The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-11-04
MR.. BRYAN SPEAKS.

MR.. BRYAN SPEAKS.
But little more than week ago |
saw an extract from his own magazine
the Outlook, and in this extract Mr.
Roosevelt himself had condensed his
new nationalism into four sentences.
When i read these sentences was
amazed; was astounded And you will
be both amazed and astounded when you
find out what new nationalism means.
Before | read the three sentences that
desire to comment on / will read the
fourth, which is not 50 important. He
says:
New nationalism demands Of the
Judiciary that it shall be interested pri-
marily in human welfare, rather than
in property"
Well, there is nothing new about that
demand. 1t is now more than sixty
years since Lincoln coined the phrase
which is the most apt expression of this
doctrine; he said 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 for years; that is all that
fourth sentence means. You do not
have to advocate new nationalism TO
get that old doctrine. But let me give
you the three sentences which contain
the essence OF new nationalism.
First, the new nationalism is inn
patient of the utter confusion that re-
suits from local legislatures attempting
to treat national issues as local issues.
WHAT DOES NEW NATIoNALIsM" MEAN?
What does that mean? It means that
new nationalism wants to deprive the
State OF some of the powers that they
now have and transfer those powers to
Washington. One Of the things desired
is the national incorporation of rail-
roads Mr.. Roosevelt has recommend
ed il in one Of his messages, and one of
the reasons he gave was that il would
relieve the railroads OF annoyance by
local Legislatures President Taft is |
now preparing, through his attorney
general, bill that provides for the ma
tonal incorporation OF corporations en-
gagged in interstate commerce: and why? |
Because the State restrictions are obiect-
ed to by these great corporations. The
first step toward the new nationalism is
to concentrate power in Washington, to
increase the proportional power OF the
Federal Government and decrease the
proportional Importance Of the States,
1t means that when you want to deal
with a railroad, or with the big corpor
atoms that come into your State, in
stead of doing SO by your State Legis-
latures, you must wait until Washing
ton acts. And remember that when
you wait on Washington you wait on
the Senate as well as the House; and
that Senate now has so many repre-
sentatives of predatory interests in it
that il is the bulwark Of the exploiting
interests Of the country Are you will
ing to surrender the power you now
have and put your government farther
away from you? The Democratic party /
says that Federal remedies should be
added to the State remedies, not substi- {
tuted for State remedies. The Demo
cratic party says, let the State exercise {
the power it has. and let the nation ex- I
ercise the power it has. When both /
State and nation have acted you will '
not have any more regulation than you |
need Let me illustrate this. The t
home, the church and the school join Q
IN developing the character of our boys. +
What mother would be willing to strike b
down either the home, the school or the c