The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-08-30
ROOSEVELT CITES CASES IN
WHICH PEOPLES RIGHTS
HAVE BEES ovERRlDDEN.
|AV0RS CONSERVATION
tate and Federal Governments Must
Join to Protect Country's Re
sources From Individual
Exploitation.


EEfupreme court CT tie United States
IAFere sharply criticised BY Ex-Plesl,
III lent Roosevelt today in an address at
N The state capitol here before the leg
|Ilslature. He ctel two decisions by
IEhe court, which he declared were
IEfontrary to the principles of Democ-
EEEacy and said tirat ii those decisions
INDICATED tne permanent attitude OF
III Ehe court the entire american system
Spf popular government would be up
Ebet.
vi Roosevelt's speech before the legis-
Eature was the only one he delivered
\ lin Denver today touching on politics.
HEEverywhere he was greetc.1 WITH
h sleheering. The auditorium II which
EIhe delivered his speech holds fifteen
Thousand people, and yet 1t was large
\ enough to seat only part of the
throng.
In addition to his auditorium
u lspeech under the auspices of Mne
Rational Liyestoca Association, he adj
Ndressed the Spanish War Veetrans,
Eiwho are holding an encampment. The
HColorado Livestock Association at a
nbanquet this evening. and the Denver
II Press Club at a Chuck Wagon" lun
scheon at Overland Park
II He spoke OF the division of author
II ity in legislative matters.
u Il am anxious that the nation and
n state shall each exercise its legiti-
H mate powers TO the fullest degree.
II When necessary they should work
II together, but they should not leave
H neutral ground on either state or
Il national authority and which would
Il become a place of refuge for men
4 who wish to act criminally, ana es-
4 pecially for the very rich men who
wish to act against the community as
whole
Take the first knight sugar trust
case. In that the supreme court OF
/ the Cnted States. under the cover OF
what a man whose interest ischiefiy
can only call high technical legal
sublety, handed down a decision
which rendered 1t exceedingly diff
cult for the nation effectively to con
troll and use the masses of corporate
capital in interstate business, as tht
nation obviously was the sole power
that could exercise such control, FOL
it was quite beyond the power of any
one state
This was really decision rend
ering il exceedingly difficult for the
people to devise any method control
ling and regulating the business ust
of great capital in interstate com
merce. 1t was a decision nominally
against national righ ydt reall,
against popular rights
"The second case is the New Yorl
baker shop case. In New York city
the baking business is likely to be
carried on under unhydenic condt
tions, therefore against the welfare
OF the general public, The New Yorl
Legislature proposed and the New
York Governor signed bill to rem
edy these improper conditions. The
nation had no power in the matter.
Acting on information which
seemed ample and sufficient
the governor and legislature Of New
York took action which they deeme,
necessary. The governor and legis
lature alone had affirmative powe
to remedy the abuse. But the Sup
RENE court of the United States pos
sessed, and unfortunately exercise,
the power of not peprmitting tn
abuse to be remedied.
"They declared the action by tn
state OF New York mconstitutona
because, forsooth. men must not b
deprived of their 'libertx.~-t4a-----
under unhygenlc cond .,s. lne.
themselves, were powerless to max
a remedy to provide for wrong an
their refusal to permit the action b
the state did not confer any powe
upon the nation to act
."In effect, 1t reduced to impotenc
the only body which did have powe
so that in this case the decision, a
though nominally against state right
was really agar popular right
against the Democratic principle
government by the people unde
forms OF law.
Il am most earnest and convin'
ed believer in exercising the powt
of the nation where that power alon
can be effective. Yet | no less b.
,leve7 that the power OF the. states b
made effective where 1t is enforce
soove all there should be neGtr'
ground.
Mr.. Roosevelt spoke of rconserv
a ttion iu part as follows:
"This country has shown deini
s,s,ns Of waking up to the absolu