Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
THE NEW NAT1oNAL1sM

and appropriate field of OsaWatomie
changed from a doubtful private to the
leader of the forces engaged in the
fight on special privileges. His new
nationalism" goes a step farther than
any public man has yet gone in form
ulating a battle plan against the enc
mics of equal opportunity.
Roosevelt's Osawatomie speech will
please the great majority of progress
sives. many of them hitherto inclined
to counsel making haste slowly, for
they now see the folly of making two
bites of cherry. Mr.. Tafts unsuc-
cessful attempt to meet the situation
that way has made it plain that the
only st. George brave and strong
enough to meet the corporation dragon
is the federal government, armed with
all its possible resources.
The states are unable to cope with
the vast aggregations of capital that
have been strong enough to capture
not only MANI of the state legislatures
and federal courts, but the United
States senate, and to create political
obligations that must be paid back by
the appointment of Ballinger a
Wickersham, a Hitchcock and Knox
TO the presidents cabinet. All that
is left of the old doctrine of states
rights gives way before the stern cir
cumstances that compel the nation to
strengthen for the fight against the
forces Of organized greed.
Only the negro problem in the south
has kept any life in the doctrine of
states rights, and that pales to moth
ing compared to the great dangers in
volved in the corporation in politics.
But the new nationalism" appeals
even to some of the wisest corporation
managers. Some of the railroad man
ayers have cried out for federal super
vision, If there must be supervision, in
order to be saved from the conflicting
laws passed and harder terms exacted
by the states. Feeling their weakness
before the great corporations, several
of the states have let evaporation lead
them to excess. Hence the reaction
against state efforts TO meet the prob
AoAiA fAA1A bbC EIONhi COHNlCllOI lildl
only the strongest kind of central gov
ernment can do it.
Reactionaries representing the cor
poration side-orators In the senate and
on. the stump and writer's in newspa-
pers of the subsidized kind-have de-
claimed about the dangers of central
ization, of imperialistic tendencies, of
socialism and other imaginary evils.
They frightened people of properly con-
seryatiye tendencies for a while, but
1t became apparent that their alarm
was a wolf cry and that remote evils
they warned us against were not to
be compared with present evils ,ney
were trying to cover up while the lar
rimans, the Guggenheims, the Aldriches
and their kind might seize more of
the public domain or further entrench
themselves through tariff laws and
court decisions.
The new nationalism" is henceforth
the watchward OF the movement called
insurgency.
1t will concentrate the sentiment for
luIudI IlBIlS.
1t will mass the scattered power of
the people to fight the associated power
of arrogant wealth in transportation
and insurance companies and indus
trial trusts, whose ownership has been
concentrated in a few groups.
1t will see that, the country over,
the people and not purchased legisla-
lures elect their senators.
It will see that direct primaries
everywhere take the power of conven~
ton manipulation away from corpora,
tions.
1t will see the initiative referendum
and recall put into the hands of all
the people, and that even a United
States senator may be recalled for
malfeasance.
railroad power put off such vast
needed work as the Panama canal or
express trust deny the people the bene-
fits of parcels post.
It will see that never again shall
lobbyists of capital become greater
than elected representatives.
1t will see that the fairest method
in the world of apportioning the pub
lie burdens-the income tax-will be
adopted.
It will see that the tariff system
that plumbers the masses to fatten al
ready swollen fortunes is abolished.
1t will see that interstate corpora
tions must be incorporated by the fed
eral government and shall lose their
charters for breaking the law.
1t will see that greed for profits shall
not poison our foods.
Our socialistic friends see in all this
an inevitable evolution into the social
istic state; but since foreign states
and cities now control railroads and
other public utilities, not only sup
plying cheaper and better service on
the whole, but escaping the corrup-
ton brought about by private owner |
shin. this prospect will not frighten |
the country, but rather satisfy it that |
.he good sense of the American people |
will carry them across that bridge |
when they come to 1t.
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