The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-13

the other Is feeding them with the
milk Of protection on which they be
come tat and arrogant
They feed on a monopoly-creating
tarif. The Democratic idea is, instead
Of protecting monopoly as against the
people. to protect the people as
against monopoly.
State Rights An Issue.
Another question that will be an
Issue. no doubt. will be the right Of
the states to self-goyernment as to all
matters not delegated to the Federal
, Government
In the tendency 70 eentralise ali
power in the Federal Government that
mas been given such an impetus Of late
there is danger to the ideas OF govern
ment that were crystalizsd in the for
nation Of the republic.
This nation is the greatest in the
soluble union of self-goyerning states.
Its DECLINE will commence when. the
self-goyernment of the states, the
/ fountain Of its strength, is taken away.
"The Federal Government Is SUI
preme in its sphere, and the states in
theirs. Each working in its iurisdic-
ton for the common good can con-
tribute to the welfare of all. The gen.
eral government / some OF delegated
powers. All powers not granted to
the general government are reserved
to the people Of the several states.
! The states are limited only by their
own constitution and by the power
conferred on the Federal Government.
The regulation and control Of inter-
state commerce is within the exclus-
i've jurisdiction of the Federal Gov
eminent,
States Control States Business.
"Intrastate commerce and public
utilities doing intrastate business can
and should be regulated by the states.
An effort Is being made to take away
from the states all control of corpora
lions, especially railroads. Railroads
obtain their charters from the states;
they live by virtue Of state laws.
"Yet they seem unwilling to trust
the people of the states and create an
unnecessary antagonism by their eff
forts to obtain all of the benefit OF
state laws that may confer privileges
upon them, and refusing obedience to
state laws regulating their conduct
within the state.
Il believe that the people OF the
states may be safely depended upon
to treat railroads and other inter
ests fairly. If they cannot, then our
entire theory of government is wrong.
If the people OF the states cannot be
trusted to enact valid laws with re-
spect to corporations, by what process
of reasoning can it be assumed that
they have the capacity to legislate Tor
the individual citizen?
Cannot Find a Corporation.
"If one were to hunt for corpora
ton he could not find it; he would
simply find individuals exercising
charter powers conferred by a state.
If the states are competent to enact
laws as to these individuals they are
inst as competent to legislate concern
ling all of them aggregated under the
form and legal fiction of corporation
IF they are incapable OF dealing
fairly with individuals chartered as
corporations they would be just as
untrustworthy in Iegislating relating
to individual action.
4 Il believe they are as competent III
4 one instance aa in the other, and tney
would no more knowingly deal un-
Justly with dozen men acting as
corporation than they would with one
man in his private capacity.
"The states create these corpora
i lions: shall they be denied control OF
their creatures? If state is good
enough for it to operate in and to
make money in, it should be good
enough to make laws regulating the
conduct Of that corporation within the
state.
/ Senatorial Election a Problem.
4 THE election oisUnited States Sen
ators by the people, strict regulation
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