The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-28
Justice Brewer AStOundS
Hearers With a Sharp
Attack on Roosevelt
CHAMPIONS GOVERNOR
As Safer aud More Able in Speech
Before Carnegie Hall Gather.
ine.--Huehes NotPresent...Had
Made Speech Earlier and Left

NEW YORK, Nov. 27.-Justice
David A.. Brewer of the United States
supreme courC surprised a large audi
ence last night in Carnegie hall by a
criticism and arraignment of Presi-
dent Roosevelt. Governor Hughes
made an address, most .of which he
devoted to amplifying the idea that
the public officer must work for the
people only and not to satisfy his own
ambitions.
Justice Brewer not only reflected
upon the president openly, but by
innuendo. He openly contrasted
Roosevelt and Hughes. The governor
escaped embarrassment by leaving
early He was not there when JUS
tice Brewer intimated broadly that
he was a safer and wiser man than
the president. 1t was said that he
had no knowledge of what Justice
Brewer intended to say.
Justice Brewer said that Carlyle
looked upon Democracy as an evil
and had anticipated frenzied finance,
frenzied politics, frenzied law and
frenzied justice. If he were alive
today he would probably say: 81
told you So
Constitution Sacred.
He spoke of mob rule, denounced
lynching and declared that the coun-
try just now was "full of constitu-
tional lawyers" He spoke of the sa-
credness of the constitution and pass
ed to the subject of rulers. He add
ed:
1.-THE president is the chief magis-
trate of this nation. We sometimes
speak of public officials as being SER
wants, and when we have in mind
the vast number of ministerial Off
cials doing purely clerical work, call
ing them public servants is not i'm
proper, but putting these ministerial
officials to one side, and considering
only those who are the different leg
islative and executive officials, there
is ever present the idea of ruling and
ruler.
Il do not mean to say that there is
not also the thought of service, nor
that person occupying any execu-
tive or legislative office is absolutely
free from limitations and can do just
as he pleases; the limits if his ac-
tions are prescribed and his exercise
of discretion must be within these
limits, and in the exercise of that dis
cretion he ought ever to have the
public welfare in mind, and thus in
a qualified sense he is a servant of
the public but acting within these
limits his judgment of what is the
public welfare is and should be the
Judgment of ruler.
But Notwithstanding this limita-
ton; if limitation it may be called,
our executive and legislative officials
are rulers whilst certain limitations
are placed upon them to prevent any
injurious results from the exercises,
and unwise exercise, of ruling power.
Certain constitutional limitations are
imposed. The ruler is subject to re-
moval by impeachment, or otherwise,
But these are only provisions which
the people, in framing the constitu-
tion, deemed necessary to limit the
extent of mis- authority as a ruler.
Take the office of president, the
highest executive Office in the nation.
His term is four years, subject to
reelection. The idea that fixed a
short term is that of preventing per-
manent injurious results from the ar
bitrary and unauthorized action of
some ambitious and unprincipled
president, if ever there should be one
such in office.
Seven Year Term Enough.
1T may not be generally known