Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-09-26
LEADERS AT OUTS
DIVERGENT POLICIES ApvocAT-
ED BY REPUBLICANS.
Inconsistencies in Their DeIiveranees
Show Clearly That the Party Is
Widely Apart On Most I'M
portant Questions.

In his work on Topics" Aristotle
lays it down as a general principle
of sound reasoning. that those things
are best which are least mixed with
contraries and contradictions; n
consequently that things so mixed are
the worst things possible. According
to this doctrine the policies of the Re-
publican party, as manifested by the
recent ~deliverances of Taft, Roose-
welt, Foraker and Congressman NC
Call, fall clearly within the category
of worst possible things; for there is
a manifest inconsistency in their de-
liverance, an inconsistency which n
not be got over.
Taft has been a judge, and he a
been widely heralded as the possible
successor of Chief Justice Fuller OF
the United States Supreme court. lie
has not forgotten the recent decision
of that court in the cas- of Kansas
VS.. Colorado, and could not afford to
endorse Roosevelt's short cut" poll
cy through the constitution to arbi-
trary power in the federal executive
or legislature. 1t may be well to re-
| call the language, of the court in that
case. The court said:
"This amendment, which was seem
ingly adopted with prescience OF Just
such contention as the present, dis
closed the widespread fear that h
national government might, under the
pressure of supposed general welfare,
attempt to exercise powers which a
not been granted, With equal deter
mination the trainers intended that no
such assumption should ever lind JUS
LITIGATION in the organic act, and that II
in the future further powers seemed
necessary they should be granted by
the people in the manner they mad
provided for amending that act" The
position Of Taft is, therefore, in per-
feet harmony on this point with thai
of our Federal Supreme court.
Mccall in his speech at Marshfield
August %, quotes and approves the
following words of Daniel Webster:
"The contest of the ages has been
to rescue liberty from the grasp OF
executive power. On the long list OF
champions of human freedom there
is not one name dimmed by the re
proach of advocating the extension
of executive authority
And in reference to this doctrine he
indirectly excoriates President Roose'
velt's policy Of usurpation. In fact
he covertly describes and denounces
Mr.. Roosevelt in the following words:
"a president supremely lacking in
the qualities of a statesman, one who
is egotistic, impulsive, of immature
Judgment, a mere glutton Of the lime
light, ready to barter away prosper
ity and ever his country's freedom
for momentary applause.
"If he is an autocrat, such as he Is
such for the time will your country be
Instead of a mighty nation, great IL
? her physical strength and greater II
her moral qualities, you may have
/ strutting, confiscating, shrieking, med
ding America. God save us from sucl
, a day!
adhere, then, to the Representative
: government of the fathers, to the onl,
kind Of government which from tn
+ foundation of the world has cherishe'
I human freedom"
Foraker, in his Columbus speech
t August %, attacked both Taft an
n Roosevelt in respect to their prime
4 pies. Admitting inferentially the col
4 rectness of Taft's position c%oncernin
a constitutional limitations in genera
g he imputes to Taft inconsistency
). reference to the rate law, for he said
a "He makes no answer to the sugge'
ton that the three owners of govern
d ment, the legislative, the executiv'
and the judicial, are all conferred o
IS the commission, and that this Gon
it mingling of these powers is unprec
Z dented, and in violation of both tt
g spirit and letter of the constitution
IS His answer to the objection that
congress has the power to mai
ID rates, it cannot delegate the sam
b. seems to be mere assertion and spec
is lation, based on false premises.
The president in his Provincetov
speech, plainly proclaims his endors
10 ment Of short cut" unconstitution
method. Because our business met
De DDS have changed under the constit
TX ton, and have developed great spe
ial interests which are attempting
er override both our constitution al
"a our statutes, he breaches the sc,
a tious doctrine of changing the constit
lie ton so as to conform to the unccns
at ~tutional demands of special interes
ed and Of doing SO by u%surpation inste
Of by amendment. His theory is W
ed described in the following couplet:
; Abandoning principle,
Having no plan;
us Landing as craftsmanship,
m Catch-as-you-can."