Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-01-15
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Muscafina .InurnalIl


The journal has already remarked
tsat the Sioux City Journal did wisely
in certain sense, when it went into
hole and took the hole in with it In
its controversy with the AIuscatine
Journal as to the supremacy of the state
in the exercise Of what in legal parlance
is called Its police power. This power
~ should be remembered has applica
ton to all that relates to the health and
r,orals of citizens of the commonwealth.
The police power of the state under our
form of government is similar to the
power Which Blackstone said was pos
S, ssed by the British parliament, it had
10 limitations. But in these later days.
II an almost worshipful interest for a
form of home rule called local self
government, we have as "a people LOST
s. ght in a measure of this important fact
regarding the police power of the state.
"a popular term once taking hold of the
public mind is often made to do duty for
rnany things never contemplated in its
original use. Since Gladstone gave his
mighty genius to the advocacy of home
rule for Ireland" and made that idea
widely popular on both sides of the sea,
The cry is eagerly caught UP by every
work of darkness that declares only ito
be let alone.
In the olden time 1t was the doctrine
Of states rights The American love
cf liberty and championship of the ops
Pressed We're to cease and determine
when they touched the imaginary line
that bordered "a sovereign state The
event. showed that such limitation was
Impossible. Whether it wiiled it or not.
lie country was one, and the welfare.
Righteousness, good order and Freedom
% every part were the concern OF all. as
cur forefathers had dscerned with their
far-seeing wisdom when they made it a
provision of the constitution that ..the
congress shall guarantee to every state
republican form of government"
Now we have a new variety of home
rule demand-that each municipality
and even each precinct shall have the
laws submitted to its approval, either IN
making or in enforcement. If laws en-
acted for the general good of state do
net suit the majority of great city.
some local option must be granted to
tthat oity to change the laws so far as 1t
IS concerned. IL laws generally suitable
10 city do not suit some Slavic, Polish
or other quarter. or some Five Points
district. the locnl police must pass upon
those laws, assume legislative functions,
and give liberal enforcement, which
shall be virtual repeal of those laws
SO far as that district is concerned.
This claim is destructive of all coke
SION and nationality. If 1t could be made
rule 1t would reduce our nation to the
condition of Germany before the time of
BISMARCK yVhfan m, t,,,,,,
could hold all the little principalities.
f'uchies and petty governments Of every
descriptions from swirling in a sea of
inconclusive inefficiency, and any enc
my could tap some weak point of lit
Tie local administration going 1t alone,
and leaving Its private door open to let
mischief in upon the empire. The man
of blood and iron" wiped out the whole
miserable system. and made nation.
The demand for this so-called home
rule" is simply the states rights here
sy' divided and sub-divided and pro-
posed to be served up as mince meat Tor
tic diet of the twentieth century. Never
vas such demand so preposterous as
now when INSTRUMENTATION is so fast
making the whole world one place and
expansion and unification are the order
of the day. The motto Of our great ma
ton. adopted in its formative period, az
P.uribus Unum." is appropriate. 1t is
u patriotic sermon in a phrase. MANY
III ONE. or out OF many one. with en-
rbasis on the one. So let 1t be!
The business of the Denton Shoe
Company of Columbus, O., has been
placed in the hands OF q receiver ON 4
petition alleging sin1olvencv