Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-10-22
BY MEAD PUBLISHING CT
OFFICIAL PAPER OF COUNTY
Defending the States.


An important memorial was prepared
by the attorneys of the various states
represented at the national meeting of
attorneys general held at st. Louis
last week. Mr.. Hadley, attorney gen
eral of Missouri, was made president
of the association; Mr.. Malone, attorney
general of Massachusetts,, vice presi-
dent, and Mr.. Dickson, attorney gen
eral of Colorado, secretary and treas
urer. 1t will be noticed that all three
of the officers are republicans, although
Attorney General Davidson. of Texas,
Attorney General Fletcher, of Missis-
sippi, Attorney General CARRIER, of Ala
bama, and number of other officials
from democratic states took part in the
meeting. The memorial prepared by
gentlemen and to be presented to con-
gress reads as follows:
"Whereas, The efficient administra-
ton, as we'll as the preservation of our
dual system of government requires
that each sovereignty be permitted to
exercise it's functions as defined by the
federal constitution unhampered by
the other; therefore be it
Resolved, By the convention of at
torneys general of the several states
here assembled, that we earnestly
recommend to the favorable considera
ton of the president and the congress
of the United States the enactment of
federal law providing that no circuit
court of the United States or any judge
exercising powers of such circuit courts
shall have jurisdiction in any case
brought to restrain any officers of a
state or any administration board of a
state from instituting in state court
any suit or other appropriate proceed
ings to enforce the laws of such state,
or to enforce any order made by such
administrative board, but allowing any
person or corporation asserting in any
such action in state court any right
arising, under the constitution or any
laws of the United States to have the
decision of the highest court of such
state reviewed by the supreme court OF
the United States as now provided by
law.
"We also recommend that suits ir
federal circuit courts by persons inter,
ested in corporations to restrain such
corporations from obeying the laws OF
states in which they are doing business
be prohibited,
The doctrine set forth in the above
memorial is democratic doctrine, it is
harmony with the position which the
democratic party has ever taken, name
ly-that the distinction between the
federal government and the states shall
be observed according to the spirit CT
the constitution. The memorial is also
in harmony with the platform recently
adopted by the democrats of Nebraska.
The United States judges have fallen
into the habit of suspending the laws
of the states at the request Of the rail
roads, and as result the states have
been handicapped in their efforts to re
strain or..regulate such corporations. M
corporation is denied justice when it il
compelled to submit its claim to the
state courts and then go up by appea
from the highest state court to the su
preme court Of the United States. L
is gratifying to know that even the re
publican officials of the various state
are beginning to recognize the import
raDnlqt0f
corporations, and every democrat il
congress has given quick and constan
supports to the movement inaugurat
by the attorneys general.
Corporations doing business in t.
state ought to submit themselves t
laws of the state. The fact that on
stockholder may live in another stat
ought not to be sufficient to carry til
case from the state to the federal court
Here too, an appeal from the suprern
court of the state is always possible j
any constitutional rights have bee
violated,
The movement inaugurated by tn
attorney general of the various state
is not only very important one, bu
it is also very significant one; it show
that the democratic position on tn
subject is so clearly righteous pos
ton that republicans as well as DEM
Gratis accept it as soon as they see tt
opposite principle acted upon. Til
federal courts have furnished the obje'
lesson, and the people have been az
pupils; they have at once confronte
the danger involved in the overridin
of state laws and in the destruction {
the state courts, and they respond wit
earnestness to the democratic appeal
behalf of the right of the state to pr
tect the people in matters which al
local-The Commoner.
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Dentistry.
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