Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-07
HOLSTERS IN NUMBERS
NOTABLE GATHERING AT A Dill.
NER IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK. March What the pres,-
dent, James B. Curtis. described as the
largest number OF Hoosiers ever together In
New York." attended the first dinner OF the
Indiana Association OF New York at the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. last night The speakers In
Guided Senator Albert ]. Beveridge who re-
sponded to the toast Indiana" He said. In
part:
We followed Abraham Lincoln and
oHVer +. Morton In the historic advance OF
nationality in their day. and we are more
national now than then, for we have had
Iorty-hve years more OF education. As the
states. acting separately. could not end
slavery In 1861, so the states, acting sep
arately, cannot end the piraces OF capital
az iU'; and as the civil war was not TO
aoollsh labor, but to make all labor free and
s eIuai, SO the present conflict Is not to abol-
lsh capital. but to make all capital free and
equai. The American people are merely re-
curing all business to be honest: no bust
ness can get so big that 1t is bigger than
the nation.
Some call this evolution OF nationality
,ssucianstic. In my library I have the Eng
.hsn companies acts. the laws OF business
anu corporations in England today IL some
one were to Introduce three OF them I'm
congress he would be denounced by certain
men ana newspapers: yet. even from these
very sources We hear fervld praise OF the
wisdom of the English laws and business.
and the security OF propertv' In EnrianS
Most business is nation wide so most bust
ness must be governed by laws that are
nationwide. "
Internal Improvements.
Inc states could not make internal i'm
proNements-so the nation made them The
states could not end the poisoning OF the
people by adulterated food-so the nation
Is ending It, The states cannot end the
numerous infamy Of child labor-so the
nation is going to end it. and this for the
saving or the nation. The states cannot
control the buccaneers of business-so the
natlon Is going to control them and this
Tor the benefit of the enormous majority
Oh All business men who are not buccaneers
me Constitution is our ordinance of ma
uonai HE, and not the articles OF our ma
tlonal death. 1t was meant to free the
hands of the American people and not to
shackle them. Marshall so interpreted 1t in
the courts; Lincoln so interpreted IL In the
council chamber: Grant so Interpreted it
on the battlefield. And, today, Roosevelt
is following in their footsteps, and thus
obeying the will Of the American people.
The other day at banquet in this city
voice from Massachusetts denounced the
dangers Of nationality No such voice can
ever speak for Indiana without misrepre-
senting Indiana. Representative Mccall
warned us against the dangers of centrali-
zation.' l got down my Calhoun and read
the same thing from that great secessionist
and abest states rights doctrlnaire the
country ever produced.
An Ancient Story.
ut Is all so old-Mr. Mccall Is able but
ancient. Calhoun said all that Mccall said;
Shays Of Massachusetts,. the first rebel
against nationality in our history. acted
all that Mccall said: Quincy OF Massachu-
sets declared In Congress that the Louisi-
ana purchase 'dissolves the Union But
none of them uttered the real sentiment of
Observation-Disclosures true soul of Massachu-
sets has been voiced by her Adamses. her
Websters, her Summers her Hoars and her
LOuges. I prefer them to her Shays, her
Quincys and her McCalls.
1--WE Americans are a family. We live
in one big house with many rooms. and
not In separate houses, fenced and guarded
against one another. Our railway trains
pass state lines without stopping. In look
ing from the car windows, passenger
thinks of a state line when he crosses it
would not know 1t If he did think of 1t. In
this twentieth century all Americans are
in instant touch; all know one another. and
therefore. all love one another. He who
would destroy that common love is a traitor
to the republic"