Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1901-03-07
The Heppner Gazette
TOPICS OF THg TIMES.


tendency to turn to the government for
every reform. II is through the state
that democracy naturally chooses to
lind expression. The old notion OF
federal government Of limited powers
belonged to the last century; it has no
place in this. il seems but yesterday
when Southern statesmen opposed gov
ernment appropriations for expositlOns
on the ground of their unconstitnt!on-
ality. A little later internal improve
ffientS By ius:ssfui ssE.-t..5; y.
cried down All that is past. NeW
Orleans, Charleston, ST. Louis, have
asked government aid for expositIOns,
as wei. as Chicago Omaha and Buffalo.
No one thinks OF raising the constitu-
tonal point against them now. The
subsidy bill is opposed as matter Of
policy, not aa unconstitutional, as IT
would have been a decade ago. Greatly
to the sorrow of the few strict c0nstruc-
tionists that are left, the modern
notion appears to he that anything can
pe done under the constitution. Sena-
tor Mallory Of Florida disclosed IN a
public speech that senators had SAID
10 him in conversation that the constI-
tuition was "practically dead letter. =
An extreme statement; the conetltu-
tion lives, but no one doubts that 1t II
more elastic than ii ever was before,
that the spirit OF the times is to adapt
constitutional Interpretation to events,
not 10 force events 10 cQniOrIn 10 the
constitution.
This faith ia and dependency upon
government, which has swept away
old ideals, inevitably leade to growth
o: paterna!ism but, fortunately the
pat.rnaIism OF our day and generation
s,*ss not the impossible. but the prac.
tiuatle fhe tendency IL mot toward
smashing the rich, but toward
masking gealth help tiit up the SUB
merged tenth - not To- ask the state 10
do everything, but 10 do some things
nsver before regarded as a part oi the
state's duty. Cle might predict that
tie people ~ this country VIII insist
shat wealth shall have full protection,
but that it shall bear greater part oi
the burden OF taxation; and that a
part, at ,east of the revenue thus
raised shall be uses IN diacharging an
other obligation of the state in giving
protection 90 its disabled or SUI
perannuated industrial workeFe. The
German parliament recently passed an
act ~ the utmost importance known ss
law ~ Great Britain similar agita-
ton has for some time been bnrnIng
issue. IL is due next in this country
There are liberal pensions Tor all
who serve the state IN army or navy.
But the serious business ~ nations la
these times j. induetrsalisn, not war.
Fighting men are well nigh obsolete 3
tn" system il mcliaeyal. Bat work
ingrnen are the backbone 81 every
nation; they are the army that naEt ~
modern nation grea: apd pu,ser'ul.
Why should not members pi the ~
dusirial arpty have old age pensions
tietmanv's answer * that tl"y snail .,
aP-l Nv the German plan, which AW-
ra-rador White has recently explained
in +. report tD his government every
wag,-earner who has completed his
siy.ernth wear s enrolled under a cnin-
pu lsory pension law which ensures
him against want in his old age. At ~
a curious fact that This idea came from
Bismarck. the most effective of ali the
. imperialists of the last century, eho
@ssSsared in the preamble of his piai.
age insurance that every man
Ia nsryetl the state iait's-1
,,nngho,,, ~aIfe and fallen victim
poverty in aiI m's"' .".i'
ipport from tbs "a ~" - "
tarity, bat az rixhs.
in his really noteworth, ." ~
,e ser,ate. Mr.. To~ne Of 3D.
i'd: - Scratch Russian ana
i'll fled Tartar often think -
III take the veneer of our modern ..
ivliAAtion Won will ind underneath It II
le cave man, violent vuracioue. A.
uel The country only smiled Al
hen Mr.. rowne applied this 90 thu
lthlessness OF American rule ~ th' ~
Philippines. We even tail 20 let ouE bi
ID isnation rise 20 very high lItrh ~
fer the outrages which civilized ~
ldic-s are committing IN Chiua, TO
here western armies are show ~
iemsplves tu be a. bad as the Boxers, At
here the Christian nations do mot NJ
'otit much IN contrast with Oriental ~
.gan= The veneer is rubbed OF and ! =
10 "Cave man - rampant in China ~
u we do not care much about n. ~
nj as for the Gave woman from f'
It Of the west, this apostle ot the M
original idea that when you du uot ~
ke a thing YOU should grab ny club ~
III smash it, she II only passing q
ke The American people. N short, I'm
'cl inc To be thrown of their balance An
new and most powerful cumhlra ~
pns OF wealth nv difficulties and An
grcttable occurrences in the Philip lo
ncs, hv the excrrsccnce Of civilized ~
vagery in China, by Mrs. Nation w
cturesuue performances in Kansas, By
by anything else. We have ssrlou- IA
lsiness in band, and We are attend To
L seriously H. 1t, without excite ~
ent, nervousness or forrbodiugs Va
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