Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-22
THE NEW STATE SOVEREIGNTY.


 If we did not have States said Supreme Court Justice Hughes in an address to the New York bar i've shouc speedily have to create them We may we'll congratulate ourselves that circumstances given neither con federation of states single centralized Government but nation-and yet union of states each autonomous in its local concerns.
 "An oyercentralized government would break down O its own weight If there centered in Washingof
 single source authority which proceeded all th government forces of the country, think we should speedily demand and up different system The Nev World points the significance of the fact tha such able Republican leaders Justice Hughes and Ehl Root to be ardent supporters of principle former ly known Democratic Most intelligent citizens re gardess of party. easily with Justice Hughes statement It is evident that the pendulum which few years ago seemed plainly swinging toward new na tionalism" centering all authority Washington is now swinging in the other direction.
 There is new state sovereignty" developing It's something more than old rights" doctrine We don't talk so much about rights" any It's rate: question of responsibilities The various states being called upon to shoulder larger share of the burdens of government.
 Just the themselves delegating more and more local authority to cities their jurisdiction be cause the cities can better regulate affairs the federal government leave and more mat ters to the states
 Government is getting to be such enormously com plex thing touching many interests employing people and demanding much effort, that congress would be helpless in trying egslate adequately the the trying egslate for their cities The be organized and distributed
 giving each of the three sovereigntes its proper share
 The organization is yet incomplete unsatisfac tory The cities begun realize their opportunities undertake solve their governmental problems and the states have just begun to let them do it. The privilege is given slowly grudgingly But more and more states seeing the light and permitting cpaiies choose their systems of rule and attack their peculiar problems in their way.
 And the cities, while they blunder the whole making progress an illustration the familiar adage that the for the evils of is democracy Cities that hopelessly sunk in mis have proved able to regenerate themselves
 The states have to pass through the exper State in this country has never the whole been quite bad municipal governmet, but il has been bad enough. Corruption is pretty well eliminated. But there a surprising amount ci ineficiency.
 As political soyereignties states haven't really found themselves" yet While federal and municipal has grown in scope and efficiency they have almost stood still They have particularly leaned too much the federal government.
 Washington, of course look after purely national
 matters coming within the scope of the federal constu tion But there countless things relating indutsr conservation of resources the safeguarding public health, the promotion of education, the improvement rural life, the encouragement of art etc, which the states look after effectively if they get definitely the job State governments, with all the fuss they make and the laws they pass doing enough work and not doing it according comprehensive, inteligbe system. they not working harmony with eacI other they should.
 What need is for every governor take his job seriously he president and every legislator to take his seriously if he congressman voters state servants more seriously, and support by their voces and whatever good innovations introduced by forward looking statesmen.