Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-07-09

The recent panic and the causes which led to the Aldrich bill were treated exksustively and a review given of the failure of congress to pass many important measures which were recommended by the president. Re, garding the presidents failure to call an extra session, Mir. Clayton pointed out that the Democratic leader of the house, authorized by all his party asso ciates, repeatedly offered to support the measures, but that Republican SUD- port was not forthcoming and that it was simply a play for Republican votes.
 Federal Usurpation.
 Federal usurpation of power was se- verely scored in the following Ian guage:
 'The president is upon an eminence. If he violates the law, men everywhere know it. If he does not himself re- spect it to the full extent, he robs it of the reverence that might be willingly bestowed by others. In this same overbearing spirit he has placed and kept in office men who were not ap- pointed by and with the advice and consent of the senate. He has intiu- enced or attempted to influence courts and juries in the administration of public justice, not only by deciding who should and who should not be prosecuted. but by making known his personal feelings or sympathies be- tween the prosecution and the accused. He has scolded judges for their in terpretations of the laws.
 Ut was therefore timely and appro priate that the Republican party at Chicago should have declared that it will uphold 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 this speech at Har- risburg in October, 1906, he told of easy methods for increasing the power of the federal government. The meth cd provided in the constitution was too cumbersome, slow and uncertain for him. There he lets the country into the secret of his short cut to in- creasing the federal power in these words: We need through executive action, through legislation and through s,,1f fafn f,,tnp Ntrf md p- ton to increase the power of the fed. eral government
 Rights of the States.
 "AIr. Root, whom the president is said to have called My secretary, fol. lowed this Harrisburg expression by speech in New York in which he said, Sooner or later construction will be found to vest power where it will be exercised by the national government
 Of course many people are not sur. Drised at any opinion the president ut. .ers: he has so many of them and has them on so iasny conceiv. able and nonconceivableo occasions.
 Now. Secretary Root is an able law. Ter and man of trained and deiib crate habits of thought. Nothing shows more plainly the demoralization by the president than the fact hat this trained lawyer, in the very front rank of his great profession, should advocate changing the organic aw of the Union by construction to be found and to be found by whom: By the very men who are to exercise he power. The insidious proposition If Mir Root following up the sugges. ion of his chief. Is that where author. ty is not granted which in the opinion If the executive ought to have been ,rantcd this authority is none the less Q he exercised, and if no other basis or it can be had it is to he based upon to be found In other words. if the constitution has not con. erred the power upon the executive hen the power is to be vested in him " construction to 'be found in a way ot provided for by the organic law of he Union. Representative institutions must he reserved. our federal government of eleEated and limited powers must he in all it's constitutional igor. and each state must be pre- erved with all of it's reserve powers nd in it's integrity and autonomy for. ! yer.
 Therein is the safety of the Union l nd the states. one indissoluble and he other indestructihle. Let us con- i identity hope that the time will he l, eyer ripe f9r the change of the con 1 titution by executive action and by | udicial interpretations. IT such q inc should come. then a government f law will perish from the earth and i
 government of caprice will he ere ted on the ruins of one established ' a written constitution.
 Democratic Duty.
 ''We know there is a brighter pros- ect. if the love of country and Iib- rty is still strong in the hearts of he American people: if an oath to sup ort the constitution Is now considered ' them as binding: If the people arc . earnest !n their protests against the ule of insOient wealth. the unauthor- ted and tnleful influence of corpora- Ions and ,he exsctions of the trusts: the manliness Of the fathers has cen transmitted to the sons. And the th of next March will mark the ad- ent of the gladsome light of Democ- lcy and thF beginning of the return constitutional government honestly 1d nr0ngufraIIv sfr,f,ssta-o5 Tn