The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-07-09

specf It to the full extent, he robs It
of the reverence that might be will
1ngly bestowed by others. In this
same overbearing spirit he has placed
and kept in Office men who were not
appointed by and with the advice and
CONSENT of the senate He has in
fluenced or attempted to influence
courts and iuries in the administration
OF public justice, not only by decid.
ing who should and who should not be
prosecuted, but by making known his
personal feelings or sympathies be-
tween the prosecution and the ac-
cussed. He has scolded judges fol
their interpretations of the law. It
was therefore timely and appropriate
that the Republican party at Chicago
should have declared that it will up
hold at all times the authority and
integrity of the COURTS
He has constantly cried out for
more power on the part Of the federal
government at the expense Of the
powers reserved to the states. In his
speech at Harrisburg, in October,
1905, he told of easy methods for in
creasing the power of the federal gov
eminent. The method provided in the
constitution was too cumbersome,
slow and uncertain for him. There
he let's the country into the secret Of
his short cut to increasing the federal
power in these words: I'VE need
through judicial Interpretation and
construction, to increase the power of
the federal government
"Mr. Root, whom the president is
said to have called, my secretary
followed this Harrisburg expression
by a speech at New York, in which he
said: Sooner or later construction
will be found to vest power where it
will be exercised by the national gov
ernment.'
"Of course many people are not sur
prised at any opinion the president
utters; he has so many Of them and
has expressed them on so many con-
ceivable and on-preconceivable occa-
sions. Now, Secretary Root is an able
lawyer and a man Of trained and de-
liberate habits of thought. Nothing
shows more plainly the demoraliza-
ton wrought by the president than the
fact that this trained lawyer, in the
very front rank Of his great profess
sion, should advocate changing the or.
ganic law of the union by construc~
ton to be found; and to be found
by whom? BY the very men who are
to exercise the power. The insidious
proposition of Mr.. Root, following up
the suggestion of his chief, is that
where authority is not granted, which,
in the opini IN of the executive, ought
to have been granted, this authority is
none the less to be exercised, and if
no other basis for it can be had, it is
to be based upon construction to 'be
found In other words if the consti-
tuition has not conferred the power
upon the executive, then the power is
to be vested in him by construction
to be found in a way not provided
for by the organic law of the Union.
Representative institutions must be
preserved our federal government Of
delegated and limited powers must be
maintained in all it's constitutional
vigor, and each state must he pre-
served with all of it's reserve powers,
and it's integrity and autonomy for
ever. Therein is the safety Of the
Union and the states, one indis-
soluble and the other indestructible.
Democratic Duty.
'We know there is a brighter pros
pect, if the love of country and liberty
is still strong in the hearts of the
American people; if an oath to support
the constitution is now considered by
them as binding; if the people are in
earnest in their protests against the
rule of insOlent wealth, the unauthor-
lied and baleful influence of corpora
tons and the exactions of the trusts;
if the manliness of the fathers have
been transmitted to the sons; and the
fourth of next March will mark the
advent of the Gladstone Light of
Democracy and the beginning Of the
return to constitutional government
honestly and economically admins
tered. To the banner we raise here
we invite all citizens Of our common
country who revere the nobler tradi-
tons Of the past and who deplore the
grave alterations Of the present. Let
us see to it that this standard shall
once again float over a government
resting on lasting foundations.
"Mr Chairman, delegates and fellow
countrymen: The time and the occa-
sion in our national affairs impose a
duty we cannot, if we would, evade
We must go out from this hall with
one heart and a determination to put
our loved ship of state on an even
keel. That keel has been too long
beating the air. We must bring it
down into the deep and abiding
waters Of the constitution"
EXPRESSES HER THANKS.