The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-27

and equal in their rights 10 nle, hpeles and the products of their labor nave no place in the fundamental law of our land' tnat the inherent rights of the people never have existed. that the sovereignty which we supposed resided in the people has become a prerogative of the govern ment: that our government has all the sovereign power of the greatest world powers and empires among the natlohs' that the powers of the government extend beyond the limit and jurisdiction of the constitution which created 1t, ana that the flag of government domnlon mas gone to subject colonies where the constl- tuition embodying the fundamental will or the American people may not go except as permitted and extended piece-meal and Ia mart by a government which assumes io te superior to the people and therefore supreme in it's assumption of sovereign powers.
 MiIestones of Liberty.
 "Magna Charta and the bill of rights. the charters and constitutions of the American colones, the declaration of in- dependence and the articles of confedea- ation the northwest ordinance of 1lS7 and the constitution of the United States, Washington farewell address and Llh- coln's Gettysburg address, the doctrine or Monroe and the proclamation of emanci- patton, and last, but not least, the con- slitution of the 46 states of the American union-these are the milestones and land- marks of American liberty, the guaranties ard bulwarks of American justice and equality the Old and the New Testament of the religion of human freedom in the western hemisphere and beacon or nD- erty and progress for the world. Whatever may be the legal basis and origin ot the principles of this document-whether de- rived from the law of nature and or natures God or handed down as the his toric birthright of the American people, whether based on Anglo-Saxon charters constitutions and customs, or born or the philosophic principles and bitter experi- ence of free men and enslaved men in all times; whether it's doctrines are an insu- tutional and legal outgrowth or an a pr1ofi and ethical crea tion; whether its posses sion is based on the hard and mundane rights of war or derived from the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount and the gospel of the Prince of Peace, 1t little matters so long as it's possession is su1e so long as we preserve it's principles un- tarnished and so long as we and the gov ernment on which it rests stands firm and true to it's high standard"
 Governor Johnson declared the progress of the republic as guided by the land marks of constitutional liberty is opposed by two dangers. One Is a tendency of the federal government to a centralzation of power and the assumption of sovereign powers not delegated to 1t by the con stitution and belonging to the state and to the people. The other Is the power of centralized and predatory wealth, fos- tered by special privilege and defiant of both the public welfare and the law of the land.
 Two Dangers.
 "The existence of these two dangers is not only contemporary" he said, but in a measure cooperative. Both threaten the liberty and power of the people ani the untarnshed perpetulty of our insti- tutions. Although the profitable develop ment of the great industrial trusts of today is largely due, first to the special privileges of the federal government and especially to unreasonable and unjust tar if laws which those in control of fine government refuse to abolish or amend, and second, to gross favoritism in ad- ministration and to lax interpretation and enforcement of the constitution and tue laws, the very existence of these trusts is today urged as the reason why Stlll further powers should be centralized Tn the federal government, the states de- prived of their constitutional rights and powers and the guaranties of the consti- tuition still further encroached upon, evad- ed and broken down. In spite of statues which declare industrial trusts and com binations in restraint of trade to be il- legal and statutory outlaws in the land, the government today maintains tariff system ayowedly for the protection and profit of the enterprises in which these trusts outlaws are interested and engaged. These tariff laws are themselves in re- straint of the trade of the American peo- pie and the discriminating taxation of this trade is admittedly one of the chief sources of the dividends and interest coupons for which these trusts exist and on which they grow and prosper. And whenever at any time the American peo- pie demand a reform of these tariffs and their extortions, the answer is that the tariff must be revised by its friends. whic1 interpreted, means by the trust benef- ciaries
 Inherent Powers.
 "The inherent powers of this republic not delegated to the federal government reside in the state and the people. They are the original sources of sovereignty, and vet the present administration main tains the doctrine of inherent sovereignty in the government. It claims that 1t pos sesses a jurisdiction broader and outside the constitution. the powers to rule sub 1ect colonies and subject peoples unfe- 
 the territorial limits where the const- tuition and it's guaranties may go. To- day the government of the United States denies the existence of the constitution and its immunities to our island terri tories. It denies to the Hawaiians the right of trial by jury and to the Filipino the constitutional requirement. both If trial by jury and equality of taxation. The people of these islands are subject to the power and allegiance of the United States, liable to civil and criminal prose- cutions under its laws and they are eu- titled in all justness to the privileges of a fair and speedy trial at it's hands. the same as any other person or citizen under the American flag. The government at Washington has denied to the people If these islands the right yielded by King John nearly zoo years ago and the privi- lege which German and Scandinavian bar barians enjoyed back in the dark ages before the dawn of civilization. It is claimed that if the government at Wash ington is restrained in its functions by the principles of the declaration and the guaranties of the constitution, the Amer ican government cannot assume among the nations of the earth its proper sta