Lower coast gazette., 1909-11-27
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER q, 1909.
4 National Board of Health.

OF Jne people vi I1c OOutl diC ilo9 oSIooiAeN"
with the elementary doctrines OF democracy,
which means local self government and the
strict construction of all constitutional rights.
Whenever states rights cases have reached the
Supreme Court that court has almost always de-
cided in favor of the doctrine Of states rights.
The trouble with US is that our own people seem
to be afraid of that doctrine and seem willing to
give way every right that We have to the cen
trail government if we can only get the central
government to foot the bills. This is a most
mercenary way of looking at governmental
matters and our people are destroying democ-
racy by asking national charity.
If there be any rights reserved to the states,
and we understand that all rights are reserved
to the states excepting those that are specifical-
" ~relegated to the national government, con-
~spicuous among them would be the control OF
our own schools and the control Of our W
health. We had almost said the control OF our
own churches, but the constitution of the United
States, as adopted by the states, prohibits the
organization Of any state church.
There is considerable talk now about a
National Board of Health with national regula-
tons. We suppose that under these circum-
stances we should very quickly get back to the
saying of William H. Seward, when he was Sec
retary of State, and told a European envoy then
in Washington, that he could ring the little bell
on his desk and order and secure the arrest OF
any man in practically every state or any state
of the federal union. If We are to have a
AY.Ly.-.1 Daaul &c LToo1th univ chOl,lHn't fhpV
prevent us from using rain water cisterns be-
cause of the danger Of promoting the yellow
fever and thus endangering interstate trade!
It was only a few years back that our people
tumbled over each other to ask our own State
Board Of Health to resign and that our governor
went to a convention at Chattanooga and ia
vored national Intervention in the matters OF
our state control Of health, with the final result
that for a miserable pittance we have sold out
our main quarantine establishment to the u. S.
government.
The matter came up recently and President
Taft was reported as having stated that he
favored a National Board of Health. Judicial
minded as he is, he certainly should have re-
fected as to what tender ground he stood upon
when he would enter any of the states of the
union with the federal arm, with the view Of
controlling the management Of the public health
of such state.
It must be manifest to every thinking person
that a National Board of Health, or a National
Board of Education, supplied with funds and
with power to act is subversive Of the very
foundations upon which this great government
has been built. The Roman Empire was con-
trolled by orders from Rome and it fell tt
pieces, although it at one time controlled practi'
cally all of what was then called the civilized
world and but few traces of that magnificent
empire now remain. The Latin language ha:
become a dead one and the so-called Romance
languages with all of their merits, are but the
degenerate descendants of the grand Latil
language of Rome's palmy days.
The United States, with their nearly a hund
red millions of people, are a greater empire il
wealth, intelligence, commerce., manufacture
and general industry than ever Rome was. |
will become quite a problem as to how to main
tain this great American Republic. We believ
that it only can be done by each state demand
ing for itself all the rights retained to it by tn
constitution and that each state for itself sha
control the health of it's wv people, the educa
ton Of it's own children and we would say fu
Their. it's military control excepting in time
war. The so-called Dick bill, which puts tn
state militia under the control of the U. S. goo
eminent is certainly a very serious surrender
our state rights and because the United State
furnish the arms and munitions for our ow
state militia, we surrender their control to til
national government.
Every thinking democrat should be jealo'
of the rights of his state and reluctant to su
render any one of them, 1t would seem absu1
to endeavor to make our people all think al
act alike. The puritans in New England, t
Germans of Ohio and Missouri, the French
Louisiana and the Spanish Of New Mexico a.
California have very different views from ca
other concerning the christian sabbath, and y
all of these people are christians by active pl
fession. Why should We endeavor to redu
them all to one common standard OF though
We have a common language, spoken by me
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