Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-05-31
.TAWNEY SOUNDS
! WARNING NOTE
Sees Ia Growth Of Nation
alism a Tendency Toward
Bureaucracy

national cemeteries here thousands
gathered to witnes the decorations and
to hear the annual address. The ora
ton this year was by Congressman
Tawney of Minnesota and was memoir
able because it was out of the ordinary
lines. In discussing the growth of ma
tionalism in the republic congressman
sounded note of warning about ten-
denotes that point toward bureaucracy
in the government.
Following is an abstract of Con-
gresham Tawney's speech:
The battle of Gettysburg, like those
of Marston Moor and Runnemede and
Bunker Hill, was fouht to determine
the proper bounds of political and civil
ly personal issue. There is but one
great problem in politics today and
that is the adjustment of the central
power of The state or nation to the To-
cal government of the people. Has
the Individual state the right and
fairs without regard to other states in
the Union; or are we essentially one
people, bound in all we do as individ-
ual states to respect the institutions
and conserve the welfare of all? There
has grown up in this country an in
tense national sentiment. We are in
clined to boast of our American citi-
zenship before we even mention our
state citizenship. National laws are
scrupulously observed, while state
enactments are but little respected.
Growth of Capitalization.
In the early part of the nineteenth
century there. was fear and danger
that the Union of the states was as
rope of sand and would fall apart, or
rather that the states could not come
together and forever remain together
under one comprehensive system of To-
cal self and national government. To-
day there is more reason to fear that
the several states and the local self
government which they represent in
our dual form of government will, for
all practical purposes, disappear from
our politics as distinct entities in our
system of government and be swal-
lowed up in one all-embracing federal
power. The states today not only
seem inclined to allow, but in many
instances are anxious voluntarily to
surrender to the federal government
the discharge of duties and the exer-
else of powers and privileges reserved
by the constitution to them, especially
when the exercise of these powers and
privileges involves the expenditure Of
money. Thy are also today either So
Letting or acquiescing in a federal
supervision over their domestic afA
fairs to an extent that less than half a
century ago would have led to revolu-.
tempted to force upon them such SUI
peryision.'
States SurrendeEing Rights.
These undertakings which belong
exclusively to the states or private In
terests to do and to pay for, but which
have been authorized by congress and
must be paid for from appropriations
made from the federal treasury, ex-
coed the legitimate functions of the
federal government as conceived by
the founders OF our political institu-
tons and as declared by them In the
Constitution of the United States. The
special agent ana inspection service,
through which federal supervision and
control over the domestic affairs Of the
people Is exercised. shows an enor-
nous increase In the past 10 years.
The number of men employed in the
service in 1907 is 1870 times greater
than in 1896, and the cost has increas-
ed over 200 per cent In 10 years. This
is the tendency of the times, the
growth Of which. during the last de-
cade. can be comprehended only by a
careful analysis of federal legislation
of the federal government. II 1t is not
checked. and the states continue to
surrender to the federal government
the exercise of their reserved powers
or fail to exercise them in harmony
with the interests of their sister
states, then the federal government,
as denier resort, may be compelled
TO assume practlcal control over the
states and the domestic affairs OF their
people. In that case, with the vast and
varied local and national interests of
"a hundred or a hundred and fifty mill
ions of people, how long would it be
before the task and burden Of govern
ment would be so complex, so stu
pendous that of its own weight our
splendid system Of government would
fall. This is greatly weakening the
powers of the states, and, what is in
fnitely worse, is also weakening the
respect OF the people for the states
authority. 1t Is also causing the peo-
pie to ignore and forget all those wise
considerations which led the founders
OF our government to provide for local
seIf-goyernment by expressly reserv-
ing to the states all governmental
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