Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-24
HARLAN OPTIMISTIC,
Supreme Court Justice Declares
 the Country Is Safe.
THE GUEST OF KENTUCKIANS
uphoIds Both National and State Rights and Says American People Are More Determined Than Ever Be- fore to Maintain This Dual System.

fore to Maintain This Dual System. New York, Dec. 24-Justice Harlan of the United States supreme court was the chief guest of the Kentucki- ans in New York at the Hotel Plaza. Nearly POO persons were present
 Before the speechmaking President Carlisle read letters of regret for in ability to be present from President Roosevelt. Vice President Fairbanks and Speaker Joseph Cannon. The presidents letter was as follows:
 All that l can do is to extend through you my heartest good wishes to the diners and the assurance of my very sincere and earnest good will to that fine old American patriot, that admirable public servant. Justice liar Ian, who in the army and on the bench, in public life and private life, has stood for what is highest in Amer tcan citizenship"
 Justice Harlan said in part:
 "There are some who think they see dark clouds upon the horizon of our future and express grave apprehension as to the stability of the government ordained by the people of the United States and established by the consti- tuition. In a population of 90,000,O0O we must expect to find many who in dulge in gloomy forebodings as to the future of the country and who seem to cultivate the habit of predicting dis aster. Such persons are quite unhappy when the facts do not justify them in believing that everything is going wrong. But there is no occasion fer alarm. The American people, knowing that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. will take care that no harm shall come to the country.
 "The American people are more de- termined than at any time in their state rights. as those rights exist un- der the Union ordained by the consti- tuition. say the people of the United States. for. although the constitution
 
 the people in their respective states, they moved together in their collective capacity as one people in creating nation for certain specified objects of general concern. They will not patient ly consider any suggestion or device that looks to union upon any other basis. They will maintain at what sver cost and in all their integrity both national anG state rights.
 Tt is true that national power as now exerted covers wider field of ac- ton than 1t did in the early days of the republic. but that does not ptove, as the pessimist would have us think. that the government has usurped pow CTS that do not belong to it and has entered the domain reserved for tho states. It proves only that the nation has from time to time. as the public demanded. brought into ac- tive operation powers which congress had not previously chosen to exert
 If. then. the matchless government devised by the fathers and ordained by the people of the United States is to he preserved and handed down in- tact to posterity. national power and state power must go hand in hand in harmony with the constitution. If | hose powers clash. the paramount all thority of the union within it's pre- scribed sphere Of action must prevail. | Such is the express mandate of the | and such our cOmEon | sense and experience tell us must al- | ways he the ease if liberty regulated 1y law is not to perish from our land.
 Therefore let the country gather up | III the strength that comes from tho IatriotiSm and loyalty of the American people and go forward in it's marvel 'us career. holding to the confident 'elief. justified hy the words of the constitution and by judicial decisions. hat the checks in our governmental ystcm will act in the future. as they lave suffered in inc past. to guard our against inSidiOuS attacks lpOn the Fundamental principles of rec government ar against the exer- ise of arbitrary or usurped power
 Keeping within the s,npe and broad ines of the constitution We may walk afely and without fear. We need not esitate to build ua iirc foundations lid by our faTafaihrrs. Those fountla- ions are broad and deep. and SO long s new measures and poliries are test I by tIie plumb line of the cnnstitu- lon and We keep well within its wis. mita;iuHS We may safety rear what yer suTpTstrHctura our welfare and reatneSs as a nation may require