Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-09-02
MEMORIAL To
HEROES OF
1872
FORT MEI6S BATTLE
MONUMENT UNVEILED
Senator Foraker, Principal Ora
tor Warns Hearers Against
Allowing Executive to USurp
UnWarranted Authority,

by Morning Journal Special Leased WlreI
Toledo, Sept, Ia street parade Of
a civil character preparatory to the
Grand Army of the Republic parade
Of veterans tomorrow, and the dedica-
ton of the Fort Meigs monument at
Perrysburg, twelve miles from Toledo,
divided interest today in the forty |
second encampment of the Grand Ar
my of the Republic. Forty thousand
journeyed by trolley and boat to the |
historic spot where General William
Henry Harrison in 1928 checked !
the ambitions Of the British general, |
Proctor.
Many speeches We're made, chief
among them being the utterances of
Senator j. B. Foraker. Governor Har- |
ris and General Bennett II. Young,
Governor Wilson OIL
Kentucky who was unable to be pres
ent. When Governor Harris and his
party arrived on the ground shortly
after IL o'clock this forenoon, the gov
ernors salute of seventeen guns was
thundered from the field pieces of
Battery b. When the bunting which
draped the newly completed monu-
ment was drawn, four guns of the
battery belched forth in salute and
the band burst into patriotic music,
which was almost drowned by the
cheers from several thousand throats.
The gubernatorial party which in
cluded Senator Forakers and Dick,
came to Perrysburg in launches and
from that village was transported to
the battlefield in automobiles, preced-
ed by the band.
Senator Foraker spoke in part as
follows:
when General Harrison fought
here there wera but eighteen states
in our upiea sow there are forty
six. Then we had less than 10000
600 of population; now we have
eighty-fve million. Then we fronted
only on the Atlantic; now we face
both oceans. Then our industries were
few in number and restricted in char
acter; now they are multudinous and
expanded. Then we had only simple
and primitive conditions; now the
most highly developed and compllcat-
ed known to modern civilization.
"But greater than the expanse of
our domain, greater than the multipll-
cation Of our wealth, greater than any
power that has come to us, greater
than any glory we have achieved,
greater than any Of our physical ac-
complshments. has been the improve
ment of our people Intellectually, mo-
rally and in all that makes for good
citizenship.
There was never a time when they
stood less in need Of statutory straight
jackets, or when they less deserved to
be discredited in their own estima-
ton and bfore the world by official
censure and public criticism.
"A government under which the
people can accomplish such wonderful
success at home and exert such influ-
ences abroad can not be too thor
oughly studied or too carefully guard
ed. Practically all the greatest pub
licists agree that the most vital fea-
ture OF the general plan of our gov
ernment Is found in the distribution
OF its powers among three separate
independent and coordinate depart
mnts.
ut Is fundamental that neither
shall encroach upon the other. The
legislative shall not, without consti-
tutlonal authority, take from
or add to the powers of the
judiciary nor shall the ju-
dietary annul or embarrass the law
fully enacted will of the Legislature.
Working in harmony as their official
duties require, the result is now per-
lection as human imperfeetion will al
low
1--WE can only speculate as to the
disappointing consequences that would
ensue II they should work at cross
purposes, for to the credit Of these
two departments, neither has over
wilfully lnfringed upon or denied the
powers of the other. Through all the
years that have passed they have
been so true to the purpose Of theiI
creation that they have carefully re-
spected and zealously guarded, eacf
the rights of the other.
But worse than legislation and ju
| diclal discord. would be an invasion
of either of the other departments BY
the executive. All the powers of tha
department are consolidated in sin
gle individual. He Is the commanders
ln-chief of the army and navy. III
has in his own hands all the tremen
dous power of public patronage. HI
not only has under his control an'
subject to his will, so far as thei
tenure is concerned. thousands Of Of
| fee holders. but he has even NOR
Immediately under his command
constantly increasing army of more
at the present time than 1900 specla
agents, inspectors and secret servic
men whose highest law Is his bid
ding
Under a bold, aggressive. unscrup
ulous and designing executive thi
power OF appointment and these arm
les OF appointees could be 10 exer
cised and directed as to destroy tn
independence and impair the useful