The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-09-16
YOUNG MANS IDEA
BEvER|DGE'ST TEXT
Indiana Senator Addresses Con-
servation Congress.
ACT FOR NATION AS WHOLE
Only as Entire Nation IL Prosperous
Can Any State Be Prosperous
Waste Of Peoples Wealth
Must Stop.

Waste OF Peoples wealth.
Must Stop.
st. Paul, Mimi, Sept. 8.-United
States Senator Albert ]. Beverage Of
Indiana was the principal speaker at
today's session of the National Con-
servation congress. Senator Bever-
idge spoke at the morning session on
the subject of "The Young Mans
Idea" He said:
The, United States is. The American
people are Nation-not forty-six ma
tons.
of the National sentiment Of all the peo-
pie. which special interests for their self
ish purposes sought to discourage, against
the provincial sentiment Of some Of the
people, which special interests for their
selfish purposes sought to encourage.
The parents Of the provincial idea in
American government was the British
crown. The British kings believed that
II the Colonies were separated by local
pride, prejudice and jealousy the British
policy would be easier. They knew that
II the colonists were united by common
interests, sentiment and purpose, the Brit
fish policy would be harder. And that
policy was to permit the special interests
OF the United Kingdom to exploit the
people Of the colonies.
Therefore from King James to King
George the British crown fostered local
pride, prejudice, jealousy and hostility
among the colonies. Divided in geography
for convenience Of British government
the British kings kept them divided in
spirit for the interests of British manu-
facturers. Every British law which forced
the revolution was law to help the spe-
cial interests Of the United Kingdom
the markets of the separated
colonies. The revolution was the war Of
the people. for the moment united
against the special interests that had
plundered them when divided.
Such is the historic origin of American
Washington and his con-
tinentals were the infant National idea in
uniform and manning the shotted guns Of
of liberty: the British and their Tory
and Hessian allies were the full grown
provincial idea behind the bayonets Of OPP
preston. The colonists entered the con-
f1ict under many flags; the American peo-
pie emerged from the struggle carrying
a single banner.
Provincial Idea Failed.
Our first attempt at government was a
failure because the royal British idea Of
prOVINClduSIn sui Was powerful. inc
local pride, prejudice and jealousy of sep
arate colonies sprang up when their COM
mon dangers was over. The Articles Of
Confederation was the unhappy result.
Washington declared that that govern
ment was contemplate. 1t was the pro-
vincial idea carried to its logical con-
clusion. And so 1t fell.
The peoples cruel necessities compelled
the reassertion Of the National idea. and
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child. The Articles Of Confederation de-
clared that 1--WE, the states" formed the
government; the constitution declares that
1--WE, the people," formed the government
ito promote our general welfare" Yet
into that great ordinance of national.
ity," as Chief Justice Marshall calls our
crept defects which the
statesmen of that day could not prevent
defects which have been the source Of
most Of our troubles since; and most Of
them come from that provincialism which
we had inherited from the policy Of the
British kings.
AS the constitution was adopted,
Estates rights were not mentioned.
was elected president; con-
gress was In session and the National
government was under way. The tenth
came to quiet those who were
preaching the paradox that the general
government Of all the people would OPP
press the people. Noisiest Of these was
Patrick Henrv, then governor Of vir-
GINA, who refused to attend the consti-
convention and opposed the ratifi-
cation Of our fundamental law. Upon the
embers of provincialism he threw the in
fammable brushwood Of his excited rhet-
oric.
National Spirit Victorious.
Being in the constitution, the states
rights provision Is as valid as any other
But such is its origin and
spirit; and its misinterpretation never
must be permitted to nullify the Nations
interests, waste the Nations resources,
plunge the Nation into war or prevent the
general welware Of the whole people.
Now. as always. the danger has been not
30 much that the Nation will interfere
with thefrights Of the states, as that the
states will interfere with the rights of
the Nation.
After the National government was
started its first conflict with provincialism
was in the whisky rebellion in Pennsyl-
vanfa: the special interests who dealt in
rum In the name Of state sovereignty de-
ned the execution Of the Nations laws;
but Washington put down that first
states rights rebellion in the name of
the government Of all the people.
Then came the resistance of special in
terests to the laws of all the people in
Andrew Jackson's day. The voice Of
Jackson in his day. like the voice of
in his day, was the voice of
who, behind the shield Of provincialism,
sought to exploit all the people.
Then came the special interests that
thrived on slavery and under the provin-
c1al Interpretation Of states rights"
sought to destroy the Nation they could
not control. But the Naional spirit re-
sponded to Abraham Lincoln's call to
arms; and in the mightiest war of his
tory a million bayonets again wrote
across our constitution these words of
the American peoples Immortality: This
Is a Nation"
Special interests were robbing and cor
rupting the whole people by lotteries:
special interests were poisoning morals
with the leprosy Of obscene literature.
They existed under state protection. The
Nation alone could stop them. They de-
Mad the Nations right to interfere. But
the IN alton did stop them and the supreme,
court sustained the Nations power.
1t was the same with special interests
that were selling diseased meats, pois-
oned foods and adulterated drugs to the
these special interests again
fought the Nations effort to protect the
Nations people. Yet today National laws
lnleid the health and lives of the people
These evils fiourished under the provin-
cial idea Of the people divided; they per-
shed under the National idea of the peo-
pie united. And again today we see these
two ideas arrayed in battle for ana
against the National control Of corporate
capitalization upon which 30 largely de-
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