Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-07-09

to all America and to all
europe that for the first time in the
history of mankind people had as
sumed the benefits and responsibility !
Of popular government according to a |
written constitution, enumerating as a
power of attorney the rights which the
people conferred on their officers and
likewise those which they retained and
would not yield.
In every one of our homes some few
of the day should be devoted
to discussion of theiself-denial which
the establishment of the nation cost in
the war of the revolution, which the
enforcement of it's international recog-
milton cost in the war of 1872, the
frightful cost of its preservation as be-
tween. the states in the war of the re-
bellion (for it was to preserve the ma
ton and not to abolish slavery our
fathers there Fought; how it's humane
spirit led to the Spanish war waged by
this generation.
Section of Article l Of the Consti-
ton should be read in order to clearly
understand that we then for all ages
conferred on congress, and deprived
state legislatures. of the power to pro-
vide for the common defense and gen.
eral warfare, to regulate foreign and
interstate commerce, to coin money
and regulate its value, to fix standards
of weights and measures, to establish
postoffices and post-roads, to control
patents and copyrights to declare war,
and raise and support armies, provide
and maintain navy and to call forth
the state militias to execute the laws
of the nation suppress instructions
and repel invasions; to levy taxes and
duties and borrow money to furnish
| the means for these purposes.
Thus we realize that, unlike the
French revolution, ours was waged to
secure the establishment of CONNER
4 cial and industrial liberty rather than
Ito secure the rights of man. Oul
grievance against the mother country
and King George III. was petty com
pared with the indignities and oppres
sions under which the French common
; people were laboring at that time.
The gravest duties devolving upor
; the federal convention were those rel
ative to adjusting the conflicting inter
Iests of the colonies. To the fact tina
the many distinguished member
thereof successfully met those diff
culties is due our present nationa
= commercial supremacy, now threaten
ening the markets of the world at tn
expense of the trade of England
. France and Germany. 1t is to tina
fact that the produce of Wapello cour
: Ity can go to the sea or Europe I'LL
'gtrammeled by indicative legislatio
on the part of adjoining states; ths
citizen of the United States residin
in Ottumwa can go without restrain
on the part Oh lOUllSu lSSlSldIoIS I
nations into any neighboring cit.
state or country; that Investment
. cannot be impaired by adverse laws
that freight comes to us from Ne
L York and San Francisco subject to tt
control of one government only an
:. not to that of many as is the case wit
- the South African republics; that ur
= form postal rates prevail througho1
= a broad domain; that the days
: wildcat" currency are past.
y And SO we say to the laborer, Il
= producer, the manufacturer, the ca
= rier the merchant and the banker tn
: above the establishment of individu
political liberty Independence d.
;. marks the birth of your industrial al
" commercial liberty; it is for that t
federal government has stood for l
years and that spirit, supported alo
by the opinion of the people.