Arizona republican., 1908-09-10

quired to preserve the reserved rights authority of the general government.
 In recent years another force has been eXerting an increasing influence in extending the authority of the cen tral government. 1 refer to the great corporations. They prefer the federal courts to the state courts, and employ every possible device to drag litigants before United States judges. They also prefer congressional regulation to state regulation, and those interested in large corporations have for years been seeking federal incorporation The democratic party will resist every attempt to Obliterate state lines. whether the attempt is made through legislation or through judicial inter- pretation. Amendment of the organic law by judicial interpretation would be destructive of constitutional govern ment; our constitution can be amend ed by the people in accordance with the terms of the document itself, and no group of men, however. honorable or high minded, can usurp this power. without violating the fundamental principals of our government.
 It has been suggested that the rights of the states can lapse through non use, and that congress is justified in usurping the authority of the state if the state fails to make proper use of it. While this doctrine has been advanced in the pretended interest of the people, it is as insidious and as dangerous an assault as has ever been made on our constitutional form of government. The people of the state can act with more promptness than the people of the na- tion, and if they fail to act, it must~be assumed that the people of the state prefer inaction.
 The real purpose that those have in view who complain of the inaction of the state, is not more strict regulation of corporations, but the relief of cor porations from state regulation.
 The democratic party favors the full exercise of the powers of the govern ment for the protection of the rights of the people-each government to act within it's constitutional sphere. Our platform demands that federal legis- lation be added to, not substituted fSE, state leSlSlatlOn.
 The predatory corporations have taken advantage of the dual charact- CT of our government and have tried to hide behind state rights when prose- cuted in the federal courts and behind the interstate commerce clause of the constitution when prosecuted in the state courts.
 There is no twilight zone between the nation and the state in which the exploiting interests can take refuge from both. There is no neutral ground where, beyond the jurisdiction of either sovereignty. the plunderers of the public can find a safe retreat. As long as a corporation confines it's ac- tivities to the state in which it was created, it is subject to state regula- ton only; but as soon as it inVades in terstate commerce it becomes amena- ble tr federal laws as well as to the laws of the state which created it and the laws of the states in which it does business.
 How strict can these laws be? Just as strict as may be necessary for the protection of the people
 Our platform outlines the regula- tiOn deemed necessary. and the regula- tion is specifically set forth in order that our opponents may not be able to scare the public by predicting hurt full legislation. Our platform, unlike the republican platform. says what it means and means what it says.
 A distinction is drawn between the railroads and other corporations. The
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