The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1907-01-22

and construction, while mir. Root
says that if the States do not re-
form, sooner or later such in
| crease of power will be acquired
by constructions OF the Consti-
tuition. The one implies sane
ton, and may be fairly regardea
40 the assertion of a dogma,
while the other declares to such
States. "Thou art weighed in the
balances and art found wanting"
and with deep soIemnity of pro-
phetic forecast warns them that
If they do not mend their ways
their kingdom will be divided and
/ given over to another.
A power expressly given to the
federal government may become
effective by judicial action, and
an implied power e. given may,
under conditions rot heretofore
demanding application, through
| Judicial Interpretation and con-
struction, be made manifest, and
its potentiality invoked, but this
would not be in any sense an in
crease of power. To increase
governmental power fixed by the
Constitution power must be add
ed to Epower already possessed.
All power not in the federal gov
ernment is expressly reserved to
the States by the Tenth Amend
ment. The power here sought to
be added in the power that some
of the States fail to exercise sat
isfactorily. Power recognized as
belonging to each Of the States
/ is, on account 81 The derelictiou
of some, 10 De transferred from
all the States to the general gov
ernment. Is it probable that
States which exercise such pow
leFa Justly and effectively, will
willingly surrender them, because
| other states do not attain to the
same standard? This transfer
| is not to be made by amendment
as provided for in Article five of
the Constitution, but by interpre-
tation and construction Of the
constitution. This doctrine is
revolutionary and dangerous to
our national life.
The Constitution is being ex
plotted as never before.
The present time will only per-
nit reference to a few instan-
ces.
No vision is so alert, far seeinL
and penetrating a 9 that OF COM
mercial competition. In all ages
when it has been advantageous
by indirection to promote its
cause, it has stimulated and
even created, movements ap-
pealing to religion and philan-
thropy, and enlisted in it's servi-
ces the noblest sentiments of hu-
manity.
Child labor, at ages and under
conditions that no enlightened
State should and no just State
would tolerate, is employed by
manufacturers, who, on account
of the cheapness with which they
can transmute human lives and
the hopes of useful citizenship
into vendible products, either un-
dersell, or make larger profit
than their competitors. Those
whose business is directed either
by humanity that will not coin
; tender childhood into money, OF
controlled by States that shield
helpless labor against remorse-
less greed, cry out for protection
Generous souls are enlisted III
the cause. Barbarity must be
restrained, and the citizenship Of
tho Republic rescued from physi.
cal, mental and moral degrada'
ton. Remedies through the ac'
ton of the separate States are
thought to be either inadequate
or too slow. A plan that will
operate promptly and effectivel.
over the whole field of wrons
must be devised. Inasmuch a
: the general government has pow
: er to regulate commerce among
the several States, the scheme
resort ed to of having Congress
n protect such manufacturers di
8 rectly, and correcting Stat
: abuses indirectly, by interdictin