Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-01
The Constitutions Distinction.

Senator Rayner of Maryland is a close
observer. well an eloquent orator,
and seems to have his eyes open when he
travels. In a speech delivered by him in
the Senate of the United States shortly be-
fore the adjournment of Congress he de-
clared that the Constitution of the United
States has the ''imperishable distinction"
of being read in every living language and
of being studied at every university, college
and seat of learning where political science
is taught. Not only this Senator Rayner
declares, but 1t is perused with fear and
trem bling by tyrants on their tottering
thrones. 1t is studied in the camp of the
revolutonists. and by the glimmering light
of the dungeon Of the political convict, and
by exiled philosophers in penal colonies and
Siberian mines.
1 do not know how many languages are
living, but the Holy Scriptures printed
in 467. If Mr.. Rayner would give list of
the living languages in which the Constitu-
ton of the United States is now read, per-
haps he can put the Holy Scriptures in the
second place. 1t would be interesting to
know what tyrants upon tottering thrones
are now perusing the Constitution with fear
and trembling. Mr. Rayner appears to have
some confidential information on the sub
ject. The Great Turk, the Shah of Persia
and the Car of Russia are supposed to be
sitting on insecure supports, and the first
named is certainly tyrant, but that term
could not properly be applied to the other
two 1t would be interesting to get some
details that subject.
Mr.. Rayner is a pessimist In his opinions
of the future of the political parties of the
United States. He says:
1.-THE republican party has in the Presi-
dent a helmsman bold and tactical who,
with his chart Of aggression and annexa-
ton, is steering for foreign shores. and
the depths beneath" This will be crafty
ing news to Mr.. Hartman and Senator
Foraker. who have been laboring under the
impression that the President, with his
hot hao hrnf hor 10 of hnrn at
tending to business.
Mr.. Rayner says, 1.-THE democratic party
is on the wild and tumultuous sea, with diff
ferent pilots, all trying to steer it in oppo-
site directions, and if it does not quickly
take its bearings l fear that 1t will grad
ually drift toward that bourne from which
no traveller ever returns. The democratic
patty mas not usually had anything to do
with water but as Mr.. Rayner Is distin-
guished member of that organization, he
certainly ought to know what is going
Meyer and Haywood.
Any one who doubts whether Messrs.
| Meyer and Haywood of Idaho are "unde-
slrable citizens" should re-read series of
| letters written for the. Chicago Record
Herald from Cripple Creek and other
Colorado points by Walter Wellman dur
ing the mining troubles in that state a
few years ago. Mr.. Wellman invest gatel
the, situation and the events very thor
oughly; he interviewed Meyer and Hay
| wood, who gave their own version of az
fairs in detail, and admitted to him that
they were responsible for the lawlessnes;
and the barbarities that were committed
by the members of the miners union.
They explained to him their attitude to-
| ward capital, award the employers of
labor, the owners of mines and society in
general. and declared it to be their policy
| to destroy instead of to build UP the
community. They boosted that the law
| less condition they had produced in the
Occur d'Alene district Of. Idaho and the
Cripple Creek district Of Colorado would