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t l I J ? ; 'frJ f 5-? T5 DAILY NEVSiAND OBSERVER " i -."9 - . - ; 1 4 ; t , BUND AY MORNING. JTJ1AT s 8, 1 906. l - ill e mem mwm e,goirnments it By DR. T. B. KINGSBURY. - ; ; ""I r i artTMMi t-.t - - - When I was editing a .newspaper ,1 re than once referred to the , very urlous One Man Power In the j;ov- rhments of this country, both Xa tidnal and State, v It, is surely eccen-j-Bpoi - iua)sisuo3ui snorctuouB ; 'ai j j re -people to . ebstow monarchical ojwer oiv,a man. on one-man. Today resident Roosevelt ' has"' dared to ex- rtise such power on more than lone bcpaslon tliat would haveproved dis astrous to Kin? Edward ' VII of Great Britain. Not being a lawyer I may not the force and meaning of the par tiohing power placed in one i weak, fallible man's hand. 'As a citizen, Haimtmr to be faithful and resolute fo free Institutions, I would be posi- iveiy shocked at ttv -very suggestion f I giving kingly prerogative overj life hd death in a land of the free to ne poor mortal's omnipotence fand idom. It is the greatest, absurdity. (stupidity and floundering error. inUhe whole American ryem it appears, to ev it. has brought the courts under ugpiclon and disrepute and made, life neaper. It has encouraged the cul- fits convicted of high crime to hope for a change, to expect an alteration. naps a total revlsal or tne pen- en ces by the courts, and that too by supreme power that laughs at foll- archs. and rpits upon court decisions fesj final. - And yet the one man power, Mfange to say, ' Is popular. It sets ifrfee scores of persons who4have been jtrled by the courts and found guilty, knocking to say; many pardons are jgitanted upon the application of I law officials who tried the , case?, -? This jnhowB how dishonest, . ; insecure, im perfect, and debauched It may be, is he present-system of trying villains. JTnere. ought to be a Court of Par !dns to revise all such applications, frb give one man the opportunity of ttlng aside convictions by the courts 3m really the defeat of justice, and is usf be inquiries into the action of e courts and a change of sentence. should be done by a Court of Par dons.- New Jersey, i nllke most States. ithorizes the power of pardon, to, be trusted to the Governor, the Chan- llor and six judges of the Court of jError and Appeals, , or any fours of Hm, the Governor being one.; nor da and .Nevada have also a Pardon ing Board consisting of the. Governor, jjudges of the Supreme Court and Attorney General, or a majority, the jGovernor being ' one. Five- of ' the Kfcw England ... States have a ' body to rdon. Rhode ' Island Irequlres the ate - to agree to the Action, of the jGovernor. Connecticut has no provis hon.; whatever, to dispute the action of the courts. ' xxmisiana "requires' tne jSehate . to agree with, the course -pur sued by the Governor. Am able wortn- torn -lawyer.'. Mr. Theodore Bacon, some thirty years ago, wrote strongly , in disapproval, of all interference with the; final action of the Courts of Jus tice. I cite, from htm one paragraph, but; bis argument Is elaborate, ample, most striking. He said: '"But wherever the power Is verted I whether in one person or in many I its character is uniformly tne same. i y Dr. T. B. Kingsbury act of 'pardoning' is none the less an arbitrary act; none Ithe less an interference with: the orderly course of. justice, none the less an annulment of law in favor off the criminal par doned, when performed by a! 'Board or a 'Court of Pardons than when performed by a Governor. In any case it is neither, in form nor In substance a Judicial act, but an act super-judicial rather, perhaps, anti-judicial." States that are: "slow and poky" In remedying -evilSf and curing inva sions of .the rights f the , people, will oe slow to, shut down on the One Man Power because they have been trained to believe it is wise and good, and equitable and; thoroughly democratic. At a time when the people are deeply aroused ancl offended at the reign of plain ..citizen he signs a petition to undo what he did under oath. Now which of his acts ought to be consid ered by the Governor, his act as a sworn juror dsHhisiact as a plain cltl It Is well known! to every observant man that Pignine tlonal t peculiarity Nineteen men oui petitions is a na and deformity, of twenty are given to this servile and plastic ser vice. Some men will sign both sides. So petitions 'with j many signatures amount to but little unless the signers are really intelligent. Informed as to the matter Involved, and strictly con scientious. The One Man Power is a nuisance, full of menace, and should be' abated, suppressed, wiped out for ever. "It Is better to learn late than never, of his desire angels The great Iord llacon In one essays has given us this: "The of power In, excess caused the to fall." People in a Republic should! always be learning and watch Injf. That very fclfted. eloquent Irish orator John Phi I pot Curran. In 1790. made (a rpeech upon he "Right of Elections." Among; other very Impres sive utterances wm this, and It tits Americans now: ''It la the common fate of the Indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath glvenj liberty to man Is eternal vigi lance; which condition if ho break, servitude Is at once the consequence of his crime and jthe punishment of his guilt." '''! It !ls surely a great I responsibility, and on the part of; the people, a great concession, that the solemn judgment of a judicial tribunal should be re Swinburne. '' - 1l as Theodore Wat, ana nater for some cause, atfotngr name was added, and now; he f krwn 'as Mr. Wetts Dunton. j He aSl Swinburne are ipworn friends and lie together. I J atfi not very familiar thbi yerse. and; have to confess igmirance of his; enas. He is recognized at bom by i the best b j literary Journarts ai? a poet, of rarer art and symmetryanOr wni sued rich ? en dowments as tibftire actually been ln ventlve of nccoyibination In liter atures. He isa gfat student o,f na ture. and'hlH podctiods are alike full of subtllty and! oist refined art. As a sonnet; wrltefr-! h is of rich quality, and his melodg Is fref hr and charming, The famous tS)ct,Roettl held thai Mr. Watts-DuatorpLwaa the most original nonn vprHef ' living, and Tennyson. wajjthn livings An astute critic In 189Tjsad of him in that best of all ltieradr Weeklies-I ever read or saw, 'tue tendon Ttmes's "Lit erature Tcdlte by! the; almost Incom parable II. D.Trajll. whofdled a few years later mgchgrftted:! "All the laws of the srfn.nefc-.ar: at jMr. Watts Dunton's com"inai(i. H cart be pic torial withoufj ceasing to be preg nant, and pregnant without lapsing Into platltudct"f prosey . in a word, ne na" succeeaa-in wedding the music ofv-ihe, poef of sound to the solid stufl oflhe poejt Of rense." I believe hlpoetlcaI productions are not very abundant ope jprl two vol umes, one ot'tner'-tiiies m me Com ing of Ive hd ")ther Poems con talning some S0 ,bge He; evidently belongs to theiMncfmmpn among poets rascality and robbery and oppression. (vtrsed. annulled, repudiated, set aside it would be wise to consider this very objectionable, r tyrannical, : arbitrary, perv-aslve, , growing Pardoning Power, especially by . the oqe man system. In New York State alone executive clem ency Is extended to many Hundreds of criminals every ;year. Think of It. What a wrong! ' S " In South Caroling In the black days of. Destruction, when one' Moses was Governor, a judge, of firmlnes an-l proper ideals; was Accustomed to say when sentencing a criminal: 'To the State's prison for flye years, unless the Governor pardons you aa he probably will before you getg there." Iast year I sawg In the News ancl ObHerver a brief , article against the Pardoning Power, written " by Mr. James Dempsey - Bullock, of Wilson, N. C. ."Lilke very niany others he was tired of the one man pardoning busi ness. ' I.-, copy frOjpi him a part of what he .wrote: I v - ; . - ' .' ' "NOw we think ! it? time to call a halt; and. that it Svould be well for the Governor to give notice that here after he -will pay fto attention to any petition except those " signing it rub scribe to an affidavit setting forth thq fact that they are freeholders ancl residents of the cqunty in which the' crime was committed, and the, accused was convicted, and that they! are as quainted with the facts in the case and think the penalty excessive. A sworn 5 Juror : bring!! , In a verdict of guilty.. Yet as soon as he Is re leased from his oath and becomes a by ajOovcrnor, or tven a special court composed of a half dozen supposed men j of character and learning. It Is certainly an unwise procedure to pusn back: organic law. i to dispense with a, well tried procedure, to anul without patient judicial Inquiry, and to plac. It all. omnific as It is, in the hand of a political Governor who may know but little law. who may be always on the look out for political gain, or too busy; to study with patience and care the manifold cases, the many appeals to his clemency. It is strange Indeed that j- with judicial . empiricism, sucl rash! risks should have been ever in corporated Into the, American system, and jwlth such little inquiry and con sideration. ' One writer said that it had been introduced and accepted and "taken for 'granted as that there should be a Governor, or a Legislature of two houses." When ever the people really study the i Constitution, learn precisely the character of the gov ernment under which they live, and realize more of the lurking dangers Int th preseut sj-stein, they will break up the One Man Powfr. 1 There Is one poet In England not much read in this country, and possi bly -tiot properly appreciated in his own land. So far as I know he is the pert gifted of all living poets who wrltf English next to Swinburne. There are critics and readers of cul ture who even place him higher than and from whart Iavejread ;he would never be nonnlars? He - Is oo refined. contemplatlveiconplex' of thought for that, but he S is ? always; Clear and smooth..; R. r ! . J ! June brouftt.it me, as Visual ; many j letters. ,'iwo.were iroRi geniiemen or parts. One wfotCTme in appreciative words of my artlcjca In-the News and Oliwrvcr. I re fin prominent lawyer, perhaps; the foremost In h fine old county of WaJren' I purposed using a few of the om$riendatory j lines, but I regret; to sajr; I .cannot find the let ter. Later I rceved a ktter on In teresting majfters: from ne of the bert equipped antj clearett-headed of North CaroIlrtSi statesmen; and there is ho unmcsinlngg , cheap? puffery In this. At the wvl jrt B. unusually en gaging letter he very kindly has this reference personal to myself:; i "It is pleasant to hear, readers of the News ad Observer expressing the delight with which they i read, i your contributions. It. is not only a-deserved tribute to you; it is proof that there are some left of that old-time' Southern stock which loved the truth because It was the truth, which loved those high ideals which the; South's enemies could not appreciate, and which could stand by an opinion' or. a purpose amid the execrations jot an unprincipled oppressor." I 4 I " A very few words have some' times a very grateful, satisfying Influence over a life, and bring calm and joy to a perturbed spirit. It has been said by the greatest of poets: "Whose words all tears took captive.? I con fess I am glad for kind) words as 'ft he inaudible and noiseless! foot of Time" passes. Mav the Lord bless my friend! f j It I will mention that I met four law yers who attended the i meeting of the State Bar at Wrlghtsville,; and three of them expressed, their gratifi cation at their weekly reading of my Contributions In the New and Obser- Icr. All of which is satisfying, i I met lso a judge, one of,the J noblest, who had often spoken to ma In approval Of and sympathy with what I! pub lished. I did not attend! the meetings Of the State Bar. and did not; meet With Hon. Hannls Taylor, the author Of the most important book even writ ten by a native North Carolinian. I regret I did not have the pleasure of greeting him for he is a gentleman of high Intellectual powers and for whom I have very much admiration. Of the "dispersed abroad" he s cer tainly one of the very greatest: North Carolina has ever had.! j j; 1 ' ; i! Let me give a brief glimpse con cerning some of the i plays , of the greatest of all of earth's geniuses Shakespeare. I turn to his i thirteen Tragedies to those accredited to him. The longest of all is "Hamlet," i to me the most absolutely fascinating. The shortest is "Pericles, Prince of Tyre the most unattractive of all.l ;To me U Is most vile, most disgusting. Even great genius can not redeem it. It has scenes and pathetic passages of much Interest, and no little great poetry. If he did not write all of it. he wrote much of It. according to the bc$t criti i . i ; ; Si ti If li it HEALS OLD SORES Every olctsorf pxists because of a polluted condition of the blood.,! This vital fluid is iiIecljedvwJth some germ or old taint, or perhaps! has been left in an unhealthy ciyidition from a long spell of sickness, or the trouble may be inherited. ij Th-i poisonous germs and matter with which the blood is sat urated force ottlet 6n the face, arm3, legs or other part of the ibody and form a sore or&lc,h This ben;g continually fed by a polluted blood supply, grows red an$ 'Wjjry. esters md eats into the surrounding flesh! until it becomes whaf js ery aptly termed an Void- sore." The relief produced by external treatment is only temporary. The only treatment that can do any real good is ablod purifier that jgoes to the very root of the trouble and re moves the cause, and for this purpose nothing equals S. S. Sw It drives out from the circulation all morbid matter and germs, even reaching down to hereditary tacats.-Jand by'cleansing the blood heals old sores permanently. S. S. S, not oily remove all taints and poisons from the blood but build3 it on bv stirjol v?nir 3t .with the rich, health-sustainincr ororjerties it needs to keep the system n. health. SJS. S.l makes pure blood and a sore must heal If the b$oxx is 4 pure and healthy. Book on Sores and. Ulcers and medical advlcfe txc., , ,f flfjjj? SWIFT SPECIFIC CO; ATLANTA CAm , n h ; f DO YOU WANT GOOD J: (FUR 1 N li 11 I AT -K low I ; '!" PRICES If so, write to us at once and let us knew vhzt you arc looking lor and we can submit photos and designs for your inspection. Or we will for 25 cents Send you our Book No. 72, containing.over 1400 illus trations of furniture. We have Scli to Thousands of Housekeepers throughout the South during thepast 70 Years. -All are pleased with the wearing quality. 1 Robert Mitchell Furniture g Established 1836. j CINCINNATI, O. We sell Oriental and Domestic Rugs. f cigm. The play was first written by an inferior hand, and then recast in part, and written anew in much of it by the creat author. It has passages. "clistlnrulshed by the manifestation of Shakespeare's highest power, says that masterly critic Richard Grant White. Be it remembered that ihaketpeare wrote plays for his own theatre, and often wrote hurriedly or i-dcast old - plays, ' rewriting parts of them. , Two copies of this play ap learcd in his life time. This play was generally credited to Shakespeare be- 8re and after hts death. In the uarto of 1609 in the title-page it -vois said: "The 'ate and much ad mired play railed Pericles Prince of Tyre, &c." This shows what was the taste then to relish and "much admire" such a cross production. The illustrious and scholarly Ben Johnson. Shakespeare's special friend, admirer and eulosrlst. In his Ode in. 1SS9. wrote: "Come, leave the loathed staire, referred In special score to the play under consideration as i : "Some old tale. Uke Pericles." ; . i'TroUus and Cressida was written Ierhap In 106. It Is full of great iretry much of It of the grandest. most imposing kind. White specially commends the poetry saying that the drama shows its authors best work at his host period Hamlet contains nothing profoundcr. nothinc nobler id style than the scenes - In which lilysses and Achilles appear: and In the very railing of Thlrsltes black gniardlsm rises to the heroic. .Still there are inferior scenes and weak passages in the play about, the Greeks and Trojans. There are many points of difference In the texts of the play as Rtven In the Quarto and Fulio. It Is regarded by many critics to be "the most complex problem In the' whole range of Shakespeare's worker Some one has written of It "a history in which historical verisimilitude is openly set at naught, a Comedy with out genuine laughter, a Traredy with out pathos. And still it is rich in thought, in marvellous express son, in lilghv dramatic Qualities.. So one but Shakespeare could have vrittfri the highest parts. There are one jor two scenes that are filled with lubricity. "Oorioliannus la & Roman tJay hit 1 was written about 1610 or later. It shows rrudeness. careless writing and much abuse of language. As the Greek play Just considered was ba.ed In its plot upon three other publica tions, so this one is dependenc for in cident, etc. upon Plutarch's 'Uvea." White thinks it 'legendary' and that probably no such per.ion as Coriolannus. ever rived." i Kut Plutarch, the best ancient authority, gives a sketch of Corlolanus In -which he is described a "a man toi full of passion and cho!er. and ' too; much Ktven over- to self-will and opinion, as well as of high mind and grtftt mur age.' There Is much more ilescrlp tive of him. The text is FaVd to very incomplete. .Shakespeard follow ed closelv North's famou? vf jln of Plutarch's "Andonlcus ami ihich ii regarded properly by White a.- "a hid eous play." and was one or liH eurlievt dramas. 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