The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-19

FARE THE STATES TO REMAHN~
 Under this heading Tho Brooklyn Eagle has a suggestive editorial. begin, ming thus:
 There will be an election for Presi- dent and Vice-President next year; that they will then vote for candi- dates of the parties of their choice. Ac- tually they will really and only vote and % yIce-President. I % The electors of a party that carries any State by plu- rality will be the ones chosen. The electors chosen in each State, will meet on date fixed by law in their State capitols and will themselves then vote for President and Vice-Prestdent.
 We set forth these familiar facts to indicate that there are still such things as States: that the President State Electors who themselves are chosen by voters within their States. It is to be hoped that the choice of will be continued. It is to be hoped that no courts of the United States will by injunctions or any other course seek to interfere with the election of cleo President and vice.President by such
 It is supposable that some Federal Court may yet declare. in effect that states are, what Senator informally said the idea of specie payments was. "a barren ideality." It is not unlike ly that many would support and ac- claim that. declaration. for the states are becoming of less account, In the
 This is startling, but this is undeni- able. The States. preceded and made the governmen IheyNdid not ;nHnx tnanK than themselves--but they may have been doing so, without knowing 1t. That will before long. be settled, one are going in several quarters. just now. Happily. those events seem going in the right direction.
 These arguments and reflections are worthy of serious consideration. We all know that the present administra- tiori either through its own action or | through Congress, is constantly en- croaching on the rights of the States. The idea Is becoming dominant in tho party now in power that the Federal Government is supreme and the States | to be considered as little moro than dependencies to be dictated to and governed from Washington. If the end cannot be accomplished by the di- rect action of the President and his advisers, or through laws enacted by Congress at his dictation, then the Federal courts are to be appealed to- We know that instances or condi- tions may arise where the welfare and safety of the people may depend on the action of the Federal courts but these cases are rare, and the alleged remedy may not only be dangerous but may be sought when there is no actual need of it. If the Federal judge belongs to the party of centralization he may render ineffective any State law which he may consider obnoxious. or which may not be in accord with the prevalent Republican idea of strong souri, in an address delivered few days ago in Indiana, declared that "the State laws were being suspended. State processes being nulliied and stateism itself being destroyed by the course of the Federal courts in his common wealth."
 The Governor spoke only for his own State, but his fears need not be con- fined to Missouri. for there might be other examples cited which show an equally dangerous tendency. As we have stated. there may be occasions where the welfare of the people of a State is endangered by a State law, but we apprehend that such cases are rare and the remedy dangerous. In almost every instance it might be bet ter to endure a wrong until it can be corrected by the people and the State than to fly to Federal judge who may look on himself as superior to the State itself. There are occasions when a remedy may be infinitely worse than the disease.
 Whether The Eagle is correct in holding that events seem going in the right direction" we are not assured
 If, in forming a Republic. the States really created something bigger than themselves; whether, instead of an agent they created a monster which may eventually destroy them remains to be seen, but we fear that the tend ency is not in the right direction. We confess to feeling of apprehension that some Federal courts work in har- mony with the party in power to exal' the government and degrade the States
 A QUEER STORY.
 If we can guess at things with any