The Sentinel=record., 1915-01-17

single idea of WHAT was best method
which could produce the greatest
amount of devotion from their citizens
and subjects of their home country
and could secure the surest friend
ships and peace from the other ma
tions of the world The war Of Eng
land and South Africa, the conflict be
tween China and Japan and then that
Of Japan with Russia. were all waged
upon the ostensible reason given out
by each of the contestants in endeav-
oring to secure the highest degree or
liberty to the individual
Every hour since then the same is
sues nave been professed as being the
cause or the reason for the action of
men and nations in all the events of
tine civilized world which have trans
pired OF consequence to attract the at
tention of man The present world
war JIM Europe is justified by each
country involved upon these professed
grounds and its people offer their
lives upon the belief that the war in
wolves the outcome or the fate, OF
these privileges either the establish
ing or the destruction of them
Twenty years after our civil war,
the nation of America begun to realize
that its constitution and the form of
its government would have to be
shaped anew TO fit the new demands
OF the new generation I'm harmony
with that general demand which the
whole world had begun to insist upon
i'm the things ] have heretofore point
ed ont. The theory then of States
rights as against any privilege Of the
national government to either legis-
late for the states or to direct the
citizens of any state was strongly the
isse opposed to the revival of the
first idea Of the republic that it should
be a strong federation OF people.
From that time up til now the issue
has been i'm one form or another, way
ering from side to side, yielding in
one respect or the other as the partic-
ular matter involved requires.
Nov, thirty years after, the new
and present generation confronts
situation different from that which
any of the fathers have ever expert
euced or could have anticipated. The
states have grown close together;
railroads have welded us into one peo-
Pile, our interests from coast to coast
have become common. The welfare
of our people being the welfare of all
as we'll as the welfare of one, and the
necessity of the people in the states
recognizing that there must be some
central form of legislation on matters
which touch all the states alike has
become so apparent that the old is
sue of thirty years ago between the
question of sovereign rights of the
states to legislate within themselves,
wholly for themselves as IL they were
separate natonalities as against ma
tionaI government assuming any su-
pervision over its people, is practical
" passed out among the new genera
ton. The theory is mere abstract
idea expressed by scholars OF govern
ment but unknown in its practical APP
plication and in which the present
generation have really no interest, eX-
cept when it touches wholly local sub
jects,
The reason for this change is that
the new generation have none OF the
preiudices which the location of the
states in their geographical location
to each other once produced The
cotton state had the distance of days
between it and the manufacturing
states OF The east and north. The east
and north had the difference OF days