Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-27
Declares Senator Bever-
idge in Address at
GaIena, III.
AT GRANT EXERCISES
Scouts the Idea That Reform
Propaganda is Menace to
Local Government.

Galena, H.. April 27.-The birthday
of General Grant was celebrated today
by the people of Galena and vicinity.
Business was generally suspended.
The cornerstone of the Carnegie-Foj
library building was laid. There was
an Grafton by United States Senator
Beveridge of Indiana, who vigorously
attacked the doctrine of state rights,
. saying under this head:
To-day we hold d recrudescence of
Calhoun states rights. AS had been the
case from the beginning, it is caused
by selfish interests which fatten by
doing wrong to the whole American
people, resisting the thought and con
science of the whole American people
seeking to stop this wrong doing. AS
always from the beginning. Calhoun
states rights defends itself upon the
high ground of local self-government
Local self-government is sacred, and
the use of that term to defend Calhoun
states rights is sacrilege.
Would Preserve; Not Destroy.
rs is said that the will and wisdom
of the whole American people trying
to stop national evils by national laws
would destroy local self-government;
whereas, it would preserve local self
government pure and unadulterated by
interference with general government.
1t is said that the congress of the whole
republic. in Obeying the commands of
the whole people of the republic, would
wipe out state lines: whereas. such ac-
ton preserves the lines of states as
the Boundaries or states.-snd not as
the divisions between separate nations.
Each in Place.
What nationality means is that the
states shall perform the natural func-
tions of local self-government, and that
the nation shall perform the natural
functions of general lfgovernment.
What nationality means is that the
states shall not be little nations par
alyzing by jealousy and selfishness the
welfare of the great nation; but that
the states shall be local self-goveming
bodies, supreme within the province of
local self-government, but subordinate
and even non-eXistent in matters affect
ing what the constitution calls the geu-
eral welfare Of the whole republic
Issue Now as Then.
"This is the issue today, as it was the
issue in the time of Grant. That great
captain spoke two sentences that voiced
the will of the American people then
as it voices the will of the American
people now. Those two sentences are
these: We will fight it out on this line
if it takes all summer And this Other
one, equally applicable to the issue OF
the hour: Immediate and uncOndition
al surrender The national spirit ot
the American people in the beginning
of the 20th century. stronger even thar
in the middle of the Itch century, wher
Lincoln was its oracle. or at the be
ginning of the 18th century. when Wash
ington was it's warrior-statesman, viii
not evade. will not truckle, will no
compromise. It demands immediate
and unconditional surrender and i
will fight it out on that line if it take:
all summer or a century"
Cited Some History.
Senator Beveridge here cited :
length the history of internal improve
ments, the first bill for which was We
toed by President Madison as viola
tion of states rights, and the law
keeping obscene literature, lottery ticl
cts. etc, out of interstate commerce
the pure food law, meat inspection an
railroad rate laws, all resisted as violi
tions of states rights and many othe
examples.
"The next great struggle in the raj
way problem will be between state res
ulation of interstate railways passin
through each particular state, on tn
one hand, and, on the other hand, e:
elusive national control of interstat
railways through all the states throug
which such railways pass. This col
test will not end in day or a yea
But, finally. its conclusion is newt
BILE The railways properly manage
are by far the greatest agencies in OF
well being They are the largest pra
tical force that holds the American pc
pie together Our prosperity depend
absolutely on our commerce, and oI
commerce depends absolutely on o.
railways. Our culture depends abs
lutely on the quick and easy commul
cation of every part of the republ
with every other part of the republic.
Must Let Up on Railways.
"The time must come when stat