Show i NOT JOT SAILING BY CHART During a course of lectures recently given by Congressman Samuel Samu l W Y Mc McCall McCall Ic Call of f Massachusetts at Columbia uni university university strong stron ground mound was as taken In op opposition opposition opposition position to the th autocratic power at present lodged in the hands of or the president The words of the t e New Eng England England England land statesman are entitled to more mort weight we than Js s usually given glen to the opinions of ot representatives by reason of ot othis his well known ability and the fact that he always follows the dictates of his conscience in the matter of voting and Is never n ver moved by popular clamor or questions of ot party expediency Re Regarding Regarding Regarding garding the effect that would be pro produced produced produced if the cabinet were admitted to congress and given glenmore more power he said In a popular government the exercise of power must bo be subject to the freest crit criticism cism and the greater the he power the greater the freedom of ot criticism So long longas as the president is 15 the real executive of at attile the tile nation with I tit a cabinet whoso whose mem members hers bers jers are not so much his subordinates as his agents there must be a greater free freedom freedom freedora dom dora of criticism than Is consistent with the dignity of the office And again tho the duties of the position are altogether too numerous to be trans transacted acted by a single man If It he happens to tobe tobe be 10 a man given ghen to action first and reflection lion tion lon afterward one ono who follows his own Inclinations rather than the advice of at pru prudent prudent prudent dent counsellors his power will be exer exercised exercised exercised In a way that thet will do Injury to o the nation for which it It is held in trust It would be better if the cabinet should exercise the real executive power What Whatever Whatever ever oer the opinions of the tho newspaper edi cd editors 1 toni tors may be their influence would nat naturally natural naturally ural be against such lIuch an evolution They The ean can produce more sensational effects If there here i Is a concentration of authority More blood curdling tales of the tho Variety arlet can be based upon the doings of one man than of a group of ot otmen men But we ne should be able to do what other civilized nations have hae done Mr McCall has evidently reached his conclusions after observing carefully the manner In which the ship of state has las been handled in this country dur durIng during Ing ng the last laFt seven years Concerning control of party he said ald Tremendous powers coming from the filling of offices enables a president practically practically to control the nominations of his party part under the caucus and convention system m and as a rule it Is the more ef effective eft festive t th for fol this purpose the more unscrupulously unscrupulously it ft Is 18 employed If It you ou add to this the he power po tr that comes from a strict Inqui Inquisition In over the business affairs of the private vats vate citizen through an extreme extension of or the national Inspector system you ou put in n the hands of a president the infallible means of exercising supreme control of or his party part Great ships should sail by the charts and not tack fantastically to catch each cap capil jl ill of wind They The should leave that to the th and to the other small craft of at atthe the sea SM And a really great nation cannot prOceed and by b sudden leaps just Justas justis as is does a man In whom impulse greatly dominates over oer intellect but like ten tien Itself it moves moes forward majestically and aRd restlessly restless bearing with it interests with which it is and accomplish accomplishing ing leg Its high destiny I Coming from a Republican who ho has long represented tho the Harvard college district In the national nat onal house of representatives representatives representatives these the words are impressive i and ought to strike home Too much I power has haa been assumed by the executive tire the and congressmen have hae beet been too timorous in asserting their rights when the tho e danger of loss of federal patronage I confronted them The conclusion I therefore Is perfectly perfect natural that the presidential tree needs heeds pruning |