Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-09-18
ROOSEVELT,
Judge Parker Sees Peril In the
 Presidents Policy.
DEPLORES CAPITALIZATION.
Declares That Chief Executives Plan ' Is to Seize Rights Belonging to the
 States and Sounds Warning Against
 Federal Encroachments. a

l . Norfolk, Va, Sept IS. = Charging
 President Roosevelt with deliberate
 encroachment upon the constitution of
 the United States, former Judge Alton B. Parker of New York in his Consti-
 tuition day speech at the Jamestown
 exhibition asserted that exposures of
 corporate wrongdoing had been adroit-
 ly seized upon as an excuse to take from the states their reserved powers and vest those powers in the federal executive. He asserted that recently
 uncovered rascality really grew out
 of alliances between commercial inter-
 ests and political parties and were not
 referable to governmental impotence.
 After pointing out that a despotism,
 while the least desirable, is neverthe- less the most efficient form of govern ment and that toward this form the presidents policy was tending on the plea of higher efficiency, Parker said:
 Charges UnhoIy Alliance.
 None can deny that effort is afoot to enhance the powers of the federal government that an opportune time for aggression in that direction has been chosen, that the people are arous- ed over abuses which have come to light and that the moment has been seized upon to lead an assault upon constitution as nearly ideal today as when the fathers drafted it and the states and their people approved it.
 '"The rottenness which offends our nostrils is bred of an unholy alliance of administration and favored inter- ests. Party success has been placed above public duty. In the struggle for mastery in both state and nation mon- ey has been sought as we'll for illegiti- mate uses as legitimate uses. AS the corruption of the electorate has wid- ened and deepened, the demand for money has increased, a demand which long ago outgrew any sum that could be raised by patriotic contributors. So corporations having favors to ask were invited to contribute, and they did so knowing full well that when legislation was needed or undesirable legislation was threatened the head of the or. ganization could be relied upon for as- sistance
 To Change Form of Government.
 'It is not too much to say that 1t is proposed today here in our land mere ly with view to attaining greater efficiency to substantially change the form of government of these. United States of America by the creation of judicial commissions to deal with spe- cial subjects, by the conferring upon such commissions of legislative func- tions through delegation of power from and by then committing to the executive the unrestricted power of appointment and removal of their members. This is actual substitution of another theory of government. This is annulment of the underlying doc trines upon which our existing govern ment rests. These powers are to be exercised. then, by the executive to the exclusion of the legislative and ju- dicial by an expansion beyond its terms, by an expansion beyond its spir- 1t. by an expansion beyond its purpose, of the language of the constitution.
 'The example which stands at the threshold is the interstate commerce clause of the constitution. which GOV CTS in large measure the prospective field for federal expansion"