Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-19
TRUMBULL TALKS.
The IroquOis Club at Chicago Edit Il by
His Notwithstanding Speech on Lo-

The IroquOis Club at Chicago Edit Il by
His Remar ks-Interestlug Speech on Lo-
cal Self-GOverpment.
CHICAGO, March 16.-The speech Of Hon Lyman
Trumbul,. delivered at the Iroquois club banquet
st about O'Clock this morning, too late for tele
graphing. was one of the notable speeches of the
occasion. Mr.. TrumbuA's toast was: "LOcA Self
Government He started out with the proposition
the world is growing too much,'' but that people
have lost sight of that fact. He continued, the ten
deucy to centralze action in own country
within the last twenty years has been alarming
This tendency had its origin in the of the rebel
lion, when to retain The Uuion it became necessary
for the federal government to put forth all its pow
and exercise SO re cues tionable constitutional
itS 1t is an old saying that in the midst OF armies
laws are silent. While am not willing to admit
that even in the midst Of civil the constitution
is silent (appause) it must be confessed that where
1sgrant war RACES. Many of its provisions for the
protection of individual liberty lie dormant, but
when peace returns libe1ty-oving people will zee
to it that they revived in all their their vigor.
(Applause.)
IL their eagerness after wealth and ease, been In
different to the encroachme ts Of the federal govern
ment upon the reserved rights of the people and
states, that it has been permitted to powers
never contemplated by the trainers of the govern
ment, and which had already we'll nigh broken down.
That division of powers vouchsafed in the constitu-
uOQ Ii tu0 6dI6Budru Oh uOd1tys OQ6 mas DUL TO
look at the proceedings of congress, the president
aud federal judiciary to see that together they
claiming to exercise almost imperial pow Vast
amounts Of money are collected and souandered up
on local improvements in the erection Of public
buildings and otherwise. The places for holding
courts are increased and judges and other
officials multiplied. The present congress
bids fair from present II dcations to be the most
extravagant ever assembled. Already bills are IN
troduced to appropriate annually sore S6p,OO0 600
for educational purposes, larger sum than was
expended by the federal government for all pur-
loses twenty Ave years sgo.
He then referred to the enormous amounts pro-
posed for other schemes and went on: The execu-
tive is using the army to perform police duty in
states. This will soon lead to its increase and it
cannot be long under such system before the lib
erty of American citizens, Ike that of citizens n
most countries Of tho Old World. will be at the
mercy Of hireling soldiery. We see the fed eral
courts everything state tribunals and dragging cih-
Of the state from their homes to litigate
questions between themselves into federal courts,
slightest interest in the controversy These are
from assumptions Of power by the federal
government in its march to impe-
rialsm, but it is not an act
Laws are passed by congress confessedly for the
benefit Of class of people and that not the most
numerous, at the expense of the many his is done
under pretence Of protecting American industry.
After btef reference to the protective tendencies
of the times and the unlimited creation of monopo-
les he concluded as follows: What is TO be done 10
view Of the alarming tendency to Capitalization and
encrOacnment upon INDIVIDUAL UOerty 70 WHICH
have alluded? Shall We despair of the republic? By
no means. Ths power Of the federal government,
through its control Of the money power. its collec-
ton and disbursement annually Of 30O,O00.O00 OF
$500 CO0 and its vast patronage is very great and
10 the hands of INSCRIPTIONS party which, had it
the support, one-third Of the people, would per-
haps be Irresistible except by resolution, but not
ouethird onetenth of the people of this country.
when aroused to the assertion of
their rights, will consent too surrender
them to the control of central despotism controlled
by the money. powers. The people believe in their
capacity for selfgovernment, in their ability to pro-
vide for education, cultivation of the soil, their
domestic peace and local affairs, without super
vision of control which imposes burdens for its
own aggrandsement, and by unjust and unequal
laws compels the many to pay tribute to the few.
We have only to sound the alarm and let the cry 60
forth that local lf-government is in DANGER that
the vast moneyed monopoGes are creating unjust
tribute; Applause and cries Of sgood'l that corpo
ratons created for purely private purposes are de-
stroying individual liberty, and like fire bells at
night it will awaken the people to their danger, will
arouse them to vipdication Of their rights, and to
the re-estabshment of political structure the
foundation where fathers placed it, securing to
the citizen individual liberty to the state manage
ment of its domestic affairs, and to national powers
necessity to persevere in the union and protect
people from foreign aggression.