Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-29
yer Of Boston, who sat in the corner,
contentedly pulling at very big, and


very black, AID iacide-tal'y, 4 vc-y e.
pensive cigar. y los- OF JUS d:l2't sl-
derstand when we read Parker's speech
how he could have made such az awful
blunder as to have declared that the com
mon law would be found sufficient II 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 can't apply the coin-
mon law in national court Our federal
courts derive all their power from the
Constitution of the United States. Con-
gress can only legislate under the Consti-
tuition, and. while we apply general prin-
ciples in interpreting the law. it is i'm
possible to secure any affirmative action
in the United States court. except as the
result of a statute law duly passed by
Congress and approved by the President
of the United States. A man ike Olney,
who has been interested in public af-
fairs at Washington. would never have
made the blu;.der 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
legal standpoint but when he came to
deal with the question of trusts he SEEM
ed to have forgotten that he was respond
ing to nomination from a national con-
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
oil TO do t1a ,fay,
law. This allusion of Parker to the
common law. as means of attacking
| the trusts. has been source of surprise
and amazement to the profession all over
| the country. Judge Parker's decisions in
| New York State have always taken high
rank. and it was this which made the
| amazement all the greater. We could
not understand how it could possibly be
that any good lawyer could have made
such blunder, and we have been forced
to the conclusion that Judge Parker alb
solutely forgot that he was writing on
national topic. lhis is only an in
stance going to show the unwisdom of
taking man off the bench for political
position. especially such a 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
necessarily thrown in to a large extent
with the ordinary business affairs Of the
country, but with judge on the bench
| it is entirely different. He deals with
matters of abstract right and wrong,
| all ,,.,, a.. i'm
from business problems. In point of
fact, the successful judge in court of
last resort should be as far removed
from the influences of dali life as posi-
BILE. 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 @
man a good judge make him bad Presi
dent, and vice versa. Parker would new
er have made that awful blunder if h.
had had any recent experience in Con
gress or in an executive position a
Washington, where he would have beer
i'll touch with current opinion on thi
subject don't wonder that Roose
welt picked him up on this, and. in m!
opinion. the Presidents paragraph abou
the common law as applied to the fedora
control of trusts is most luminous ex
position of the powers and the limitation
of the federal government. But it's Ger
tainly a knockout blow for Parker"
The Tariff Issue
Il was glad to see," said successful
looking man, who explained later on tina
he was a manufacturer in northern NeI
mont. II was glad to see that the Presi
| dent made such point of the tarit
issue. We had dose OF Democratic fire.
trade theories up our way about te
years ago. which we will never forget
We are so near the Canadian horde
that we get the worst of every reduction
in the tariff rates. We have to ente
into competition with the cheap labo
! of Canada. When the Wilson tariff bi
! went into operation, just ten years age
: it shnt up my factory inside of si
t months, and l tell you, gentlemen,
didn't open again until after McKinle
5 was elected and the Dingley tariff lal
/ went into operation. 1t was a time o
/ panic, as you know, thousands of labo,
. ing men were glad to work for all
: wages, and yet, at the same time, | coul
not run my factory and compete with tn
: Canadians. who flooded our part of til
country with goods made by the cheapes
! labor, snch as l could not secure eve
| i'll those times of starvation. There ar
5 some places far in the interior wher
freight rates protect them from foreig
: competition in times of free trade, bu
, | those OF us who are near the border ar
fhe first 10 feel this competition. | gc
it in the neck ten years ago, and got
good and hard. If there weren't an
| other issue between the two parties,
| would vote for Roosevelt, because he an
, the Republicans generally stand for til
/ protection of American manufacture
/ against the competition of the cheap Ii
Dor. not only of Canada, but OF tn
| world at large. We all believe in rec
> procity which is reciprocal. and not
I free trade under the guise of reciprocit.
Roosevelt's story of the disastrous effect
, OF the Wilson tariff of 1894 is not owe
drawn in the slightest particular, and
: | am glad 10 see that he has kept tn
| tariff issue TO the front hecause in a