Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-12
Government
Of THE FATHERS
Judge Alton B. Parker Says a
Campaign is ON to Over
throw Their Plan.
LED BY ASTUTE POLITICIAN.
He is Backed by the Great Corpora
tions--Want to Centrallze Power
by Unconstitutional Methods.

Hepdersonville. n. C., July 11.-Judye
Alton y. Parker Of New York de-
livered an address here today before
the North Carolina Bar association on
The Common Law Jurisdiction of the
United States Courts in the course OF
which he said;
THE student of our Jurisprudence
when he first learns that here, as in
England, the common law alone can
solve and Justly solve every problem
In clvl life IL permitted to do so, must
compare with wonder and amazement
the $4,000 pages of laws annually placed
upon our statute Nooks, with the As
general and the 246 special laws passed
by IInglnud's parliament In five years,
although legislating for a home popu-
lation OF 42000,000 ard for millions OF
dependents. And his wonder must
deepen as he listens TO the noisy ac-
claim OF those who would destroy the
local authority of the states ana CEN
tralize all power in the federal govern
ment. The justification pleaded for
overthrowing the governmental con-
struction of the fathers--that in that
direction salvation lies from the wrongs
the public have suffered--must seem so
trivial as to be contemplate IN the
light of the fact that the federal gov
ernment could have checked the abuses
relating to interstate commerce before
statues were passed by Congress. had
1t undertaken to do so. The law there
fore was adequate and the courts eff
Client, but the federal law officers We're
either inadequately equipped or unrea
sonably restrained,
There is activity now, 1t is true,
but 1t Is due to frequent applications
of the whip and spur OF the president.
But there is also activity In the state
governments indeed quite as much in
some OF them as in the federal govern
ment. All the difference then that
there is between The two is that, after
neglectIng their duty for many years,
the federal government stared first. But
that fact was due to the man who was
temporarily at the head of It, not be-
cause OF virtue Inherent in the fed
eral rather than the state govern
ments.
Certainly no one will pretend that
a scheme of government which has
been found workable for more than n
century could be overturned because
of the manifestations Of a special zeal
for good works begotten after re-clec-
ton by a single occupant OF the office.
'But the campaign against the gov
ernmental plan OF the fathers Is on and
has been for several years. 1t has for
It's leader the most accomplished poll
tician of our history. Behind him and
backing him stand these great corpora
lions OF the country who are engaged
In interstate commerce and insurance.
Their reasons are that It is easier to
deal with one government than with
many It is not their purpose TO sub
nit proposed amendments Of the Con-
stitution of the people as the ConRtitu-
ton provides a procedure with which
no one could find fault, as it offers
an opportunity for discussion before
the people prior to their action. Rather
II is their scheme TO accomplish the
Capitalization of power by unconsti-
tutional and dishonest methods"