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Show DAILY UTAH STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY, APRIL 18, 190 THE GREAT REPUBLIC. UTAH STATE JOURNAL OGDEN, UTAH. The London Spectator, pondering upon the census estimate that 80,000,000 pe ople now reFRANK J. CANNON, EDITOR. l side in this country, comments that a populaOPINIONS. JUDGE PARKERS tion of 80,000,000, of whom 70,000,000 are while men, and most of them of exceptional the opinThe Republicans freely express energy and intelligence, speaking the Engion that Judge Parker of New York, a promlish language and living under Anglo-Saxo- n inent Democratic candidate for president, has tremendous fact. Says the never said anything to indicate to the public institutions, is a what his opinions are on any important ques- Spectator: tion of national interest. Upon one such quesIf the Union, as we trust and believe she Parker rendered was tion an opinion by Judge will, escapes internal convulsions she must in 18, will prove interesting. Setting as rise in the next quarter of a century that is, men alive today are very a trial justice in the supreme court in New before middle-age- d old a to position of power and influence to York city in a case involving the legal status which history hardly affords a parallel. of the Bluestone Trust, Judge Parker met the This, as said by the New York World, all plea of counsel that the trust had aimed at Americans trust and most Americans believe nothing unreasonable by saying: The fact that it may be reasonable or un- will be the case. But no thoughtful citizen of reasonable does not affect the rule , as I under- the republic fancies that its bigness alone stand it. The question is not what they are inable to accomplish merely by way of increas- would be greatness or that its power and ing prices beyond what the purchaser ought to fluence haye ever been due or ever can be due pay, but the law assumes that any attempt by a numbers. combination ofpersons who get together to fix to mere The republic was great when with less prices so that the community is compelled to detis would otherwise more than pay they pay than 4,000,000 souls it was formed to estabrimental to trade and to the public interests. lish insure domestic tranquility, proIt is not a question whether by doing it they vide justice, for the common defense, promote general fix the price unreasonably; it is whether they do it so as to compel the consumer to pay a welfare and secure the blessings of liberty. larger price than he would otherwise be com- For it represented an idea that made mens pelled to pay. hearts beat quicker wherever these brave This ruling anticipated by seven years the words were read, and that has immeasurably decision of Judge Thayer, of St. Louis, in blessed and fructified the political world. the great railroad merger case, that under the The republic was great when in the becommon law the reasonableness or unreason- ginning of the last century John Marshall ableness of a monopolys policy does not enter jegan expounding the constitution to less than into the question of its legality. The power 6,000,000 people. It was great when in 1848 or the attempt to restrain trade or commerce it welcomed fugitives from famine and misrule through a combination is against public poli- in Ireland from the oppression upon the conticy, and so repugnant to law. This principle, nent to enjoy the blessings of liberty in a asserted by Judge Parker in 18, and con- nation of less than 23,000,000 souls. It was firmed afterward by the New York state great when after the war, not for aggrandizecourt of appeals, was the basis of Judge ment but to establish freedom beyond its Thayers decision in the United States cir- xrandaries, it drove Maximilians armies from cuit court, which has just been sustained by Mexico with the power and the influence of the supreme court of the United States. ess than 35,000,090 people, exhausted and 1 impoverished by their long struggle. But if domestic tranquility shall ever WAR AND PEACE. jive way to tyranny of wealth or be over-)orDe Casseres to writes the Benjamin by the clamor of demagogues; if liber-- y York Sun that Von Moltke said of war: is misread into license, morality declines is War holy and of divine institution; it is and the sterling national character becomes one of the sacred laws of nature; it keeps irresolute; if a just regard for the common alive in' men all the great and noble senti- defense is forgotten in the desire to subject ments, honor, disinteresteduess, virtue, cour- eebler races; if to a more perfect union age in one word, it prevents them from fallsucceeds a more centralized machine in which into the most hideous materialism. ne ing he Guy De Maupassant replied: peoples legislative power wanes in the A CASE FOR THE Lyceum Family 8AWTER The Poet says: We may live without friends; & YOUNG, 8. P. C. A. Theater GRAND OPERA HOUSE JOSEPH CLARK. 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Senator Bailey of Texas made a telling pillage towns, burn villages, ruin nations; joint Call and 1 will Tall You How. against President Roosevelt in a speech then, meeting another similar agglomeration of human flesh rush upon it, shed lakes of blood, in the senate the other day in which he showcover plains with pounded flesh mingled with ed up the latters attitude on the civil service THE WORKING MANS FRIEND th muddy and bloody earth; pile up heaps of question. Though the president poses as a Specialties Between have and arms slain; legs blown off, brains most earnest advocate of the civil service Acta No Waite. scattered without benefit to any one, and perish at the corner of some field while your par- Senator Bailey charged him with having A carload of apecial scenery. 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