The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-12
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pursuit Of happiness" Liberty, as un.
derstood in this country, means not
only the right Of freedom from actual
servitude, Imprisonment or restraint,
but the right of one to use his fac
uties In all lawful ways, to live and
work where he will and to pursue any
lawful trade or business. These essen.
tial rights of life, liberty and prop
erty are not only guaranteed to the
citizen by the Constitution Of each
of the several states, but the states
are by the Fourteenth Amendment to
the Constitution of the United States
forbidden to deprive any person of any
one of them without due process Of
law.
Occasionally, by reason of unneces-
sary or impatient agitation for re-
forms, or because the limitations plac-
ed upon the departments of the gov
ernment by the Constitution are disre-
garded by officials desiring to accom-
plish that which to them seems good,
whether the power exists in them or
not, II becomes desirable to call at
tention to the fact that the people, in
whom all power resides, have seen
At, through the medium of the Consti-
tuition, to limit the governmental pow
ers conferred and to say to depart.
ments created by it, "Thus far shalt
thou go and no farther" To securG
the ends sought the people have by the
Constitution separated and distribut-
ed among the three departments of
government-the executive, legislative
and judicial-certain powers, and 1t Is
the duty of those administering each
department so to act as to preserve,
rather than to destroy, the potency
of the coordinate branches of the
government, and thus secure the exer-
else of all powers conferred by the
people.
Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Will
liam G. Jarvis, touching the perpet-
uity of our institutions, written many
years after he had retired to private
life, said: "If the three powers Of our
government maintain their mutual In
dependence of each other, 1t 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
history executives have employed pow
ers not belonging to them; statutes
have been passed that we're expressly
forbidden by the Constitution and stat
utes have been set aside as unconsti-
tutional when 1t was difficult to point
out the provisions said to be offended
against in their enactment; all this
has been done with good purpose,
no doubt, but in disregard, neverthe
less, of the fact that ours is soverA.
ment Of laws, not Of men deriving ito
"just powers from the consent of the
governed. II we would have our
government continue during the ages
to come, for the benefit of those who
shall succeed us, we must ever be ON
our guard against the danger of usur.
patton of that authority which resides
in the whole people, whether the usur-
patton be by officials representing one
of the three departments OF govern
ment, or by body Of men acting
without a commission from the peo.
pie.
Impatiencs of the restraints Of law,
as well 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 at
tention, where in different parts Of our
beloved country supposed criminals
have been seized and punished by a
mob, Notwithstanding the fact that the
Constitution of each state guarantees
to every person within 1t jurisdiction
that his life. his liberty or his prop
erty shall not be taken from him with
out. due process of law.
In struggle between employers and
employees, dynamite Is said to have
been used by the latter, resulting In
the loss Of life and the destruction of
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 met
ed out to them the most rigorous pun
ishment known to the law. This crime,
added perhaps to others, led to the for
nation Of committee of citizens that,
with the support Of the military auth
ority, deports from the state, without
trial, persons suspected Of belonging
to the organization of which the per-
pertrators of the dynamite outrages
were supposed to be members. In both
cases the reign of law gave way to the
reign of force. These Illustrations
present some evidence of the failure
Of government to protect the citizen
and his property, which not only 1usti-
fed the action Of your convention In |
this regard, but made 1t It's duty to call
attention to the fact that Constitution
al guarantees are violated whenever
any citizen is denied the right to labor,
to acquire and to enjoy property. or
10 reside where his interests or inclin-
alton may determine; and the fulfill
ment Of the assurance to rebuke and