Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1879-01-30

10 which heve been elected, TO provo my.
self worthy OF your generous confidence,
Ny political opinions are 60 we'll known
and have been 30 often expressed that no
extended address VIII be necessary Ia dean-
ing my position on the questions now prom
inently before tho people, nor can there be
any uncertainty ~ TO my action in The future
upon any issues Involving The well-deaned
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they enter aow. as they hsYe always done,
Into every public question. When our fGthers,
declared their independence, and when they
afterwards framed the Constitution, their
leading idea was 10 avoid the centFG iisation
which characteriEeu the governments OF the
old world, from one Of which they had just
separated, after long and cruel war.
Every drop of patriotic blood shed Ia that
unequal strife, every skeleton bleached upon
It's bsttle-felds, every hou- Of cold and hun
ger and agony IN the lorg, dark winter at
Valley Forge. every prayer that went up
from the patriot mother for her sol
der SOD, every tesr upon the graves Of the
patriot dead, weee each and all protests
against Capitalization.
For ages the only j,ct of government
had bee6 to enable the few TO enjoy the la
Dor and property of the many, and even the
benign religion OF our Master had been somes
times the handmade Of Capitalization. Our
fathers, with s courage for which we can
never be sufficiently grateful, declared that
all Just government derived its power from
the consent of the governed, and that the
best government is that which coniers the
greatest good upon the greatest number.
Upon this basis they established the only
true and reel republic which beG ever exIst-
cd, and for this, 1, their descendant, standing
far West. and in the center OF that vast em-
pire, which has come from their mstchle,s
courage, avoueh thls, their great deed, and
magnify their sacred nameAir,
Ths adNSestsss of eeuttaliz alton hays as-
serted that when the trainers Of the ConstI-
tuition declared theie object to be the lorna.
ton of more perfect government; they i'm
tended 10 Abrldge the rights OF the States.
II is false. A more perfect government sim
ply meant one In which the rights of the
people would be more thoroughly protect
ed. and 10 that end the powers vested In
the different departments Of the government
more distinctly defined snd limited.
Un Ter the monarchial system from which
our fathers had escaped, Government was
something alien from and antagonistic 10
the people, en- aristocraey In the air, 10 be
worsbipped like star from afar of, but not
to be touched by vulgar hands. Upon this
infamous supersiition our fathers ,rsnpled,
as they marked the snow with their bleeding
feet, and in its stead they created the system
OF State Government, comlHg from and near
to the people, the system so clearly enunci.
declares that "the powers not delegated to
the United Sta es by the Constitution, nor
prohibited bv II TO the States, ore reserved TO
the S.ates respectively. or to the people,"
What could more clels'y estsblish the
great truth upon which the Democratic par
" IL based, tina, the Federal Government is
the agent OF the States setting under power
Of attorney IN the shape OF written ooDS
slituiiont Interviewer with every fibre Of
the party, this doctrine has given to It the
vitality which has outlIved so many Adveuae
ries, and surYiYed 90 many disasters.
Generalization means force, A. asauthentis
10 popular will. and must always be sssocl-
ated With monarchy and hereditary rank.
State Government upon tbs other hand.
next 10 that OF the family, will always be
dear to the American heart, The one Is OF
foreign, the other OF domestic growth, and
whilst a EreAtcentFalized GovsrameBt may
dazzle for time, like the sun, with It's garlsh
light at MONDAY, IL is at lasl In the States,
and by the unprseending but steady light Of
that lamp which Jefferson fixed ~ q beacon
for poslarity, that our liberties mus. be pre-
served.
Capitalization mesns force, bat Il does not
always come In the shape Of sianding armies,
or the mailed hand OF military despot.
Look around, and you will see In every por-
ton OF this vast country. with lie varied pro-
ducls, and almost uhlimltsd resources, the
blighting influence Of financial centralizA"
tlon.
Pitiess "A the ocean, upheedIng as the
storm, cold and remorssless as death, apan-
cIAl centraliz ,tion Is to-day crushing out the
life Of the country.
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