The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-22

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 pleasure; and greater still the House | CT States are almost invisible.
 The Statesmen of 1789 saw that
 protect the States as they would
 they would become largely subject to | federal control, so far as the power
 of Legislation, or of executive action
 on the part of the United States, its extent in plain words. They
 granted certain powers to the Federal Government, and no more They said
 that all powers not granted were re- | served to the States or to the people. Sixty years ago, some of the States | asserted that a power to secede from were wrong. Constitutional principles | demonstrated and the Civil War de- c1ded that they were wrong. The Su- preme Court of the United States,
 when they came to pass upon it, ssaid | that this was an indissolub1e Union of indestructible States: Two great | truths The Union is indissoluble. The States are ipdestructible.
 And what does that mean? Not simply that the States cannot be blot ted out of existence. It means that their constitutional position and priv ileges cannot be altered, except by an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. It means that to each State belongs all Legisla tive power over it's territory and it's peo- D., except so far as that Constitution has taken it away. This has always Democratic party-what I called at New Haven the other day, one Of their true, sound, undying doctrines.
 Here is the great line of division They are for extending the Federal authority in new directions. They are for pushing what authority it has got to it's utmost limits; and many of them are for stretching it beyond the limits.
 This was the position of President Roosevelt while in office and it is his position today. The Federal authority he has said repeatedly must be push ed to it's limits, and to it's limits tended far as they can be by ex- ecutive action; by Legislative action and by judicial construction. This doc Urine of the New Nationalism'' has of the West. We of the Democratic party do not believe in it. We see in it a menace to the safety of the people. We see in it an attack on the We Connecticut Democrats see in it a blow to the vital interests of Con- necticut.
 What is it that has enabled us here in Connecticut to build up on a petty scrap of territory a population of more than a million and center of production which finds a market in every corner of the country, and in every quarter of the world? We are purely a manufacturing State. We do not raise enough on our farms to feed our own people. We have to import from other States Or foreign countries all the material which our factories use. Our strength is in the skilled and intelligent men who fill our shops; in the inventive genius of our people; in their universal educa- der: in their Active participation in local Government; in their attac achment to this land of steady habits.
 It is an attachment not confined to the native born. Why do so many of the immigrants who land in New York come here to live? Because they know good thing when they see it. towns, there was talk of having a night watchman employed to patrol the village at the center. A Pole, who had bought rundown farm to the selectmen and said he would be glad to serve as such a watch would you charge?'' they asked. ''Oh nothing,'' was his reply. 'I love the town so.''
 men who come from foreign parts to make Connecticut their home. The man who is born in place and loves it best. It is those, who. com ing from somewhere else, have freely chosen it, out of all the world-ready to learn new tasks, a new tongue, a
 
 most deeply feel it's worth. and are ready to do the most for it.
 Take then, the Connecticut of to- l day;- this busy little State full of in te1lgence and invention, self-goVern- 1 ing, far-reaching for it's markets, win ming them by good work and close l prices; say let us keep to ourselves | for all time the great privilege of l managing our own affairs
 We do not want any larger army | of Federal inspectors and spies, and 1 tax gatherers maintained within our 1 borders and at our expense, than is | demanded by the true interests of the United States; and the true interests 1 of the United States demand a much | smaller army than is now quartered on
 The United States are best served, as well as the states by adherence to the doctrines of the Democratic par ty as to the balance of power between the federal government and the states. This nation would not have and grown and prospered from 1739 to this hour, had it not been that for nine-tenths, yes, for min ety-nine hundredkhs, of the affairs of daily life, the state was the source of authority, not the United States.
 No great governu ent is capable of being well administered unless cen tral power is limited by home rule.
 One evil of multiplying the activi- ties of the federal government has been strikingly illustrated this fall by | letter from the private secretary of he President, written in his behalf