The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-25
BRYAN OUTLINES
VIEWS ON TRUSTS
CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE.

theory. Of whom he put Mr.. Bryan at
the head, Senator Beverage finds the
heart Of the present battle against the
peoples instructive effort toward ma
tional unity" to be the unrfghteous peck
etbook, which finds itself threatened by
nationality. He does not mice words in
his Indictment Of this new cry for State
rights. Every corpora ton so great that
its business is nation wide is champion
ing State rights" he declares. Every
railroad that has felt the regulating hand
Of the nations government is earnestly
for State rights. Every trust attorney
is declaiming about the dangers Of cen
tralization' Do you know one who is
not? Indeed, this present conflict largely
grew out Of the assertion OF nationality
in the rate hill and other acts which ex-
tended the control of the peoples gov
eminent over the railroads, and in the
activity Of the nation IN investigating
certain mammoth businesses. i do not saw
that all advocates Of State rights are
trust attorneys, but that all trust at
tOrneys are advocates Of State rights
Does anybody doubt that the real reason
Of these mighty financial interests fog en-
cheering this twentieth century crusade
for State rights is that they believe chat
by curbing the power Of the American
people expressed through the peoples
congress they can better protect their
plans for financial gain?"
Once Favored Capitalization.
Senator Beverage recalls how these
same interests gave hearty Endorsement
to the Capitalization which was repre-
scented by President Cleveiand's action
in sending troops into Chicago at the
time Of the railroad strikes. in tie face
Of the opposition of the governor Of the
State Of Illinois The great financial
interests were" he says, at that time
all for 'nationality'-al against State
rights Yet when. during the last five
years, the nations Congress passed laws
requiring that simple justice Of these
same interests which IS required between
man and man; and when President Roose-
welt dared execute these laws, they i'm
mediately about-faced and are as much
against nationality and for State rights
now as they were against State rights
and for nationality then"
Senator Beverage shows that this same
CRY was raised by those whose pocket
books were affected in the lottery cases,
in the pUre-foOd and meat-inspection agi-
tation, when laws were passed prohibiting
the carrying Of obscene literature through
the mails. and in interstate commerce.
and that the degree Of resistance in these
several cases was measured exactly by
the extent Of the financial interests IN
volved. You viii observe" he adds,
that State rights is a very polite
creature and seldom becomes excited for
terest is endangered by the assertion OF
nationality. State rights IS not often
heard Of unless financial interests are
threatened; and not even then when the
people happen TO be sufficiently aroused
against an evil which nationality viii
end"
The Indiana Senator's contention IS that
the Federal government is just as much
the government Of the American people
as are the State governments, and that
the line of demarcation. which so many
of the advocates of State rights attempt
to draw. is purely fictitious. His doctrine
IS embodied in these words:
Beveridge's Doctrine.
1T is clear that where an evil IS gen.
eraI, States acting separately cannot uni
fornly attack it; and it is fact that in
the case of every. general evil the States,
acting separately, never have uniformly
attacked it. The American people alone,
acting in common-that is, acting as a
natiou-can destroy evils which affect
them in cOmmOn-that is, affect them as
a nation Nationality means merely the
American people acting in common against
evils which affect them I'm common"
Senator Beverage defines the dividing
line between the legitimate development
of nationality and the proper exercise Of
State rights 10 be:
when an evil or a benefit is so wide
spread that it affects so much Of the
country as 10 be called national, the ma
tons power should be equal to end that
evil. or secure that benefit to the Ameri-
can people.
when an evil or a benefit IS purely
local and affects none Of the American
people except that part of them who live
in the State where the evil exists OF the
benefit can be applied, and nowhere else,
the State. should end that evil or secure
that benefit"
The growth and development Of the
country has brought many new problems
These new problems. says Senator Bev-
eridge. must be solved Each day makes
it clearer that only the nation can do this
That is why the nation is doing IT, II the
states could do that work better nothing
could prevent them from doing it. 1t IS
because the nation is the only force equal
to the daily developing needs of the peO-
pie that nationality is developing. and for
no other reason. In all Of this there is
no harm, but only the welfare of the
people; for 1t is merely the people them
selves acting in common for their common
good"