The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-23
Special to The washington Herald.

former Minister to Spain, made the prin-
cipal address at the annual exercises to-
day at Johns Hopkins University COM
memorative Of the opening of the uni
versity. Mr.. Taylor spoke on THE rela-
ton of the South to pending problems"
He promised his remarks by stating
that he spoke in a calm and unsectional
spirit.
The first constructive statesman OF the
South was Washington, whose task was
the construction of Federal system upon
a unique plan. About the neck of the
South was hung the milestone of human
slavery, and he said that every lover of
his country should be thankful that the
South was emancipated from a system
that would have consigned her to poverty
and isolation.
He spoke of how John Jay declined the
Office of Chief Justice on the ground that
our Federal judicial system was failure.
and how John Marshall stood forth and
took up the task of making the promises
Of Washington a reality.
He showed how One-half of the wealth
of the South was swept away by the
civil war. and, thus crippled. she was
called upon to deal with political
problems as had never been faced in any
part of the English-speaking world. 1t
was Chase who still declared that the
Constitution survived unimpaired as the
embodiment of IAN indissoluble union of
indestructible States With the recOg-
milton Of that fact, the upbuildng of the
South began.
The speaker told of the marvellous ma
terial development of the South, showing
that for cotton alone Europe is now pay
ing the South over Sl,0O0000 a day. He
spoke of the fine school systems Of the
South. and particularly of the good work
that is being done at Tuskegee, which, he
begged leave to remind his hearers, was
founded by the legislature of Alabama.
He thought that Alabama has every rea-
son to be proud of the efforts she is max
ing to educate her colored population.
Continuing, he said:
Workshops of the Nation.
And here. while I am speaking Of state educa-
tionsl institutions, desire 20 say word TO those
short-sighted and misguided men, who are Striving
to belite the States as the great workshops Of the
national life. They are more than mere training
schools Of the people in self government; they are
the armories in which kept, in the form Of Te-
served powers. the only effective weapons that can
BE- used to destroy certain evils that even the long
arms Of the Federal government cannot reach. just
Senator George went to these State armories FOR
weapon in a great emergency. We must 60 for the
ouly weapons capable Of destroying incorporated
trusts and monopolies. and Of breaking up and re
distributing the abnormal Accommodations Of money
concentrated in a few hands by means Of them
Final victory viii never he over combinations
resting for security charters Of Incorporation
from State legislatures until all the States amend
their constitutions a. 10 make all such charters
subject TO State revision and control While that
coed work Is advancing, the States must insure
for they alone can-the breaking up u great estates
by reducing On the basic Of Roman law the will
making power whereby the master Of millions can,
by devising his estate the bulk Of il, TO a sin
gle member Of his family reproduce al the evils
II Trimogentuc. Aristotle based his political
theories the maxim that man is born 20 be
citizen the citiless man. lac said inferred. must
BE- more OF less than man, either sJperlumsn or
monst r.. Every Well-ordsTed society should strive
% eXteTminate monsters. matter whether they
he moral political. financial. I know Of no
monster so dangerous to the life Of republic
enc who can in moment throw beWildeTing mil
lions in one direction the other. especially when
those millions grow out Of abnormal legal and eco
uomic conditions that should not exist.
IcOnOcIast MiIIiOnaires.
The omnipotcnt dispenser may throw his millions
IN a good direction today it is sure TO be in a
bad one tomorrow But most, and worst Of all. he
Is image breaker; he is an ic0n0clsst who shat
tiers the ideals upon which the life Of this nation
was founded There was a time when men ad-
mired poets, orators, theologans, philosophers
elists. and historians There time when
young man thought it worth while 90 strive % be
ike Marshall. Webster Emerson and Washington
Irving. But how long win those illusions last I'M
der the teachings Of the gospel which pro-
claims that nothing Is really worth while except the
brute force welded by masses Of money. The long
arms Of the Federal government may be able 10
break on the top Of the tree but If desire TO cut
the top root Of these abnormal accommodations which
are shattering an healthy ideals, we must use
the ak 20 the armories that hold the reserved Pew
q the States
There and there alone can be found what Mil
ton, in his "Lycidas, describes as that two
handed engine al the door which stands ready %
smile once. and smile more Even cultivated
men often learn simple things very slowly. After
while everybody viii perceive that the evils from
winch We are now suffering most can only b. re-
moved, without revolutionary change. through a
concert Of action between the States. such a CON
cert viii produce typical State constitution and
typical State code with provisions whose el1n-
gated fingers can reach down % the roots.
Must Have Regulation.
Nothing is SO necessary TO our social and pO-
lnical future as a typical code Of State law which
can be gradually accepted a standard, with pro
visions regulating all such vital questions as the
organization and control If corporations the dis
tributi0n Of estates, suffrage, and divorce. The
States alone have the constitutional power TO deal
with such questions. and. IN the present condition
- rapid mtcrcummunicstion. the necessary concert
al action Is not at all impossible No nobcr work
could he undertaken by the American Bar Associa-
tion. which has the machinery necessary for the
making Of immediate beginning.
Let every lover Of his country be thankful that
the national spirit has at last triumpbed over the
provincial spirit. and that the South was in the
ordeal emancipated from system which would have
consigned Der 10 poverty and isolation.
Il is safe to say that az least onehalf Of the
entire wealth Of the south swept away By the
civil war While thus crippled and broken she
called Will 4rrI
Is bad never before been presented 70 any part
Of the Euglish-speaking world. It is a grave mis-
take 20 regard the mighty problems arising ont Of
such conditions purely sectional They were in
the highest sense national and in my humble
Judgment the honor Of their solution so far as
they have been solved. belongs in large degree
TO three turistic statesmen 10 whom I wish 10 pay
NY homage IN that large and unseotional spirit
which should now. think. animate all
HOnOrs Justice Chase.
In that spirit reverence the patriotic work Of
Chief Justice Chase in the rebuilding Of the Con
s;itution inst rs I reverence the work Of Chief
Justice Marshall in the founding Of it The work
Of rebuilding, patriotically begun b. Chase was
pressed 70 It's conclusion by stronger rnentality
The opinion Is rapidly gaining ground that the
most maserful expounder Of the Constitution since
Marshall was Samuel F. Miller. whose definitions
q the national citizenship created By the
fourteenth amendment have So profoundly affected
The relations If the state and Federal governments
T. each other
While the igristic statesmen Of the North were
thus rebuilding the Constitution ard healing its
wounds with m-dicine drawn from the subtitle
alchemy q Judge-ma3e law, Providence lifted up
a great Htristic statesman i'm the south who proved
10 be bold enough and wise enough to rescue his
section from an impending doom.
Where among the thoughtful men Of the South
can you find one who regrets the abolition Of
slavery as embodied IN the thirteenth amendment
For my part. ! regard that amendment as a Dec
laration Of Independents because it set section
free from DIVING institution. Ii has given us the