Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-09
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States can 60 anywhere they please,
Lecause they Lave taken to them
selves the right to determine what
t.e constitution means. If the con-
stitution is in their way, they push
j back. Ii it is too rigid they timber
!; to suit themselves. Government
LY judges. FOR the people,"
This article explains in detail just
how the Supreme court of the United
States has taken to itself the power
that properly belongs to Congress,
and puts in words the suspicion that
long has been gathering in the minds
of the people everywhere that the
Supreme court, like a CRATE many
minor courts, has broken away from
the functions which the fathers meant
for it to perform, and has set itself
up, in the business of making sure
that the rich of this country have
one law, and the poor another. If
the men who wrote the constitution
had meant to give the Supreme Court
the power to override Congress and
the President they would have said
so in unmistakable words, yet no
where in the constitution is there
the slightest authority given the court
to declare an act Of Congress uncon-
stitutional. Four different attempts
We're made in the Constitutional con-
vention to write such authority into
the constitution, and each one of
them failed.
| ""The judges of the United States
have arbitrary power, and the corpor-
atoms have taken possession Of this
power simply by naming majority
Of these Judges" Those words were
spoken, not by an "agitator," but by
no less a person than Chief Justice
Clark of the Supreme court Of North
4 Carolina.
/ What better answer than that to
those who shout "Demagogue" at
every suggestion of a recall for the
i Judiciary? When the high judges
Il themselves admit that it has come
! to pass in this country that the SUI
preme Court lays down one law for
the rich and another for the poor,
isn't it time to give heed to such
men as Senator Owen Of Oklahoma.
4 when he says that the life of the
Republic is involved in this question?
You owe it to yourself and your
children to read this magazine article
It has been given out by the Ad-
ministration publicity bureau (Secre.
tary Hilles, manager) that President
i Taft intends to veto not only the
| wool and free list bills, but any other
revision legislation which Congress
may send to him during the present
special session.
From certain sources it has been
learned that the president, when it
first dawned upon him that the Demo
Gratis possessed the power to put
the wool bill through Congress. fully
intended to endorse the measure whtr
it came to him for his signature. He
| told some of his friends then that
inasmuch as he had gone before the
country, in his Winona speech, with
the statement that the Payne-Aldrich
wool tariff was indefensible, there
was nothing left for him to do but
to sign the wool revision bill, even
though it had the stigma Of having
come from Democratic house.
This threw the Senate standpatters
into panic, and at once tremendous
pressure was brought to bear on
the president to change his mind.
AS usual, the president has yielded
to pressure-he has shown an alrm.
| ing tendency to yield to pressure, il
it is Of the right sort-and now word
has gone out from the White House
hat the president will not sign the
,gool and free list bills because they
were made hastily, and without wait
ing for the report of the tariff board.'
This attitude OF the presidents
yil fool nobody, and certainly will
not fool the long suffering consumer,
who has not only been groaning I'M
der the wool monopoly, but who is
fully convinced. by this time that the
tariff board is little short of joke,
fixed up by the high protectionists to
noodwink the people into believing
that it would make report on which
righteous revision could be based.
The people, however, have "got the
number Of Mr.. Taft's tariff board.
When it was discovered that one of
the boards members was profess
sional high tariff man, and that he
was writing articles denouncing re-
vision downward while at the same
time gathering facts on which Con-
gress was to base its rate fixing,
the people lost faith in the tariff
board, and when Mr.. Taft attempts
to explain his veto Of the wool and
free list bills on the ground that
these bills were not recommended by
the tariff board. he is apt to fnid
himself in one of those predicaments
for which he has become famous.
Meanwhile the "Old Guard" is
keeping close to the presidential ear.
lest Mr.. Taft be tempted to quit the
game of a politics few minutes TIC
attend to the real wants of the PEG
pie, something he heretofore has sad
ly. negle cted. Every day standpat-
ter visits the White House to rein
force the Taft spine with little
reactionary advice. Today it was
Lippitt, Aldrich's successor from
Rhode Island, and one Of the million
ARE ,benefic1aries of the struggling
cotton trust. Yesterday it was Dali