The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-13
STATE RIGHTS DEAD
Governor Guild Afflrms That the Doctrine Died at
 Appomattox.
MEANT CLASS PRIVILEGE
Pleads for National Law Regulating Incorporation and
 Divorce.

Grand Rapids, Mich, Feb. l2.--In his address before the Lincoln club here tonight, Governor Curtis Guild, Jr., of Massachusetts, speaking on Lincoln and National Deveopment" urged more extended exercise of national law. He said in part:
 The arrogation to themselves by cer- tain states of powers that can con- stitutionally and to the more general advanage ba exercised by the nation, the so-called doctrine of State Rights died at Appomattox. It failed to save class privilege then, the resurrection of it's gibbering ghost will fail to save class privilege now.
 The work of Lincoln is incomplete SO long as in any phase of human life the | local law of some of the people of the United States can be appealed to as a | defence for public action affecting and resented by a majority of all of the people of the United States.
 The naturalization of law that Abra- ham Lincoln thus lnaugurated has not yet been carried to it's full conclusion. We have National law regulating the distilling of intoxicants. We have Ma tional law regulating all banks of is- sue. We have National law regulating the operation of the so-called trusts. We have National law regulating the settlement of bankrupts. We have Ma tional law, insufficient and too feebly enforced we of Massachusetts think, that is supposed 10 secure pure food.
 Why should not the development of community of law be carried further in all matters of national moment? Ii Is better to violate snadowy state right than o consent to a substantial national wrong.
 We are ready in war to die. if need be. under one common national flag Why should we shrink in peace from living under one common national law
 The law of South Carolina prohibits divorce on any ground The new law of Massachusetts prohibits divorce by collision and permits it only on ground where it would be inhuman to refuse Is. What security has the American home if any one state may permit by its loose laws men and women to live together and part at will, and If that law can be made available to any Americans by the mere crossing of z state line?
 We eve much to the great captain of industry who have built the rail. roads and the lighting plants and tn, telephone and telegraph lines. It i: the fashion to attack the wealth o these men. It Is not the fashion 10 re member the losses and risks of tn, same men nor to give them credit fol what they have dared for their pri vate profit, of course. but for the pub lie benefit also. That these great en terprises are consolidating. is no crime but as absolutely logica a developmen as the combination of labor in laho unrcns.
 T.ie srSr,., samMsa concentrate, Ina . ii:oits tns aaTrcr- o. . labor union fla. : no more but no less powe9 = gsnit tn, scope of a great corporation.
 National law compels a corporation g-hen 1t falls in business end ends if affairs to liquidate on the same basi in every state in the union. Logic an, common sense alike demand that no only when it goes out of business bu
 when it goes into business, it shoul
 he granted fair play and the sam terms of organization. no more. n
 less. in. Maine as in Washington. il
 Louisiana as in Michigan. May We nc quietly. saneiy and unflinchingly a
 common citizens of one nation, Wor
 in peace for the more perfect uniO - demanded by the constitution of ou : country. and in Abraham Lincoln r way. With malice toward none, wit
 charity to all