The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-17
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 recently expressed the opinion in an interview that sthe country Is on the verge of breakup of the old party ailgnments and that in Ave years there will be two great parties, one pater- naistic, composed of men who. hav- ing lost all confidence in the capacity of the people to do anything for them selves. would intrust everything to the Government. The other party will be composed Of men who stiiI believe in the initiative of the individual and in the principles enunciated by Thomas Jefrerson."
 While the opinions and predictions of even eminent statesmen are not in all leases strictly correct. there is much Ito fortify the position of Mr Williams. The trend towards centralization of government began with the war be- tween the States. It was held then by one side that the general government was superior to the States and could hold them in the Union. While the result of the conflict did not settle any principle the success of the North huucu SttSueFAn lo bHS CldfmS OA tuOSs who looked on the Union as indisso- luele and the Federal Government as supreme.
 Since the close of that great con- fiict the Government party and senti- ment has been growing until now 1t may be simpiified and described as s'the Republican Party" but in no period of our existence as a nation has that bale~ full doctrine grown as it has during the liis Of the present administration under Roosevelt. sI am the Nation.' IS what he says by his words ana deeds. He not only seeks to dominate Cabinet and Congress. but would pack the su- preme Court in order that 1t may not render opinions sustaining the doctrine of States rights. Under him. if he is not held in check. the United States will become aii autocraey and the States mere dependencies. It is portentous sign of the times that the Roosevelt party bids fair to absorb the Repub- iican Party, In fact as well as in the- ory.
 The only hope for the country and for 8 Government of the people lies in tho Democratic Party. and t, un4 fortunately, Is torn and. riyen by local sectional and academic riyalriss and dIf- ferences so that it falls to exercise the power that belongs to if. There are yet millions of good citizens who believe in the doctrines of Jefrerson and who are opposed to standardization and to the rape of the Government by President or an administration. If they could be united and banded to- gether 50 as to work in harmony. look ing to the good Of the whole country. insteadgof a section or an interest, the march of strong central government might be stayed, and the country bel brought back to the safe and sound principles of the earlier and better days of the Republic. There may somewhere be a man who can gather up and weld together the discordant elements of Democracy into one ire sistible whole. but where is heg AsI matters now stand 1Fr. wiiliams seems to be on safe ground. One of our Northern contempoFaries--Re Republican at tnat--dec4ares that "a large share of the people have been taught that they must look to the Government for their prosperity; and if they have come to believe that the Government can do everything for them, we do not see that the phenomenon can be justly considered as a wonder. The trouble with this view Is that it almost al- ways falls to see the Government as 8 manifestation of the people, but re- sards 1t as something above and be- yond the peoples supernatural source from which all manner of miraculous blessings flow. But. in any aspect. this dependence on "the Government" | if 1t Is carried far, win inevitably re- suit in individual weakness of char acter. and will bring a Government which will be tyrannical or anarchical"
 This is not by any means an extreme view of the case. All over the land are men who are learning to look to Washington and Congress and the ad- ministration as the fountain head of all power and the souFce from which all earthly blessings may be derived. That this belief. if carried out. will sap the foundations of our system of Government and lead the people to look on themselves as only dependents on the nation seems beyond doubt. Will it end in monarchy. or will there be an awakening Of forces which will re- l store good government7