The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-10-04
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that al powers not expressly granted
10 the nation b. The federal consti-
tation were reserved TO The several
states composing the nation The es~
senes of presiaent Roossy"'t's 81
Louis speech on Wednesday vas the
statement that all powers not ex-
preasly reserved to the states must
be claimed for an exercised BY the
nation. The old. loose. essy.ittlng
coat, IL appears. doesn't III any
more. and must be made over fele~
graphs and telephones aud fast train
have abolished distance. and nave
enabled newspapers TO abolish pro-
vfneialIsm 10 large extent Possibly
the president thinks We have too
many little political soYcTeignues'
perhaps the business could be got
done better with q simpler more
compact. more centralized organiza-
ton. and without the loss OF any OF
the authority now enjoyed by the
individual stockholders, the voting
citizens.
One thing we may be certain OF;
Nations. like men and trees, must
grow. They can't stand still. Either
forward or backward they must 20.
It seems to be true that human
governments always did and always
will reflect the organization of hui
man industries; that the kind OF
government people have Is dictated
by the ways and means In which
they get their daily bread and shell
tiers, says the Houston Chronicle.
Certainly the industrial organization
of the United States has been pretty
sweepingly reorganized-one might
almost say reconstructed-since the
last considerable changes were made
in the forms of our governments.
Aside from the substitution of boards
OF directors-city commisions-fo
city councils, in a few cities of Tex
as and Iowa, there has been no very
significant change in governmental
machinery for half a century. This
great change in the organization OF
industry have all been toward con-
centration of authority for econo-
my in production and efficiency in
administration. If human history is
inn IN, hl ltFn q H.
nels. We shall probably witness a
steady reorganization of our forms
of government, during the next quar-
ter century, to make it reflect the
new organization of our industry.
There is a lot of comfort in the
reflection that the most conspicuous
leader of the movement for such
political reorganization, Mr.. Roose-
welt, is a man of so much hard COM
! mon sense, and so free from merely
visionary schemes. He should re-
! member that the American people,
republicans as well as democrats, be-
lieve in maintaining state lines.
The presidents speech is, in
way, a hint to judges. and especially
to federal judges. that it is up to
them to interpret the law in this
spirit of national enlargement
Everybody knows how long and hard
a task it Is to get the federal CON
sutution amended I'm form: if the
progress desired 10 be made can be
made by merely giving the old docu-
mcut new Interpretation here and
there it will save time Anyway,
constitutional amendments as a rule
do mo- more than TO raufy practices
thar have become established
President Jordan of Stanford
University. recently urged the call
ms of national constitutional con
yeur.uu He said So ought 10 be- done
soon that it ought ro Boz made pos
..h'r fur industry lu ifs new forms
tu operate ln accord with the letter
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