The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-12
DAWES DNVADES
 WISCONSIN
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the catch-all phrases of this master demagog, endeavoring to amalgamate them with the socialists, flying the red flag, in an attack on the Constitution of their Country"
 The republican candidate combined with his attack on the attitude of the La Toilette movement toward the Con- stitution on assault on the statements made by Senator La Toilette in his Labor Day address.
 "In its strong appea! to the preju dices and passions of the people, the speech was unusual, but ill no other way" he asserted. Never in the his tory of the United States, has the com mon sense of the average individual received a greater afront. La Toilette speech should raise the question in the minds of the American people-'Does he consider us a race of fools,
 MT. Dawes ill beginning his discus sion of the La Toilette movement which he characterized as "the culmi- nation of the most dangerous era of demagogism through which this coun- fry has ever passed" quoted the de- claration in the La Toilette platform for a constitutional amendment pro yiding that Congress might by enacting a statute make it effective over a judi cial veto.
 .This proposition" he Inserted, "is to abrogate the principle of three-fOld division of power-executive, legisid- tive and judicial-which is the basis of our Constitution, and make the exc cutive and judicial power subordinate to the legislative power. It means that for our present form of government, we adopt another in which Congress will predominate. The success of such a doctrine, which would mean that the Constitution would be stripped of au- thority, would be disastrous, and gov ernment would become the plaything of changing political parties, with dem- agogs in the saddle"
 The effect on the individual, MT. Dawes told his audience, would be to place his bill of inalienable rights. evolved through centuries of struggle and conflict, 'at the mercy on Con gress' and subject these rights to the treats of "mob action"
 "The courts of the United States, he continued, "are the guardians of the inalienable rights of individuals, includ- ing the freedom of the press, the rights of property and religious tolerance. They interpret law passed by Congress in their relation to those rights up- held by the Constitution. What kind of a government would this be if Con grees had the right to pass a law talk ing property from one man and hand ing it to another, directing man where he shall go to church, and un- dertaking to encroach upon the indi- vidual rights recognized by all civiliza- tion.'
 The present constitutional govern ment of the United States, MT. Dawes said, provided in it's system of checks and balances sufficient safeguard ito render certain that only the ultimate right and sound judgment of the peo- pie crystallizes into law
 "The government whose policy is de- termined by the ultimate judgment of the people will permanently survive" he added. "The government whose ac- tions are determined by the passing phrases of popular opinion, as distin guished from ultimate opinion, will perish The Constitution of the United States establishes the rule of the peo- pie as distinguished from the rule of the mob."
 Defines ReactiOnary.
 Such doctrine could not be classed as recationary, Mir. Dawes said, adding that all good citizens should condemn the reactionary as usually pictured lone who stands against honest prog ress in government and in favor of some status quo from which he is sup posed to derive an unfair individual benefit.
 ..The most dangerous reactionary is the man attacking the Constitution of the United States" he said. Such a man would open the way for condi- tion of things under which again, in poverty, confusion and misery, the peo- pie must evolve among themselves, con stitutional instruments of stable and free government, under which the in- alenable rights of the individual are protected from the aggressions of the majority and from government itself. Let us not deceive ourselves! The doctrines of the Socialists of the United States, headed in this campaign by Robert NJ. La Toilette, are the reac- ionary doctrines"