The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-02
Autecracs or Dsmoerneys

| Harper's Weekly and The North Ameri-
 can Review
 Wednesday, bscember 12, 1908, will | be recorded in History as the day upon | which the most audacious Federal ad-
 ministration thf country has yet
 known announ9m a deliberate purpose
 sor aest of our cPssls sHt0luaRt in h aas
 maintained sincS the thirteen originai
 States embodied their compact in the corfstitution of the Union. On the
 State. % the Hono Fa6ie Elihu Root, ad.
 dressing the PRnnsylvania Society, of | the City of NeH York, administered a singing stir rebuk} to such common President and himself had their leg. | isIation disregirded the interests of danger daG sHoto to tRheR RsSR separate authorities which they had thereby incurred, and served upon them formal notice of the | intention of the administration to ob-
 tain new constructisnIs; of the cSIaTas cHnsa they have hitherto placed upon that instrument as a safeguard of the rights explicitly. reserved in Article was a memorh able and amazing, decla-
 ration and frAught with possible con- sequences so momentous and far
 reaching that its full import has not vet reached the comprehension Of the I people.
 comprised three separate dicta in log
 ical sequence: (D A marking of the
 plete authority. by a centralized gov | enrment; CD Frank admission of fur
 ther encroachments upon local powers
 In contemplation by the administra-
 obtain from the highest judicial trib-
 unal. sooner or later" constructions
 of the constitution that will west
 the power where it will be exercised | iv pT11ny
 Since Alexander Hamilton failed in
 his final desperate endeavor to de-
 prive the people of what was then con
 sidered to he their inherent right of
 has ventured hitherto to propose the
 establishment of concentrated control
 similar in every practical effect to
 that which the masses of Russia are at
 their stricken land.
 "COnstruinG" the COnstituticr.
 Constructions of the constitution are
 neade by the Supreme Court The jus
 Hees comprisine that august tribunal,
 designed by the fathers to hold final
 authority exceeding that of either the Executive or the Congress, are named by the President. One member of the Tendency noted hy the Secretary of State, has just been designated: an
 other it Is well understood. awaits ap- pointment as Chief Justice A mem- | DCi pl =lliti SIFti court nominated hX the Chief Magistrate who voted against the cont 7tntion of the administration Tn famous case was denounced as ndisloyal Whdt are we to infer?" tion. will he found sooner or later" by justices of puro," judicial tempara- l ment, h"nt solely upon correct inter prHtaton, or hv mere preiuciced pup pets Of tA" aNc'utive arm of the gov ernmNnt Having in mind the con structive r". 'ss of the State between the mi3nleht ticks of tho clock found nY thH pressrf Secretary of state; not !GrEe' iIns 'l" subtle device by which tn" a4MN'S'' ton, in fragrant viola tlon oi The 'rt1tN- making prerogative NrHi"d m 'He Senate achieved and still bl15in5I h, 5i,3J'S WI In san Domingo: : de'la arat'on 'f war h. melting insur reGtlnA 7e 77t Colombia: still sadrv acn, .n- i'ngng iation, as wick N s'ILN 'nS7r" ot the action of Amerl- rth ptr'uT- i- refuslu- to admit grown M"r- I,lt. ,' '"tmlte association e,a,. 'Ir"'. and threat to --a :" III of the forces g,,,.- of the United tlc' tr, ', Justified in exneating tha, ,, 1S p' the constitution e. " l" precise interprc~ s ini Isf v" apprehensively Il sir,e VI succession of eva fl Sl'. ''" ."sIuus"
 a'.'. rcd Inc Secreta- rf,- i|" advocates of State against the suprem- I.r.. t-,nal laws of the d-sf,.. lf,-. -.''.~ rf.s is worse than v 4! purely demagoGic of e., '"'.r building of a man bis . 1N i1' Secretary of State and '.,l-t NeN know. nobody has in . or 5.., 'nst. other the supremacy if f. If institutional laws; \ r.frJ ... aN0Wed and, to our t,'t'" i1.7' t md almost treason. ths. .'n1' o' o7ir Fundamental law "use,css ' ~do'onation. It is also
 ststa <, a 9.. Cordlng to the Secretary of
 " 7nVAiHh alzainEt thA axken-