Show LOOKING FOR TROUBLE According to a n special dIspatch from Washington ashington to the lIe Chicago Record R cord Herald Heral printed print in this issue the tho th president president dent is preparing a special message on the tho Japanese question that will vill out outdistance outdistance outdistance distance anything he has attempted in inthe inthe inthe the cyclone c clone line lIno In essence the mes message message message sage is expected to assert federal su supremacy supremacy y over the states not hot fi only Illy in such uch affairs as the thc San Francisco school i controversy but in hl other matters mattera as aswell aswell i well w n In the tho language of the Record heralds II correspondent himself a close lose friend of or the administration ministration a the mes m message s sage will trill m bring to a direct dir issue the centralization scheme of at government which bieh Is likely to form tho the climax of endeavor cn on the cart of the th Roosevelt Poosevelt loo a Such a message have been cen an anticipated the tho moment an opportunity arose to excuse it The president has gone further in both the theory and practice of centralization than th 11 any executive ex executive the country count has ever eyer known A direct descendant l in political al theory of the he old uld Federalists he believes sincere sincerely i ily ly In the absolute subordination of tate state sovereignty to the federal authority not only in matters mallers of debatable legal legality legality ity it but in such affairs as all the au authorities heretofore including the tho su supreme supreme preme premo court urt of the tho United States have lIae conceded to be exclusively reserved l 3 to the ho states Encouraged by llY tho the success successful successful ful tul encroachments on legislative e and judicial functions which he the has hns made unchallenged he might be expected to push his authority further and assume rights which have always been beon b d denied pied tho the president and the central govern government government ment before his regime Until the message is known in detail it would not be fair to anticipate the th extreme limits Of f its demands JUt hut judging by the tho record re ord It is certain the he president will wilt provoke a n controversy in hh importance and fraught with possibilities po of or great gr nt harm He lias ilas been bee sustained heretofore by a large ma majority majority of the American people p ople and Is i naturally prone to believe beHee that hat le he will wiil find their approval for whatever ho he pro proposes proposes poses but hut signs ate not wanting that his recent course hits has provoked an hn Im nce and growing doubt of or his in infallibility infallibility fallibility which may ma find fimI voice in fail fell failure failure fellure ure of his most cherished at this session With ith all aU the great problems rightly Within his jurisdiction jurls he the might better letter i content himself with n it higher regard for tor constitutional rights of ot the states and save sae himself the tho discredit lIlt which h will wilt inevitably hl follow rolloW any al Y attempt to tJ delimit d the power p r of states over ever their own local affairs |