Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-03-26

vision as any man who ever lived, and
 perhaps he was the greatest democrat
 with a little "d' who has lived since
 the Prophet Moses and who was mor- tai man-Mr. Jefferson was jealous
 of the bench and he declared that if our republic failed it would be found that the judiciary supplied the sappers and miners to conduct the siege on the citadel. Had Jefferson followed the counsel of his kinsman, Randolph of Roanoke, things would be different, and his other kinsman, John Marshall, would not have been the constructive statesman he was.
 Those fathers of ours sought to form a government of the people, but they put so many checks and balances that the thing is nearly become a failure. Congress does not know what the laws it enacts are till it hears from the SUI preme court. There are folks who will tell you that when John Marshall as serted the right of the bench to judge and pass upon the acts of legislatures it was usurpation; but the country ac- cepted his preachment and has lived it except in the Dred Scott decision touching which there was a referen- dunn to the sword that decided the thing at Gettysburg some years later.
 The only great government you can put your finger on that is a govern ment of the people in Great Britain. There the legislature is supreme and the people made the legislature. Ere quently it is provided in an act of the British parliment that "in constituting this statute that courts shall hold," and then the legislature goes on to tell the court how it must decide a question arising out of the construction of the act. That is government by the people.
 MT. Theodore Roosevelt made a pc litical platform in Chicago in 1912 and more than four millions of his fellow citizens, legal voters, endorsed it at the polls. His platform was a practi- cal abolition of the constitution of the United States, especially the judiciary.
 It is the British constitution except that it goes that principle of govern ment a few better. The demand fol the referendum of court decision is radical socialism. Perhaps that will come and this decision touching the pure food law handed down by MT. Justice, Day, nullifying that univer- sally popular law, will add immense strength to the Roosevelt propaganda of popular scrutiny of court ad- indications.
 MT. LaFollette says he is going to try to amend the thing and he ought to set about it at once; but who knows that LaFollette is lawyer enough to draft a statute that the supreme court can not drive a coach-an-four through? When Roosevelt promulgated his radi cal platform, in vital respects substi- tuting the British system for the American system, throwing a few so- cialistic furbelows in, folks thought him crazy. But he got millions of votes and had this pure food decision | been handed down in October, 1912, in- stead of in February, 1914, his vote could have been enormously aug 
 It is the duty of Congress to set about the enactment of the pure food, drink and drug law that will stand the racket and run the gauntlet of the United States supreme bench; but congress never yet met a live issue unless the people first laid the lash 0n the shoulder and put the spear to the Hanks of congress and kept it to the task.
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