The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-09-20

! party accomplishments, and said :
| What we did at the extraordinary
! session is only an earnest effort OF
| what we will accomplish at the next
two regular sessions.
The very best and most import
ant result of the extraordinary SEES
sion was that we formed the habit
of acting and pulling toge her and
have come to take pride in so doing.
I'm this connection, it should be
stated that the democrats in the
house of the 62nd congress. aided
by some republicans, passed the Re-
ciprocity bill, as they had done in
the 61st President Taft, with all
the power, prestige and patronage of
his mighty office could in neither
congress muster a majority. which
shows that the gulf separ ating the
republican factions is as wide and
! deep and impossible as that which
separated Dives and Lazarus.
1--WE did not PASS the Reciprocity
bill to please President Taft, but be-
Nduot II W III htip " ip"ti wv ''A
if. But defective as it is, the Re-
ciprocity bill is a step in the right
direction-that is. in the direction
of reducing the high protective tar
if to a revenue basis That's one
reason why democrats supported it,
Another reason is that we belive it
will benefit the American people,
and at the same time, benefit our
Canadian neighbors. True, Prest-
dent Taft, exercising ruthlessly n
power which King George V could
not exercise without being driven
out of three kingdoms, vetoed not
only our Farmers Free List bill and
our tariff bills, but also the joint
resolution admitting Arizona and
: New Mexico.
"The presidents veto of the state
! hood resolution was made upon
doubtful constitutional authority.
After an enabling act is passed and
after a territory, in conformity there
with, has adopted constitution pro
viding a republican form of govern
ment, she is entitled to admission
In his veto, the president claims
that the principal point at issue was
, the recall, particularly the recall OF
judges He is entirely mistaken. Ht
: raised a far greater and more far
- reaching question and took th'
A wrong side of it, and that is wheth
er a state has the right to adopt 70
& itself such constitution as it desires
- subject, of course, to the constitu
r ton of the United States, and pro
r. vided it establishes for itself by it
Q constitution, republican form o
=. government. The American peopl
+ who love square deal, will not pei
n nit him TO shift the issue from tn
= great question of states hayin
: the right to adopt any sort of cor
0 stitution which suits it within IN
IS limitations named, TO petty squat
,s Bile about the recall.
The provisions to go into a stat
e constitution do not depend undt
g the federal constitution, upon IN
II whim. prejudice or taste OF the ma
y who happens to occupy the Whli
House, or of the men who happe
n to be representatives or senators
Y congress, but upon the will of u
v voters OF the state itself; but tn
Il president seems to be laboring III
n der the delusion that he knows be
:. ter what the people of Arizona nee
d and desire than they know then
selves, and that his wishes and d.
n sires rather than theirs should /
It incorporated into their constitution
which is a queer opinion TO be ente
c tanned by an American president