The Democratic advocate., 1908-07-31
ATTACK ON THE COURT.
What the Newspapers Think OF the
Presidents Latest Outbreak.

This not the first of President Roose
yelt's offences of the kind, and canno
therefore be attributed to the sum
mer's extreme heat. He was angeret
by the lower courts decisions agains
the railroad employers liability act
and took pains to let Congress and the
country know about it. He is constl
tutionally incapable of brooking op
position or variance of view from his
own. He can see only one side to any
disputed matter, and If the courts evel
happen to find another side then 81
much the worse for them. He is tenn
peramentally unfit for the position he
holds, and it is we'll for the country
that the days of his stay there have
been ered.-Springfeld Republi.
can Qnd.).
Confronted with an utterance so as
founding, from the Chief Magistrate
of the nation, every American should
reverently give thanks that he never
theless lives under a government OF
laws and not of men.
No defendants guilt is unquestion-
able until proved by due process OF
law. No defendant can be convicted
and sentenced by Executive decree
To attempt it is astrocious. If this be
not true then is our history farce
our liberty delusion, our Constitution
a fraud, and our republic failure.
Not by the mere opinion of any man
or set of men. is an American citizen
to be deemed guilty of crime and
punished. He is to be found guilty
and punished only by that due process
of law necessary for the safety of us
all.
Let the Standard Oil Company be
hanged, if need be, but let it be hang
ed legally.
No conviction by Executive decree!
No Executive sentence before judicial
trial!
No Executive lynch law!-Chicago
Inter Ocean (Rep.).
The Republican party is Trust
buster by proclamation and Trust
builder by profession. Its contradic-
tory activities result chiefly in Trusts.
They have done so yesterday, they are
doing so today, they will do so tomor-
row.
Building up theTrust by a stormedb
Building up the Trust by a system
of laws guaranteeing unequal privil-
iges instead of equal rights, and inaug-
urating proceedings in civil courts to
punish the Trusts is to dam stream
by daubing cement on the downstream
side of the dam. 1t is plan of action
open to criticism upon the ground that
it does not work, and to the additional
objection that it is not intended to
work 1t is a programme of sound
and fury signifying nothing. The Re-
publican party will become Trust
buster in truth when it ceases to be
a Trust builder in fact, and that will
be when it retires from the firing
line defeated by the votes of people
weary of deceit and double dealing.
There are many ways OF Trust busting
without busting the Trusts. There is
one way that is effective, and that is
by abolishing monopolies. AS long as
the Trusts run the Republican party,
the Republican party will not run
counter to the interests of the Trusts.
house cleaning in the interests of
sanitation is what is needed by Uncle
Sam And the time for it to begin is
next November.
In the meantime the Big Stick may
be brought down upon the bench with
whacks, but the Trusts
will survive and thrive, and it will
not necessarily be through the fault
Of the bench that they escape a threat
ened busting. = Louisville Courier
Journal Dem.).