The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-10-03


weak aud timid nation, we mu,
steadily build up and maintain gres
fighting navy. Our navy is already $
Il efficient as 10 DO matter Of ius
I pride 10 every American. SO long a
. our Navy Is no larger than at presen
: Il must be considered as an element
i AIRY principle that the bulk Of on
battle fleet must always be kept u
; eether When the Panama Canal 4
, built II can be transferred withou
; aicuttv from one part OF our coast Y
the other: but even before that cana
, IS built 1t ought to be thus trans
ferred to and fro from time to time
, III q couple, cf months our fleet q
lgreat armGr6a ships starts for the Pa
cifie California, Oregon, and Wash
lngton have a coast line which is oul
coast line Just as emphatically as the
coast line of New York and Maine, OF
Louisiana and Texas Our fleet Is GO
ing to its own home waters In the Pr
4 cific, and after stay there II will
return to its own home waters in the
Atlantic. The best place for naval
fofficer to learn his duties Is at sea
by performing them, and only by acs.
ually putting through voyage of this
nature. a voyage longer than any ever
before undertaken by as large fleet
of any nation. can we find out just eX
actly what Is necessary for us to
know as to our naval needs and prac-
tice our officers and enlisted men IL
the highest duties OF their profres
sion Among all our citizens there is
M body of equal size to whom we owe
quite as much as TO the officers AM
enlisted men OF the Army aud Nav
OF the United States. and | bespeak
from You the fullest and heartiest sup
port, in the name of our nation and
of, our flag, for the. services to whicr
these men belong.
Control of Corporations.
In conclusion | wish to say worl
TO this body, containing as it does
many business men, upon what is pre- i.
eIninentIy business proposition, aud
that Is the proper national superyis
ion and control of corporations. Al
the meeting of the American Bar AS
sociation In this last August, Judge
Charles r. Amidon. of North Dakota
read paper on the Nation and the
Constitution so admirable that it is
deserving Of very wide study: 70
what he said was. as all studies Of
law in its highest form ought to be
a contribution to constructive juris
prudence as it should be understood
not only by judges but by Legislators
not only by those who interpret and
iecide the law. but by those who make
it and who administer or execute II
He quoted from the late Justice Mil
even in the Interpretation of the con
stituion by this, the highest authority
of the land, the courts successive de |
cisions must be tested by the way
they work in actual application to the
National life; the court adding to its
thought and study the results Of eX
perienee and observation until the
true solution is evolved by a process
both of inclusion and exclusion. Said |
Justice Miller: THE meaning OF thf |
is to be sought as much |
in the national life as In the diction
ary;r for, as has been we'll said gov |
eminent purely out of a law library |
can never be really good government |
Now that the questions of govern
ment are becoming so largely eco
nomic, the majority of our so-called
cases really turn not
upon the Interpretation OF the in
itself. but upon the con |
struction, the right apprehension of
tho living conditions to which 1t is to |
be APPLIED. The Constitution is now |
and must remain what ii always has |
been: but It can only be interpreted |
as the interests of the whole people |
demand, If interpreted as a living
designed to meet the con |
ditions of life and not of death; I'm
other words. II interpreted as Mar
Niiftl iHltl iitlfu H. do W Atooh htN
clared II should be interpreted. The |
Marshall theory. the theory of life |
and not of death. allows to the Ma
ton, that is TO the people as whole
when once it finds a subject within |
the national cognizance. the widest
and freest choice of methods for ma /
tional control. and sustains every ex-
ercise of national power which heN
any reasonable relation to national /
objects The negation of this theory |
means, for instance. that the Nation
that we. the ninety millions Of people |
Of this country will he left helpless |
ic control the huge corporations !
which now lomineer in our industrial |
life. and that they viii have the au-
thority of the courts 10 work their |
desires unchecked; and such deci |
sion would in the end be as disas |
trous for them as for us. If the theory |
Of the Marshall school prevails. then |
an immense field Of national power
now unused will be developed. which !
will be adequate for dealing with
many II not all of the economic |
: roblems which vex us: and we shall
be saved from the ominous threat Of
4 constant oscillation between eco |