The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-12-13
SECRETARY OF STATE URGES AN
INCREASE IN GOVERN.
MENTAL CONTROL.
CONSTITUTION LACKING
He lntimates, in Many Respects, Due
to Change in Conditions-Sees
Ultimate End Of Individual
State Rights.

New York, Dec, 12.-Secretary 0
State Root was the guest of homo
at the annual dinner Of the Pennsyl
vania Society of New York this even
ing. More than 700 members of the
society were present. Root respond
ed to the toaat THE United States"
Root said in part:
The condition under which clauses
Of constitution distributing powers to
national and state government are
now and henceforth to be applied are
widely different from the conditions
which were or have been within con
temptation of the trainers of the con-
stitution and widely different from
those which obtained during the early
days Of tho republic
Few men of 1887 would have deem
ed it possible that the Union they
were forming could be maintained
among 85.000000 people spread over
The vast expanse from the Atlantic to
tho Pacific and from the lakes to the
gulf. Three principal causes have
made this possible; first, the growth of
national sentiment which was at first
almost imperceptible but the early
struggles Of the nation and which was
kept constantly before the minds of
the people were made enduring by
sacrifices OF the civil war.
Common Bonds of Interest.
Second, free trade among states, TO
which we owe our internal trade
which already exceeds the entire for.
eign trade of the rest of the world |
To it we owe in a high degree the |
constant drawing together of all parts |
OF our country in bonds of common In
terest.
1hfrd, the marvellous development
OF facilities for travel and communi-
cation which have broken down the
barriers between communities and led
10 reorganization of business ANA So
cial life along lines which for the most
part altogether ignore the boundaries
Ct states.
Such changes in the life of the peo-
pie cannot fail to produce correspond
Ingly different political conditions.
Some of these changes can be plainly
seen now in progress.
II is pla My TO be seen that people
II he country are coming to a conchl-
sion that in certain important respects
ocal laws of separate states which I
we're made for due and just regulation
md control of business, which was
and activity which began
md ended within the limits of the sew /
raj states, are Inadequate for due and h
ust control Of business and activit es v
which extend throughout all states. @
nd mere power of regulation and Il
cotrol is gradually passing into the g
ands of the national government S
Laws Unite All the People. h
He cited as instances the federal r,
nti-trnst law. antirebate law. railroad o
ats law, meat inspection law, oleo- a
Margarine law and pure food law. pro- ST
css that interweavcs the life and &c.
on of people in every section of our
'untry, with The people in every see
on. he said. continue and will con
nuc with increasing force and cffec. +.
We are urging forward in The de- d,
alopment of business and social life a,
hich tends Clore and more To obliter- al
g the state lines and to decrease of
ate power as compared with national pr
,wer: relations of business over ps
hich the federal government is as ia
ming control of interstate trans
'rtation with state Transportation. Of
terstate commerce with state com
ercc. are so intimate that the sep
alton of the two is so impracticable.
at the tendency Is plainly towards
sctioal control of national govern oN
nnt over both
New projects of national control arc
ing mooted; the control Of insur-
&c, uniform divorce laws: child la
r laws and many others. affecting -.
alters, formerly entirely within the u
of the state are proposed.
submit to your Judgment and 7 ~
sire TO press upon you with all earn vi
mess | possess. that there is but W
G way in which .tates Of the union ''
n maintain their power and author
under conditions now before us -"
d that way is by an awakening cn III
, part of states TO the real question '"'
their cw1 duties to the country a. ~
ge. Under conditions which now III
st, not a state can life unto Itself "o
ne and regulate its affairs with lhg
q rafsrepce T., &c 80 - low
own convenience, its own special
ereets "
Sees End Of States Rights. cor
iyery state is bound to frame its siOl
islatiCl and its admins ration with 1gi
fan