Arizona republican., 1907-05-31
Arizona School of Music INSTRUCTION IN ALL BRANCHES OF MUSIC MRS. SHIRLEY CHRISTY, Director
 Phoenix, Arizona

made from the federal treasury, eX- ceed the legitimate functions of the federal government as conceived by the founders of our political institu- tions and as declared by them In the constitution of the United States. The special agent and inspection service through which federal supervision and control over the domestic affais of the people is exercised, shows an enormous increase in the past ten years. The number of men employed in the ser vice in 1907 is 1S0 times greater than in 1896: and the cost has increased over 700 per cent in ten years. This is the tendency of the times. the growth of which during the last de- cade can be comprehended only by careful analysis of federal legislation and the aggregate annual expenditures of the federal government If il is not checked and the states continue to surrender to the federal government the exercise of their reserved powers or fail to exercise therein harmony with the interests of their sister states. then the federal government, as denier resort, may be compelled to assume practical control -over the states and the Comestic affairs of their people. In that case, with the vast and varied local and national in terests of hundred or hundred and fifty millions of people. how long would it be before the task and bur den of government would be so com pex. So stupendous that of its own weight our splendid system of govern ment would fall. This is greatly weak ening the powers of the states and what is infinitely worse is also weak ening the respect of the people for the states authority. It is also causing the people to ignore and forget all those wise considerations which led the founders of our government to provide for local self government by expressly reserving to the states all governmental powers not expressly conferred by the constitution upon the federal government. It has been sug- gested that the reason for this prac- tical change fin our system of govern ment is to be sought in the imperial istic aggressiveness of the party at present in control of the national gov ernment: but let us not deceive our selves with shallow reflections. The real reason lies deeper than this. The tendency on the part of the states to surrender the exercise of powers and privileges belonging to them and the willingness of the federal government to assume such exercise and the bur dens incident thereto is not peculiar to any political party nor to any section of our country. It exists in all parties and in every section of our fair land.
 "The true reason. for this dangerous tendency. or why the people are willing to let the national government per form and pay for so many things which properly fall within the obliga- tions of the states and private citi- zcns. lies in the fact that they do not realize that they are themselves pay ing for the things which the national government pays for. The legislator is slow to expose himself needlessly to the criticism and disapprobation of his constituents. Therefore needed legis- lation is postponed because of the ex- pense it involves and the federal gov ernment is appealed to wherever pos sible.
 "I do not plead for states rights. I plead for the right of the federal gov ernment to protect itself and it's treas ury against the encroacHnents of the states and private interests upon her powers. her duties and her revenues. Where will this tendency end; tO what result think you does it naturally and