Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-05

merely for your state, but for all our
states. l do not recall any other state
legislature which, in a similar length Of
time, has to it's. credit such body of adj
mirable legislation. Let me-, however,
most earnestly urge that your legislature
s0aetns ONE s or Tef f%o a S Jaws one
have at heart above almost all others is
the matter of child labor. Everywhere
the great growth OF modern industrialism
has been accompanied by abuses In con-
nection with the employment OF labor
which have necessitated complete
change I'm the attitude of the state to-
ward labor
This is above all true in connection
with the employment of child labor. In
Pennsylvania you have made begin
ming, but only beginning. in proper leg
islstion and administration, on this sub
strengthened, and Il must be vigorously
enforced. The national government can
do but little in the matter of child labor,
will be permitted to be done by congress.
The great bulk Of the work, however,
and IL our state legislatures would act
drastically and yet as wisely on this
subject of child labor as pennsylvania
has acted within the present year as re.
CARDS the subjects have enumerated
above, the gain would be literally meal
culable: and one of the most vital needs
of modern American life would at last De
adequately met.
Justice James wilson's Example.
So much for the state. Now for the
nation: and here can not 90 better than
base my theory Of soyerngme rent =, d Ppnl
sylvania's greatest sons, Justice James
Wilson. wilson's career has been singu-
larly overlooked for many years but l
ing adequately appreciated; and l con-
graduate your state upon the fact that
Wilson's body Is to be taken away from
where il now rests and brought back to
life, IL should, in Pennsylvania soil. He
was a signer Of the Declaration OF lnde-
pendence. He was one OF the men who
saw that the revolution, In which he had
served as a soldier, would be utterly fruit
less unless H. was followed by a close and
permanent union OF the state; and in the
Constitutional convention, and in secur--
ing the adoption of the constitution ana
expounding what It meant, he rendered
services even greater than ne rendered as
a member of the Continental congress,
which declared our independence: for 1t
was the success of the makers and pre-
servers OF the Union which justified our
He believed in the people with the faith,
OF Abraham Lincoln, and coupled With his
faith in the people he had what most Of
the men 10 in his generation believed
in the people did not have; that is, tn, the
in the people amounted to nothing unless
the representatives of the people, assem-
were given full. and complete power to
work on behalf of the people He de-
veloped even before MARSHALL the doctrine
fciency, but to the existence of this ma
tion), that an inherent power rested in
the nation, outside OF the enumerated
powers conferred upon 1t by the consti-
tuition, in all cases where the object in
volved was beyond the power OF the sew
eral states and was a power ordinarily
exercised by sovereign nations.
In remarkable letter in which he ad-
vocated setting forth In early and clear
fashion the powers OF the national govern
ment he laid down the proposition that II
should be made clear that there were
neither vacancies nor interferences be-
tween. the limits OF state and national
jurisdiction, and that both jurisdictions
together composed only one uniform and
comprehensive system OF government and
laws; that is, whenever the state can not
act, because the need to be met is not one
OF merely a single locality then the ma
tional government representing all the
people, should have complete power 70 act.
II was I'm the spirit OF Wilson that Wash
inRton. and Washlngtons lieutenant,
Hamilton. acted; and IL was in the same
spirit that Marshall construed the law.
II Is only by acting In this spirit that
1.-The national judges, legislators. and ex-