Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-27

England States in the Hartford convention
of 1912. 1t was reasserted by the South,
tho extremists there having the majority, in
1861, and its reassertion led to war. The
question was submitted to
the sword, and the sword
decided it. What then did
the war decide? 1t decided that the Union
is perpetual, that nu State has the right to
secede, that remedies for all wrongs are in
side OF the Union and not out of it, and that
the rights of the States are prescribed and
protected by the constitution. The question
of secession was thus disposed of forever,
and the decision accepted. Is this not true!
The honest and candid and intelligent of all
parties can not deny it.
But what comes of the other question? What
becomes of that other danger apprehended
and dreaded by the architects of the govern
ment. What was that other danger? 1t
was too much power in the national govern
ment. 1t was Capitalization. Has that ques-
ton been decided? Has that danger been
removed? The answer is NO. 1t is more
threatening to day than ever before in the
history of the country.
More than in 1876, prior to the adoption
of the constitution, when the whole country
was convulsed by this discussion. Kings were
made for the people and not
the people for kings. The republic OF
Venice was cited as an elective despotism
The liberties of Greece disappeared when
the king of Macedon took his seat in the
Amphyctionic council This tendency to
Capitalization was the dreaded danger when
the constitution was adopted. Has it been
| removed? Has any limit been fixed to cen
tralized and despotic power? When and
where and how?
The Republican party has made mos
rapid strides from secession to the greatel
and more serious danger of monarchy, mill
tary rule, irresponsible centralized
power, uncomfortable and destructive of al
local restraints. It nearly succeeded in tn
attempt to make the Presidency a life office
1t ignores and repudiates all the rights o
the States. 1t has built up the creates
monopolies of all time more despotic, NOR
fatal, more oppressive than the famous Eas
India company in England. 1t has seize'
the lines of intelligence and made the tele
graph political instrument to retain. power
It has given away all the public lands, ant
united the money and the sword in tn
same family. The money market o
the country is at the mercy of the Presiden
through his secretary of the treasury. H
is commander-in- chief of the army, and ha
public funds at his disposal. Look at tn
immense and powerful corporations wit
countless millions of resources, at the colos
sal fortunes heaped up in day, privat
mansions excelling in splendor and sumI
tuousness the famed palaces of Europe, in
comes surprising those of royalty. Look g
the class distinctions growing up everywhere
Women running to Europe to marry title
snobs, and men rolling in princel
wealth at home. Look at propert
centering in the hands of few, and the ric
growing richer, and the poor poorer.
there no danger from Capitalization? Ar
swer, ye founders of party whose shibolet
was, lands for the landless and homes fo
the homeless; answer, Lincoln and Chase
and Sumner, and Wilson, and all ye adve
Gates Of Republican simplicity who hav
gone before. The phantom of State so,
ereignty disappears in the presence of TIL
mighty danger, and all the best element
and most patriotic forces of our country al
needed to arrest its further progress.