The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1910-10-28

serve the cause of conservation by
challenging the plain rights of the
states or by slandering a whole peo-
pie. Do these men expect TO succeed
by bidding defiance to the fundame emit
al law OF the land? l maintain with
out hesitancy that the mob in the
streets Of Columbus. Ohio. bidding de-
fiance to all law and seeking to ac-
complish its cherished purpose in
lawless ways is in no different posi-
ton than those who would move on
TO their purpose in open contempt of
the fundamental law under which we
live.
Law and Order First.
Colonel Roosevelt speaking in CO.
lumbus. said: THE first requisite to
the establishment of justice is the es-
adjustment of law and order and woe
to the man. public official or private
citizen. who fails to realize this fact"
NO sounder or more statesmanlike an
nouncement could fall in these DAYS
from human lips. But 1t covers all,
the highest and the lowest 1t must
not be applied alone to the man hard
pressed in the struggle for existence,
crowded to the limit by those who
control his wage it must cover the
highest and most powerful. it must
apply not only to the statutes passed
for the punishment of the lowly but
to those whose business it is to pro-
tect the whole framework of the gov
eminent under which we live.
In his message to the governors
congress Colonel Roosevelt said: I'm
matters that relate only to the people
within the state. of course the state
Is to be sovereign and should have
power to act. If the matter is such
that the state itself cannot act then l
wish on behalf of the state that the
national government should act" No
one can possibly find fault with this
rule. We ask for it's faithful appli-
cation and there will be no possible
controversy between the national gov
eminent and the western states We
take as much pride in our national
government and in the powers which
it may and should exercise as do any
other people in this country.
West Is Not Guilty.
1t is said by those who have a sin
lister motive for misrepresentation
that the western states are incapable
of doing that part of the work which
the constitution imposes upon them
that in order that we out in the west
be shielded from monopoly we must
be deprived of our rights as states
our self governing capacity as a peo-
pie. Thou hypocrite, first cast out
the beam out of thine own eye; and
then shalt thou see clearly to cast
out the mote out of thy brothers
eye. Which sovereignty has dissi-
pated our natural resources? Which
sovereignty has decided away the peo-,
pies heritage with shameless pro-
llgacy to the great corporations?
Which sovereignty is it that has per-
mitted and still permits great corpo-
rations to hold millions of acres which
under their grant they long ago for
feited and which the people should
now enjoy but for the powerful in
ton? What sovereignty is it whose
bureaus are controlled by favoritism
extended by those corporations? What
monopoly has the national govern
ment put out of business? What an
THRUST law has it enforced? What
trust magnate is now in Jail? Before
the nationalists covet powers which
do not belong to them. in the name of
| the people let them exercise in their
behalf powers which they clearly pos
sess. If there are any monopolies in
| this country ready to prey upon the
western states, by whose connivance
are they here? Why does not the ma
donal government destroy them? VIII
1t destroy them when it has more
power when it refuses to exercise the
! powers it has? We think the real
safety against corporate control and
monopoly in this country rests at last
with the common people, the self
| governing citizens who express them
selves through the local government
Self Governing Capacity of People.
Mr.. Chairman, the west believes in
| conservation but ii believes that the
great cause can be worked out with
due regard to the provisions of the
| constitution. 1t believes in the self
| governing capacity of the people
rather than in the governing capacity
of bureaus. We believe in laws in
stead of rules and regulations made
by no one and for whom no one is re-
sponsibe under our theory of govern
ment. We believe that the people in
their respective states are loyal, in
telligent and patriotic and will do
their share in this cause if those at
| Washington will do theirs. We ex-
poet the national government to use
unhesitatingly and fully all the powers
which belong to it and we expect the
| law-abiding and patriotic men to as
sist the states in holding and exercis-
ing all the powers which belong to
| them.
Chief Justice Marshall, the man
who did more than any other man to
give strength and power to the ma
| tional government, said: mo politi-
cal dreamer was ever wild enough to
think of breaking down the lines
| which separate the states and of COM
pounding the American people into
one common mass" The old Federal
list had little conception of the dream
capacity of some of our modern states
| men.
Lincoln. who gave his life in the
cause of national unity. said ITO
maintain inviolate the rights of the
states, to order and control under the
constitution their own affairs by their
own judgment exclusively is essential
for the preservation of that balance
of power on which our institutions
| rest"
Justice Harlan, the venerable jurist
whose character is commensurate in
dignity and worth with the august trib-
unal which he has greatly honored,
said: "A national government for
national affairs and state government
for state affairs is the foundation rock
upon which our Institutions rest and
any serious departure from that prin-
ciple would bring disaster upon the
| American system of free government"
We take our position with those
statesmen, jurists and patriots, and
| announce to the conservationists of
this country that we are ready to be-
gin work, ready for action, ready for
legislation.