Evening star., 1918-08-01
US. NOT TO YIELD
GAINS DUE TO WAR
Speaker Clark Says Country
Never Viii Back-Track
All the Trail.
PEOPLET0 HAVE DECISION

.This country never will back
track all the way on the new tran
which the war has blazed for u.s."
said Speaker Champ Clark today. in
a reflective and reminiscent MOOD.
I'VE have gone far on new road In
onr economic and industrial affairs,
and we will not retrace entirely, even
though some of the laws under which
this progress is being made are linz
ited to the duration of the war. Prin-
ciples and precedents are established,
customs are formed. and they are
more likely to be continued In form
modified to times Of peace than to be
dropped through repeal or expira-
ton of the laws.
TT has been so after every war.
the Speaker said. The country mas
moved up to 1he stakes set ahead by
the great strides we made after the
war with Spain, reaching out into ex.
ansion-imperialism it was called
then. The Philippines. Porto Rico.
Panama, the Virgin Islands now under
our sway, and who gives thought
to the shudders which some men en-
tertained in those days? An in
creased Navy and larger Army fol-
lowed: innumerable new offices were
created, and a distinct trend toward
Centralized government began to be
diScerned.
Changes After Civil War.
After the civil war there were
changes, and there would have been
more if the republican party in Con-
rress hadn't been SO mad with Andy
johnson. that they wouldn't do any
thing he wanted. Goodness knows
what would have happened in con-
tralization of power if they had been
working together.
1T is noteworthy that in the civil
war the executive was not armed with
such an array OF statutory authorlty
as we have now. Lincoln did things,
however. He pushed Vallandigham,
.bodaciously' through the lines and
gobbled up two celebrated Union Of
Ulcers for opposing emancipation and
enlistment of negroes When the OLD
Chicago Times, in 1854. said that the
landing of the Mayflower was the
greatest calamity to mankind since
the fall of Adam, Gen. Burnside took
a file Of soldiers and just naturally
suppressed the paper. Same thing
happened to the Missouri State Jour-
mai.
Nobody knows how much of the
espionage laws of this Congress will
live on the statute books after the
war in term and letter, and how much
will remain with the people in spirit.
Some of the laws may be preserved
in spirit by providing that they shall
become of effect in time of war, in
the future, kind of an automatic
arrangement.
Futures Task for Statesmen.
"How to 'unscramble' this mass of
Capitalization which necessity has
forced on US will be the great prob
lem of the statesmen of the future,
and, of course. they will have to be
guided by how much the people want
it done. ! believe that thoughtful
men are taking cogniZance of what
will be before us and getting ready
to- tackle the job when it is to be
handled"
Speaker Clark believes that the
democratic party will still be in power
when that time comes and that upon
democrats will fall the task. He is
not bit disturbed by the claims of
the republicans that they must be
given the reins of government and
drive the team over the new road. He
has an abiding faith in the mule
power" of the democratic party, and
says that mules are. surefooted, that
way. and he allows there are likely
to be some quickSands and fords on the
new roads, where strong teamwork lin
the collsr'' will be needed, as well as
some narrow lsdsos on the uphill pull,
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