The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-23
S0UTH'S DOGMA A LIVE ISSUE President Alderman on States Rights. GIVES ANSWER TQs ROOT  Growth of Federal ower to Be
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 G.. People of south Hanaiins Race aas.- tiOn as Wisely as Posaibie In First Generation of Az
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 New York. Dec. s2.--The New Eng. land Society of New York lonirht cei. eDrated its t0lat anniversary with a Danquet The big, ball room of the Waloorf-A Astoria was decorated with nAgs and bunting. The toast Fore. tatners Day was responded to by Sisnop William Lawrence of Massachu. setts' SectionaEsm and Nationality was topic assigned to President Ed. win A. Alderman of the University oi Virginia. Commander Peary told oi The Farthest North"
 President Alderman said that he brought the greetings and good will oi the Old Dominion, and her daughter states to New England. He reviewed at length the clements which entered Into the makeup of the two peoples the Puritan in the North and the Cav. alier In the South. with the. Scotch Irish strain added. both becoming be- lievers in liberty, the Northern branch in individual liberty and the VIrginian in the liberty of local sell. governnen, and the right to regulate its own af- lairS These different viewpoints when ap' lied to the negro question brought ong the war. HFE
 Touching on, States rights, President Alderman said.
 ''The, doctrine of States rights as a necessity of popular government ie again engaging the thought of this Re. public because mlghtler forces than war are vitafizing this old issue un- der. new forms and those who under. stand 1t best and love 1t dearest and will light for 1t longest. are. thoae who live in the States where devotion to 1t once had the power to separate them from country they had fought to found. ThNre Is nothing stranger or more interesting in rolitical history than the recurrence of this best loved dogma of the South, unconnected with secession and unconfused with slavery as necessary tq Federal union and hu- man freedom,
 rIf. as MT. Root thinks. the strug- gse is on between the growing power ef the Federal GovernmeEt and the. ds creaslng power Of the states you oan nos count oH the Soiitherner as being on che sEde af maintaining the just nal- ance, for no American sees inors c1eaf; ,ly than he just what is the vital sroi % the liberty Of a state.
 '.I jiiitsrE Tot Mir Roots speech aa { prcphses ana q warming rather siiaa as a plea for centfalisation. The drift that way is niQ1lestfoned. VIII the States, let the drift continue?
 @''W hen race riot occurs there are out cries and loud voices and some sinking of the heart, for wise men know how hard it' Is to distinguish between the tAVN&A AAQ ClouDAAttC RldSNI OL 9ULn a problem as that which produces these outbreaks. n dare to say here tonight that the people of the South are hand ling the'problem of the Africans which has both narred and moulded the na- tional development for 800 years, as wisely as any people on earth could hope to do in the first generation of African freedom and in a lime of hu-. man foment and struggle in all lands. Faithful men are at work and will continue at work to lthe end that the quality and breed Of our race shall not he allowed to deteriorate and the .qusl- ity of justice be, allowed to become cheapened, Upon the South rests the burden of the African and the problem of the integrity of the race. as 4upon New England and her breed rests the. burden of assimilating the dlscontented and aspiring of all lana ~
 Will the age-loh tagonism be- tween New England and. the South ever end? They are people of long memories. of stiff necks and perhaps will never lie down in lion and lamb- like fashion. nor is that necessary and desirable for, the stability of the repub- lic or the grandeur ofideas. Fate once drove them to war for their Ideals of Americanism. As the struggle for Iib- eTty takes on new phases. fate may bring them to understanding and sym pathy."