The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-20
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 With alIs seocksanrensss of Sir oracle The pskiahssha ssAte Capital as- seFts that there ia no disposition any where to deprive any state Of it's guar anteed rights under the Constitution, and there never has been any attempt e ae 90. 7 We might ask this author .ity ig taking their property away from ths southern people was not an inter- ference with their rights, but no doubt it would reply by saying that we had no right to hold slaves But 1t adds that now ali men know what those rights are and all are ready to main tain them etc.
 It would require much stronger au- thsgitxs thaRl The Captsa1 to convince any afsir-minded and rlght-tainking psrson that thefS is no disposition to interfere with the rights of the states. and 1t will need much stronger eyi- aeaee to satisfy us tha. sll are ready to maintain the rights of the states. Tn fact The Capital virtually discredits whaA it's much-iauded President and his Grand vizier has to say when 1t aeniea that there is a determined effort to abolish the rights of the States en- tirely if it is possible. At least, that is the only fair Interpretation tharean ha put en some reeant dslixerAnceM of Roosevelt. Root & Co, and some of their packers. A man must be pur- blind of exceedingly prejudiced If he caanot see that ngssent day ReRQhli- eanism, as Interpreted by Roosevelt. leads se centralized sud imperialistic @ovarnnent Tfse Capital Is wofuify sisnpie if lt capnak see aud understand yhss.
 And yet we don't know that we ought to be toe severe en The Capital. Its politics have been discounted and dis credited by the people of the proposed new State. and it is hitter in conse- quence. and intolerant as we'll. It de- sires to eut-HeFod Herod, as we might ea1. but no such excuse can be given for The New york Mail It assures Us that 'Eiihu Root Is right, eloquently ana wsishtily right No state that re- fuses to. exercise Its functions CT per mits them to be perverted to the det- riment of the country at large will con ttnne te, possess them By liberal in- 'terpretation. by indirect means. by the taxing power or the rcommerce clause the American nation win make ef it's rights" the same intellectual shadow that the nations of the world have made of Turkeys sovereignty over Esgypt. che snltan'a authority over Mo rocco, the Independence of Korea, the prstensicns of what once were powers and new are provinces OF protector ates.r"
 This has reference to his recent speech in New York. in which he, speak ing for the present administration, took the position almost in direct language that the time Is near at hand whdn the Federal Government will be su- preme throughout the Union and the States must take their orders from Washington. That Is fhe meaning of hls declaration. and The Mall takes it as Gospel truth, and as prophecy. All this talk about State refusing to ex- ercise it's functions is poppycock. Why dees not The Mail come out in plairi English and say that any state which refuses to do what Roosevelt and his advtsers order Is wrong and must be disciplined? That Is what imperialism means and It Is what this administra- ton intends if it is allowed to have it's way. Even in his recent message transmittins the report of Secretary NeteaIf he speaks of the treaty with Japan as the supreme law of the land" thus placing the administration and the Senate above the States and the Constitution. The only hope of Sav- ing the Government from spoliation lies in the Democracy Will 1t prove equal to the eeeaAion7