Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1878-12-18

IOr tnelf Dest oiycct ehv priNhte ROOu
of their corporators, often only the
wrongful gain OF their managers. To
day, some Of these corporations virtu-
ally rule the States which created
them, and exercise controlling inhu-
ence in politics and business over thou
sands OF miles OF territory'
so that when tho WIT broke out we
nsu a'rehuy, ~ SUM- .s.oo' 'os' ~ Nv Nv
OF every one o' suJ s''a' pI'n,'p'e'
upon wnicn ,no s; ra.ns,s 'ou"uou CIV
erhment--tno nii''a',v" % VI govorn'
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,;on 7, nav he ho5ed that now NJ
,oos, @ those ay;ls have been checked.
"ad 10, ,ha war and ;ts issnes arr,
sna,,,' @ % aro, ~. and helong to the mast
~ ras,orad onoe mora 10 nor
mai I cond;,;ons we nav consider wba,
"s. "a H. d,s,onl,;os .nd ev;ls which now
aas.~an, w w ms and ,ha remedias which
pU ,pn,' ."ou;rs n' W."
'"'' ''f'
THE COUNTRY WE HAVE NJ" ~ oo' -AN
You are about, young gentlemen, 10
go out into the world. ara take upon
yourselves the duties ana occupations
ofmen under new conclilon OF thingss
You go at a time, TOO, when you rea'
ize the paramount Importance oi your
duty as citizens :.
But, to rightly understand what II
now needed, we might clearly reallze
how different the present cohu'tion OF
these States Is IRON their conuitior
when the Constitution was adopted.
At that tlme the thirteen states
which formed this government were
entirely sovereign ana separate. lney
lay stretched along Ine a,ian''c coast .a,
having behind them wilderness WIN
out limit and IN large part unknown
Inc people Of those iseoie States spoe'
indeed the same lapguage' ana nac
laws OF the same general character
but their origins had been uliierent
their habits d'sslmllar' ihe'r views un
like. Communication between then
was rare and difficult. trade paltry
and infreouent Then n f.w road,
were onened near The coast. alont
which great wains toiled slowly will
goods while an the more inland way,
ira fIlc was carried on bv the pack
horse and the sumpter mule. MeI
dr;,,ed slowlv down he rivers ON RATS
or worked the fat boat and the bat
team nm the currant bv the aid of III,
sail or the setting mole. and thus car
ried ON the inland navigation. grow
IN over fonr millions ot tons a wear
Then a round Of tea or n sillx kerchie
was an unusuaI INJURY and A brigh
r,bbon was n handsome present. Eve,
JefF,.rson when Secretary of State, AM
called IN haste 10 meet the Cabine,
was twen,v-eigbt days of dilipen
travel in going from his home TO New
iork ana now one leaves New ior'
at night ana reaches mon''ce'io com
'or'ao'y 'ne "ex' '"o'"'"s
Il was for states tnmo,plfbkS tn,emople fbkS an an
sssspsArna,nmd fruyal ana a. thoughtful. wit
occupations and habus and tempto
i tions wholly unlike those of our peneI
alton. that our Fathers sought to es
tablish government. And it. in estat
fishing it, they apprehended evil
which never arose, and failed to pre-
} vide for those which do now exist, /
J was because the subslsting evils hav
, come in with growth, riches, an
consolidation wholly Unprecedented
} and mainly resulting from invention
, and methods of intercommunicatio
then unsupported. SO that the pres
ent wealth and Capitalization of th
country could not then have been fore
seen, nor provision made against th
: particular evils which attend them.
I. But now all this i changed. Fort
D millions of people occupy a vast cont
r nent from one ocean to the other, ric
0 In every form of wealth bound 1,
. rether BY great national water way
I by vast system of internal improv,
t ments and by all modern contrivance
+. for communication. Great cities, enol
y mous wealth gigantic Industries. va.
!, combinations, Of both capital and labo
+ have crown M. and the feeble an
l. struggling colonies of our Father
? davs have come to be ore of III
/. wcaltbiest and most adyarced an
; most powerful nations of the earth.
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