The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-07-31
UPHOLDSSTATE
SOVEREIGNTY
Hanly Takes Issue With
President On Centraliza-
ton of Power.
METHOD DISAPPROVED
In Address Before Elkhart Chautau-
qua, Governor Voices
His Views.

EIkhart Ind. July 31-Governo
many IN an address before the chau-
taqua assembly here today, took issue
with Senator Beverfdge's child labor
regulation ideas; with President Roose-
vets interference tax ideas: and the
general proposition that the national
government was TO take charge of the
intimate affairs of the various states
IN the union. He took the ground of
UNFOLDING the sovereignty of the states
and declared that the states, not the
nation should solve the problems that
are coming up for solution. The speech
was one reaeting against the present
tendency toward Capitalization of
power, and was intended as a plea in
those centralizing times for the in
diyiduaI states.
IL is true, according to the governor
that the states have been derelict and
slow. They have not done what they
should in every line he said. but con
tinued by showing that they were grad
ually becoming awakened and express
ed his conviction that it was better for
the states to do. even slowly, these
matters of intimate concern. than for
the nation TO establish the precedent
OF interfering into the minutia of
state affairs.
Is No Unkindly Criticism.
After referring to the problems
brought up by the combinations of
capital and the accumulation of large
fortunes, the speaker said:
In matters of such moment we can
hardly afford to thoughtlessly follow
inquisitive leadership, however high its
character or pure its purpose. AS
self governing people we must needs
be thoughtful and considerate lest we
open the door to greater ills than those
we seek to cure.
President Roosevelt has earned the
confidence and the gratitude of his
by courageous work and
signal service, and l do not speak in
criticism. for I believe in the
purity of his purpose and in his great
ness But he is no infallible, however
strong CT soul and pure of heart he
nay be- Proposals, even from him which |
ire calculated to effect the relations of [
he federal government to the several |
states, should be thought upon, studied |
and sNalyzed before we adopt them |
The te Nency of the times is towards |
he cen falization of power in the fed
raj gov Tnment. Public necessity, as
Re has Sc VI and viewed the public |
leed has fitted we'll the presidents |
peculiar temperament. And it will in
Iced be surprising IL these do not at |
ines lead him into error"
DiSapproVes of Method.
Continuing the governor said that |
while he agreed with the presidents
proposition as to the need for an in
leritence tax, he disagreed with him
is to the method of obtaining one. The |
peaker believed that the national gov
rnment could not pass a taxing law
or legislative purposes. 1t could pass
NY taxing law whose purpose it was
o raise money, he said but the power
f regulative law belonged to the
tate, he thought No citizen of any
tate takes property by inheritance,
or devise under federal law"
% said, but in every instance by vir-
We. alone, of the statutes of the state
wherein he resides, where the owner
f the property died or where the prop
rty is situate. The right to confiscate
he property of a citizen at his death
5 not vested in the federal govern
lent 1t is reserved to the states and
n my judgment cannot be lawfully
xercised by federal authority further
han by levying a tax for revenue pur-
oses."