The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1907-09-27
LEADERS AT OUTS
DIVERGENT POLICIES ADvOcAT.
ED BY REPUBLICANS.
Inconsistencies in Their Deliverances
Show Clearly That the Party Is
Widely Apart On Most I'm.
portant Questions.


are best which are least mixed with
contrarics and contradictions; and
consequently that things so mixed arc
the worst things possible. According
to this doctrine the policies of the Re
publican party, as manifested by the
recent deNverances of Taft. Roose-
welt, Foraker and Congressman Nc
Call, fall clearly within the category
of worst possible things; for there is
manifest inconsistency in their de-
liverance, an inconsistency which can.
not be got over. Taft and Mccall
plead for the constitutional rights OF
the states and the people. They dep
recate the doctrines enunciated by
Root and Roosevelt Even Foraker
shows some respect for constitutional
limitations.
Taft has been a Judge, and he has
been widely heralded as the possible
successor OF Chief Justice Fuller OF
the United States Supreme court He
has not forgotten the recent decision
or that court in the case OF Kansas
VS.. Colorado. and could not afford TO
endorse Roosevelt's short cut" poll
cy through the constitution TO arbi-
trary power in the federal executive
or legislature II may be well to re-
call the language OF the court in that
case The court said:
This amendment, which was seem
ingly adopted with prescience of just
he
closed the widespread fear that the
national government might, under the
pressure of supposed general welfare.
attempt to exercise powers which had
not been granted With equal deter
n,ination the trainers intended that no
such assumption should ever find jus
tification in the organic act, and that il
in the future further powers seemed
necessary they should be granted by
the people in the manner they had
provided for amending that act" The
position of Taft is. therefore. in per
feet harmony on this point with that
of our Federal Supreme court
Mccall in his speech at Marshfeld
August %, quotes and approves the
following words OF Daniel Webster:
The contest OF the ages has been
to rescue liberty from the grasp OF
executive power. On the long list OF
champions of human freedom there
Is not one name dimmed by the re-
proach of advocating the extension
OF executive authority"
And in reference TO this doctrine he
indirectly excoriates President Roose-
vets policy OF usurpation In fact.
he covertly describes and denounces
Mr.. Roosevelt in the following words:
"A president supremely lacking in
the qualities Of a statesman. one who
is egotistic, impulsive, of immature
judgment. mere glutton of the lime
light ready to barter away prosper
ity and even his country's freedom
for momentary applause.
IF he is an autocrat. such as he is.
such for the time will your country be.
Instead of a mighty nation, great in
her physical strength and greater in
her moral qualities. you may have a
strutting. coniscating. shrieking, med
ding America. God save us from such
day.
Adhere. then. 10 the representative
government of the fathers. to the only
kind of government which from the
foundation of the world has cherished
human freedom"
Foraker. in his Columbus speech.
August %. attacked both Taft and
Roosevelt in respect to their princi-
pies. Admitting inferentially the cor
rectness of Taft's position concerning
constitutional limitations in general
be imputes to Taft inconsistency in
reference to the rate law, for he said:
He makes no answer TO the sugges-
ton that the three owners of govern
ment the legislative the executive.
and the judicial. are all conferred on
the commission. and that this COM
mingling OF these powers is unprece-
Tented, and in violation OF both the |
spirit and letter of the constitution.
His answer to the objection that IL |
congress has the power TO make
'ates. it cannot delegate the same,
seems TO be mere assertion and specu-
alton, based on false premises.
No legislative power is given by
he constitution of the United States
o anybody except TO the congress. II
5 an elementary proposition that such
lower cannot be delegated" On this
,oint Foraker IL undoubtedly right,
nd Taft wrong; and since Taft agrees
With Roosevelt, the latter must, there
ore. be wrong.
The president in his Provincetown
pcech, plainly proclaims his endorse
lent OF short cut unconstitutional
Method. Because our business meth
DIS have changed under the constitu-
ion, and have developed great spec
n interests which are attempting to
verride both our constitution and
ur statutes, he breaches the sedl-
Gus doctrine OF changing the constitu.
on so as to conform to the unconsti-
ltional demands OF special interests,
nd of doing so by usurpation instead
+ by amendment. His theory is well
escribed in the following couplet:
Abandoning principle,
Having no PLAN
Landing as stateSmanshiD.