The Washington herald., 1907-03-07
SENATOR BEVERIDGE
FOR "NATIONALISM"
CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE.

See how the election of Presidents has
gone into the peoples hands in spite OF
the constitutional plan and theory. 1t IS
only a part Of that worldwide movement
which is putting governments all over
the earth into the hands of the people.
Consider France. Italy. Germany. and
England in the last half century: think
OF events in Russia now; contemplate
Persia, given d constitution yesterday.
look at Japan changed from an ancient
and Oriental absolutism into modern
popular government in a little more than
a single generation.
Public as Good as Legislators.
so. election OF Senators by the people
is coming-is here. Who will say that
the people themselves are not as wise and
pure as the legislatures they elect? For
the same reasons, and as a part of the
same movement. the nomination of all
candidates for Office by the people at the
polls instead of by the politicians at con-
ventiOns, is coming-is here. II the people
ought To elect candidates at the polls,
why ought not the people nominate can
diddtes al the polls: In all this profound
nationwide and worldwide movement
Indiana must not be found in the rear.
Indiana's place is the vanguard Indiana
soldiers have always marched toward the
sound of nring and took their place IN
the front OF the battle
Follows Theodore Roosevelt.
IN the present historic advance Of ma
tional!ty which he is leading. Indiana fol-
lows Theodore Roosevelt. We followed
Abraham Lincoln and Oliver P. Morton
in the historic advance OF nationality in
their day-and We are more national now
than then. for we have forty-tive years
more Of education. As the States, acting
separately, could not end slavery in 1861,
50 the States. acting separately. cannot
end the piraces of capital IN 1907. and as
the civil war was not 70 abolish labor,
but to make all labor free and equal, so
the present conflict is not to abolish cap
ital. but TO make all capital free and
equal. The American people are merely
requiring all business 10 be honest; no
business can get so big that it is Big
ger than the nation.
states Have Not Power Enough.
The States could not compel the sani-
tation Of packing houses. the inspection
Of meats-so the nation is compelling It,
The States could not preserve the couu-
try's forests-so the nation is preserving
them. The States could not irrigate the
arid West-so the nation is working thai
glorious and beautiful miracle. The
States cannot end the murderous fnfamy
of child labOr-so the nation Is going 10
end it,, and this for the saving of the ma
ton. The States cannot control the buc-
cancers of businesses the nation is
going 10 control them, ana this for the
benefit of the enormous majority of all
business men who are not buccaneers.
Indiana Not Afraid.
The other day. at a. banquet in this
city. "a voice from Massachusetts de-
nounced the dangers Of nationality No
such voice can ever speak for Indiana
without UisrepresentiHg Indiana. Con
gIessman Mccall warned US against The
dangers of Capitalization got down
my Calhoun and read the same thing
from that great secessionist and ablest
state rights doctrinaire the country ever
produced 1t is al SO OLD. Mr. Mccall is
able. bat ancient. Calhoun said ali that
Mccall said, SHays, of Massachusetts
the first rebel against nationality in our
history. acted ali that Mccall said
Quincy. of Massachusetts. declared in
Congress that the Louisiana purchase
dissolves the Union. But none of them
uttered the real sentiment of Massdchu-
sctts-the true soul OF Massachusetts has
been voiced by her Adamses. her Web
sters. her Summers, her Hears, and her
Lodges. ! prefer them TO her Shays, her
Quincys, and her McCails.
All America Il Affected,
mo American citizen is prosperous
because OF the prosperity Of any state.
bur because Of the prosperity Of the ua-
ton. What affects one honest American
affects all honest Americans. There is
something wrong about the man who is
not willing to be governed by the COM
mon good Of the republic; something
wrong about the man who is restless
under the equal rules under which this
great American famiIy-the natiou-Iives.
For We Americans are a family We live
in one big house with many rooms. and
not i'm separate houses. fenced and guard
ed against one another Our railway
trains pass State lines without stopping
In looking from the car windows no pas
senger thinks of State line when he
crosses il, would not know II If he did
think of it. Swift transportation has
brought close together the most widely
ion. There is no distance any more. San
Francisco is nearer New York to-day
than PittsbuTg was to Philadelphia when
the Constitution was adopted. In this
twentieth century all Americans are in
instant touch, all know one another; and,
therefore, ali love one another lie who
would destroy that common love is a
traitor to the republic.
We stand United.
United we stand: divided We fan
And We will never fall for we will never
be divided; we viii always stand-stand
more firmly as the years go by. because
each year will make Us more united. Gen
tiemen of the Indiana Society of New
York, ] propose this sentiment: The
American nation. May il forever grow
I'm power and righteousness. SO that the
daily happiness Of its millions Of men,
women, and children shall steadily in
crease. For the purpose Of our institu-
tons is the happiness Of the people "
Nicholson Another Speaker.
Meredith Nicholson told Of politics ana
literature in the Hoosier State. He said
the paw-paw was the emblem Of Indiana
politics because it is bitter when green,
ripens after a frost, and flourishcs best in
dark places.
New York and Indiana have stood
shoulder to shoulder in national elections
for many years." continued Mr.. Nichol-
son. "As for our home State, never has
there been a time when a railroad or ex-
press company has sent its agent to rep
resent it in the Senate
THE Sun has raised the issue of butter
milk, by the way, about my neighbor
Charles Warren Fairbanks. Buttermilk
nevertheless, viii be the motto I'm the next
campaign. (Applause) 'Buttermilk is
TO Indiana what whisky is to Kentucky
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