River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-01-20
RIVER FALLS WISCONSIN. THURSDAY.

ton laws, or any state legislation by
which the rights of citizenship hith-
erto accorded to emigrants from for
eign lands shall be abridged or i'm.
! paired.
The politician in this convention on
| platform, intended to have something
| to satisfy both cXtremes-the state
rights Democrat aud the centraliza-
| ton MOnocrats- and have them both
swallow il under the previous ques-
ton without debate. Wilmot would
not do it. lie offered an amendment
to the fourteenth plank Ivy taking out
the words, ''Or any state legislation, =
and in speaking on the amendment, he
says:
NOW my amendment was to strike
out, "0r any state legislation. My
idea was this. and you may Judge
whether was correct or not. that it
conhicted with the fourth resolution
which declares that the maintaining
of the rights Of the states, especially
of each state to order and control its
own domestic institutions according to
its own Judgment, exclusively, IS
essential to that blance of power, &c.
This is a broad declaration OF states
rights. just declaration of states
rights, and under that any state in this
every state in this union, has per-
feet powed to prescribe qualification
Of voters.
The record shows that Mr.. Schurz
made speech in favor of overriding
the state governments. Another
foreign born delegate, Mr.. Hassureck,
of Ohio. more democratic, used the
following language on the subject:
''If it is Amerlcanism, gentlemen. to
believe that governments are institu-
ted for the benefit of the privileged
few, if it is Americanism to believe
that this glorious federation of sOver-
eign states has a higher object and a
nobler purpose than to be the mere
means of perpetuating, protecting, and
propogating the institution OF human
SerVitude.
Mr.. Editors, how many of the miss
called Republicans of to-day make use
of such expressions as this: ''Glor-
ions federation of sovereign stateS!'
This expression was highly cheered in
that convention. To-day if a man
should make use of any such language
as state being sovereign the stall
warts would boot him out OF the
party. But what looks most singular
to men of middle and old age is that
these boy machine editors of to-day
should be 50 ignorant of their own
state platforms not TO know That the
r -publican party came into power in
this state on platform that had the
Kentucky states rights resolution III 1t,
and beat the Democrats with wash
burn in this congressional district. 1t
NAV look strange to many that men
can change in this way, but if they
had learned what may be called politi-
cal human nature they would have
known that mon under the control of
the monarchial principle, or passion,
always re5oct TO the same place to get
power and keep the same. When out
of power he is hypocrite, very hum
Bile, almost spelling TO do some lgnOr-
ant one some good; but when in power
he becomes bloody tyrant, and will
30 at once to work to destroy what he
used to get power with. Look at our
past history under the older Adams.
Look at the laws they made to keep
them in power. They did not go to
the extent they go to-day, yet the kind
of men who are in favor OF making
snd using such laws were put out of
power and kept out until the present
stalwart reign which would not be
dangerous but for its alliance with
the manarchial monied system in use
to-day.