River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-09-15
YOUNG MANS IDEA
BEvER|DCE'S TEXT
Indiana Senator Addresses Con-
servation Congress.
ACT FOR NATION AS WH~LE
Only as Entire Nation Is Prosperous
Can Any State Be Prosperous
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 1.-THE Young Mans
| Idea" He said:
| The United States is The American
people are a Nation-not forty-six ma
| tons.
Our history is the story of the struggle
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
If the Colonies were separated by local
pride, prejudice and jealousy the British
policy would be easier. They knew that
If the colonists were united by common
interests, sentiment and purpose, the Brit
ish 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 a law to help the spe-
cial interests OF the United Kingdom
monopolize the markets of the separated
colonies. The revolution YES the war Of
the people, for the moment united,
against the special interests that had
p1undered them when divided.
! Such is the historic origin of American
| provincialism. 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 Dayonets of OPP
preston The colonists entered the con-
f1ict under many flags; the American peo-
i 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
] provincialism still was powerful The
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. It was the pro-
vinciai idea carried to It's logical con-
/ clusion. And so it fell.
The peoples cruel necessities compelled
the reassertion of the National idea, and
the constitution was that IDEAS immortal
child The Articles of Confederation de-
/ clared that 1--WE, the states formed the
government; the constitution declares that
"we, the people," formed the government
/ ito promote our general welfare" Yet
into that "great ordinance of national
! ity," as Chief Justice Marshall calls ou-
constitution, 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 VIII IN
we had inherited from the policy OF the
British kings.
AS the constitution was adopted,
Estates rights were not mentioned.
/ Washington was elected president; con-
! gress was in session and the National
government was under way. The tenth
amendment 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 Henry, then governor of Vir-
| ginia, who refused to attend the consti-
/ tutional convention and opposed the ratifl-
cation Of our fundamental law Upon the
| embers of provincia1fsm he threw the in
! fiammable brushwood Of his excited rhet-
ORIG.
| National Spirit Victorious.
| Being in the constitution, the states
rights provision is as valid as any other
amendment But such is it's origin and
spirit; and It's 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
so much that the Nation will interfere
Nryik1 81 49, 4,
states will interfere with the rights Of
/ the Nation.
| After the National government was
started its first conflict with provincalism
| was in the whisky rebellion in Pennsyi-
vania; 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
/ Washin gton in his day. was the voice of
united people against special interests
who. behind the shield OF provincialism.
sought TO exploit all the people.
| Then came the special interests that
| thrtved on slavery and under the provin-
| cial Interpretation OF states rights
sought TO destroy the Nation they could
not control But the National spirit re-
sponded ito Abraham sEinccln's' call to
arms; and in the mightiest war of his
tory million hayonets 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-,
niad the Nations right to interfere But
the Nation did stop them and the sunrene
court sustained the Nations power.
It was the same with special interests
that were selling diseased meats po;s-
oned foods and adulterated drugs to the
masses: these special interests again
fought the Nations effort to protect the
Nations people. Yet today National laws
shield the health and lives OF the peonle
These evils hourished under the proyin-
ciai idea of the people divided; they ner-
tshed 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 cornora+e
capitalization upon which so largely de-
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