The Harrison times., 1911-01-14
NEW NATIONALISM DEFINED
BY BRYAN.
The Doctrine Is That from Which the
World Has Been Moving and Has
Cost the Lives Of Millions OF Pat
riots

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failed to go into the real meaning of
New Nationalism as advocated b.
the x-presidcnt, Mr. Bryan says:
Il had wondered why he called it
new nationalism. 1t seemed to me
that old democracy would really be
better description, because the
things that attracted attention
we're things for which democracy
has been nghting
"But little more than a week
ago saw an extract from his own
magazine, the Outlook, and in this
extract, Mr.. Roosevelt himself has
condensed his new nationalism into
four sentences. When | read these
sentences was amazed, | was as
founded. And YOU will be both
amazed and astounded when you
iind out what new nationalism
means
Before i read the three sentences
that | desire to comment on | Will
read the fourth, which is not so im-
portant. He says;
New nationalism demands OF the
judiciary that it shall be interested
primarily in human welfare rather
than in property"
"Well there is nothing new about
that demand 1t is now more than
sixty wears since Lincoln coined the
phrase which is the most apt eX-
preston of this doctrine; he said
that when the dollar and the man
come into conflict he was for the
man before the dollar The Demo
cratic party has been preaching that
doctrine for years; that is all that
fourth sentence means You do not
have to advocate new natlonaism
to get that old doctrine But let me
give YOU the three sentences which
contain the essence OF new national
ism.
First, the new nationalism is I'M
patient of the utter confusion that
results from local legislatures at
tempting to treat national issuses
as local issues,
What does this mean? 1t means
that new nationalism wants to de-
prive the states of some of the pow
ers that they now have, and trans
fer those powers to Washington.
One of the things desired is the nat
ional incorporation of railroads.
Mr. Roosevelt has recommended 1t
in one of his messages, and one OF
the reasons he gave was that 1t
would relieve the railroads some an
novance BY local legislatures. Pres
idcnt Taft is now preparing, through
his attorney general, bill that
provides for the national incorpora-
tion of corporations engaging in
interstate commerce; and why? Be
cause state restrictions are objected
to by these great corporations. The
first step toward the new national
ism is to concentrate power in Wash
ington, to increase the proportional
power of the federal government
and decrease the proportional inn
portance of the states. 1t means
that when YOU want to deal with
railroad, or with the big corpora.
tons that come into your state IN
stead of doing so by your state legis-
latures, you wait until Washington
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 rep
resentatives of predatory interests
in it, that it is the bulwarE of the
exploiting interests of the country.
Are YOU willing 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 substituted
for state remedies, The Democratic
party says, let the state exercise the
power it now has, and let the nation
exercise the power it now has.
When both state and nation have
acted YOU will not have any more
regulation than you need. Let me
illustrate this. The home, the
church and the school join in deNel-
oping the character of our boys.
What mother would be willing to
strike down either the home, the
school or the church and leave it all
to the other two? And yet, my
friends, the advocates of new ma
tionalism would diminish the pow
er of the people of a state to protect
their own rights, and make it more
difficult to secure redress BY remov-
ing the seat of power to Washing
ton. That is the first step in the