Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-26
Nj. Bryan and Mr.. BsVerIdgs
Reach Opposite Conclusions on
Effect Of CsntrsIzatIup.
HEBRasKAY POINTS TO SOUTH
Indiana Senator Retorts With Fa-
oif;c Coast Example and Tells OF
Danger to Nation-oecond OF the
Articles I'm the Debate Between
the Two Distinguished Men.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., March -.
William j. Bryan, of Nebraska.
and Senator Bevcridgc, OF Indiana,
in the second installmcnt Of their
debate in magazine bring In the
race question as an argument for
anu against radical Capitalization OF
power in the federal government.
Mr.. BRYAN contends that the ne
gro question in tho South and TIN
Japanese question on the Pacific
Coast can best be appreciated and
handled by tho people living iii
those sections, and that the same
principle holds good with other
questions Of peculiar local interest.
Senator Boveridsc points to Japanw
resentment of the segregation OF
Japanese children in the San Fran.
cisco schools as an evidence of the
danger local sclf-govcrnmcni may
bring to tho entire country. and he
ailIdes to the Prcsidcngs pleading
with San Francisco's mayor 10 avert
national war"
Mr.. Bryan answers Mr.. Bcvcr.
idgc's original contention that moth.
ing is TO be feared from centraliZa-
ton, because the federal government
is really the whole people acting u.
common, and they can he relied OH
not TO injure themselves or tnclr
own interests.
Local QUESTION: Locally Understood.
suppose" says MIR. Bryan, tine
people OF one section decide they
have no disccrnible interest in VIVA,
is being done in another section.
are they likely 10 study the Gssn
ton rs carefully as they should!
And If they attempt TO ACT on n
question remote from thcm, are they
sure to act wisely?
Take the race question in lie
South. The people of the Northern
States do not come into contact with
the black race as the people OF the
South do, and because the eyper:.
ences arc different in the two sec
tons the views of the SUBJECT are
different
THE race question on the Paci3c
coast presents another Illustration.
The people who come into daily
contact with the Oriontals nave a
familiarity with the Subject which
those cannot possibly have who :.yo
In other sections and seldom see
one OF the immigrants from Asia.
Tho school question is one tina; en-
tcrs into tho life of every commun-
ity and the people who send their
children To a school are more con.
ccrncd in the welfare of that school
Than any outside people can he.
They have not only the knowledge.
but they have the deep personal
interest tha compcls investigation
OF ~! the facts and the study of ali
conditions that are to be met"
Would Restrict Local Powers.
Senator Bovcridge sharply ar
rhignS any system OF local SELF gov.
ernmcnt bv which majority OF n
smell State or a small town may
take action which may embroil the
United States in trouble with a.
friendly Power He recalls that a;
INC time of the earthquake General
Funston lent aid to San Francisco
with national troops, despite the
fact that neither the Governor nor
the Legislature requested it. Sec
rotary Taft, Mr.. Beveridge says, ad
mittct that, strictly speaking, tins
YVES treason, because the constiIu-
ton provides that the request OF
the Governor or Legislature is nee.
cSsary.
MIR. Bevoridge taxes San Francis.
co with having been grateful for
this treason" yet inconsistency
making great commotion over the
mild attitude OF Roosevelt in
pleading with San Francisco's may
or TO avert national war"
MIR. Bryan indorses the BeveridCe
Anli-Child Labor bill, which the
House judiciary Committee declared
unconstitutional. He says the pow
or OIL the United States over inter-
stte commerce is supreme, and he
aeciareS Tor large part of the
EemOcracy TINT the bill does moi in