The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-06-01
STATES ARE |
LOSING OUT

Gettysburg Pa. May 3O.-James A
Tawaey. chairman of the House Com
mittee on Appropriations of the last
congress, todaS made the following :
Decoration Dayspeech here: |.
The battle of gettysburg. i those
of Marston MooAand Runnymede and .
Bunker Hill, wasfought to determine !
the proper boundsof political and CIV
il liberty. 1t wasfought to settle a !
purely personal isue. There is but :
one great problemin politics today l
and that is the adjRmeat of the CEN :
trail power of the sta, or nation to the !
local self GOVERNED of the people. !
Has h individual stae the right and !
should it manage andcontrol it's af- !
fairs without regard other states :
in the Union; OF are We essentially :
one people, bound in alive do as in :
dividual states to respeA the institu- .
lions and conserve the Wfare of all. !
There has grown up in Is country I
an intense national sentiAnt. We d
are inclined to boast of oHAmericaa {
citizenship before we eve mention
our State citizenship. NatAal laws !
are ~scrupulously observed VIE state {
enactments are but little rescteI. u
In the early part of the niteenth .
century there was fear and anger !
that that Union of the states could
not come together and forever nain '
together under one comprehSiye !
system of local self and nationally V
eminent Today there is more reon :
to fear that the several states I'd 4
the local self-goyernment which tS +
represent in our dual form of goves =
ment will, for all practical purpose I
disappear from our politics as DIN
lance entities in, our system of COVERT
ment and be swallowed up il one all
embracing federal power. The states
today not only seem inclined to allow
but in many instances are anxious vol
unfairly to surrender to the federal
government the discharge of duties
and the exercise of powers and priv
leges reserved by the Constitution tc
them, especially when the exercise Of
these powers and privileges involves
the expenditure of money. They are
also today either soliciting Or acquies
cling in a federal supervision over theil
domestic affairs to an extent that less
than half a century ago would have
led to revolution had the federal gov
eminent attempted to force upon then
sucn supervision.
These undertakings which belong
exclusively to the states o. private in
terests to do and to pay for, but which
must be paid for from approximations
made from the federal treasury, ex
coed the legitimate functions of the
federal government as conceived by
the founders of our political ilstitu
tons N as declared by them in the
Constitution of the United States
The special agent and inspection ser
vice through which federal supervis
ion and control over the domestic at
fairs of the people is exercised, shows
an enormous increase in the past ter
years. The number of men employ
ed in the service in 1907 is one hund
red and eighty times greater than in
1896; and the cost has increased over
seven hundred per cent. in ten years
This is the tendency of the times
the growth of which during the last
decade can be comprehended only by
a careful analysis of federal legisla
ton and the aggregate annual expen
ditures of the federal government. L
it is not checked, and h states con
tinue to surrender to the federal gov
eminent the exercise of heir reserv
ed powers or fail to exercise them ii
harmony with the interests of theil
sister states, then the federal govern
ment, as a denier resort, may be com
PEELED to assume practical contro
over the states and the domestic aft
airs of their people. In that case
with the vast and varied local and IA
tfonal interests of a hundred or a huI
dred and fifty millions of people, how
long would it be before the task and
burden of government would be SO con
pick SO s~tupe1dous that of its owl
weight our splendid system of gov
eminent would fall. This is greatly
weakening the powers Of the state:
n what is infinitely worse Is also
weakening the respect of the people
for the states authority. 1t is also
causing the people to ignore M for
get all those wise consideration:
which led the founders Of our gov
to provide for local self-gov
eminent by expressly reserving to tn,
states all governmental powers no
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