The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-04
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Everywhere the great growth Of mod
ern industrisllsm has been accom-
piished by abuses in connection with
the employment Of labor which have
necessitated complete change in the
attitude Of the State toward labor.
AZ to Child Labor.
This is above all true in connection
with the employment Of child labor.
In Pennsylvania you have made a
beginning, but only beginning, In
proper Legislation and administration
on this subject; the law must If nee
essary be strengthened, and 1t must
be vigorously enforced The National
Government can do but little in the
hope that that little will be permitted
hope that hat little willshe permitted
to be done by Congress. The great
bulk Of the work, however, must be
left TO the State legislatures; and II
our State legislatures would act as
drastIcally and yet as wisely on this
subject Of child labor as Pennsylvan-
1. has acted within the present year
as regards the subjects have emu
merated above, the gain would be lit
orally incalculable; and one OF the
most vital needs Of modern American
life would at last be adequately met
The Nation at Large,
So much for the State. Now for the
Nation: aud here can not do better
than base my theory Of governmental
action upon the words and deeds OF
one of Pennsylvania greatest sons
Justice James Wilson. Wilson's ca
reer has been sirgularly overlooked
for many years, but ! believe that
more and more It is now being ade'
nuately appreciated; and congratu'
late YOUR state upon the fact tnal
Wilson'S body is to be taken away
from where It now rests and brought
hack to lie, as It should, In PennsyI
vania soil. EIe was sIGAer OF the
Declaration of Independence. He was
one of the men who saw that the Rev
oIution, in which he had served as
soldier. would be utterly fruitless I'M
less it was followed by a close ant
permanent union of the States; ant
in the Constitutional Convention, ant
! IN securing the adoption OF the Con
stitutlon and expoundlng what i
meant he rendered services ever
/ greater than he rendered as a mem
! her Of the Continental Congress,whicf
declared our independence; for 1t wal
/ the success of the makers and pre-
e servers Of the Union which justified
!. our Independence.
v He believed in the people with tn
q faith Of Abraham Lincoln; and coll
!. pied with his faith in the people h
+ had what most of the men who IN HI
a generation believed in the people dit
not have: that is, the courage to rec
n ognize the fact that faith in the pee
g pIe amounted to nothing unless tn
o representatives of the people Assem-
h bled together in the National Govern
i ment were given full and complet
/. power to work on behalf Of the people
v He developed even before Marshal
II the doctrine absolutely essential nc
II merely to the efficiency but to the e'
t. istence Of this nationl that an inheren
n mower rested in the nation, outside
!. the enumerated powers conferred III
II on 1t by the Constitution, in all case
e, where the object involved was beyon
C. the power Of the several States an
r. was power ordinarily exercised b
e. sovereign nations.
In a remarkable letter in which h
advocated setting forth in early an
!, clear fashion the powers of the NJ
q tjonal Government, he laid down til
n. proposition that 1t should be mad
n. clear that there were neither vacaI
.. cies nor interferences between tn
10 limits of State and national jurislt
II. tons together composed only one III
If form and comprehensive system
~ government and laws; that Is, whe
>. ever the States can not act, becaus
"a the need TO be met is not one
n. merely single locality, then the N
70 tional Government, representing a
y. the people, should have complete poN
Nv err to act. 1t was in The spirit
nj Wilson that Washington, and Was
m ington's lieutenant, Hamilton, actet
~ and It was in the same spirit thI
NJ Marshall construed the law.
Of Spirit of Marshall.
r. 1t is only by acting in this spir
IT. that the national judges, legislator
In and executives can give satisfaction
~ solution of the great question Of Il
W present day-the question Of provi
ee ing on behalf Of the sovereign peop
H. the means which will enable the pc
g. pie in effective form to assert the
ce sovereignty over the immense corpC
d, ations of the day. Certain judicial d
n cislons have done just what Wtlst