The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-18
ies That Constitution
 lives Any Justification to Extend Federal Power.
RTY SUCCESS SET ABOVE PUBLIC DUTY
sent Agitation Bred of Alliance of Administra- tion and Favored
 Interests.

&4rfOlk, va, sept. 1i- EA-J uVo oO
 h B. Parker, of New York, and lel W. Mccall, member of Con-
 from Massachusetts, made the Abipal addresses at the "Constitu- N Day" celebration at the James, exposition today The cere- l ies were in commemoration of &d20th anniversary of the adoption s.he federal constitution. The liner was ideal and the attendance Ne address of Judge Parker,
 In the Journal and Courier is able live only in part, was a carefully .ed but bold criticism of President ssevelt, who is practically charged being more than Ia trust bust he is virtually called "a constitu- H buster" After judicial analysis Ehe organization of free institu- 3s, Judge Parker asserted that the tpnal peril lay in an abuse of the Eutive function of government. He went on to say:
 N is true that there has been of M feeling of unrest in the United Nes, and that this feeling corres- Ills to a more general and world |e agitation. This is by no means [arkable when we consider how Ndly now education spreads and Es and sentiments are exchanged. M theories have been advance; old Dries have been refurbished; |hsands of minds have concerned Enselves with subjects in which ktofore but comparatively the few Erested themselves. All this can Erecognized as the indication of fithy progress, and as promising D for the future of the human race. it is in such a time as this above Eimes that thoughtful minds should \ lch softly and justly.
 |EE GOVERNMENT ENDAN-
 GERED.
 Is not too much to say that it is |bosed to-day here in our land mere |kith a view to attaining 8 greater |Iiency to substantially change the Ih of government of these United |tes of America by the creation of cial commissioners to deal with |tial subjects; by the conferring up- x such commissions of legislative |ctions through delegation of power |h congress, and by then commit N to the executive the unrestricted Fer of appointment and removal of |fr members.
 |his is actual substitution of anoth- |theory of government. This is an- |jnent of the underlying doctrines |n which our existing government Es. These powers are to be exer- |ld then by the executive to the ausion of the legislative and judi II by an expansion beyond its terms; Fan expansion beyond its spirit; by
 expansion beyond it's purpose, of II language of the constitution. |pme one has said, "Oh liberty! Hat crimes have been committed in
 name" We might say to-day,
 commerce! What theories are |Sght to be advanced under thy lhR.
 Dhe example which stands at the Ieshold, is the interstate commerce plse of the constitution which cov- \ in large measure the prospective |d for federal expansion. That clause 1.-the constitution was conceived in kpirit of fairness and equality be- Zen the states; that clause was em- Med in the constitution for the pur- De of protecting one state against bther, and to prevent the exercise ot Ritrary discrimination by any state Minst the citizens of any other Ibse were the aims and objects of clause and they should and they define it's spirit and its purpose
 t how is it proposed to expand il application to-day, if we are tc list the open declarations which have sn publicly advanced? Since the pro. Its of any industry may become the Ebiect of interstate commerce; since
 portion of the products of almost fry industry actually enter into in- istate commerce, it, is argued thai national government under the in. lstate commerce clause can regulate thin the states all production. The fmer may not grow wheat excep1 variety prescribed at Washing. a; the miner may not produce more sn a given number of tons of orc Im any given mine; the land owner 2 V be compelled to work such mine! may be found upon his lands. I tbut the first step in such reasoning this that is at all difficult to take ] ce taken, the rest follow logically erefrom. And all this is to be ac lnplished by conferring upon the ex | 1tive through boards and commis Ans of its appointment, powers un banned of in such connection unde tree system ot government.
 REAL CAUSE OF UNREST.
 But let me say to you that that whic
 created the public agitation, s roitly seized upon as a cover for a
 tack on the constitution, has an un srlying cause in a totally different al
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