Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-01-05
Are We a Nation

- HE question Is frequently raised nov-a-days as to whether " e are 4
nation or merely a company Of states MIR Roots recent address
which has called forth so much criticism both favorable and um
favorable. has served Ito lend emphasis o this question M to broaden
e o such az extent that the foreign press las taken It M. and Il Is now
being discussed Just as freely in England as in this country The British
papers given their attention mainly 10 air. Roots proposition for q national
convention To amend the constitution aud as a fair sample Of their views on
ms point take the following from the London Spectator.
~ was framed to provide safeguards against dangers which long since
disappeared. and to encourage certain forces which today are more in need
Of control
hand bv ultra wires provisions This was wcu enough % long as The states.
we're ule countries by themselves ct of by economic and social sufs from
e,eh other But now ut there are comnon problems n omnon perHs
throughout he whole union. to arm localities with obstructive powers is to
play into the hands Of reaction and dishonesty "d 10 make aS onupuo
uaHonsi policy impossible
The people in America have scarcely as yet grasped the whole meaning
81 nationality. The spirit wakes IN them With magnificent FIRE an energy 't
e crisis but they go back 20 their daily work ans forget ahout l"
The Spectators idea that We have scarcely as yet grasped the whole.
meaning " nationality" does not harmonic at NJ with the notions OF somt
NERVOUS people overo Of this side who are greatly worried 10y the ear that we
have rrasped it so hard and 50 thoroughly That our hold upon everything
elise has been loomied. The man-nota always with the etearest idea OF what
DE l. talking aboat-who claims to he Fan odfashioucd Jehersonian demo
cral~ win ten YOU says the Washington star. that within the past half cen
try me couairy has been ton from its original moorings and Is now
headed un1r me guiding hand Of natonaism for the port O aesolnusm
Unless the course changed he sees nothing ahead but the complete perser-
sion 81 al me purposes Tor witch the fathers wrought
BE and uc Spectator are both wrong We are lot the hardened nation.
austs that te ore pictures nor the novHcs IN the exercise OF nationality that
the other pictures we nave been familiar with the mcaninE o. nationality
for q great many years. ana What so alarms 'an od-fashioned Jenesoman
democrat is a matter not Of yesterday. but Of slow ana gradual growth
II Is often charged uat the civil a destroyed state rights Al matter
Of fact bat me right claimed hy son o. the states a destroyed ~ thar
trasrie and that vas tire neht to secede from ts union. That died the
death. and mo- state vl ever again assert a. Those that did assert IT, and
lost could pot bs brought To- DO 20 low. 80 that what We then put under our
feet aas somehius We could VEL afford TO part wha
II the state rights men we're nt la such scre straits FOR a political issue.
and therefore hsty in their Judgment they woud recognise in Mr. Root their
hest nirna So FAR from making an assault on state rights and proposing
aheir complete obntHauon. hc has called upon the states ste sNe a better
ut psmt thsr eunHs TO run TO eansress FOR every remedy they need. That
h us bef advice posrbe hn te premises