The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-01
FIGHTING FOR STATES RIGHTS.

The defeat in Congress of the measure appro- prating $100,00O,000 to aid in road building ln cooperation with the various States and the virtual defeat far this session is concerned at least or the Smith-Towner Bill, creating the Department oi Educati ion-and appropating $1o0,000000 to be used in co-operation with States for educational pur- poses, were not wholly the result of. a purpose on the paf dfi Congress to economize. These measures opposed by Senators, lead by Senator King Of Utah. Becaae they against the process that has been going fer of centralizing government at Washington. In the progress of the debate on these measures it was pointed out that the Federal Gov ernme1l is encroaching constantly upon the provice ot the States, and it contended that the process is having tendency to atropty the State and other local governments, and the inevitable result will be lower the standard of sef-reance and initiative the part of the citizens and the desruction of ndivddasLQ-e a .s5 .-,v
 It is hobed by States Rights advocates among the Senators that the defeat of these may mark the beginning of in the fight to stay the eentralization movement and to bring about re habiliment of the States and a restoration of loca sefgovernment in the United States.
 The case for the States present by Senato King in several speeches In masterly speecl delivered Lncoln's Birthday, in discussing the Smith-Towner Bill, Senator King said:
 The centripetal forces operating in this Republic tend to bring about standard of uniformity in the lives, the thoughts, in the customs, in the habits, and in the views of sthe people of the United States and that staldard Of uniformity is to be determined in Washington by the forces of bureaucracy and not by the people themselves, as the result of evolutionary forces operating in the local communities and States
 q fear that the doctrine taught by my dis tinguished friend Senator IIoke Smith of Georgia | is not democracy; it is Hamiltonanism In my opinion, Mr Ham ston would have repudiated some of the po- cies now advocated by Democrats because of their clear invasion of personal rights and thp poti iVp nf iIa
 ilton believed in a strong National Govern ment he clearly distinguished between uonal concerns and questions of domestic and local character He strongly contended for the rights of the States and said before the New York constitutional convention that the State governments are essentially sary to the form and spirit of the general
 system
 Jefferson declared that the States must
 be preserved, and his first inaugural address has been the chart and compass by which our course has. heen determined
 The contest at the period the Civil
 War was to preserve the Union against what might be, denominated decentralizng dencies, but the struggle now is to save the states from the, centralizng forces operating through the Federal Government.
 What is needed in Nation today is character and courage and self-reliance and the split of independence and an inde- structble love of liberty. But much of our teachings and political talk and action are directed toward destroying the spirit of self reliance and those. rugged, sterling qualities which are found in nation buders-in com munties which carry the light ciyiliza- ton and the standards of moral and spiritual progress,
 The great contest is to preserve the individual and to permit his development This uniformity Of which the Senator speaks is deadly will prove to be deadly in its operations. IL is uniformity that we want, but variation, dissimilarity differ entiation, indyidualism; want persons rather than masses The unit of society is the individual The social organism it's strength, it's capacity geryice for happr ness, for progress rest upon the ndiyiduai units found therein. ss7.t
 s'-' l want to see in every precinct