The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-05-11
GUILD PLEADS FOR
NATURALIZATION OF LAWS



tional disgrace was torn away by a
national emancipation proclamation
The naturalization OF law that
Abraham Lincoln thus inanguT,atned mas
clusion. We have national law regu-
lating the distilling OF intoxicants. We
have national law regulating All banks
OF issue. We have national law partly
regulating the operation OF so-cailed
trusts. We have national law regulat-
ing the settlement OF bankrupts. we
have national law, insufficient and 100
feeble enforced we OF MASSACHUSETTS,
think. that is supposed TO secure pure
food.
National Divorce Law.
why should not the development of
community OF law be carried further
I'm all matters OF national moment? It
IL better TO violate a shadowy state
right than TO consent TO a substantial
national wrong.
We are ready In war to die. II need
he under one common national nag.
why should we shrink In peace from
living under one common national
law?
The law OF South Carolina prohibits
divorce on any ground. The new law
OF Massachusetts, prohibits divorce by
collision and permits II OILY on gro1nos
IT, What security has the American
home II any one state may permit by
It's loose laws men and women TO 1--WE
together and part at Will and II that
Americans by the mere crossing or a
state line?
II is Indecent that the safe guarding
OF common morality In all the states
can today be broken down by a state
law in any state.
We have little reason to boast OF our
national morality TIL q national divorce
law III IL does provide that the decent
OF either sex need not be chained for
ever to human brute shall also pro-
vide that in no state shall more tenn
porary mating from time to time at the
call of transient passion be legally
sanctioned with the holy name OF mar
rage
National chill Labor Law.
The boast of America Is it's public
schools Why should schools be built
n the children are prevented from at
tending them" There is no massacre
OF the innocents in he Bay state. and
we, with our stern restriction OF child
labor. have seen our industries checked
and New England capital go 60 states
where anarchy is bred In the coal
breaker and the cotton mill, where
brain and body are dwarfed and
stunted in little children, citizens in
the making. whose toiling hands are
scarcely large enough to swing ball
bat or cage a butterfly.
why should II be possible for any
state to OFFER extra dividends to capital
by permitting kind OF labor that
strikes at the very root Of American
citizenship?
Let us stand up. not as men OF
Michigan. or of Massac husetts but as
Americans against this inhumane this
inhuman me Of cleavage between the
states, Let National law take the chill
dren from the<Raills and mines and put
them I'm the schools in every state In
the union
Shall l go further?
National Regulation Of Corporations.
We owe much to the great captains
OF industry who have built the rails
roads and the lighting plants and thu
telephone and telegraph lines. IL IA
not the fashion to remember the losses
and risks of the same men nor to give
them credit for what they have dared
for their private benefit also That
these great enterprises are consolidate
ing Is no crime but as absolutely log
ical a development 81 the combination
of labor In labor unions.
Transportation, especially, has its
hand on every line Of industry In this
country. IL Is rapidly coming into q
very few hands. 1t can build UP one
port and wreck another. 1t can make
or break any manufacturing Industry.
These are truisms II Is also a truism
TO say that the state must control the
railroads or the railroads will control
state.
We are 10 some extent controlling
corporations, but chiefly by all kinds OF
local legislation whose constantly
varying form makes the profitable field
Oh INVESTMENT Oh touhy utstTt on
deficit tomorrow. Fair play and the
protection OF the public demand the
establishment OF uniform system OF
corporation control by expert advisors
under the supervision OF the national
government. applying one law TO all
states and enforcing the same law from
one end OF the country TO the other.
One Law OF incorporation.
Why stop at regulation? why would
10 not lend greater stability and uni
formity TO business " the United States
used the common sense OF other coun-