Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-01-09
Doubts Existing.


.srhe litigation resulted in q per-
manent injunction by the Indiana Su-
preme Court upon divided opinion,
three members of the court being in
favor of the Injunction and two
against it
'sThe question has not passed be-
yond the mere domain Of party
politics. The majority opinion leaves
the State in doubt as to whether it
can even call constitutional con-
vention, and as to whether our faith
ers did not foreclose upon posterity
its right to alter and reform Its sys-
TEN of government 1t also leaves
involved a far greater determination
that of the right of the court to
strip the Legislature and executive
of their constitutional rights and TO
set itself up. not as coordinate, but
as supreme branch of government.
I'm accordance with these views.
have sued out writ of error TO the
Supreme Court of the United States
with confidence that the county
will assume Jurisdiction and de-
eide the questions involved and
with confidence that it will not dis
miss the case and tell me that If |
thought was right should have to-
tally disergarded the decision OF the
Supreme Court, defied its authority,
thrown its sheriff out of my window,
called out the militia to defend my
position and submitted the question to
the people regardless Of the court.
Governor Marshall's s message con-
tanned a warning against the subtle
influences of the lobbyist and recon-
mended that all bills be reported out
of committees within four days. Con-
tinuing, Governor Marshall said:
You are today facing conditions
and principles which. If yielded to and
accepted, may result in a peaceful
revolution in the substance OF your
government. / do not contend that
under the police power of the state
a representative democracy has no
authority with reference TO the life,
health and safety of the Individual.
what we should clearly under
stand and conscientiously preserve IS
the line of demarcation between pri-
vate and public social service.
"In representative democracy,
that line of demarcation may be
charted in this language: 1t is the
right and duty Of the State to pro-
vide for the care and treatment OF
all of her unfortunate children who
cannot provide for themselves.
other Recommendations.
Unintentionaily and unconscious
lv. the generous impulses of mankind
are lowering the self-respect of the
individual. Abraham Lincoln would
not have been a Biblical and Shakes
pearean scholar had he lived in a
town with a Carnegie library"
Governor Marshall suggests, among
other things. that a Panama Pacific
exposition commission with women
representation thereon be appointed.
He recommends the enactment of an
inheritance tax law.
Legislation to prohibit stock water
ing and to protect unwary against
investing their money in that which
is not property but mere promise in
those schemes which are ordinarily
known to the business world as blue
sky
Immediate enactment Of work
mans compulsory compensation act.
Anti-loan shark legislation.
That trust companies be treated the
same as banks, and that the people
be protected against panics.
Stringent housing laws
Establishment of State penal
farm for male prisoners.
Strengthening of laws against sale
and use OF cocaine and opium.