Lower coast gazette., 1909-11-13
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER -, 1919.
The Status Ard Value OF Governors.

governors Of the Mississippi Valley states tha'
accomnanied him on his tour by the river 1l"n' 6
Ct Io1is to New Orleans. The autocrauc Ch- ,
denotes of our last democratic pfeSioen'' '" =
Cleveland and the still more autocfaFlc 'oe"9 u' 7
orr recent republican president, Coi. h'oSe'Vr' ,
ought to show to every rejecting person :0
donoors re- the fedora! union by the Assumption
Of too much power by the central government
President Cleveland called a special SeS''0" '"
congress for the aVoWed purpose Oh 'e0W' 15
the repeal Of the Sherman silver purchase yin.
That hill was the deliberate act OF congress ~
,oonIar session and congress at IT'S own olscle-
tion conId have repealed it at its next session,
or at anv SUBSEQUENT session, when convinced
Of the expediency of so doing. Inc pie'OV'1
Of the United States has the authority 10 Can
evtra sessions Of congress, presumably olnS ~
some very great emergency anu i
C,o,,ol.nd awaiting Of this, with congress i"
nocs;on bo nracticalIv compelled congress 10 re-
no.1 tho Sherman law. This repeal may nave
heen wise legislation, but 1t was 1ofceo W
President Cleveland in a very au5ocraVlc U y
vov Col Roosevelt when president do many
+h;nos and created vast expenses outside OF Che
nurUlpW or any hiONl low oif"
congress to back him up later on IN the 'ncloe"-
ta] expenditures. The series or coIhlno'lo''
c,ested bv him for many purposes were NOV "u
thorized by law and yet our people qu'euy soo-
ro;++od To this central %autocrat and congress
hnumblv voted the payment OF the DIS
The theory of our government was ceailS
on,nc;ated nv that distinguished Loulslahalah
90 tho last generation, B. J. Sage, on his DOCK
mon the federal union entitled "A Nepool'c VI
Renubics." The federal union was very o'lli-
omit of creation and the thirteen original co'o-
n;os were reluctant about surrender1ng IN any
roonror their respective a%utonomles. Inc union
,uo, 6na]1v secured with the ARTICLES OF con-
federation and perpetual union between tne
states" in IT'S and 1779 and ten years later TIT
nroeon+ constitution of the United States was
adon+ed and signed by George Washington a.
rros;dent and deputy from Virginia and by TN
delegates from the rest OF the states' III ''
constitution the powers given to congress al
definitely laid down and are we'll unoefstoou '
;ncl,de the coinage of money, the control Oh vi
nos+al department, organization and controA q
tho armv and navy of the United States, OF II
ternational trade, of interstate trace the l III,
king of treaties with foreign countries ana Il
withdrawal Of all these prerogatlVes from u
various states. -, /,
A GREAT nation was thus created, with u
mower of obtaining adequate revenues anu VI
was done without destroying the thlrteeh |
nnblics that formed the original thlfteeh stale
We are ant to lose sight OF these tacts anu !
assembly of the governors in St. Louis ana
tho M;ssiss;ppi River in the presidents &c
suggests what an enormous amount VI Nv"
now lies in the hands Of these men, the 9
ernor's of the various states OF the great M
sissippi Valley. III, ~
The Younger generation, less familiar W
some Of the leading facts in the civil war, n
not recall the great war governors Oh 'ne lol
ern states who came to the AID OF ffeso
Lincoln in that unhappy and unnecessary I
Aict. Gov. Andrews of Massachusetts, =
Curtain Of Pennsylvania, Gov. Morton OF l
ana and two or three more of the governors
that time. held a meeting and resolved to
IN IN the aid of President Lincoln the necesS
troops with which to defend the city OF w
;nqton and carry on the war. 1t was 1ho'
that those governors saved the federal unlo
+b.+ time The constitution OF the VI
States was by o said to have been a rop
sand, but the integrity Of each OF the NAV
states of the union was undlsputed ana
combination of these governors afforded III
sources. the money, the r m and the I
that turned the tide of the war and saVe(
federal union from disruption.
To be the governor of a great state
Louisiana, or Ohio, Or New York IS one 0
most distinguished honors that can De
ferred upon any man and when we READ Q
assemblage of the governors OF the sta
the Mississippi Valley to make the rive,
With President Taft, we wondered "hes
not the time would ever come again W
would be necessary for these governors L
in conference to maintain the integrity
union, as some Of them did nearly h1ty
ago.
Th,eo oovarnors r%epreSent the several