The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-11

It's organization. Nothing more laWleSS
has happened in America and Judge
Parker does well to emphasize that
1t is due to a rough-rider sort of i'm
patience with ''the restraints of law
trial by jury in Colorado, prafticed
by a Rough Rider soldier. recommend
ed by Roosevelt, and upheld by the
Republican Governor, ought to speak
trumpet-tongued for Parker and
Constitutional Government.
Judge Parker's views on the tariff
are eminently sound. His belief that
the common law is sufficient to pre-
vent the operations of trusts and mo-
nopolies is coupled with a pledge to
favor further legislation" if neces-
sary. He is everlastingly right in say
Officials having both the disposition
and the courage to enforce existing
| laws" The Supreme Court held the
/ Sherman law strong enough to end
trusts, but the Roosevelt administra-
ton has never acted upon that decision
in that case or any other, but on the
| contrary declares it will not run
amuck.' 1t is, therefore, proper
to declare that ''Officials having both
the disposition and the courage to en-
force existing laws is the paramount
need. They cannot be had uncer
Roosevelt.
Judge Parker is happy in his treat
ment of the Philippine question. Ha
wishes to assure them now that they
shall have self government 'as soon
as they are reasonably prepared for
it, That is what we did for the Gu
hans and that is what we should do
for the Filipinos.
The best portion of the address is
his reply to, the senseless tommy-rot
about making the United States "a
world power much talked about since
we have initiated monarchies in buy
| ing colonists and governing without
the consent of the governed. We
make room for this extract to en-
phasize his sensible declaration:
"Ours is a world power, and as
such it must be maintained, but /
deny that it is at all recently that
| the United States has attained that
eminence. Our country became
world power over century ago, when,
| having thrown off foreign dominion,
| the people established a free govern
ment, the source of whose authority
SPRUNG and was continuously to pro-
coed, from the will of the people
themselves 1t grew as a world power
as it's sturdy citizens, to whose natural
increase were added immigrants from
the old world seekir~ to obtain here
the liberty and prosperity denied them
in their own countries. spread over
| the face of the land. reduced the
prairies and forest TO cultivation, built
cities, constructed highways and rail-
| roads, till now a nation which at the
formation of the government num-
bered only three millions in popula-
ton, has become eighty millions. and
from ocean to ocean and the lakes
to the gulf. the country Is the abode
of a free and prosperous people, adj
vanced in the highest degran in the
| learning and arts of civilization"
Following that splendid declaration.
Judge Parker goes on to preach the
gospel of peace and appeal to peace
loving men and women by declaring
that we are "a people loving peace.
not only for ourselves, but for all the
nations of the earth" Along this line,
by suggestion rather than statement
he draws a contrast between the
Rough Rider policy of going about
with a club and the policy of a World
Power based upon justice and devo-
ton to liberty and constitutional gov
eminent
| The speech breathes all the way
through a spirit of devotion to law
and orderly methods and hostility to
every disregard of the law even to
carry out plans deemed salutary. The
man who will read the words of
Judge Parker and re-read them will
be impressed that in his hands every
Interest will have the protection guar
anteed by the law and the executive
will not enbroil the country in do,
nestle or foreign broils. 1t is such as
surance that the Industrial. CONNER
cial and agricultural world needs
for permanent prosperity and growth,
The conclusion is the climax of the
arrangement of the tendency to alb
solutism and executive usurpatlon.
Judge Parker points out most strongly
the dangers to the Republic from
desire in the executive to succeed him.
self. He does not State it too strongly
when he says: ct is simply my
judgment that the interests of this
country are now so vast and the Ques-
tons presented are frequently OF such
overpowering magnitude to the people
that it is indispensable to the main
tenance of a BETTING attitude before
the people, not only that the Chief
Magistrate should be independent. but
that that independence should be
known of all men,"
HISTORY WILL REPEAT ITSELF.
''Whom the gods would destroy they
| first make mad