Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-01-26

of the Republic as guides to us in solving
all great problems which are from time to
time presented to the people by the progress
of events and the force of varying circum-
stances.
Such leaders would have us understand
that undertaking rules Of governmental ac-
ton had been considered stated and pro-
vided for, and that future contingencies
subjects and circumstances must be made to
conform to all such rules We cannot be-
lieve or admit such to have been the spirit
or intention of the founders. We are de-
handing of them solution of things in which
they had no knowledge or experience,
things which they had never considered
and consequently had never acted upon or
made provision for. We do them great
injustice when we put forth such claims
The question of great moment in our
times are such that no people in the past
could consider, solve or provide for; and
we show great lack of good judgment when
we make such a claim
They solved many of the questions of
their times, though not all of them. They
guarded according to the light they had
the powers of the national government and
the states. They did the best they could,
we can ask no more Of them
It is for us to solve the questions Of our
future. for the future to solve. If we
succeed as well as the founders of the
government did, the future cannot complain
if we do not solve it's problems; and we
should not complain because our problems
have not been solved for us. We must real
ize that the nation has the capacity. as it
has the experience to solve the great prob
lens now crowding upon the people, and
that it will exercise that capacity in the
solution for the best interest of the govern
ment and Of the people.
There was no national policy, when the
government was established, on any of the
great problems of government in behalf of
the people developed during the past half
century and that are now being developed
and forced upon the consideration of the
nation.
The great questions before the founders
of the Republic was the establishment of a
permanent government, controlled by, and
in, the interest of all the people, and how
to save to them the control and management
of all their local affairs, and to eliminate
every feature of tyrannical nature and
every opportunity to exercise tyrannical
powers, or to make oppressive laws.
The founders deemed it necessary, in or
der to save to the state the control and
management of their local affairs, and avoid
all undue control by the national govern
ment of such local affairs or to the exer-
else of any tyrannical powers or the en-
forcements of any oppressive laws to the
detriment Of the people of any state, to
divide to a certain extent the sovereign
powers between the national and state gov
ernments.
The intention without doubt was to give
to the states the management of their local
affairs and to the national government the
necessary powers to perform all the gov
ornamental functions that were of national
and not local character.
In their anxiety to save to the states the
control and management Of local AFFAIRS it
is possible, in the light of the present ma
tional experience. that some Of the sover-
eign powers that Of right ought to, and
naturally do, belong to the national gov
eminent, have been retained by the states.
There were two theories for the reten-
ton of some of the sovereign powers in
the states governing the people, one being
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