Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 112, Hammond, Lake County, 28 October 1919 — Page 4

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Unconscientious Cowards Wbm patriotic forvor was at Its height, and thousands upon thousands of Americans were gladly giving thplr Fervicps in the cause of world freedom, there appeared a certain number of individuals in many communities who claimed exemption on the ground that they were conscientious objectors which in most cases meant that, they were either cowardly or disloyal. So intense was the public opprobrium that these fellows welcomed incarceration in prisons or in war camps, and thus escaped the dangers to which those who compo-ed the host of American soldiers were constantly exposed. Willing, indeed, wvre these shirkers to play the part of the poltroon when it meant safety, and they congratulated themselves on their cunning and duplicity tv-hen they were set free at the end of the war. But now it develops that with surprising imnudenc and effrontery, several hundreds of these "objectors" who dlsrraeed Massachusetts with their presence have made application for the fioo bonus eiven by that state for the "sacrifice and service" of Massachusetts men who served in the army or navy during th world war. Thus these "conscientious objectors" reveal themselves in their true character as "unconscientious cowards." afraid to firht for their country, but bold enough to claim the fighter's reward. Fortunately, In the person of Charles L. Bun-ill. Massachusetts has a state treasurer who is true to the trust reposed in him s a patriotic and capable official. To him Is due the exposure of the cowards who now seek reward for their cowardice, and 1t is due to him that the claims of these fellows have been "turned down."

The Passing Show j!

The Government Still Lives Radicals who have set out to wander from the 6traight road will find that if they pursue it much longer their feet will lead them to destruction. In fact, there la a minority in this country at present who seem determined on their own destruction. The great majority of the, people in this nation stand for law and order and constitutional government. It i.; law and the government of the United States which the minority is not reckoning with and which must be reckoned -with. The force, however great or small and we do net care what or who that force is which does not reckon with law and government is doomed to defeat and humiliation. This minority threatens and prates of revolution. Tt boasts loudly of its radicalism. That is a weapon which like the toy wooden gun of school boy days frighten? no one. In the background looms the majesty of la-tf and th constitution. Radicalism Imprudent and impotent sees it as a shadowy figure, but it is instead a wall of gray granite in the fog. The great majority knows that when the fog lifts the granite wall of the constitution Is there, a great nation's bulwark, grim, Impenetrable, in-c'-structible. If those who care to study the crisis through which the country is passing will read elsewhere on this page the living Interpretations of the law and the constitution though the Interpreters are dust in their sepulchre?, they will find that law provides for Just such crises and contingencies as this nation is passing through new. Law is backed by general public entiment, it may be scoffed at and scouted by the minority, but it rules just the same. The government of this country by its chief magistrate Is fully cognizant of its power and vested authority. These are not idle words. It perhaps has been a sleeping lion, but it is a lion for all of that. It is prepared to shake Its tawny mane and give battle. The minority will Tegret that it even awoke the lion before the battle is over. It will find the government at Washington still lives one of these days. Law will not permit the rights of the people under the constitution to be trampled upon. The constitution provides that the Federal government may take things into its own hands and this the Federal government at Washington is doing, to such an extent that radicalism one of these days will wake up in the hospital and wonder just what happened. The misguided minority should think twice before it makes itself ridiculous and a laughing stock. Ha,5? it so far become drunk with a delusion to imagine for a moment that the constitution of this Federal government is going to permit laws to be violated and the constitution threatened? GenJemen. the constitution of the greatest nation in the world never for on moment will permit the country to be brought to industrial coliapse- to the verge of starvation. The public is not going to damed! Not while l?w prevails:

Suppose Let us 6Uppose for a moment that the farmers asked for a six hour day and a five day week! What would the things that we eat cost then? , Could you afford to pay the price? Fond Memory Brings the L ight, Etc. Let jour memory, a tender Ruth, go gleaning in the .fields of long ago. And still not so long ago either ray about ten years ago. The particular field to which we shall direct her attention is one with a stump in it t-'-nd upon the stump a democratic campaign orator addressing a group of his enlightened fellow citizens. Let Ruth come elong and repeat for us his soulful plea: "And rlow, my fellow citizens. I want to direct your 'attention to the item of sugar. I have showed you how ihe tariff on coffee makes you pay twenty cents a pound on what you should get for ten. and now I tell you how the poor man's breakfast cup is still furthertaxed by the damnable and outrageous tax on sugar. There is a tariff on sugar, my fellow citizens, and you are today paying six cents a pound for a necessity of life that shouldn't be costing you over four cents. And I tell you. men with the calloused hands and honest, grimy faces, that when the glorious democratic party comes into power it will sweep this iniquitous tariff tax on sugar away and you will have all you want pretty nearly for the asking. The republican party, my friends, is the part of the plutocrats and the oppressors of labor, and just o long as It remains in power you will go right on paying twenty cents for coffee and six cents for sugar paying a tax that enriches the wealthy and robs you The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer and it's all because of the robber tariff. It robs you and it robs I! But as gawdulmity sits on His throne we are going to rout the republicans out and make the necessaries of life cheap for the pee-pul!" How vividly it all comes back to mind and how some of us remember in a shame-faced sort of fashion how we cheered this sloppy sentiment and really believed 1. But deary me, how times have ohaneed and how we have changed with them! Fort Wajne News.

WHEN' two boys are playing MARBLES the biggest boy makes his OWN rules and gets all the marbles AND men are nothing BUT grown-up boys. WE hava a pretty good idea WHAT both tight and lace kn es are BUT Fay, men and brethren. WHAT in the world do you suppose A SIIELL-TRIM-MED one is? WISE words spoken In jest cannot BUGIN to compare In number WITH the foolish ones that ARE spoken In earnest. A WOMAN is almost AS peculiar as a man SHE knows it's v icked for hrr husband TO gamble BUT It sure, does rase her conscience A HEAP when he wins. THERE is none too much humor In THIS sad old world anyway AND no one should BEGRUDGE us the sight of a ta'J young WOMAN In a tight skirt TACKING to make headway againfli A STRONG north wind. BEFORE marriage she imagines THAT he will be able to keep at lasi ONE servant all the time.

BUT after marriage she discovers that HE isn't able to keep the SAME groceryman two months. ANOTHER pathetic little feature OK everyday life lis the way a gallant joung soldief WHO has done his whole duty AND more on the Mood-drenched FIELDS of France AND whose stirnxKpient career would TO be radiant, with the brightest promise of USEFULNESS will come back ar.d study law. WE don't know very much BUT we do know THAT women have about as hard a TIME understanding m-nv a MEN have of understanding women. IN his most recent pictures PRESIDENT EBERT of Germany lor ks AS If a brewery had just DEC LA RET) a 20 dividend. THE pendulum never swing back quit j as far AS the place it started from AND we imagine that AS lr.rg as the world lasts the dear Slrls WILL stick out from their clothing rr.ETTT far at or.o end or the other.

Lawyer Culls from Many Court Decisions

Too Late Chairman Cummings of the Democratic National Com mittee complains that American foreign commerce waits upon ratification of the peace treaty. He coplaiDS too late. He should have registered bis protest while Presi dent Wilson was holding up the peace treaty in Parij months ago. If the president had been content to he.a peace treaty free from all other entanglements, it could have been completed and ratified months ago. The delay in Paris and the delay now Is due entirely to President Wilson's obstinacy in standing with Great Britain for a league of nations that surrenders American sovereignty. Upon Wilson rests the responsibility for delay in the restoration of peace, and Chairman Curuming knowg it.

In a. series of excerptf" from supreme court decisions of by-grone days in which Atty. J. M. Ccnroy of Hammond has been delving lie shows that theee decisions are as applicable today t they

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Ftttuted government is powerfully equipped to take care of contingr neis that have Arisen In the administration of th laws today. Editor Times: In th stress of the present period, it is well for us to reflect on the great principles of the American government and the interpretations as g:ven us ly that august tribunal, the Supreme Court of the U. S. and for your not ce herewith append excerpts from rli leading old cases and would ask that you use them that they may nerve as an intellectual tonic to a flagging patriotism. I have purposely given you cass of other dsys though the present to show the reslstency of ths constitution and of its Interpretation?. Tours truly. J. II. CONP.OY, "ADDENDA." Marburg vs. Mad-son (1 Cranch. 137 decided 1S03) "That th" reople have an original r'.cht established fr th"1r future government, such principles as. in their op'nlon shall most conduce to their happiness Is the twists on which the whole American fabric has been erected. " 1". P. Constitution: Art. 1 Sec. S Powers of Congress; "To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and si! other powers vested by thi constitution in the government of the United ftates. or in any department or office thereof." Knox vs. Lee (12 Wallace 45") 1-T "Nor can It be questioned that when in venlgating the nature and extent of the powers conferred by the constitution upon Congress it is indispensshhto keep in view the objects for wh'ct.

lho?p powers were granted. ... "Kuch Is but a part of a system, a coristi tutf nt of our whole . . . are instruments for the paramount object, which was to establish a government, sovereign within its sphere with capability of self preservations .... It certainly was intended to confer upon the government the power of self-pre-ervation." Cohens vs. Ban!; of Virginia f wheaton 41 4 1821. "America has chosen to be. In many respect? and to many purposes a nation and for all these purposes her government Is complete; lor all these objects it is supreme. It can then. In effecting these objects legitimately control all individuals or governments within the American territory." Same case Chief Justice Jchn Marshall: "A constitution is fra:nd for ages Ki come, and Is designed to approach immortality as near as mortality can approach it. Its course cannot always be tranquil. It is exposed to storms and tempests and Its framers must be unwise statesman Indeed if they have not provided It a far as Its nature will permit, with the means of self-preservation from the perils it is sure to encounter." Munn vs. Illinois. f?4 U. S. 3 1 3 v 1S76 "When one becomes a member of society he necessarily parts with some rights or privileges which, as an individual rot affected by his reiatiors to others, he might retain.'" "A body politic as aptly defin-d by the Preamble of the constitution of MassachuFetts 1 a social compa-ct. by which the whole people covenants with each c'fl7en wl'h the whole reople. that all ehall be governed by certain laws for the common good. This does not confer power upon the whole people to control rights v hlch are purely and exclusively private; but it does authorize the establishment of laws requiring: each citizen to so conduct himself and so use his own property a--

not unnecessarily to injure another. . This is the very es.-ence of government." "Under these powers, the government regulates the. conduct of Its citizens, one toward .nother and the manner in which each shall use his own property when such regulation becomes neceaary for the public good " . . . "Looklg" then to the common law, from whence came the rights which the constitution protects we find that when private property is affected with a public interest tt ceases to be "purls private" only .... "when therefore, one devotes liis property to a use In which the public, has an interest be, in effect grants to the public an interest in that use and must mbmit to be controlled by the pubiH: for the common good to the extent of the interest he has created." Cohens vs. State of virglana t Wheaton r4). (Clnef Justice Marshal), decided ISil. "Thei powers f the union on the great subjects of war. peace and immeroe. and on many others, are in themselves limitations of the sovereignty of the States. The malntalnence of these principles in their purity is certa:nly among the great duties of government." among the great iJutieB of government. "That the United States forms, for many ajid for most, important purposes. ;i single nation, has not yer been denied. In war we are oni people. In making peace, we are one people. In all commercial regulations we sr,-; one ar.d the sarn people." Cohens vs. Virginia (6 Wheaton 2S4) (Chief Justice Marshal), decided 1821. "We thir.k that in a government acknowledged! supreme, with respect to objects of vital interest to the nation, there is nothing inconsistent with sound reason, nothing incorrps'abl" with the nature of government. In making all its departments supreme sn far as respects those objects and so fir as is necessary to their attainment." Luther v. Borders (7 Howard 1), decided IMS. This is a case whre the people of Rhode Island got in a fuss concerning political differences and the .president called out troops and this wa questioned and the Supreme Court says: "It is said that this power in t"ie president is dangerous to liberty, and may be; abused. AH power may be abused. If placed in unworthy hands. But, it would be difficult, we think, to point out any other hands in which this power would be more sfc a.nd at the same time equally effe-tual. 'When citizens are In arms against othr other, and the constituted authorities unable to txecute the laws, the interposition

of the United States must be prompt, or

it Is of little value. The ordinary course of proceeding in courts of Justice would be utterly unfit for the crisis. And the elevated office of the president, chosen as ha Is by the people of th United States, and the high responsibility, he could not fall to feel when acting In a caae of o much moment, appear to furnish as strong. aTe grounds agaJnst a wilful abuse of power as human prudence and foresight could well provide. At all events t is conferred, upon him by the cootrtltation and 1-i.ws of the United State, and mi;s, therefore, be respected and enforced iri Its judicial tribunals.In re Dbs. Petitioner (158 U. S f 6 4). decided U93. "We hold it to be aji incontrOTerttbie principle that the government of the UrJtr-d StAtes may by means of physical force exercise through Its official agents, execute on every foot of American soil the powers and functions thu t belong to it. This necessarily involves the power to command obedience to its laws and hence the power to keep the peace to fiat extent"This power to enforce its Uis and to execute its functions in all places does not derogate from the pocr of the Mate to execute its laws at the tajr.e time and in the same place." (Ex parte Si'-bold. 100 U. S. 371. 395). In re Debs. Petitioner. "The right, f. use force does not exeludo the right cf appeal to the courts for the exercise of eJI their powers of prevention. Indeed. It is more to the praise than to the blame i.f government that, instead of determining for Itself questions of right and WTong by the club of the policeman or bayonet of the soldier, it submitted to the. p'-aceful determination of judicial tribunals. "Constitutional provisions do nr. change, but their operations extends to new matters as the modes of business and the habits of life of the peopie ,Rrwith each ucr,ilr.i generation

The constitution has not changed. The power is the simc Rut u operates today upon modes . unknown the fathers and it will operate r-qual force upon any nw mode which the future may develop "

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