Show BALLINGER HAS Secretary Strikes Back at Accusers 1 ers in Undoubted Language U l VERBAL POURED j ON HEADS OF ACCUSERS When Wh n Constitutional Cloak Clo l Is Left Behind Official Becomes a aG General G Menace Mass Mais Jan 22 De ending himself In general terms against the charge of ot being too great tL i stickler for observance of tho l lIn In the administration of public raf af affaire affairs fairs faire Secretary BallIngor in an nn ad nd address dress delivered hero here tonight struck back at his accusers in language as s j pointed as the occasion would permit HIt His remarks remark were rendered espo daily significant cant because they thc were wem made matte on the eve of or tho proposed cow con investigation into Balling ops conduct of the Interior depart department merit ment He mentioned no names nameR but made free tree use uso of tho as connected with j and Nand the tho press f The Th address was delivered before the We Goo il G club oA o Wil Williams hams liams college ge The subject was lve Functions under the Con Gon Constitution ont Mr M er placed paced himself square squar squarely I ly lr n proposition preposition that when the tl public officer transcends the powers power with b which the constitution and the I avs 5 clothe him he be becomes a meni meni nue n e to popular pular p rights and to all the thes safeguards s surrounding them and declared d tl t constitutional and legal I arc aro arc to some somo people Incon Inconvenient v and often obnoxious I lyl m when they the ay to selfish Dwelling upon the we danger of disregarding gallIng garding constitutional and legal logal re Mr Ballinger added When hen this seductive method of cj power falls into the hands ol otT the unthinking peo plo flock to their standards with the te muckrakes and jas their press pres support We Wo have bae ben been b en for a long time ot public mon and inn Ina In it their vagaries havel ha bce ceri seized up lip upon lipon upon on by b the faddist and sentimentalist for fOl exploitation GO 60 o that on many public questions the public mind is In a ferment of uncertainty and alarm I ChIvalric Absurdity These persons playing the part of Don Quixote in their chivalric absurdity see aee visions of oC great crimes about to be visited upon the dear people and they herald the supposed of ot the various enemies of popular rights In all an seriousness Those who ho do not become hysterical over their tales of ot dIre calamity and calmly lm asked for facts acta are charged with being In league or accomplices of these Imaginary criminals The most vicious demagogue is he who sounds a false falee alarm which arouses prejudices that strike at the foundations of oC our government which disturb tho the public mind mimi as to t the necessity for observance of the laws of or the land Again Agath some Borne public officers Ellers mako make the mistake of assuming that they have havo been commissioned by bj a higher authority than the people IU that is by b their own assumed Indispensable qualities of ot fitness to govern overn They Thoy usually become political autocrats I and do more mischief than good Public servants of ot this class arc are the least amenable to the constitution constitution constitution tion or tho law low for they are general generally ly I harder to get at from the stand standpoint standpoint point olot of or popular disfavor Discussing the administration policy the wild wid the answer must be understood to imply that thero there I can cun be no policy UC that does not Dot keep within the law and undertake to ad administer administer administer minister It with Intelligent vigor and nd fidelity Some Legal LeaI Leg 1 Pointers Pointer The Tho activities of an executive e ot of officer fleer which bleh seeks to Improve and cor reel lect JC t Imperfections of ot administration Is 18 one thing thin but It Is quite a n differ nt thing when he bo undertakes to cor correct reeL what he believes to l be 00 e the short hort shortcomings shortcomings comings of the tho law without legal war warrant warrant warrant rant This Is h i a function and not executive e he ho said saido No o ono one will say that th t the executive can regulate or control Interstate commerce without the Ilic authority of o congress In laws donning defining tile the extent S u to which the executive power may be li exercised and In the administration i lion tion of the public domain the issuance of pensions or of ot patents the InterIor In Interior tenor department possesses es no DO an au e I which does doeg not flow now from irom the th acts of or congress CODr sJ proscribing prescribing tho the man noi api UI and means mean of or the sale and dis dig disposition disposition position of the tha public lands the granting of pensions or of patents Sot Not ot an acre of ot the public lauds lands lau s can canh be lie h sold Hold or otherwise disposed of oC contrary conI to the express declaration ol l the tho law making power The executive cannot at nt will Im improve prove pon the tho wild lands lUts or mine the he min minerals mine mm f rals 1018 e C log the timber or water the arid wastes He lie cannot give even eyen qualified rights lights or privileges to I su H 01 Ji the public domaIns unless tho the hanking power so o 0 declares There Is no discretion or power or executive con contro conr irol tro r except in the Jho t h execution of RP po 10 or general laws This Is II plain to an any person who ho considers the thc na an ure of ot our institutions and the th pow em II lodged In executive OmNI Mr 11 l declared d boldly that II those who are arc unfamiliar with Ith the thew theIS w st IS and who because of a n want of J knowledge of or confidence con J which life on the frontier possible are aie qualified r ID to place pIOl pha limitation I on nfl who ar are a to 10 struggle with will nature in the building of o home lome and I settlements I on the tho plains and on the the reaches of mountains far beyond the theAs I Mississippi As A going to show the administration tion don and the laws will permit executive live tive t activities are arC being pursued in order to secure the Increase e of or soil production the preservation of ot O tho the forests and nod fuel supply the use and control of stream flow the presona preservation tion of natural parks and of historic ruins and aud scenic grandeur All these things and others other arc are I de deniable to attain and thoy tho appeal to toI the th American people as within tho the I functions of tho the government to se tie seem tiel secure em cm cure e When Wh u the thc federal authority au r It may l not properly p control and supervise ilm tl W rk of or conserving our natural resources the tho state governments can I I and after all it is a matter that the tile thep p l 1111 and will control and regulate 1 I |