Arizona republican., 1907-10-03
THE DEEPER MISSISSIPPI
 THE CHARGE OF A NATION
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interpreted it, as Wilson declared it should be interpreted. The Marshall theory, the theory of life and not of death, allows to the nation, that is to the people as a whole. when once it finds a subject within the national cognizance, the widest and freest choice of methods for national control. and sustains every exercise Of national power which has any reasonable ob- jects. The negation of this theory means, for instance. that the nation that We, the nienty millions of people of this country-will be left helpless to control the huge corporations which now domineer in our industrial life, andt that they will have the authority of the courts to work their desires unchecked: and such a decision wNuld
 n the end be as disastrous for them IS for us. If the theory of the Mar shall school prevails. then an immense field of national pov'eS. now unused, will be developed, which win be ade- luate for dealing with many. if not all. of the economic problems which vex us: and We shall be saved from the ominous threat of a ,oustant oc- cillation between economic tyranny and economic chaos. Our industrial, and therefore our social, future as a nation depends upon settling aright his urgent question.
 The constitution is unchanged and unchangeable save by amendment in due form. But the conditions to which it is to be applied have undergone a change which is almost transforma ton, with the result that many sub- jects formerly under the control of the states have come under the control of the nation. As one of the justices of the supreme court has already said: The growth of national powers, under our constitution, which marks merely the great outlines and designates only the great objects of national concern,
 IS to be compared to the growth of country not by the geographical en- largement of its boundaries. but by the increase of it's population A hundred years ago there was, except the com merce which craw1ed along our sea coast or up and down our interior waterways, practically no interstate commerce. Now, by the railroad. the mails. the telegraph, and the telephone
 
 interstate. By the transformation it has escaped from the power of the state and come under the power of the nation. Therefore there has been a great practical change in the exercise of the national power, under the acts of congress. over interstate commerce: while on the other hand there has been no noticeable change in the exercise of the national power to regulate commerce with foreign nations and with the Indian tribes The change as regards interstate commerce has been. not in the constitution. but in the business of the people to which it it to be applied. Our economic and social future depends in very large part upon how the interstate commerce power of the nation is interpreted.
 The party was scheduled to leave at 2: 30 o'clock, but the president did not enter his carriage until after 3 o'clock. Arriving at the wharf. it was found that Governor Curry of New Mexico, who is to travel with the president. was not aboard the steamer. A search of half an hour revealed that Govern or Curry was on the steamer Alton. He was summoned by the president, and the Mississippi cast off its moor ing an hour behind the scheduled time.
 She was followed by the United States steamer. Colonel Mackenzie, carrying the members of the Inland Waterways Commission. the Alton, bearing the governors of fifteen states. and sixteen other large steamers and host of smaller craft.
 As the flotilla passed Jefferson bar racks. twelve miles below St. Louis,