The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-08-02

no.o.ohos, who made I'D the city council, and it
bod over occurred to the unsophisticated Mr..
Ell, +bo+ o corrunt man should be free from
rroseon+;on hecause of wealth or social position,
or the nrefx Hon. attached to his name. And
so the young Circuit Attorney continued his
'pernicious activity collecting evidence ana max
ing himself generally obnoxious to the or1oe-Cak-
ers and bribe-givers of old St. Louis. NO influence
could swerve him from what he thought TO De
the line of duty, no threats moved him. no prom
;ses allured. Corrupt Republicans and corrupt
Democrats shared alike. He went on WIN tne
prosecution, calmly but with terrible earnestness.
The corruptionists who laughed at first either lied
the State or turned States evidence in the hope
of tightening their sentences. SO the work mas
gone on, and Justice has been meted out to more
than one of the high and mighty. And never
should St. Louis forget it's heroic young Circuit
Attorney. He has shown both courage and pa
triotism in a degree that has been surpassed by
no warrior in the worlds history"
Mr.. Folks parents, it may be worth while to
say, were natives of BERTHE County, N. o., and
two of his brothers are graduates of Wake Forest
College. His election as Governor is assured,
and many Republicans are demanding that their
party nominate no one in opposition to him.
Alexander Hamilton Again.
In connection with our comment on the centen-
airy of the death of Alexander Hamilton last week,
we think it will interest the average reader to give
another paragraph as to the part played by the
famous fnancier in the making of this Govern
ment.
It is decidedly singular, when one comes to
think of it, that so much of the policy of our
| American republic has been shaped by a man who
frankly declared (June &c, 1787): II do not
think favorably of republican government" "The
best form of government" he said, "is the British"
and the British system then was infinitely
less democratic than now. Hamilton's great OBJ
ject was to build up a strong centralized govern
ment. Perhaps the best brief outline of his pol
icy is given in the biography written by one of his
admirers, Charles A. Conant Houghton, Miflin
& Co., Publishers), and recently reviewed in The
Progressive Farmer:
"Hamilton advanced a doctrine which was Gag
erly embraced by the party which was growing
up around him, but which was as resolutely OPP
posed by the other party. This was the doctrine
OF the implied powers granted to the new govern
ment by the Constitution. It is doubtful whether
the Constitution would have been ratified by Vir-
ginia and other States if this doctrine had been
set forth and defended in the State conventions
by the friends of the Constitution. This by no
means implies that the policy and doctrine of
Hamilton were not wise and far-sighted. Hamil-
ton had definite aims before him, and it was his
legitimate mission to educate public sentiment up
to the point of accepting those aims and of grant
ing him the means for carrying them out. The
doctrine of the implied powers rested upon the
theory that unless they we're directly prohibited
by the Constitution, all powers were granted to the
government by implication which we're found
necessary and proper for carrying out the powers
specifically granted. Jefferson came to believe, if
he did not believe at the outset, that the govern
ment was one of delegated powers and strictly
limited to those enumerated in the Constitution.
The doctrine of Hamilton, from this point of
view, was revolutionary. It meant the conversion