Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-10-02

] MilaNtla MICH.
q matter Of just pride TO every AM
| erican.
WARsHIPS TO PACIFIC.
So long as our navy is mo- iarrer
! than at present IL must be consider
| ca as uu elementary principle that
| the bulk of our battle fleet must ale
ways be kept together When the
| Panama canal is built IL can be- trans
ferrod without difficulty from one
Part of our coast to the other. but
even before that canal Is built IL
| ought TO be thus transferred TO and
fro from time 90 time In "a couple
of months our fleet Of great armorod
ships starts for the Pacific. Cali
fcrnia, Oregon, and Washington have
a coast line which is our coast line
Just rs emphaUcalv as The coast line
of New York and Maine. Of Louisiana
and Texas Our fleet Is going 10 It's
own home waters in the Pacific. and
after O. stay there it will return 10 its
own home waters iu the Atlantic. The
best place for naval officer To learn
his duties Is az sea. by performing
them, aud only by actually putting
through voyage OF this nature. a
voyage longer than any ever before
undertaken by "a large fleet OF any
nation, we can find our lust exactly
what is necessary for us 20 know as
to our naval needs and practise our
officers and enlisted men la the high
est duties of their profession. Among
all our citizens there Is no body of
equal size TO whom we owe quite as
much ass 20 the Officers and enlisted
men OF the army and navy Of the
United states. and / bespeak from
you the fullest and hcartiest support.
en- the name Of our nation and Of our
hag for The services Co which these
men belong.
CONTROL OF CORPORATIONS.
In conclusion ! wish TO say "a word to
this body. containing as IL does so many
business men, upon what Is present.
rently a business proposition. aud that
BE- the proper national supervision and
control OF corporations. At the meeting
OF the American Bar association in this
last August Judge Charles f. Amidon
of North Dakota, read paper on the
nation and the Constitution so admir-
able that 81 Is deserving OF very wide
study. for what he said was, as an
studies OF law in Its highest form ought
10 be. a contribution 10 constructive
Jurisprudence as 1t should be under
stood not only by judges but by legls-
lators, not only by those who interpret
and decide the law hut By those who
make Il and who administer or exc
cute a. He quoted from the late JUS
tice Miller Of the supreme court 10
show that even IN the Interpretation Of
the Constitution by this. the highest
authority OF the land, the courts sue
cessive decisions must be tested by the
way they work in actual application 10
the national life, the court adding TO
its thought and study the results OF
experience and observation until the
true solution is evolved by a process
both Of inclusion and exclusion. said
Justice Miller. The meaning Of the
Constitution Is 20 be sought as much
On the national life az IN the dicuon-
ary," for. as has been well said, gov-
eminent purely out OF law library
can never be really good government
INTERPRETING CONSTITUTION
Now that the questions OF government
are becoming so largely economic the
majority of our so-called constitutional
cases really turn not upon tho interptc-
tation Of the instrument Itself but up
ON the construction. the right apprc-
hcnEiOn NJ the NiVng conditions 10
which h is 10 be applied. The constl-
tuition is now and must remain what II
always haF been, but % can only be In
tDrpretcd ns the Interests of the whole
people demand, AZ interpreted as liy-
iuE organism. designed 20 meet the con-
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