The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-11-14

dreamed III closet and books, but JET.
ferson, though schooled b the theories
Of these men, entered the arena Of ac-
tion and lea with dauallss courage
the revoutionists and radicals Of bis
day Compared with Jefferson, even
Bryan is a reactionary and this, too
not merely considered in relation to
the age III which the two men lived,
but on the score of abstract princi-
pies. The owners Of vested rights,
those who enjoy privileges, denounc-
ed Jefferson as "a req. and when he
was elected president the first time
there were communities that actually
went into mourning. As whole the
press, the pulpit, the bar. the colleges.
polite society, every organ and mold
er Of public opinion was against him.
Jefferson attacked the judges even
more bitterly than Lincoln did later
for the Dred Scott decision, Bryan for
the income tax case or Roosevelt for
the Chicago case. Writing Of Chief
Justice Marshall, then on the bench,
Jefferson said: His twistifications
in the case show how dexterously he
can reconcile law to his personal bias, Z"
and he referred to "the cunning and
sophistry within which he is able to
enshroud himself" But Jefferson did
not conflne himself to men on the
bench, he assaulted the system OF the
federal judiciary saying: The judi
ciary Of the United States is the sub
tie corps Of sappers and miners con.
stantly working underground to under
mine the foundations Of our confeder-
ated fabric. IAN opinion is delivered
by crafty chief justice who sophisti-
Gates the law to his mind by the turn
Of bis own reasoning. A judiciary in
dependent OF the will Of the nation is
ia soleeism In republican govern
mentn
Jefferson was the champion of the
laboring classes, and his writings now
read like the speeches OF some pop
list or Socialist orator. In one passage
Jefferson says Experience declares
that man is the only animal which de-
YOURS his own kind, for / can apply
no milder term to the general prey
Of the rich on the poor He severely
denounced monopoly Of every kind.
Jefferson went even further than
Henry George in his advocacy Of the
common or equal ownership Of land.
On this subject Jefferson wrote much,
Of which this is small paragraph:
"The earth is given as the comnon
stock for men to labor and live on.
No individual has Of natural right
separate property in an acre Of land.
Ownership is the gift of social law and
Is given late in the progress of so
ciety' Jefferson held that landowners
have no rightful claim to compensa-
tion, but that If it is given at sll it
is a pure gratuity. Jefferson says.
This principle is Of very extensive
application. It enters into the ques-
tion whether the nation may change
the appropriation of lands, and it goes
to monopolies in commerce, and It
renders the question of generosity and
not Of right"
It is the fashion Of some conserva-
time Democrats to talk of the consti-
tuition as if that we're ali and they pro
claim themselves "strict construction
lists Jefferson was a strict con
structionist in that he opposed legis-
lation by judicial decisions, but he
did believe every generation should
revise the constitution and he regard.