The Washington herald., 1910-10-22
BRYAN ON THE ISSUES
NEW NATIONALISM.
OFrom Speech Delivered at In

But little more than week ago
saw an extract from his own magazine
the Outlook and in this extract Mr.
Roosevelt himself has condensed his New
Nationalism into four sentences, and when
read these sentences / was amazed !
was astounded, and you VIII feel both
amazed and asts&inded when y6eI find out
what New NatiOnalism means.
Before ] read the three sentences
want 10 comment on / will read the
fourth, which is not so important He
says New NatlonaIism demands Of the
judiciary that il shall be interested pri-
marily in human welfare rather than In
property. Wen, there Is nothing new
about that demand II is now more than
sixty years since Lincoln coined that
phrase. That Is the aptest expression OF
this doctrine, that when the dollar and
the man come into conflict. he was for
the man before the dollar Now. the
Democratic party has been preaching
that doctrine. and. my friends. that IS
all that fourth sentence means. There
fore, you do not have 10 advocate New
@HtAt4'Ai'i44n4iA t' SCI AlttA '4'4 hA'ft II tAA'
But let me give YOU the three sentences
that include the essence Of New National
ism
First. New NatlOnalism is impatient OF
the utter confusion that results from
local legislators attempting to treat ma
iond issues as local issues"
So the first step Of New Nationalism Is
20 concentrate power IN Washington. %
increase the prop0rtonate power OF the
Federal government, and decrease pro
pOrti0nately the Importance Of the states
II means that when YOU want 10 deal
with railroads or with big corporations,
instead of doing so By your State legis-
latures. when :hey come into your state.
You must wait until Washington acts.
and remember that when you wait on
Washington yol wait on the Senate as
well as the House, and that fhe Senate
now has so many representatives of the
predatory interests that IL IS the bUlwsrk
OF the exploiting interests Of the country
Are YOU willing u surrender the power
you now have and pat your government
farther away from y1uo
The Democratic party says that Federal
remedies should be added 20 state rene
dies, not substituted for state remedies.
The Democratic party says let the State
exercise the power IL has. and when both
state and nation have acted YOU will not
have any more regulation than YOU need
The second. 1T is still more impatient
0f The impotence which springs from
the overdivisiou Of government powers. '
You are not only 20 concentrate things
u Washington bat YOU are 90 c0us0u-
date the government and instead OF lav-
Jag division Of powers. such as the
fathers thought necessary for the protee-
ton ~ liberty. you are 90 have a rising
Executive and a diminishing court and
legislature
That is step no .. ard what IS the
third step To naturally follows. New
Nati0uaI--m regards the executive power
as the steward OF the public welfare
There you have il. my friends Put
everything IN Washington first. then put
everything iu the President. and then he
is % stand as a sort Of earthly father
ana take care ~ us.
That is New NaJiOHalsm my friends,
when you find ont what IL is. bat ] say
20 you that this IS doctrine from which
the world has been moving II has cost
the world Tho lives of millions OF patriots
% get away from This doctrine God
forbid that we should go h1Ik 20 IL
Why my friends. I doubt il there is any
man iu the United States who would Doe
willing TO exercise the power that Dir.
Roosevelt wants 90 pun in The President
I do not believe that There Is another
beside Mr Roosevelt and. my friends. 81
YOU are willing 20 trust him with this
power 7 beg you TO remember that he
i~ only human and may die, and then
yau must trust the man who gets 10
when ha is dead. You cannot Judge a
monarchy by a good king
There have been good kings. but there
never was good monarchy The doc
triue is bad and never since the DAYS
OF Alexander Hamilton has such "a doc
trine been promulgated lu the United
states bv a prominent man as Is now adj
yauced IN the name Of New Nat.onalism.