Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-03-21

in South America. Suppose, when
China and South America's day of
disenc hantment and disenthrsllment
comes, as come it will, and there we're
no Pacific railroads, does anybody
suppose that the situation we have
sketched would not make this coast
feel at least independent and iudiffer-
ent to the paternal supremacy and
shelter of the American Union?
1t seems to US that under these cir.
cumstances sectionalism would grow
very fast on this coast into . feeling
of indifference to dissolution with
, the Union. Sectionalism, therefore,
is not dead in the United States, it is
only held in restraint and allegiance by
the cohesive, compressive power of
present interstate commercial ties and
interests. If those commercial ties
and interests should ever undergo
any radical revolution among the var
ious sections Of the Union sectional.
ism would soon be found to be an ex-
ceedingiy lively corpse. Nor does
Mr.. Depew seem to be entirely right
when he says:
1--WE need to lie educated in the
direction of State rights. The i'm.
mensity Of our nationality and its
centralizing tendencies create q feel
ing of dependence upon government
which enfeebles the American char
acter and is hostile to American lib.
erty."
The truth is that our present drift
toward Capitalization is due to the
fact that people of the States find
home rule inadequate to protect them.
The people see that with the tyranny
of monopolies, and of those incor-
porated robbers Of the people, the
5 so-called "trusts," they can not ef.
| fectively deal except by the applica.
ton of federal interference. The
. passage Of the Interstate commerce
law grew out of this sense of the
y powerlessness of State home rule te
4 protect the people, and the DRIFT tt
:. Capitalization is natural, just and de-
sirable. Home rule that does no
rule is not worth mounting about a
: an abstraction, and the people in ou
s Judgment have no other resource lief
S against the most dangerous corporate
public eniimees Of the time than t.
lean on the federal arm and ask TO
u increased support. The great CO,
r pora,ions and plutocracies of the Ian
Is have driven the people to WELDON
e this present drift to cen.ralizatio
4 which Mr.. Depew Iaments. Indeed
NJ. Depew confesses the mockery {
II home rule and the necessity for Gel
n tralized power when he says:
l. at is the duty Of the general 60
,e eminent, in all elections for Congrc
- and President, to protect at eve
" cost the voter and the ballot box.
s. is the duty OF every State to reduce
On a minimum the opportunities for fra
es upon the citizen or the improper j
m fuence of his choice"
of The South to day defends its GU
" rage of the ballot box, and def
= Congressional interference by sayir
=. that sail we want is to be let alon
=, to have home rule" As a matter
~ fact, there seems no remedy again
- this abuse of home rule at the Sout
l ae save in Capitalization, and yet N
~ Depew in one breath cries for hon
~ rule and in the next says that 4
" federal government must protect t
~ voter, abused under home rule in I
-, States, which it cannot do unless Il
-. government is clothed with new ga
~ ments of centralized powers for int
! ference.