The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-04-11

Spirit Of Genuine American Loyalty breathes Every Sentence of
Governors AddressNo Wonder Eastern People Were Cap
hvated by Patriotic Utterances Of Minnesotas Son.
Read It. and See You Don't Recall An Occasion When Gys
burg Some One Ese Whom Governor johnson Resembles
-. Smoke Words That Carried Their Own Immortality.

-. 0EOhd "OIuS 4Adt OdIT1e
SHILOH, Tenn, April 1o.-At the
unveiling Of the monument to the sons
Of Minnesota who participated In the.
great battle Of Shiloh, Governor John
"A. Johnson Of Minnesota delivered to-:
day an eloquent and powerful speech
touching. on the .valor of thee, soldiers
of the Civil war;, and the new duties
made plain. by their achievements.
His address was a. phillippic on the
functions OF our government, and ev-
cry point was delivered with telling
effect.
His criticism Of the attitude of the
United States supreme court on re-
cent decisions may give some solace
to organized labor. He held that it
was the inalienable right Of the peo-
pie to limit the power of courts when
they appeared to usurp powers not
delegated to them.
Governor Johnson said:
Representing the people of the
commonwealth Of Minnesota, we are
assembled on one Of the histori battle
fields of the Civil war to pay our
memory Of the sons of Minnesota who
here yielded up their lives that this
| might continue to be united nation.
Their sacrifice was not for personal
gain but was in response to duty,
! and a contribution to the civilization
of the age, and for the purpose OF
perpetuating the institutions of human
liberty.
I appreciate that nothing which
can say will add or detract from the
glory of their achievement, which in
itself is an enduring monument to the
patriotism and the heroism of the
American soldier. Their sacrifice,
however, was not different from that
which has been made throughout all
Of the ages by those lovers of liberty
who believed in a government which
might give to all the people the right
to life, liberty and property.
"The love Of liberty was not born
in this country Of ours; 1t was Graded
along the Danube and about the
shores of the Baltic, even when Rome
had reached the limit Of her imperial
grandeur. Increasing in intensity with
the passing Of the centuries, it found
its highest expression in the older
countries in the great English charter
of civil rights, which forever. guaran-
teed to the people of that land i'm
munity from. the despotism Of those
who claimed to rule. by virtue of
Divine. right.
From the beginning of civilization
man has ever struggled against the
| or +hn ot, 1,oe
never hesitated~ to mix his blood with
the soil Of his land when by: this
! offering he might leave to his: poster
ity and those dear to him, legacy
of freedom; and while the immediate
result has not always been the triumph
of the right, none of the great battles
of history could have been fought un-
less there had been upon one side or
the other those who were willing to
sacrifice their own lives for. the COM
mon good and for the permanent
establishment of those principles of
liberty which men have ever cher
ished. -.
"One hundred and thirty-two years
ago the great contest Of human nifty was
transferred from the old world to the
new, and here, because of the isolation
of this country, because of the high
character of the men who espoused
the cause of liberty; and because Of
the signal victory achieved by them
In the struggle, an opportunity was
afforded to crystalline into written
law the aspirations of the patriots
Of all the ages. The men who built
the foundation Of this government
were those who had submitted to-. the
supreme test Of patriotism, for those
who inspired the constitution of the
United States were the same who had
pledged their lives, their properties
and their sacred honors to the cause
Of independence.
''The scheme of government devised
by your .forefathers was adopted after
most mature deliberation, and after
the fullest investigations: and only
when they were satisfied that in the
distribution. of the powers of govern
ment, the rights Of the people would
be respected It was founded upon
the theory that the right exists in the
people who make, alter and modify
their form Of government, and to this
end the several states in constitutional
convention agreed upon and adopted
a: constitution which was the founda,
t1on upon which this nation rests.
But, as Washington said, "The con-
stitution which. at any time exists,
until changed by an explicit and
authentic act of the whole people, is
sacredly obligatory upon all. The
further heritage of the power and
! right of people to establish govern
ment, presupposes the duty Of every
individual to obey the established gov
ernment' ~ -. - =. - n
"The original sovereign states,
which, through their Representatives
in 1887, united to form a federal gov
eminent for certain specifed pur-
puses, We're careful to have those pow
ers which are. delegated Ito Mt ex-
pressed in the constitution. then
agreed upon. = ~. .n.., III *..{ ST. 80, .>z !;
/ While the, primary object of a
written constitution is to define gov
ernmental powers ,and to limit gov
ernmental :, departments. the over