Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-07-01

IN proportion as the validity or expedi.
ency OF any law is more liable to be i'm.
Ipeached."
Concerning the powers Of rulers In
general, he said
Their Jurisdiction Is both deriyatiya
and limited. 1t is limited with regard
to the coordinate departments; more
necessarily is 1t limited with regard to
the constituents. The preservation Of
a free government requires not merely
that the metes and bounds which sep.
arate each department OF power be In
variably maint bined, but more especial.
" that neither Of them be suffered to
overlap the great barrier which de-
tends the rights of the people. The
rulers who are guilty Of such an en-.
croachment exceed the commission
from which they derive their authority,
and are tyrants. The people who sub
NIT to 1t are governed by laws made
neither by themselves, nor by any au-
thorlty derived from them, and are
Slaves"
And nine years later, applying the
same principles to the Federal Govern
ment, In the Virginia Resolutions Of
1898, he said:
This assembly doth explicitly and
peremptorily declare that it views the
power Of the Federal Government as
resulting from the compact to which
the States are parties, as limited by
the plain sense and intention OF the In
strument constituting that compact,
and as no further valid than they are
authorized by the grants enumerated
in that compact"
Then. adverting to the imperialistic
spirit Of those days, which has been re-
vived In an aggravated form in these
latter days, he added:
"A spirit has, In sundry instances,
been manifested by the Federal Govern
ment to enlarge its powers by forced
constructions Of the Constitutional
charter which defines them and In
dtcations have appeared of design
to expound certain general phrases
(Which, having been copied from the
very limited grant of powers IN the
former Articles of Confederation, were
the less liable to be misconstrued) SO
as to destroy the meaning and effect
of the particular enumeration which
necessarily explains and limits the gen
eral phrases, and SO as to consolidate
the states. by degrees, into one SOW.
ereignty the obvious tendency and in
evitable result of which would be to
transform the present Republican sys-
TEN Of the United States into an abso-
lutte, or at best mixed, monarchy"
Negro Population in the Cities.
In view Of Senator Forakers appeal
to the negro voters to oppose Roose-
welt and Taft in the campaign of 1908,
and the manifest inclination of the
negroes to act in accordance with For
aker's advice, the Providence Journal
gives some Interesting statistics relat-
ing to the distribution of the negro
population OF American cities. From
this it appears that Mound City, ILL.,,
has the largest per centage of negroes
In its population of any other city, the
percentage in 1900 being 43. In some
other cities, It is very large as shown
by the following table:
Per cent
Cairo, Ill. Observation-Disclosures 5
Washington, D. G. ............31.
New Orleans, La. ..........27
Atlantic City, N. ]. .......... .235
Baltimore, Md. ............... rs.
Evansville, Ind. ......... 49,
indianapolis Ind. .............. 9B
Columbus Ohio ............. Cd.
st. Louis, Mo. ............... 9.
Philadelphia, Pa. .............. s.
Pittsburg, Pa. ................ 40
Cincinnati, Ohio ............. As
New York, N. Y. .............
Boston, Mass. .................2
Chicago, ILL., 2.
Cleveland, Ohio ............. 1.5
Detroit, Mich. ......... 1.5
The number of negroes In Baltimore
is 10000; In Philadelphia, $4,000; in
New York, 10000; In st. Louis, 35,-
600; in Chicago, 80,150; in Pittsburg,
20.355 in Cincinnati, 1900; in Boston,
1000.
Evidently, the negroes, led by For
aker, will be an important factor in the
coming election. If half Of them vote
against Taft he will be defeated at the
polls in November.
Wildcat Currency.
The Republican party as represented