Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-19 | Page 10 | Power of Country to Dispatch Troops

POWER OF COUNTRY TO DISPATCH TROOPS By Universal Service. ! NEW YORK, Dec. IS. Former Senator! George Sutherland of Utah delivered the fifth of his series of eight lectures on "Constitutional Power and World Affairs" Af-fairs" at Columbia university tonight. : The lecture tonight dealt with the extent ex-tent and limitations of the war powers , of the national government. He said- in Pa,I,We are now dealine with those vital powers, the employment of which may become essential to our continued existence ex-istence as a people. It is manifest that in determinlnp the extent of .such powers jis these we shrill be justified in making 1 assumptions a.nr indulging in construc-1 construc-1 tlons which could not bo tolerated in re-! re-! epect to normal matters. To deny to the 1 general government any power essential to the preservation of the nation is to gamble with forces of Hfo and death, and 1 to court irreparable disaster. "Tlie power to rend citizens composing our military forces into foreign countries ' is established by the precedents of our history and the decisions of our courts. Our troops, even in time of peace, have carried the flag across the Pacific to , China and our victorious armies have pone ' to Tripoli. Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines. The present draft law has been sustained against all attacks bv every court In which the matter mat-ter has "arisen. Including the supreme cmrrl of the United States, ami the question ques-tion of its validity m:iy be recorded as having been conclusively and permanently permanent-ly set at rest."