The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-08-18
POWER OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE.
Subservient Congress Has Sold Birth.
right to People to Trusts and
Corporations.

SAS oSAoAS W.
know the good or bad effects of tho
railroad rate regulation, the meat in
spection and the Panama canal bills.
There is not much doubt that the two
hrst named bills will have to be passed
upon by the supreme court before we
know where We are at 80 far as in
dorsing that legislation the voters at
the next election will have to vote
blindly. The railroads evidently be-
lieve that they have not much fear
from rate regulation as far as any re-
duction of rates is concerned, or the
price of their stocks would not be so
strongly maintained. The beef pack
ers profess to be more than satisfied
with the meat inspection bill, as they
may well be, considering that a Re-
publican congress SO kindly put the
cost on the American taxpayer. Re.
garding the building of the Panama
canal, no n but the engineers will
know the progress that is being made
and all the people of the United States
will be sure of is that the annual bills
will be paid for by them and that the
cost will be increased $40, 600, 900, or
more, by the decision of the Repub-
lican congress that all the supplies
must be bought of the tariff-fostered
trusts, unless the president decides the
price charged is extortionate. That,
OF course, the president will not be
called upon to decide, for the trusts
and combines will keep just within
what might be looked upon as extor-
Thus all the proposed reform
and remedial legislation that has been
with such a strenuous -four
ish of trumpets and beating Of tom
toms dwindles down to a mess of pot
tage for the people. They may not
nave sold their birthright, but it looks
vastly possible that the Republicans
have mortgaged it for them and that
The trusts and corporations expect to
'oreclose in due time. T..
The congress has taken a most rad
position on placing In the hands
II h president the prerogatives of
and has declared for centraliza-
in the federal government of SOW.
'relgnty more than the old federalists
lnder Hamilton urged or desired. In
he hands Of a patriot the increased
owe Of the president may do no
larm and may be of service in con-
rolling congress and the bad elements !
f his party. But il a tyrant, or an
creature of corporations I
hould be elected chief magistrate and |
hould desire to perpetuate his public t
1t would be quite difficult to de- 1
ose him by constitutional methods. t
he president now has the army, the
avy, the militia, the office holders t
vast swarm Of them at his beck and t
all. He has power to secretly inquire O
ito the doings. of corporations that S
perate outside of one state. He has v
the machinery of the fedral courts, Fl
lie attorneys and United States mar a
halls, whose deputies might be in Il
'eased without end, to indict and
such as might not bow submits a
vely to his sovereign will or dis q
,rge assessments that might be levied a
,ainst such corporations and individ- q
lis as might Intentionally or careless 81
have broken or evaded the law. T
ven many Of the federal judges ia
ould not be Independent of him or, u
least, enough would be found to en-
rec the law with an eye to their own ia
vantage. Is
Such in brief are the conditions that T
w confront us, through the constant W
bserviency Of a Republican congress az
an executive clothed with vast pow of
It commenced with Mckinley un- eg
r the absurd scare of the war with CT
ain, and has been gradually grow. br
3 until it has become a menace I'M Gu
r Roosevelt. The latter may be a w
triot, though most people doubt It bu
d think him consumer with ambi- in
us projects. He has declared he 1t
IL not be a candidate for a third Sc
m and for their own ultimate saliva
n the neoO1a must taxa him af hjs