Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-07-18
CONSTITUTIONAL
CONTROVERSY
STATE RIGHTS and HOME RULE
UNDER DISCUSSION.
The MagaZine Debate Between Wm.
}. Bryan and Senator Beveridae.
Senator Rayner, of maryland, on
the Policies Advocated by Mr..
Bryan.

IL
Bryan and Senator Beveridge on the
constitutional question of the reserved
rights OF the states, and incidentally of
the Beveridge bill to regulate labor in
factories, known as the child labor bill,
has been generally read. To democrats
the discussion is of transcendent inter.
est, for it foreshadows much more i'm.
poitant debate within the democratic
party on the issue of State Rights and
Home rule. The first installment comes
from Senator Rayner, of MARYLAND, in
the Baltimore Sun of May 13, in which
he summarizes the policies advocated by
Mr.. Bryan as follows:
"First-Uitimate ownership by the
government Of all the interstate railroads
Of the United States.
"Second-The initiative and referep.
dunn.
"Third-Congress to have the right to
arbitrarily fix the total product of all in.
lerstate corporations. quasi public and
private and to destroy their business if
they transgress the congressional limit.
"Fourth-The supreme power OF con.
gress to prescribe the terms upon which
all Interstate commerce shall be conduct
ed, and whenever congress (Which of
course means the dominant party con-
ceives it to be against public policy, II
shall have the right absolutely to pre-
hibit commercial intercourse between
the states upon the interdicted article
Gas is fully exemplified in the provisions
OF the child labor billy
"My own deliberate judgement is that
il we embody these doctrines in demo.
cratic platform the next step that it will
be necessary to take will be to change
the name OF the party and revive the
name of 'Federalist' or take some other
title suitable to the occasion; and then,
after we have done this. the final etep
will be, with our leaders in the van, in
solemn procession to accompany the
remains of democracy to their resting
place and when we are engaged in per.
forming the last sad rites and obsequee,
and are cOmmemorating her departed
virtues, do not let us forget to recount
the tragic manner OF her death, 90 that
posterity shall know that in the hour OF
her brightest hopes and most alluring
prospects. determined to end her great
historic career, she threw herself upon
| hn IS
ization, and died of self.inflicted
wound"
Democratic voters will have TO decide
these issues before they elect and in
struct delegates to the next national con-
vention and to do 80 must investigate
the arguments on both sides to arrive at
just conclusion. Mr.. Bryan has so
clearly stated his case that il is not nec-
essary to repeat it. Senator Rayner's
summary has led the Baltimore Sun to
say:
"The discussion OF all these theories of
government; the suggestion Of Secretary
Root that the constitution be changed by
construction so as to deprive the states of
their reserved rights; the Beveridge bill
and Mr.. Bryan's doctrines-all these
things have tended to direct public at.
tention to questions Of policy and con-
stitutional law which have been dormant
almost during this generation. Such q
mastery exposition as that Of Senator
Rayner, by 80 profound student OF the
constitution as he is, will do much
to bring people back to the old paths."
Resolutions of Coincidence.