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Show HOW OIFFERENT, YE AMERICANS On January 19, 1918, In an cdi-toriai cdi-toriai article entitled "What Ono Man Has Taken on Himself to Do", the New York Herald surveyed some of the ussupmtlons or usurpatlbna by tho Executive of powers belonging belong-ing under the Constlttlon to coordinate coordin-ate departments of tho fcdoral government gov-ernment and remarked concerning the Bame: "At the climax of his career Napoleon Na-poleon Bonaparto did not exorcise a more commanding Influence on the lives and well being or the millions under his rule He was an unblushing unblush-ing autocrat. President Wilson Is a lifelong democrat who declared only five years ago that as a Democrat ho resisted the concentration ot power pow-er becauso ho bolieved it to be a death process leading to the destruction destruc-tion of human Initiative and human energy. Ho can be no socialist dreamer! Certain it is, however, that tho death process. If continued Into times of pence, means also the destruction of that government of distributed and .balanced powers whlcht ho founders of tho republic contemplated and which they denied In tho Constitution under which wo exist as .a nation." ' 'Since then the nation has had an unparalleled opportunity to obscrvo what this death process moans to Its taxpayers and to tho Integrity of Its constitutions fabric. 1 The republic has mado up Its mind that Wllsonlsm must go " ,At Chatanooga a few nights ago, ln.ono otUliQ most-notable speeches of Senator Harding's Inspiring and encoraglng campaign, that fine Atri-erjean Atri-erjean and slncoro patriot said on me subject ot bringing tho government govern-ment back to tho Constitution: "During tho last eight years wo havo come dangorouBly near to overturning over-turning tho constitutional theory of separate and coequal agencies, and putting In their placet ho theory of a master. VI shall not submit a treaty to tho scnato with tho nrrogant demand that they shall tako It or leave It. I shall ask their ndvhjo and consent. "I shall not undertake to set asldo and refuso to enforce an act ot Congress, Con-gress, as has so recently been dono in the'.'caso ot tho merchant marine act. I shall enforce all tho laws, whether I personally like them or not. and It I think that any law is vitally unwlso or Improper I shall not resort to nullification, but shall submit tho matter, with my views to Congress and call that body together togeth-er In special session if necessary to' that end. ' "While I do not .intend to bo tho Congress, I do intend to bo tho President. Pres-ident. I shall never attempt to Invade In-vade the provinco or usurp the powers pow-ers of any other department of tho government. And I promise you Just as emphatically that I shall not permit any other department, Instrumentality, Instru-mentality, Individual or group of individuals to usurp or control tho power that will bo mine under the Constlttlon of tho United States." Dawn aftor darkness. Clear white light on tho horizon Instead of tho blended colors of autocracy and revolution. re-volution. Tho arresting of a death process! . j Voto Constitutional government back into tho Whlto Houso. i m |