Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-02-21
I. Allan Goldsborough
Addresses N. Y. Society
Speaks To Maryland SocieyStresses Loyalty Of Mary
landers Wherever Located-Believes That The Anglo
Saxon Demands Local Self-Government.

Congressman T. Alan Goldsborough
was one of the speakers at the annual
dinner of the Maryland Society of
New York at the Hotel st Regis on
Wednesday evening, February 18th.
In the course of his remarks Mr..
Goldsborough said:
81 am very much complimented at
being asked to speak at the annual
dinner of the Maryland Society of
New York. This recollection of and
affection for early association is a
primal human instinct, and nowhere
does it seem more potent than among
those who are born and raised in the
State of Maryland.
"Under the colonial system, the
bodies which are now the States had
no political connection one with an
other, and while under the Contsitu-
ton we have been nodded into the
greatest nation that the world has
ever known and a nation to which
every true American has absolute, un-
swerving allegiance, our people thru
the generations have preserved, a
separate and distinct allegiance for
the states and their nativity, whose
traditions and whose institutions
have a place in the heart and mind
which is distinctive and very dear.
Located as Maryland is, border
state between what we are accustom-
ed to think Of as the North and the
South, the history of Maryland for
more than half century has present
ed contrasts which do not appear in
the states farther north and south. In
the war between the states splendid
types of Maryland citizenship render
ed distinguished service in the forum
and on the field on both sides of that
historic conflict, and since that time
two schools of political thought have
each stimulated the other so that the
evolution of political conditions to-
wards sounder government has pro-
gressed more rapidly than in locali-
ties where there was & more placid
and self satisfied political atmosphere.
Speaking broadly, the North, due to
conditions which eliminated in the
Civil War, has seemed to be the ex-
ponent of a broadening nationalism,
while the South has proclaimed the
doctrine of states rights. I have
thought, and still think, that the in
dependent spirit of the Anglo Saxon
peoples wherever found demands To-
cal self-government and that the a.
bove expressed differences of opinion
are more apparent than real, are more
traditional than substantial, the ira
dition being an unconscious survival
of the sole question as to whether the
Federal goernment or the States
should control the institution of
slavery.
However that may be, this ques-
ton of local government is
very much debated one in Maryland
at this time. AS in the case of every
issue where there is sharp feeling, the
discussion is often incoherent and
hard to follow, but l have often felt
and feel now that Maryland is doing
great deal and will do a great deal
more to clarity the true relation be-
tween the national and state govern
ments, and in my judgment the ulti-
mate and not far-distant message OF
the State of Maryland to her children
everywhere, and to the other forty
seven states of our beloved country
is, that Maryland translates the doc
trine of states rights into the doc
trine of states obligations, that
Maryland recognizes her responsible
ty to the people Of the state and to
the people Of the nation, and that
Maryland, in so far as the energy and
ability of her people will permit,
hopes to set an example of efficient
government and law abiding citizen
ZIP which will be an inspiration to
s. sister states and thus render flu
tile and impotent the constant clam
or for Federal bureaucratic control of
local affairs. Maryland understands
that the "rights" of state are de-
pendent upon the limitations on Fed
eral control as defined by the Consti-
tuition of the United States, are those
reserved to the States under the Con-
stitution, that a state has no rights"
in the abstract, and that the principle
of local self government is one involv-
ed in the independent spirit of man
1.1e o,d +,,a+ tho rrivilepe of local