Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-02-05

ueCIhreu uuCOnStltutlOnbi. 50, uhe- wise, fin the arena, we. who belive in the measures herein advocated, are hampered and not aided by the ex. tremists who advocate action SO vio lent that it would either be useless or elese would cause more mischief than 1t would remedy.
 In recent letter from learned judge of the supreme court of one of the gu.f states, the writer speaks as follows:
 "ln all matters pertaining to in terstate commerce, the authority of the national government already ex. ists, and it does not have to be ac- quired, and the exercise of this ex- isting authority can be fin no sense d usurpation of or infringement upon the rights of the states. On the con: trary. had the federal government given this question more attention Tn the past and applied vigorous check to corporate abuses, conditions would now be better because the states would have had fewer real or imag. mary grievances and have had less cause not only to attempt the eXer. else of the authority reserved to the national government, but to set with. out proper moderation fin matters De- culiarly within their own provinces. The national government has been -e. miss in the past, but even at this ate day it can solve this problem. and the sooner the national authority Is exer. cised the less apt are the sates to take action which will represent en. croachment upon the national do. Vpu Ia. aal Al for both powers, and plenty alike for national and state governpents to io in order to protect both the people and the public utilities. The line of demarcation between federal and state authority can and should be speedily settled by the federal courts. The fact that the national government has been omitted to exercise the au. thority conferred upon it by the in. terstate commerce clause of the con. stitution has made the states restive under what they deem corporate abuses. and In some cases has prob. ably stimulated them to go too far In the attempt to correct these abuses. with the result that ak measures which they passed. good or bad. have been held up by the federal courts. The necessary equitable and uniform regulation cannot be obtained by the separate action of the states. but only by the affirmative action of the 1a- tional government"
 This is a statement of high state judge. alarmed. as good citizens should be alarmed. by conflicts over the matter of jurisdiction. and by the radical action advocated by honest people, smarting from sense of in. jury received from corporations; which injury the federal courts for bid the states to try to remedy. While the federal government. nevertheless, refrains from itself taking adequate measures to provide remedy, it cannot too strongly be insisted that the defenders and apologists of the great corporations. who have sought fin the past. and still seek. to prevent adequate action by the federal gov. ernment to control these great corpor. ations, are not only proving false to the people. but are laying up day Of wrath for the great corporations themselves. The nation will not tol. crate an utter lack of control over very wealthy men of enormous wealth In the industrial, and therefore in the social lives of all our people. some Of whom have shown themselves cyn- ically and brutally indifferent to the interests of the people. and if the con. gress does not act with good temper. ed and sensibe but resolute thorough. ness In cutting out the evils and In providing an effective supervision. the result is certain to be action on the part Of the separate states. sometimes wise, sometimes III judged. and ex. treme, sometimes unjust and dam. aging to the railroads. or other cor. porations. more often ineffective from every standpoint, because the fed eral courts declare it unconstitu tional.
 We have just passed through two months of acute financial stress. A, such time 1t Is a sad fact that en tirely innocent people sufYer from nc fault of their own, and everyone must feel the keenest sympathy for tn large body Of honest business men. ol
 honest Investors. or honest wage
 workers, who suffer because involved
 in crash for which they are in 1s
 way responsible. Al such a time th.r,
 is n natura. tendency on the part o
 many men to feel gloomy and fright
 ened at the outlook: but there is ls
 justification for this feeling. There |,
 no nation SO absolutely sure of ultl
 mate success as ours. Of course w'
 shall succeed. Ours is a nation 9
 masterful energy. with a continent f)
 it's domain, and it feels within iti
 veins the thrill which comes to thos,
 who know that they possess the fu
 ture, We are not east down by th,
 fear Of failure. We are upheld by th,
 confidence of ultimate triumph. Tn,
 wrongs that exist are to be corrected
 but they in no way justify doubt as t'
 the fin@ outcome doubt as to tn.
 great material prosperity of the fu
 ture, nor of the lofty spiritual llf,
 which is to be built upon that prosper ity as a foundation. No misdeeds don.
 in the present must be permitted [,
 shroud from our eyes the glorious flu
 ture of the nation: but because O
 this very fact it behooves us never u swerve from our resolute purpose C cut out wrong doing and uphold vha