The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-10-14
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
Election Tuesday, November 9Th, 1910.
THE DANGERS CONFRONTING OUR
COUNTRY.

VVUN
Our country is now passing through
a critical period of its history, and
we have come to point in which
thoughtful people regard it neces-
sary for us to stop and take our
Eeurings, and to look squarely into
tie situation as it exists.
That there have been large depart
ures from our conception Of the
original ideas of our government,
there can be no question. This has
been shown in many ways, and the
dangers which confront the American
people, at the present time, and
which they are called upon to meet,
grow out Of two main propositions.
First, the evident tendency of the
Republican party to concentrate, In
the federal government, powers
which the fathers of the Republic
never contemplated should exist, and
which, we think, are not warranted
by the constitution.
tied sovereignty, in the fact that all
the powers of the federal government
are limited by the express provisions
of the constitution. That liz, the fed
eral government can exercise no
powers that are not expressly grant
ed by the constitution. Article x of
the constitution declares that THE
powers not delegated to the United
States by the constitution, nor pro-
hibited by it to the states, are re-
served to the states respectively, or
to the people,"
So that the federal government has
no implied powers, and nothing can
be written into the constitution, by
acts of congress or by judicial decis-
ions.
Tie whole trend Of the Republican
party, which was in power during the
Civil War and through the period of
reconstruction, and up to the present
time, has shown the disposition of
that party TO this dangerous enlarge
ment of the powers OF the federal
government As this enlargement
gains Roadway, the reserved rights
O. the states grow less. And If Ii
goes On unchecked, we shall find our
selves, fLally, with the sovereignty
of the states gone, and the General
government turned into veritable
Monarchy.
The Democratic party has always
stood for a strict construction Of the
constitution, and for the rights of the
states, as guaranteed by that instru-
ment. end the only hope, as we see il,
for 81 esting this dangerous tendency
tLwe-I GENERALIZATION, is to eliminate
tie repUblican party from the con-
troll Of the government, and place it
in the hands of the Democratic party.
The second danger to our country,
is the excessive burdens of tariff tax
alton upon the masses of the people,
and the enormous benefits given to a
favored few, thus creating a monied
class, which in itself, by the power Of
its aggregated millions, is a menace
to the welfare OF the people and
danger to the Republic itself.
As an encouraging omen in this
threatened condition, indications
point to the fact, that the people of
the country are being aroused to the
dangers which threaten them, and to
the necessity for saner and safer
methods Of governmental control,
and are looking to the Democratic
party for deliverance.
They know that our party stands
for tariff that will furnish revenue
Sufficient for the conduct of the gov
eminent, economically administered,
ignoring the vicious system Of High
Protection. And that it has always
arrayed itself against the centraliza-
ton of power in the federal govern
ment, and in favor of the rights of
the ST. .es, as guaranteed by the con-
stitution.
These. are principles of govern
ment which are fundamental, and If
the country is to be preserved, and
the rights OF the people are to be
protected. these principles must be
recognized and enforced. And the
Democratic party Is, logically, the
only party through which these desir-