The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-11-10
Growth OF Executive Powers
Has No TerrOrS
FOR EDITOR OF OUTLOOK
Decentralization Danger-He Tells Yale
Students Industrial Liberty
Is the Need Of the
Hour. S

New Haven, Nov l0.-The Rev. Lymst
Abbott OF New York delivered the second
lecture in the Dodge course on "Ths
Responsibilities OF Citizenship" befor,
the Yale men in Lampson hall Tuesday
night. DR.. Abbott's subject was "Ihi
Political Problems Of America" He said
in part:
eWhat does liberty mean. and how cat
it be secured in our highly organized
industries?
st is the problem OF young men to
make our industries democratic, 1t il
certain that the community cannot per.
manently remain with its educational
religious and political institutions based
on liberty and equality, and its indus
trial institutions based on autocracy and
inequality.
"Our municipal problem is rightly re.
garded as one Of the most serious prob
lens that confronts America to-day. Car
we maintain the spirit of liberty and
equality in these great, crowded heteri
ogeneous foreign city populations?
'The preservation of liberty and equal
ity in the nation requires on the one
hand that the people of the state shall
control those affairs which concern only
the state without Intervention from the
federal government, But it equally re.
quires that the people of the nation shall
control all those affairs which concert
the people Of the nation as a whole and
that this control shall not be hampered
or limited by a claim of state rights
The growth of the nation from ID to Al
states and the growth in population
wealth and complexity of industries nee.
essarily involves a growth Of federal
power.
If the fears of Capitalization had pre-.
vailed and the opponents Of its successful
development of our natioHalism could
have had their way. the constitution
never would have been accepted by the
colonies and the federal union would not
have been formed; if formed, each state
would have been at liberty to decide
whether laws enacted by the Congress
were constitutional and to refuse obedi.
enee if they disapproved their consti.
nationality.
"The fears Of am extension OF the
powers of the executive are equally
groundless. It is sometimes said that
the federal government is one of enumer.
atcd powers This is mistake The
powers of the Congress are enumerated;
the powers Of the executive and judiciary
are not enumerated They are granted
by general clauses. and decisions of the
supreme court make it clear that il was
the intention of the trainers OF the con.
stitution to give in one case to the ex.
ecutive and in the other case to the
Judiciary those powers usually possessed
by those departments in a constitutional
government The dread of executives
power is curious leftover from colonial
DAYS
"The peril to this country is not from
Capitalization, but from decentralization;
not from too much, but from too ltttls
power in the governments not from the
men on horseback. but from the mob
"The change from autocratic to demo-
cratic government. that is, from govern
ment Of the many by the few or by one
to self government, initiated by our Ia
theirs in l776, has made and Is making
such progress in the world as gives rea-
sonable assurance that we shall never
90 back to the old-time authorities"