The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-31
TEE GREATER Politics.


Philosophers 0~usdriateraI.
To THE EprroB or The suN--sr: VIII
you kindly help me In the solution Of the
following troublesome quadrtlateral:
I. Now that Judge Alton B. Parker has
had the courage 30 take IN back to the funda-
mental principle Of liberty by showing that
the common law OF the universally received
rule Of reason has always been sufficient 10
check the abuses of Interstate
m other delicta. as the Constitution clearly
proves was the conviction Of those forming
that instrument. what In the status OF the
general Government In its case against tbs
Standard Oil Company in the State Of Indiana.
which was formed out OF the territory north
west Of the Ohio. throughout which tbs
Ordinance OF Congress Of 1887 providing that
"the common law IL tho basis whereon these
republics 1.-THE States then forming the UnionI.
their laws and Constitutions are erected
In thereafter apphoablef This ordinances
was recognized in the Constitutions Of Ohio.
Indiana. Illinois and Michigan by which these
States entered into the Union.
?. Since James Wilson In 100, while
Associate Justice Of tho United States
Supreme Court, stated that the power to
regulate among the several
States" was given to Congress by the Con-
stitution In order to form a moro perfect
U~nion"-the Federal Government being tho
outcome Of the resolutions Of tho Con
federation Congress Of january n, tn1
(Elliot's Debates, I'd Ed, Vol ". p. 1i1-
how is IL possible to get harmony out Of
the present a~ntagonism Of the general
Government against the rights reserved TO
the States and to the people Of tho several
States by that method which Justice Lamar
characterized a. q "situation more paraiyz-
ing to the State Governnents and more
provocative OF conflicts between tho general
Government and the States " it
would be difficult 10 ~imagine"7 Witness
the present contentious In Missouri, Ala
bsma and North Carolina over matters In
which neither the States nor the general
Government nave any jurisdiction-car-
rage for hire. Your editorial Of July II
should have included this fourth capital
legal blunder in restraint OF natural rights
and toward the establishment OF a monopoly
Of politic'' control.
3. Ora. led that Governor Hughes is COR
rect in saying at the Jamestown exposition
ON the 9Th inst. that Jefferson had no pa
thence with the doctrine OF Montesquieu
esprit des Lois" 9. Is, and 0, u. that Q
republic can be preserved only in q small
territory-although Montesquieu actually
wrote Of the natural property of small
States" governed as republics-can the
good Governor be persuaded to take stock
in the opening address of James Wilson
before the Constitutional Convention of
Pennsylvania or November 20. 1887, when
he declared tina the Federal Convention
constantly had his essential natural law
in mind as given by Montesquieu? Your
Governor grows miscellaneous when he at
tempts to construe the first clause of section
4 OF Article 4 of the Federal Constitution to
read. The United States shall guarantee TO
every Governor in this Union q system Of
absolutisn through a g~ubernatorial CON-
mission"
T. In order that our Chief Hay Maker
and Bull in the China Shop shall not put
forward too many insane agrarian poll
cies during these dog days. can you not de-
wise a way In which he may be invsikled
into reading Chapter X. Of Thomas Benton's
Thirty Years View" (s2O-5O) on Inter
nal improvements" and at least para
graphs IL and 10 Of Webster's address on
the currency before the Senate OF the
United States, on September %. 1882 sMen
little think how immorally they act In rashly
meddling with what they do not under
stand said Burke, whom the President
sometimes quotes. Their delusive good
intention Ii no sort of excuse for their pre-
sumption. They who mean we'll must be
fearful Of acting ILL.," I have reversed the
order Of the paragraphs Of Webeter's
speech for the reason hat q shallow repre-
sentative of the Attorney-G enera some
time ago misquoted from an address Of
James Wilson when he was insisting that tho
supreme power Of a free Government re-
sides with the people, and which he ampli-
fed a month later by saying that "a propo-
sition to adopt q msasure hat would have
supposed that We were throwing into
the general Government every power not
expressly reserved by the people would
have been spurned at In that house ftho
Constitutional Conventional with the great
est indignation
This Is somewhat different from the doc
trine Of autocratlo despotism as expounded
by Louis XIV. in plagiarizing the ~Indianspo-
lis address by saying that kings are abso-
Lutte lords. naturally possessing the entire
and uncontrolled disposal Of all property,
whether belonging to the Church or to the
laity, to be exercised at all times with due
regard to economy and to the general in
terests Of the State GALLO.
SCRANTON, Pa, July 20.
h Dread Of the shadow OF the Third
IT, ~. E~uuN - Ter. Co., o..