The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-17
SOLEMN TREATIES WITH OTHER
 NATIONS MUST BE OBSERVED
States Attorney Stiles Judson Favors Extension Fed eral Law to Permit Enforcement of Treaty Obliga tiOnS Within the States

! great instrument upon which the fed eral power is founded: instrument | concerning which Gladstone once said | that it was the grandest instrument t ever thrown off at any one time from | the brain of man.
 Differences ing the reading of that | instrument over the standardization of
 powers in the Federal government against section, and brother against brother, in this fair land of ours. IT. reconSilable questions of government | under that instrument have drenched
 many a battlefield with the blood of our citizens and were finally settled in the arbitrament of arms.
 TREATY MAKING POWER To-day a united and patriotic peo- pie support the power of thE Federal Government, and with few exceptions, ed States as paramount to State au-
 thority in all that wide sphere of ac-
 ton wherein the United States as a sovereign, must perform it's obligations. The treaty making power was vest ed by the people in the United States Government, and that power must of necessity carry with it the authority
 to enforce its convictions. In har- mony with these precepts, it was with
 satisfaction that the people in fair minded and unprejudiced communi- ties like these, observed the reconsid- eration of ill considered legislation
 
 intervention of Theodore Roosevelt.
 'It was with further qualification that we listened to the ringing words upon this subject in the inaugural message of President Taft.
 TAFT'S MESSAGE QUOTED.
 ''None can gainsay the force and the validity of these words which I read from that message:
 This leads me to point out a ser ious defect in the present Federal ju- jedi fnff +, oh r1f hn 1odi in6 at once. Having assured to other coun- tries by treaty, the protection of our laws for such of their subjects or cit izens as we permit to come within our jurisdiction, we now leave to a State or a City not under the control of the Federal Government the duty of performing our international obliga- tions in this respect. By proper legis- lation we may and ought to place in the hands of the Federal Executive the means of enforcing the treaty rights of such aliens in the Courts of the Federal Government. It puts our Government in a pusillanimous position to make definite engagements to pro- tect aliens, and then to excuse the failure to perform these engagements by an explanation that the duty to keep them iss in states or cities not within our control If we would prom ise, we must put ourselves in a po- sition to perform our promise We Oeannot permit the possible JuSC1Ce que to lOcdl pTeJu0lCe in any state or municipal government to expose us to the risk of war which might be avoided if Federal turisdic- ton was asserted by suitable legis1a- tion by congress and carried out by proper proceedings instituted by the Executive in the courts of the nation al government
 "The key note of that message to the American people and to which, Sir, your audiences in at least this part of our common country will heartily sub scribe, is that every line and word of our solemn treaties with other nations must and will be sacredly observed and enforced.
 And beyond mere conventions upon parchments-down deep in the chival- rous hearts of the American people--is a feeling of admiration and respect for a people in the far off Island of the Sea, who, when confronted with a menace against their national safety, in the twinkling of an eye, in the draught of a breath, by force of that mighty quickening power-patriotism- love of country-arOse in their sover- eighty and against stupendous odds, hurled back the powers of aggression, thrott.ed the lust of conquest, and emerged from that struggle a mighty people and a recognized power of the | earth.
 JAPAN'S RIGHT TO DEMAND.
 ''Yes, such a people may well de- l mand the treatment accorded to the l most favored nations, and say to | the Ambassador from far off Japan, l may God speed advance of your people | along the great highway of nations to l 1er destined place among the progress l sive and enlightened peoples of the l earth.''