Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-11-19
Caesars, Cars and Spartan
Rulers Never Got Within Hail
ng Distance of Former Pres
ident Declares Henry,
MAKES HAMILTON LOOK
LIKE NOVICE SAYS TEXAN
First Citizen of Oyster Bay
ROundIy Denounced For His
Effort to Justify Merger of
Great Steel Companies.
IBy Morning Journal Special Leased wire.I

IBy Morning Journal Special Leased Wire.I
Washington, Nov. 1S.-Declaring
that Theodore Roosevelt makes Alex
ander Hamilton look like a novice as
an advocate of absolutism, Represen-
tatiye Henry of Texas, chairman of
the house committee on rules, issued
a formal statement today in answer
10 the former presidents views on
the trust question in his recent edt-
tOrial in The outlook.
Mr. Henry asserts that Mr. Roose-
welt, through his message is feel
ing the pulse of the American people
for third term, that he is trying to
discredit Mr.. Taft and Mr.. Wicker
sham, and predicts that he Will
find the road to the presidency
rocky while he is running for
third term with the steel trust snugly
and eongenially sitting astride his
shoulders"
The democratic chairman who
recently made public proposed amend
ments to the Sherman law providlns
that trust criminals be forced 10
wear "felons stripes" assaiis MI.
Roosevelt chiefly for what ne terms
bis advocacy of Legislative courts
and Legislative executives. he
quotes from the former presidents
editorial the following reference TO
the standard Oil and Tobacco trust
decisions of the supreme court
1T is contended that In these re-
cent decisions the supreme court leg
SLATED. so it did; and it had TO; be-
cause congress had signally failed 10
40 its duty by legislating Bu
where the executive body persistently
leaves open a field which it is abso-
mtely imperative, from the puplle
standpoint to fill then no possible
blame attaches to the official or otri'
clals who step in because they nave
10 and who then do the needed work
in the interest of the people.
"This is absolutism run mad MT
Henry declared. Never in the his
tory of America did any man, living
or dead, advocate such a rank, mis-
erahle and rotten doctrine me au-
herents of Alexander Hamilton
should tenderly take up ms ashes'
make due apology for his being a
novice in the doctrine OF absolulishi
ana remove his sacred urn to some
quiet and sequestered spot ana glVV
wav to the real thing, to one VINO mas
views,
'The czar of Russia never dreamed
Of such power; the caesars we1e
stranfers TO it and the Spartans
never got in hailing distance OF H.
Our constitution vests all executive
powers herein granted in the cong
ress Of the United States Away with
Mr. Roosevelt's doctrine; away win
legislative courts and Legislative eN-
nj
in our republic except by usurpers
pure and simple
Mr.. Henry attacks the proposed
trust commission, asserting that !.
rohs the states of their power to deal
with corporations. This proposal Il
vicious beyond description he says
Corporations would Immediately
raise 100000 issuable questions ana
points and rush to the bosom or the
commission for settlement. lney
would pile up their controversies
there and the commission would no.
be able to settle them In hundred
years
Mr.. Roosevelt's attack on the TO-
bdeeo trust Mr.. Henry describes as d
terrible Indictment Of the president
the department of justice ana the
courts of New York"
Charging that the trust commis-
SION idea is Mr. Roosevelts issue the
statement says in conclusion:
This will make him the candidate
Of the steel trust, which he defenos'
and the advance agent of the reac-
uonaries not the progressives. In my
opinion he is harnessing himselt up
with the wrong crowd and on mlgnly
bad issue and even Mr.. Taft and Mr.
Wickersham can whip him in his
party"