Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-10-05

of France would be able to bar this
continent against the domination of
the people of the English-speaking
colonies. 1t was on Pennsylvania S
soil that the Declaration of Independ-
ence was signed and the constitutions
al convention held. 1t was in Penn
sylvania that Washington wintered
at Valley Forge. and by keeping his
army together during that winter de-
finitely turned the scales in our
favor In the contest for Independence.
II was again on Pennsylvania soil. at
Gettysburg, that the tide turned in
the civil war. In the composition of
her people, moreover, Pennsylvania
has epitomized the composition of our
Union; for here many Old World rae
es have mingled their blood to make
the new type, the American. Finally,
in all branches of the public service,
in peace and in war. the native or
adopted citizens of Pennsylvania have
attained the highest eminence.
do not, however, come here today to
speak only of the past, and still less
TO appeal merely to state pride. We
show that the past is with us a living
force only by the way i'm which we
handle ourselves in the present. and
each of us can best show his devotion
to his own state bv making evident
his paramount devotion to that union
which includes all the states. The
study of the great needs of the past
is Of chief avail in so far as it in
cites us to grapple resolutely and ef-
fectively with the problems of the
present. We are not now menaCed by
foreign war. Our Union is firmly es>
tablished. But each generation has
itC Gnnnial nd
we of this generation have to strug-
gle with evils springing from the
very material success of which we arc
so proud, from the very growth and
prosperity of which with Justice, we
boast. The extraordinary industrial
changes of the last half century have
produced totally new set of condi-
tions, under which new evils flourish
and for these new evils new remedies
must be devised
Some of these evils can be grappled
with by private effort only, for we
never can afford to forget that in the
last analysis the chief factor in per-
sonal success, and indeed in national
greatness, must be the sturdy self-re>
liant character of the individual citi-
zen. But many of these evils are of
such a nature that no private effort
can avail against them. These evils
therefore must no ora nnled with by
governmental action In some eases
This governmental action must bh ex-
ercised by the several states indiyid-
ually. In vet others II has become in
creasinglv evident that no efficient
state action Is nossihle and that we
need through executive action
through legislation and throuph iudi-
cial INTERPRETATION and construction
of law. to increase the mower of the
federal Government
If we fail thus to increase II we
show our impotence and leave our.
selves at the mercy of those ingenious
legal advisers of the holders of vast
corporate wealth. who. in the perfor.
nance of what they regard as their
duty. aand to serve the ends of their
clients invoke the law at one time foI
the confounding of their rivals. and al
another time strive for the nullifica.
tion of the law. in order that they
themselves may he left free to work
their unbridled will on these same ri.
walls or on those who labor for them
or on the general public. In the ex,
ercise of their profession and in The
service of their clients these astute
LAWYERS strive to nrevent the passa ee
of efficient laws and strive TO secure
judicial determination of those thai
mass which shall emasculate them
They do not invoke the constitution IN
order to compel the due observance Oi
law alike by rich and poor. by grea,
and small. on the contrary. they ar,
ceaselessly on the watch to cry oul
that the constitution is violated when,
ever anv effort Is made to invoke the
aid of the national government
whether for the efficient regulation OIL
railroads for the efficient SUPERVISION
of great corpOrations. or for efficiently
securing obedience to such a law as
the national eight-hour law and slmi.
lar so-caIled labor statutes"
The doctrine they preach would
make the constitution merely the
shield of inconvenience and the excuse
for governmental paralvsis; thev treat
II as a justification for refusing tC
attemnt the remedy of evil instead O,
MS the source of vital mower necessary
for the existence Of n mighty and ey.
er-growing nation.
Strong nationalist though I am and
firm tb0ugh NV belief is that there
must he n wide extension of the poweI
of the national government to dea
with Questions of This kind / freely
odnit that os reeards many mater,
of first-rate importance we must rely
nurelv unon the states for the better.
ment Of nresent conditions The sew,
erol states must do their duty or oul
citizenshin can never he quite on 2
nroner nlane Therefore I most hear,
tllv conprotulate the neople of the
state Of pennsvlvania on what its leg,
isiatuTe unon what its government
bae accomnIished during This presen
year II is q remarkable record OF
achievement
Throngh vour LEGISLATURE Won hay,
ohoiishad masses. yom have nlacet
the offcas Of tho secretary of TN,
commonwealth and the insuranc,
commiesioner unon an honorahle ant
honest hasje Of salary only nv aboI
iehing the foe system: Won have mass
Oh n Iaw comneIling tho officers anf