The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-02-11
THE EDUCATIONAL BIEn-CENTRAL-
IZATION.

are for purposes which never could
have been entertained under former
ideas of the jurisdiction of Congress.
Bills to empower the General Gov
eminent to take possession of all the
telegraph lines; propositions for the
Government to run railroads ; sub
sides for steamship lines. bureaus
forevery conceivable purpose, COM
pose the general order of legislation.
The States are dropping out OF sight,
and their duties and jurisdiction are
being swallowed up in the great gulf
OF Federal usurpation.
The latest Of these bills, which has
made progress through the House Of
Representatives, is a general Educa-
tional bill. devOting the proceeds of
the public lands to the establishment
of Il Federal school system, under
the management of a bureau at
Washington. Ihatthe enforcement
Of this law may be entirely under
the control of the central authority
d provision is inserted that the Cir
cult Courts of the United States
shall have exclusive jurisdiction Of
all otfenses against the provisions of
the act.
No Il familiar with the history
of the Middle Ages can read a pro-
vision like this without calling to
mind the iong-continued struggle
between the Central authority Of the
Courts OF Europe with the mobiles
and the people. Let the observant
reader look over DeToquevilles work
on The old Regime and trace
with him the progress Of that growth
Of kingly power which finally re-
dueed both nobility and ~peasantry to
a ommon standard Of serfsh obedi-
ence to the Court. Old France was
reduced to subsection by a provision
in nearly all of the DEGREES Of the
Kings Council. requiring all ques-
tons involving their construction to
be determined by certain special
courts most completely under the
control OF the supreme power.
Through this engine the ancient
rights and privileges of both lords
and plebeians We're Observation-Disclosures
away, until at the beginning OF the
Revolution all power and privilege
were centered in one common head
Of the nation. The French Revolu-
ton was the bloody retribution-the
last resort of a people crushed slow
ly, steadily by the accumulated OPP
pressions of centuries, worked by the
terrible machinery Of judicial con-
structions, given under authority of
Just such provisos as this Of the
American Congress giving exclusive
jurisdiction to tha Federal Courts.
Age Will as certainly produce the
same effect here that it did in France
as surely as the plant will grow
from the seed-the receding tide fol-
low the food.
OF course the American people
will continue blind to all this, In
their wild, mad race for wealth they
viii plunge on, Indifferent of causes,
Indifferent to effects. This spirit of
Capitalization must inevitably end
IN an imperial despotism, which will
stamp its iron-clad heel in the faces
Of p~osterity, if not of our own gene
ration. II this centraliZing spirit is
not speedily checked, the American
people may eXclaim with one voice,
in the language of Senator Ferry on
Friday last while discussing the AM
nesty bill-''God help us, for the
foundations of civil liberty are
stricken away from under US, and
our fall is only a matter of time"
NoMINEEs.-The Liberal (Gentile)
party of Salt Lake has nominated