Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-06-03

eminent cOofce q slater never again
would q state assume to dictate to the
Union; we had gone far towards realiz-
alton OF the consolidated government
hated and feared in former days. The
federal executive assumed power unwar-
ranted by any clause Of the constitution
powers that were simply dictatorial;
and when we realize what possibilities
were wrapped up in betrayal Of that great
trust We may well thank God for Abra-
ham Lincoln.
"The close observer of current events
now sees Dolly evidences Of the tremend-
Gus forces set in motion by the Civil war
along the lines just indicated. Within
the ever widening scope Of federal juris-
diction are drawn functions that would
have been beyond the widest dream of
the most ardent Federalist in the old days
and these usurpations, as they would
have been called, are the commonplace
of our political life. The general govern
ment does not hesitate TO say to the
states, in effect: II you do not admins
ter your internal affairs more wisely in
such and such particulars, we shall adj
minister them for you. Under the guise
of regulating interstate commerce the
government, or rather the legislative
branch of it, has gone far towards claim
ing the right to correct alleged industrial
evils in certain states-for example, child
labor,-thereby usurping the constitu-
tional right of these states to manage
their own internal affairs, and ignoring
he basic theory of our dual system of
government. Today the government is
prosecuting vast economic projects in our
western country which prior to the war
would have been deemed entirely outside
OF any constitutional grant of power, ex-
press or implied.
81 venture the prediction that one OF the
ultimate results of the Rebellion will be
an unwholesome exaltation of federal
above state authority; that ultimately we
shall stand face to face with a danger
: lest, in the ever-expanding circle Of feder-
al power and authority, the lesser circles
OF state jurisdiction and activity may be
q swallowed up and lost. As it was your
mission, veterans, to save the nation, so l
D for one believe that in the fulness of time
, 1t will be the mission of your posterity to
; save the states. / believe that the states.
equally with the nation, are still the safe
guard OF our liberties. We cannot love
: them less, we cannot insist upon their
, prerogatives less, we cannot sacrifice our
) selves upon the altar of state loyalty less,
without imperilling the perpetuity of our
= institutions. believe that our splendid
sisterhood OF states, each as q free and To-
q cally independent commonwealth, each
with its local pride and traditions, each a
9 training school in the great principles Of
2 self-government are as necessary to our
Q institutions as is the United states under
the constitution.
J. "The success of the Union arms and
the consequent extension Of federal power
! made possible another development of our
g. - -. Nf4.N
n Just alluded to. With the close OF the
y war our soldiery laid down their arms
J. and resumed the pursuits Of peace. A
: period of wonderful industrial activity
a followed; railroads were thrown across
II the continent; the great West became the
. theatre of an unprecedented material
D growth; our national wealth, fed from
3 boundiess natural resources, increased
81 apace; our foreign commerce assumed
~ vast proportions; in q word, we became
s. almost in Arabian Nights fashion peo-
D. pie of vast material acquisitions.
n "As the Rebellion demonstrated our su-
r premacy among the nations OF the west.
ern hemisphere, so the conquest Of Spain
q demonstrated our right to a place among
v the great nations of the world. At I
70 stroke we we're swept into the splendid
d. vortex OF world politics and stood full
4 !
ID competitor for supremacy among the ma
Of tions. At q stroke, the Monroe doctrine
j. which in its true original import declared
TO two policies-America for Americans, anC
e. Americans for America-was cut il
u twain, one-half OF 1t shot away by Dew
e. ey's guns in Manila bay; and thence
az forth Old Glory we'll nigh kept step Il
III that drumbeat which encircles the glob'
TO with one continuous strain of MARTA
be music.
n lone of the most lamentable aspects o
our present-day life is the spirit Of mill
at tarism " hich is abroad in the world. II
On obedience to the demands Of this wa
OF spirit, and in spite OF the conception o
M universal peace embodied in the Hagu
ed tribunal, the nations have gone on in
IL creasing their ornaments until they hay
ed spent on them billions of dollars ant
he have amassed national debts of appalling
e. proportions. In this enlightened Chris
as tian era. when the inducements to peac
to and the peace sentiment were never be
ne fore so powerful, preparation for war
ne the foremost concern of the cabinets O
IS the world, war budgets the most crush
ar ing items of expenditure.
as 1.-THE end of it all must be either dis
ed armament or national bankruptcy; it car
not long continue. Crushed by taxation
d. the purpose OF which they see but dimly
M the peoples of these great nations tan
ne we ourselves are not entirely free from az
M prehension) are vainly looking for reliei
he That nation great enough and brav
sal enough to plant itself squarely upon th
ast precepts of the Man of Nazareth and d.
VII clare its determination to stand there bu
AS warked behind the innate sense Of iustiC
so of the world instead OF ironclads, woul
OF make an Irresistible appeal to unnun
an bered millions OF men the round cart
on over, an appeal which kings and cabine
nd would disregard at their peril.
tie "And shall not this great republic
ihe ours blaze the way in this splendid eau
ate OF universal peace7 just as we demo-
err strated the possibility Of great domest
ST federation of states, so shall we not lei
cen in the demonstration of the necessity OF
me federation Of nations, many in the legil
the mate promotion Of their several interest
be but one in the preservation Of intern
40 tional peace?