The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-26
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the sta'e government or the Federal government"
 We are somewhat surprised at the sentiment, for although The Standard is Republican newspaper 1t has here- tofore been an advocate of lmperial- ism. or Rooseveltism, which Is prae- tically the same thing. The theory above set out amounts virtually 70 giving up the entire question of State 1 sovereignity. for If 1t makes no difference whether the State or the National gov ernment exercise any power we might as well give 1t all over to the latter and have done with 1t. That sort of doctrine will suit Mir. Root. we have no doubt. but It will not be accept able to hIs party. For example. The Hartford courant is also Re- ublican newspaper but 1t is not yet ready to accept imperialism. That paper In a I recent issue has a strong editorial on the subject of governmental interfer- ence. It approves of law that would regulate child labor in the District of Columbia, and in the territories and other dependencies. and then adds;
 But here comes a dispatch announce ing that the department of commerce a44a laoor IS to De directed to inNSsu- gate conditions in all factories through. out the united states And hers coiAass anotn1r ulspaIea reporting tndL day be- fore yesterday Dr. Felix Adler. Dr. S n. Linasay, or Commissioner Charles F. Ne.If-one Of the tnree--Sald to President roosevelt, on tnls very sup. De ject, that 'Wnateyer coula sateiy pc left to the states should be. left to them. but where she interests or thr nation required action on the part or the Federal authorities. such action should not be withheld on grounds ot mere abstract theory, ana that Pres- ident Roosevelt cordially assented."
 If any state of this Union--Connec- ticnt. New Jersey, Ohio, south Caro- lina-permits greed to be cruel 10 wo- manhood and childhood in It's. factor ,es. that is q very shameful and dread. T., we can toward stopping 1t. But the ConstitItion of the United states is no more 10 be suspended or repealed ny their discretion, than by Dr. Adler Dr. Lindsay and Commissioner NeiH at theirs. Congress and President have 10 factories than they have to say at what hours the merchants on Main street. Hartford. shall open and close the'r doors. or what wages they shall
 As Generai Hawley once told the House of Representstivss. there are plenty of things desirable iu themselves which are no mart of the Federal gov ernmeuts husiness and with which it has no ehadow of right to rne4dle in d'sre"ard of the metes and bounds af the Constitution
 That is plain talk to come from New Fnriand but It Is sound doctrine. This theory that the Federal government can regulate everything is becoming popular among those who look to Roosevelt as the fountain of all wisdom .and the guide-post for all the people of the land No good person can deny the wrong of child labor, just as they cannot deny the wrong of many other things that take place all around us, but the President of the United States is not supreme nor is the Federal gov- ernment omnipotent. Mir. Roosevelt has some dangerous advisers and 1t is hard to say where they will lead him.
 To show how this imperialistic ten- dency of Roosevelt is being coached and encouraged we have one quotation to make from another Republican au- thority-The New York Mall The pa- per Is one of the organs we hear about and Is so anxious tU be on good terms with Roosevelt and Root that it not infrequently gets away beyond them, as In the following:
 In framing his proposition, of winch the President Is said to approve, to eA- clude from inters.Ate eOhiIiierce all Wnlcn chitGren unIer IourtSen years oI ageSare empioye1s Sena tor DeVerldSe is looking nOt to tne presenI Congress or tO lLs successor, but lcng way anead. The country Will have LIme tu tnlnk over hls lngen.ous means or ln- vokIng national act1On agalnst an ac- mitted evil, and If 1t likes the prtnci- pie, to apply It to good many other things
 ment, the principle once accepted could regulate anything 1t chose tO in any State, InaL State ponce LoNeF and own wishes to the contrary nol- WlLhstdnding. IL might brIng aoout universal eight-hour law by excluding from interstate commerce the products of ten n-hour establishments It might conceivably restore full negro suffrage rected against the products of States having grandfather clauses" in their constitutions. It might. disbar the products of Japanese and Chinese i'm migrant labor 1t might accomplish the same objects from the other end by holding up at the frontiers of their nome GLALES the empowers Ol GIl Ill Ad- bor, ten-hour labor, Japanese or Chm ese labor and restra ming them from taking @ vacation or making business trip into other States.
 It may be true that Mir. Beveridge is not looking to the present Congress to accomplish all he desires to come to pass but that makes no difference as to the principle involved. He and those who agree with him, which in- cludes Roosevelt, are working for be- ginning which will inevitably lead to all that The Mail sets out. The pr nci- pie once accepted as that paper puts It. there can be no sto ping place this side of the total abrOgation of consti- tutionalism. The one hope is that before all these dangerous and destructive policies can be carried out the govern ment in all its departments will be in the hands of the friends of the Con- stitution and of all the people. .
 WHAT WE MAY EXPECT.
 Speaking of the recent speech of Sec retary Root in New York. The New Or.