The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-28
pormer President Held Up as
Ono Who, by His Record,
Disregards Constitution.
VnITLD RUN THE NATION
TO SUIT HIMSELF
Iurist Argues That Citizens Of
Today Should Have Liberty
of Their Fathers.

ocDENsBURG, \, Y, Oct. 81
-.,doc Alton B, Parker in his speech here
,on;obt dwelt upon what he styled
rolonel Roosevelt's utter disregard o.
ia eoustitution and law as exemplitied
a, Parker said, by his record, his
coeehes and his remarks during this
-.musign. Judge Parker having in mind
roloncI Rooscvelt's present upstate
Iour, said:
asI hope the good people of the state
IA New York still feel able to govern
N lis citizens, whether rich or poor
ID lis corporations, whether large or
nall; to exercise all the home rule pow
"a The state possesses, and further,
lat they will refuse to declare them
dives incompetent to do what their
f1fhers did and expected their descend
<ots to do to the remotest generations
20 Colonel Roosevelt feels that govern
uent OF laws should give way TO gov
1rnmeDt by strong mep, so he beglns an
open campaign for what be calls new
rafionalism, with the executive as the
.tewsrd of the public welfare, the con
1ress and the judiciary as subordinate
|IEIQa0 OIL uSPoi Va
.oyerpment and the national govern
nent in possession of the powers now
rnicyed by the people of the state.
Teddy's Plan Analysed.
|ssTbe plea of necessity for this eyo-
nfion he bases IN large part upon the
allure Of government so far, to pro
{cct the people from the combinations
.-.|- 10, nnf IN
p6fitlbD. He says no, they have come
b regulate them. May ] digress a mo-
|frong mau may do. The colonel, AS
|resident. gave consent TO the absorp
|'on Of the Tennessee Coal and Iron
1ompany by the United States Steel cor
1oration.
Let us test the sincerity of his ar
4umeut. In his speech of acceptance
y 119o4 be demanded more statute law
'o enable bin TO reach these trusts and
Zreat railroad corporations.
III answered then there is law enough
n0w. What is needed is It's enforce
|nent. Senator Fornker has taken the
pnins 20 prove from the records of the
1tforncy general s Office that we did
ave law enough, and further that the
hepburn bill served no moro useful pur-
pose than to give the appearance OF
upport TO the president Is contention of
Insufficient Law. Again. being informed
N The supreme court that tho Shcrma n
@nuirust act is a criminal statute, he
nose not TO enforce it, but to bring
spectacuIar civil suits instead.
.'ln message TO congress he ia.
{pred second Hepburn bin having for
rs Icad,Dg purpose closer relations be
[Feen combination in restraint of trade
@uu Inc executive department of the
|eueral government with statutory au.
tRorlty IN an official of the latter TO ap.
provc, when nc deemed it reasonable 10
~ SO, contracts void at common law
'nu under the sherman act. TINS sub
eilfut'ng the judgment or caprice OF
'ne individual for tho law, the exact
Ieversc Of the plan Of the fathers ia
Seyufe government Of law, not of men
II His Abuse OF Courts.
lo relieve himself from public cen.
,plu because more organizations TO pre-.
<tht competition came into cxisteuc,
.HrmS. BIS presidency than at all other
tp'eS III the history of the country lie
'reereu upon j TRADE against the
<'luI', winch he still continues.
nut wili he succeed in substituting
'koFcrDmout by the strong men for D
f'yycrcmeut Of law? The signs of the
''ncs ind'eate not. The patriotism of
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