Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-24

Senate to meet with you in confe<Cnce 1; upon this highly important occasion. !; l appreciate deeply the, compliment implied and the honor conferred by this body, representative of the vast interests and welfare of over a mil lion and a quarter of the best people in America, by your designation of 1 me as your presiding officer. The eru lican conventions of 1905, 1914 and 1Ti6 called me to the same po- sition. Tonight we take tae first step in that process of organization, deliberation. and selection which ] am firmly convinceds will result in placing at the head of this nation, for the critical period of the next four years, a republican president and a congress of the same polil-z-.l faith,
 The world has never had greater need of patience. poise and balance than 1t requires today. Under such conditions, it is inevitable that a flood of fanciful remedies should be ad- vocaIed The fundamentals of gov ernment and Of institutions and of beliefs, have been seriously disturbed. Many ships of state have dragged their anchors. New crews nave been enlisted and new pilots and captains are navigating the craft. The politic al; as well as the geographical se:.s of the world, have been sown with n.1nes and they are charged with nigh ex- plosives. We must for a long time steer cautiously until we have swept away the mines and made of the green horns before the mast, as well as in the caWain's quarters, able sea men and skilled mariners.
 What is needed now is composure. The world has had enough of artificial stirnulants and what it needs now is ( If refn ifss nd liberty regulated by law. Lawless- ness IS contiguous. The mob is the symbol, the result, as well as the cause of anarcny. Stability is the condition precedent of all readjuSt- ment and of all progress. It is better not to move at all unless one knows whither he is bound If one Is not sure of his direction, he is more likely than not, to wander around in circles. 1 Fundamentally, there is nothing the matter with this government of it's institutions.
 The Tanners. of our Consttution, es- tablished a representstive form of government, as well as dual form of government. Our ReyblutioR against Great Britain, from the success of which We owe our existence as a na-. tion, was a protest and a revolt ! against autocracy and arbitrary pow CT. Our ancestors refused to assent !, to the doctrine of one man power. The only sovereign to which they would pledge allegiance, was the people. They distributed the powers of gov ernment among three great depart ments the executive. the legislative and the judicial, and by a system of checks and balances, and require- ments for coordination, they made it ! ixpossibzle for either department to ] become supreme to the exclusion of of the others. They intended to form an effective and a strong government 5.7sc they intended to make forever | impossible. a dictator or an autocrat l They limited the powers of the fed ersl government to such as wert specifically srs.Ateu and necessarily implied from those granted. As soon as the Union was formed, they amend ed the Constitution by adopting the i first ten amendments known as the Bill of Rights and provided that ''the l enumeration in the Constitution, oi certain rights, shall not be construed ] to deny or disparage others retained by the people" and also that the powers not delegated to the United
 States, by the Constitution nor pro-
 hibited by it to the States, are re- served to inc States respectively, or
 
 ments to the Constitution, being ar
 ticles g. and 10, were proposed to the legislatures of the several states by the very first congress on the 25tt
 of September, 17SS and were duly rat
 flied by the necessary number o1
 states, thus becoming a part of the
 fundamental law, itself. They. dem
 onstrate how jealous the founders ot
 our government were of the powers
 of the states and of the people ant
 how careful they were to provide fol
 as the reserved rights of the states
 Many good but not we'll informed peo
 pie seem to think that the doctrine O
 States rights" was an error cIosel,
 related to secession and was extir pated when the war of the Rebellion ] in 1881 was concluded. < The oni.
 state right so-called which was re pudiated by that war; was the alleged right of secession from the Union
 No Uniformed person. whethe
 republican democrat or whig, ha ever claimed that the rights of tn.
 states, as defined in the constitution
 and as reserved in the tenth amend ment. thereto, were not in as full an, complete existence today as the, were when the government was found ,, ed. The several states should guar. ! these reserved rights with tne great est vigilance.
 Powers of Congress. [ Any object which is praiseworthy il itself is sought to be brought to tn : consideration of congress in orde that means for its attainment l, ma,
 be extended over the entire nation. 2 conspicuous example of this kin was afforded in the child labor law :. by which an attempt was made t
 prohibit the transportation from On
 state to another of any article, in tn 5 production of which the labor of an v child under certain age or who ha e worked more than a certain numbe Q cs hours, had entered. This leg;s : iation was claimed to be justifiabl under the commerce clause of tn ' constitution which conferred upo 5 congress the power to regulate com 2 merce among the several states. ] n this legislation could have been sus tained, Congress could have, wit
 equal legality. passed law prohibit ing. the transportation Of commodi 2 ties from one state to another int which negro labor had entered as
 factor or upon wIl>;n any member ( a labor union had worked. This la- J was declared to be unconstitutional b |. the supreme court of the Unite 1 States.