Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1918 — Keep Governmental Departments Distinct. [ARTICLE]

Keep Governmental Departments Distinct.

When we went to school we were taught that it was one of the fundamental ideas of those who wrote our constitution that the three departments of the government were to be kept apart and distinct from one another. When we read of a‘president trying to dictate to congress/ what laws they may not pass and what laws to enact, we find it difficult to square that with our civic training when attending the common schools. We were taught that it was the president’s duty to execute the laws and that congress was the law making body. We have a faint recollection of the professor saying something about tjie freedom of the press, also. But, maybe the old professor didn’t know anything about the constitution. • Public pressure can remove a chancellor in autocratic Germany, but, Gum Shoe Bill Stone says it is treason to object to the blundering of a Democratic Cabinet member, even if his inefficiency is a great assistance to Germany.