Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-09
Forcing the Issue.

/ has no idea of yielding mp the rrlnS
! of Federal government without en-
I ploying every means. as Secretary
Root announced. To establish the en-
/ tire supremacy Of the national GOV
eminent over all matters of public
control. This is done. notwithStand-
iny the duties and powers of each
branch Of oar general government
are clearly defined. and the Tenth
Amendment explicitly provides that
No powers not delegated to the
| nitrd States 10y the Constitution.
nor prohibited to il by the States.
shall br reserved to the States re-
Sprriivrly. or to the people.
\ "asc in point shows the steady
and persistent cndravor on the part
of the powers that he to uSurp CON
troll in matters that cannot. by any
stretch of SophiStry. be included in
the objects either affirmed or pro-
hibitcd. The strong arm Over-rid-
ing State law is manifested in North
Carolina. by L. 5. Circuit Judge
Pritchard, in the issue of a blanket
injunction to prevent all State Off
GERS and State courts from enforcing
the State law relating to the rrgula
ton of railroad rates. 1t is nothing
NOR more less than an attempt to set
aside the enactment of u sovereign
State, not by constitutional right
but by the assumed power of those
in authority to legislate into the
supreme law of the land a meaning
never intended nor which the most
distorted construction of language
can give it. 1t is not the vested au-
thority of even Il constitutional mon
archy, but of the kingly rule in
involved in the expression the king
can do no wrong" by which such
eXtraneous meaning can be given to
that noble instrument, the Federal
Constitution. which is model of
brevity, clearness and conciseness.
incapable of perversion by the petit
Jogging demagogue, who has been
authorized to pave the way for rev.
olutiOn in at least one of the princi-
pies on which our governmental
structure is built.
Already the Administration news
papers have begun to howl that the
national law is supreme, and to de-
clare that we are on the eve of war,
if any attempt is made to sustain the
STATE judiciary in its effort 20 help
the struggling railroads to maintain
rates that will keep them from bank
ruptcy. So important is this issue
that The Stakeholder, the organ OF
Wall street on finance that relates to
railroads, shows. by an ample array
of figures the inadequacy of the in
come from all sources, as counter
balanced by operating expenses, in
terest, improvements, ETC., under
the largely increased rates paid for
labor, equipments and everything
that goes on the debit side of the
ledger. This advance in most in
stances averages over eighty per
cent. of the rates ten years ago. 1t
was as life-preserver that the State
law was invoked, and it is the act of a
pirate to remove that means of sup
port.
1t is still more deSpicable to make
such palpable pOltrOOnry the means
of inflaming party spirit into con-
Stunning fame, or to threaten the hor-
rror of war as a means of subjuga.
tiOn.
A LONG-FELT WANT. - Time con.
tracts are being circulated and very
generally signed by our business men
for advertising space in the Olympia
Daily News, to make it's appearance
about the first of next month, which
promises to supply the want felt fol
a daily paper devoted to local affairs
and not owned and controlled by a
power that has at times manifested
it is claimed, objects inimical to the
local welfare. 1t is now no secret
that the material has been ordered
with the express understanding that
the new candidate for popular Javol
has behind it practically all the bust.
ness interests of the city, who have
pledged themselves to see it through
by the patronage that has been re.
fused the Oiympion and the Recorder
1t will be an issue between long
weasle-skin and a club stuffed with
determined will. The game is made
Roll!
Now the storm begins to lower.
Haste the loom of hell prepared
>O~
The girl students of Puget Sound
University, of Tacoma, are busily
selling doughnuts, made by them, tt
secure funds to send a delegate from