The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-07-25

price and which the people also pay.
When the tariff for protection was
first put on those faVoring it claimed
that competition among American
manufacturers would keep the prices
down to a reasonable profit.
No sooner had the manufacturers
gotten a protected market, free from
foreign competition, than they com
bined to form trusts and raised the
price.
Millions are taken from the people
every year by forced prices and put
in the pockets of the men who form
the trusts.
Americans pay from twenty to forty
per cent more for the same goods
made in America than the people OF
Europe, Asia and Africa pay
A hand-saW made in Pennsylvania
that Tetails in Florida for $3.50, is
sold to the native of Australia for
81 .OU-both prices at a profit to the
same manufacturer The same is
true, in proportion, varying slightly
as to article, about sewing machines,
pIews, reapeFS, cook stoves, lOComO-
tiyes, hoes, axes and scores Of articles
in everyday use by the people.
favor a tariff on Injuries levied
for revenue only, that win give the
people a chance to buy goods at forty
per cent less than they pay now.
This tariff for revenue only is the
certain, sure and only way to destroy
the trusts. This country can manu-
facture goods cheaper than Europe
Our industries do not need protection
which the common people pay for In
! higher prices every time a man or
woman buys anything to eat, wear or
use.
Federal judiciary Usurpation.
Free America sets the world an
example in absolute power in the jul
dicial decision of United States
courts.
In all of those countries where
; kings and emperOrs rule by reason OF
/ birth, and right of might, no court
created by the royal win can set
aside, check, and nullify a law made
by the people in their law making
/ body.
! In the United States federal judges
not chosen by the people do set aside
! and nulIify laws made. by the people
] in state legislatures ana in congress.
! Under a forced and far-fetched in
! depreciation of two clauses of the
federal constitution, Judges of United
States Of minor authority stop at their
pleasure OF the execution of the peo-
! their making.
When the trainers of the constftu-
ton gave congress the power to regu-
I late commerce, they did it solely to
! make commerce free among the diff
/ ferent states-meaning only that no
! duties should be imposed by any state
1 on the products of another. They
never intended to give the federal
| government power to say how inter-
state commerce should be conducted,
nor to regulate the rates Of transport
tation.
Yet, federal judges have construed
this constitutional clause SO as to
give the federal government the right
to do everything with interstate COM
, merce except to actually prohibit it.
! By decisions of federal judges, state
laws regulating transportation rates
are absolutely nullified in respect to
any rate on any shipment originating
in a state, but going beyond its Dor
ders. Thus making rate regulation
/ for the larger part Of its operation
impossible.
/ When the fourteenth amendment to
i the federal constitution was adopted
nobody even suspected that the pro-
vision against cOnfiscation of property
without due process of law could ever
be strained to refer to any but natural
or meat and bone persons, nor that
the word property would ever be
twisted to mean anything but actual
property, such as real estate, horses,
merchandise and the like.
Federal judges anxious to please the
powerful. have construed the word
persons" to mean paper persons
corporatiOnS-and the word proper
ty" to mean profits and have granted
intunctions restraining the operation
Of state laws regulating corporations
railroads mOstly-on the ground
that they might be in violation Of the
fourteenth amendment and afterwards
without a single bit of evidence that
they would take away these profits
except the word of railroad men, de-
clared them null and void
When federal judges Usurp author
fty under strained constructions OF
the constitution it is very bad in
government morals.
When these same judges are for
mer railroad attorneys and hand
down such decisions that benefit the
railroads enormously and affect the
people disastrously in pocket and il
right to rule, the thing becomes dis
graceful.
am for the rights of states tc
regulate their own affairs and I an
against usurpatiOn in general, and
judicial usurpation TN particular
Courts are for the protection Of the
people against wrong, not for theil
undoing at the bidding of organized