The Philippine President, even be-[fore passage of the bill, Had enormous powers over both national and local legislation. Through his - personal control of the Nacionalista parly, he controls the National Assembly—and rarely if ever does that Assembly act without his prior consent or act against his wishes. Sr. Quezon has the right to remove public officials from office at will, even elective assemblymen of city councils or of provincial governments, and there ho recourse from his action, Probably Don Manuel's "greatest single power is his authority to jug gle appropriations. 'The Assembly. has the right to pass national budgets Jand to appropriate funds for any project it desires. But Sr, Quezon has the power to transfer appropriations from one department to another, t0 teke funds from one project and' allocate them to another in other words, he has complete and final power over national finances, One commentator, discussing this power recently, pointed out that the Assembly in matters of finance "is not even a rubber-stamp because it has handed the rubber-stamp over to the President." tivities," because they feared "Atth column" hysterial might result from the virtual declaration of martial law. The bill. docs not nood President Roosevelt's approval as it is an inter-affair, Sr. Quezon has openly admitted to the world that he not only wants to be "dictator" in fact but in name as well, although he faintly disguised the ambition by claiming that he wante to create a "revised" type of democracy, more suited to dear' with the rapid-fire nature of events now toking. place in the world.
Sr. Quezon advocated establishment a new type of "democracy" in which individual liberties should be jeurtaiied in the interests of the common good and urged abandonment of the two-party, oF opposition, system goveroment.
Party Politics Denounced is party polities that causes In-money in" government, and it is opposition that causes delay in execution of needed. reforms." Sr.
Quezon asserted recently. "itis, party spirit that weakens government /and makes it incapable of facing dif cult situations"
St. Quezon also urged abandonment of the basic foundation of democracy visaged by American leaders dividual freedom and rights.
"The second slogan that must thrown overboard," he declared, the theory that in a democracy me dividual liberty must not be restrict ed. Organized society is predicated fon the willingness of men to limit their freedom of action in the entire community. in they—live. There is no liberty without social restraint "Boundless individualism,—inre= stricted competition, freedom to use at a chattel io be treated and paid for as the employer may wish, have resulted in the accumulation of wealth in a few hands and the impoverishment of large masses of the people.
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