tainly a knockout blow for Parker"
The Tariff Issue.
81 was glad to see," said successful
looking man, who explained later on that
he was a manufacturer in northern Yer
mont, II was glad to see that the Presi-
dent made such a point of the tariff
issue. We had dose OF Democratic free
trade theories up our way about ten
years ago, which we will never forget.
We are so near the Canadian border
that we get the worst of every reduction
in the tariff rates. We have to enter
into competition with the cheap labor
of Canada. When the Wilson tariff bill
went into operation, just ten years ago
it shut up my factory inside of six
months, and l tell you, gentlemen.
didn't open again until after Mckinley
was elected and the Dingley tariff law
went into operation. 1t was time OF
panic as you know, thousands of labor
ing men were glad to work for an!
wages, and yet at the same time, coulC
not run my factory and compete with tho
Canadians, who flooded our part of tn,
country with goods made by the chcapes
labor, such as l could not secure ever
III those times of starvation. There ar,
some places far in the interior wher,
freight rates protect them from foreigl
competition in times of free trade, bu
those OF us who are near the border ar,
the first to feel this competition. | 60
it in the neck ten years agoS and got i
good and hard. If there weren't an,
other issue between the two parties.
would vote for Roosevelt, because he anC
the Republicans generally stand for thu
protection OF American manufacture
against the competition OF the cheap la
Dor, not only of Canada, but of tn,
world ut large. We all believe in reel
procity which is reciprocal and not il
free trade under the guise of reciprocity
Roosevelt's story of the disastrous effect
of the Wilson tariff of 1894 is not over
drawn in the slightest particular, and
am glad to see that he has kept tn,
tariff issue to the front, because in al
this talk of Imperialism and extrava
gance and the trusts, and one thing ant
. another people seem to forget that tn
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