The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-22

tional difficulties the better, and that
What is necessary for surrounding
hem, must be done sub silention."
A disciple of Mr.. Jefferson was Pres
ident James Monroe. His exercise of
the presidential initiative was quite as
marked as that of his teacher and IA
nous predecessor. 1t was the prepara-
ton of that remarkable message con-
tanning those memorable words express
sive Of what since then has been term
ed the Monroe doctrine. The initiative
of the president was but expressive of
the spirit of the people. The decisive
action of Andrew Jackson in the days
of theory and practice of notification
saved US from serious and continued
danger of foreign aggression and the
horrors of disunion and civil war at
home.
His act was approved by such sup
porter of the constitution as Joseph
Story, and such defender as Daniel
Webster. The most widely known ex-
ercise of the presidential initiative was
the emancipation proclamation Of Pres
ident Lincoln. The reason for it was
given by Mr.. Lincoln in a reply to Hor-
ace Greeley in the words, AS to the
policy | seem to be pursuing, as you
say, have not meant to leave any one
in doubt. would save the Union"
After describing the issuance of that
proclamation Judge Speer told of its eff
fects upon the people north and south,
adding:
There does not remain a trace of re-
greet or resentment for such emancipa-
ton in the hearts of the people whom l
love and among whom in my far south
ern home it is my happiness to live"
Continuing, the speaker said: In moth
ing does the stupendous power of our
national government so plainly appear
as in the swiftness and completeness
with which the mandate of the presi-
dent is obeyed. And nowhere in this
country was this made more plainly
apparent than by the instantaneous
submissiyeness of the rioting and de-
structive thousands of Chicago under
the quiet but resolute intervention of
President Cleveland. Much was said of
the usurpation on the part of the pres
ident Little concern did this awaken.
Well do the American people know the
eXicencies of modern commerce and in
accommodation between the people of
the states. They know that wherever
interstate commerce goes there goes the
power of the Union.
They know that law1ess obstruction
of their shipments in transit may in
flict upon them caIamities for which
there can be no adequate redress. They
are well aware that state sovereignty,
however attractive in theory or for
midable in expression, ceases to be OPP
erattve as their products on their way
to market are rolled over the state lines.
They believe with James Madison that
the government of the Union is an i'm
stitution to make people do their duty.
And they are coming to know that Of
all others the president himself is the
direct representative of all who are
sheltered or inspired by the flag Of the
freeman's home and hope.
When the fires are drawn from the
mighty furnaces, when the hum Of ma
chinery lis yoiceless, when In the homes
Of plain people, where once more there
was simple comfort and ample food,
the father and mother hear this wailing
,of the little ones and know that no help
can come, that the strike is on, that
the fight Is to the death when viii it
ever again be denied that the American
president may not offer his temporary
counseIs, that he may not bring the
quiet but all-powerful ana righteous in
fuence Of his milhty station to accom-
plish a just arbitrament?
Our convention for the construction
of the Isthmian canal had been held up
BY Andean Catarans Bogata. Through
the prompt and possibly indignant in
| itiative Of the president, the delibera te
appreciation of the senate was APPROX
ed, and the voice Of the people express
ed through their representatives, the
thronging marts of commerce along the
Atlantic coast, as if by some cataslysm
Of nature, will be transported fourteen
thousand miles nearer to the unsup-
piled millions of the Orient.
Where in the annals Of time is re-
corded a precedent like this? eTh.
people of Cuba, said the president
having framed a constitution embrac-
ing the foregoing requirements and
having elected a president who is soon
to take office, the time is near for the
fulilment Of the pledge of the United
States TO leave the government of the
. Island Of Cuba to its people. Cuba
lhore, whose last defender had sunk be-
meath the Spanish sword, takes its
place among the redeemed and olsen
thralled nations of the earth.
The establishment Of civil govern
: ment in the Philippines, the revocation
u of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, the firm
u ness and skill which spared irresponsi-
N bic Venezuela the rayages of destructive
= war with Germany and Great Britain
the settlement of the Alaskan boun-
dairy, which for nearly a generation had
S threatened the peace of the country
p the maintenance of the integrity Of
l. China and of the open door for our
= commerce in the East; the impartial
q and effective couusels offered in the
4 Moroccan conference; the observance
d of neutrality by China in the Eastern
n war; the initiative taken for the pro-
r lection Of territorial integrity OF that
f empire the restriction of the arena OF
= combat in that fearful struggle me
: protection Of the helpless and pathetic
f millions Of China from the devastating
= swarms from the northern hives. ali
t begun by the presidents initiative or
his approval and executed in effective
d detail by the accomplished statesmen
g he has gathered around him in the
t cabinet; surely these great measures