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SENATOR REED’S UTTERANCES
When Senator Reed of Missouri sounded a protest
against governmental effort to regulate the business life
and private conduct of the people of this nation he voiced
sentiments shared in by a majority of such dimensions
that, could he recruit it in an election would give him the
presidency almost by acclamation.
Now that the nation has time to digest and analyze
the effect of such departures from intended constitutional
usages, see the baleful effect as expressed in the general
moral breakdown, the scouting of laws hitherto consid
ered sacred and observable, it would appear propitious to
halUthe mill which is steadily grinding out more regula
tions of a similar nature and begin the process of scrap
ping some of those we have as unsuited either to public
good or temperament.
It would be a sad acknowledgement to concede that
America has suffered such a moral breakdown that the
masses were no longer to be entrusted with the right of
selection of rules to govern their daily conduct. If such
were the case, then America as a democracy has proven a
failure and the experiment of allowing full freedom of
expression in government has equally failed.
Washington was willing to trust the judgment of the
people in his great adventure of creating the American
nation. Lincoln expressed the same faith in his refusal
to accept the counsel of his advisors who set monetary
gain above the principle of freedom and begged him to
withhold his emancipation proclamation. His judgment
was rewarded and vindicated when the people laid aside
their daily tasks and marched to his standard prepared to
sacrifice life if necessary to vindicate the principles for
which the great commoner stood.
Again we find such great scholars as Dr. Charles
Elliott, Theodore Roosevelt and other contemporaneous
great minds subscribing to the same principles.
And it may be pointed in passing that every brilliant
mind in the legislative halls of Washington—minds train
ed in the psychology of government—have subscribed to
the principle of individual action and strict adherence to
constitutional procedure. Whether the present condi
tion is the result of medicrity in the composition of our
legislators or a gravitation toward the older order of
government before the establishment of free America,
with the people more inclined to repose their weal or woe
in the hands of a few rather than assume the full respon
sibility freedom of the ballot grants, is a moot question.
The fact remains, however, that each year sees the nation
gravitating more closely to centralization of power that
has developed the condition of which Senator Reed com
plains—a nation overrun with spies prying into the peo
ple’s most intimate and private business, and even pene
trating the homes.
Senator Reed states a fact when he says that con
tempt for law is the result of overlegislation and the ap
plication of rules which reduce the average citizen to the
status of a subject of a despotic monarch.
Coolidge says the question in Mexico is one of guard
ing American Property rights. It makes a deal of differ
ence when the alleged rights of oil barons are at stake in
opposition to the rights of Alaskans when they had their
frontier taken from them with less plausible reasons.
Following the revelations of death thru poisoned li
quor comes the news of two killed and one hurt by a
waterspout. Apparently nothing is safe.
Over in Jersey they are arrestig the State troopers
for making an arrest. No wonder Governor Moore
wants to make Alaska a penal colony. Some of his gun
men are liable to get punctured by a temperamental cop,
Lita Chaplin says she's broke. And she's been in the
hands of her lawyers only ten days!
II. S. B. OF F EIDER IS
HOVE TO IT UNALASKA
The U. S. Bureau of Fisheries ves-1
sel Eider, stationed at Unalagka, has j
made its last trip to the Pribilof j
Islands until spring, according to I
Capt. Arnunfl Anderson. The vessel |
just received orders to make a trip j
to Atka Island and other ports to the
far-westward but due to ice condi
tions in the Bering Sea it is improb
able that they will be able to reach
the Pribilofs until March.
CHANGE IN STEAMER SAILING
—-—
Accordng to change in schedule j
in sailing of the S. S. Northwestern ;
of the A. S. S. Co. it is announced j
today the S. S. Alaska will take over j
the next trip of the Northwestern
which was due to leave Seattle for
Seward on January 29. The Alaska. j
will depart on the day following, on
January 30. The freighter Tanana
will leave Seattle on February 2 car
rying general cargo including explo
sives.
MORE ON SMITH
(Continued from Page One)
Taking the same standpoint with re
spect to the moral fitness of the" Sen
tor-elect he points to the principles:
laid down by George Grenville on the,
motion for expelling John Wilkes from
the British House of Parliament in
1769. Wilkes had been refused his
seat successively following two recur-1
rent elections, his constituents ire- ;
electing him each time Parliament
rejected him. Taking the stand that
the people who elected Wilkes had
the right under the rules then recog-j
nized for selection of representatives
in Parliament, to name whomsoever,
they pleased so long as he was not
ineligible for election through some
act depriving him of franchise and |
the privilege for standing for of-;
fice. As neither Vare or Smith are,
thus disqualified for seeking election,
to the Senate, the matter crystallizes J
into one where it is a matter of selec-j
tion by the States under constitutional
rights of whatever type of man they1
may choose, and the certification of;
such election by the Governor of the'
State leaves nothing for the Senate to;
do but accept the credentials and seat;
the member, its powers extending;
only to acts he might commit while!
a member of the Senate and subject
to its rules and regulations.
In the case of Vare, Governor Pin-;
chot of Pennsylvania certified “it ap
pears he has been elected.”
In the case of Smith, it is charged
that his nomination was secured by
profligate expenditure of money, much
of which was contributed by public j
service corporations.
In neither case has the question of |
legality of either election been raised
by the States from which they were
chosen.
Quoting Grenville, Mr. Beck says:
“If Ministers (the Senate) can once!
usurp the power of declaring who
shall not be your representative, the
next step is very easy, and will follow
speedily. It is that of telling you
whom you shall send to Parliament
(Senate) and then the boasted Con-!
stitution of England (the United,
States) will be entirely torn up by
the roots.”
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Alaska Shop.
Monopole cigars sold exclusively
at The Northern.
Mefford’s fresh ranch
eggs. Seward Trading Co.
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