The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-06-08
THE RIGHTS OF THE STATES.

! There is considerable discussion Just no
erbl government, and the discussion In.
wolves an inquiry into the nature and origin
Of the government OF the United States.
| II Is thought by some that the idea OF State
rights was settled by the civil war. and
that in the defeat OF the seoessionists II
would disappear altogether; but history
travels In circle, and the American peo-
pie today are confronted with the same old
problem that Will ever remain as long as
ration IL divided into two classes. the
the extremely poor who lean to democracy.
Governor Daniel l.. Russell of North
Carolina. in the closing paragraph OF a
contribution to the current Arena says:
The trainers OF the constitution created a
mas rlHcrnt structure OF government Great
powers were delegated by the States u tho
general government. Tho genius Of the great
CHIEF justice. Joan MARSHALL. construed ex-
pln'ned and ampined these delegations Of
power so Us to make them lrtellgble and use
ful and adapted to the growth Of the great re-
ruhliv But the reserved rights Of the states
none knew better than he. and none were
more sincere In preserving and protecting
them. Were he living today he would stand
dgiast and Indignant AT the judicial usurpa-
ton which Is revolution2ing the republic from
n uuion Of free Statos into an Imperial mon
eyed oilgarchy, run by financial mau- cafers Of
New York and London. sustained by the idle
rich Whc stand Ia with their class, and sup
ported by their grand army OF hirellugs
throughout tho land"
The condition that Mr. Russell deplores
is n natural result OF the imperial tendency
that always springs from an undue pos
session OF power by few The Idea OF The
founders OF the government WAS To dis
tribute Its powers as widely az PRACTICABLE
prcfcrring the evils OF too much democracy
10 those Of too much Capitalization. Tn,
worst thing TO be apprehended from pop
ulhr violence IL 8 reign Of terror" which
Is always brief and little destructive OF
property and life, in comparison With a
deopotic system that Is continued through
centuries and tn the almost irretrievable
rain of nations. nhe French revolution
cost 10000 lives. and It IL always cited as
the most frlgttful spectacle Of anarchy
rampant while such muSsacres OF the PEG
plr as that OF st. Bartholomew. al a time
when the government was secure. mai {
kobtspl,rre and his confrores hide their
le'Y bloody hands In shame
The great strike of 1894. by which nearly
every branch OF industry In this county
was brought to standstill end millioa.
OF dollars were lost to the people not -or.
getting the suffering Of those who depeEl-
ed upon daily employment for their bread
MAS not in the long run effective of s;
much evil rs the seudrg OF Federal troor.
into the State OF illirols to restore th,
peace, Revolutions, unlike the decisions %
courts and the acts OF officials. do not he.
com" precedents. II is impossible that ,
man should be as eager to be killed ns n,
is tc 81 rich, and while Mir. McKlnle,
would the more quickly send trcors into ,
| STATE TO suppress any disorder In view O
the precedent OF Mr. Cleveland, the mex
great labor aeitator viii be as slow TO ar.
ray the government against himself as 4
Mr. Debs had never existed,
| The preservation OF the integrity OF eacl
of the States, therefore Is in accordonc,
with the principles OF correct reasoning an,
EeCd democracy They must hold bal
ance of power against imperial tendencies
and II we must choose between the evil.
OF either extreme of Two conflicting mol.
icies, II proper regard for the preservation
of free Institutions viii incline us toward
those OF state rights rather than OF cen.
trallzation.