The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-05-28

lrice-the love of power and the love
of money. Place before the
ayes of such men post of honor, that t
shall, at the same time, be a place of I
profit, and they will move heaven and r
earth to obtain it. I am APP Q
prehensive, therefore, perhaps too APP |
prehensive-t the government of
the states may, in future times, end in '
a monarchy. And, therefore, I
it is that move the amendment. If it '
be not seconded or accepted l must be
contented with the satisfaction of hav- !
ing delivered my opinion frankly and
done my duty" So that grand old {
man talked to the makers and builders
of the federal government, and there
is not a sentence in his writings but
shows clearly he regarded the federal
government as the agent of the states.
But in case of an honest conflict of au-
thority between the two governments
each one remaining in its own constr
tutional sphere the federal government
should be supreme in the controversy
between them. Think for moment of
the gross absurdity of this provision to
make the agent supreme over his crea-
tor. How would a law sound in your
ears which said if A and b differed as
to rights of property B should always
decide the controversy between them.
This was the chicanery of the mono.
Gratis in preparation for the ultimate
obliteration of the states and the estab-
llshment of a monarchy as Franklin so
much feared. Instead, therefore, of
making the federal agent of the states
supreme in cases of conflict OF authorl-
ty between a state government and the
federal government the constitutional
convention of 1887 had created court
of Cancellation to decide and settle all
such controversies our double govern
ments might have continued its bless
ings to the people for many generations
to come. As it is aud as it will continue
in It's present form to the end, it must
become a consolidated empire or mill
tary despotism in the near future.
We have had twenty-six presidents
and three of them have been assassinat-
ed while in office. To the spirit of an
archy evoked by the war between the
/ states in 1861 5 two of them fell victims
and the third was murdered to appease
the wrath of the god of war that con-
! vulsed the country in 1899. All OF
) them lived on salary of $685. 900 year
+ until the back salary grabbers mounted
1 into the saddle during Grants admin
: istration and ran it up to $50, 600 a year.
8 Since then in a time of profound peace
8 congress usurped the sovereignty OF
F the people and ran the salary up tc
SY5, 900 year under the false pretense
that $50, 900 was not enough to enable
q the president to strut like royalty in
bear hunt. 1t requires lots of money
!. to fix up president for bear hunt
,. But have we not fulfilled DIR. Franklin
). prophecy both in letter and spirit in
; little more than hundred years? Ant
,s if that be true on the salary, how lont
!. will it take the whirligig of time to en-
al able us to blunder on the monarch
~ Franklin foresaw and feared? OF cours
70 we will not call our master king. III
;r will still be president. But imperif
h Rome was a grinding despotism an
20 the people all slaves hundreds of yeal
20 before she gave up the name OF n
or public. 1t is true corrupt faction
90 the Roman senate had been selling tt
ha executive office of the empire for man
,;s years. Have we not been doing tt
rn same thing with our president for
oh number of years? How can we hol
M for clean good government by me
70 who traffic in public Office? And
,os we not know that public Office IN Il
~ United States has been bought al
to sold in recent years very much as 4
ga, stock gamblers deal with stocks?
,oo Go call the long roll of dead natio
N that lie scattered along the worlc
~. highway for four thousand years, al
.ad ask the historian to tell you what N
bv lignant spirit entered into all the
10" millions of men that led them to l
,od out and die as the fool dieth. He W
tell you the people became corrupt a
sold themselves to an unscrupulous a
grasping political master as Esau 81
'' his birthright for ''full dinner pa
- -. and stood pat on his fine bargain.
!, Take home illustration in our o
W" state of recent occurrence at Nashvil
A What principle of state policy (
on Brownlow and Evans differ on? Tt
~ were both seated on the Roosevelt.T
:. band wagon as merry as larks in NJ
- But when they got to Nashville on
','A 95th Of March see how they sought
n'"' : cheat each other out of the use of
un1 ~ capitol for their powwow. The bait
% ." ed heads and broken chairs told
u n"u tale-a war of factions to get near
'ion throne. NJ. L. T
and '"'''
URN VoIuad Same as Eold
~ B. G. Stewart, merchant of Ce
DC View, Miss, says: :" tell my custC
tain ers when they buy box of DIR. Xii