The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-18
COOL IDCE IS STANCHLY FOR
 STATE RIGHTS
President Tells D. A. R. that States Ought Not to
 Surrender Theiy Powers

WASHINGTON, April 1S--A warning to those who are willing to surrender local self-govern- ment" to federal agencies or pri- vate interests was coupled by President Coolidge Monday night with an admonition against put ting the government in the field of business.
 Addressing the Congress of the Daughters of the American Revo- lution, the President elaborated extensively on those two themes but gave no indication whether his views were prompted by re cent incidents or legislative pro posals before the federal Congress
 Observing that there are always "those who are willing to surren- der local self-government and turn over their affairs to some na- tional authority in exchange fer a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury" the President continued:
 Seek Aid of Tribunal
 Whenever they find that some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying a remedy themselves they seek to have tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their du- ties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such super vision they are bartering away their freedom"
 Government, MT. Coolidge said, must be kept out of business.
 "If the people are to remain politically free they must be eco nomically free. he. asserted, "Their only hope in that direction is for them to keep their own business in their own hands"
 He expressed a belief that pub lie ownership leads inevitably to a position of entrenched selfish ness, where great body of pub lie employees and large outside in. terests are in virtual control, with the general public paying a high cost for poor service" With all the care that it is possible 70 exercise" ne said, "a situation of this kind becomes entangled in favoritism and is always in great danger of causing corrup- ton and scandal"
 Local Seif-Government
 Stressing local self-government as his topic and emphasizing that for this ideal the revolution was fought to the end that the in dividual might be free to manage his own affairs, whether they were economic, political or relig- ious," the President continued:
 At certain times and in cer- tain places we have been neg lectful of it, and the power of self-government, instead of being retained by the people, has been exercised by those who were serv- ing their own private interests rather than the public welfare. But the people have always arous- ed themselves and recaptured the control of their own affairs"
 Turning to state rights, he said:
 We have long since realized that we have become one nation. But it is a nation founded on in dividual . states. Their rights ought always to be scrupulously regarded. Unless their actions are such as to violate the Consti- tuition and seriously interfere with the rights of other States, they should be left to solve their own problem in their own way under the pressure of public opinion, rather than have outside authority step in to attempt to solve it for them.
 Discharge of Obligations
 eff we are going to have local self-government with all of it's ad- yantages, we can not escape from some of it's limitations. When authority is located afar off it is necessarily less well informed. less sympathetic and less respon- sive to public requirements. When it is close at hand, it is more like ly to be executed publicly and in the public interest. Having . personal contact, it is more hu- mane and more charitable. On the other hand, rights cannot be long preserved unless they are ac- companied by discharge of sob- legations. States rights cannot be used indefinitely to perpetuats national wrongs"
 Our theory of society" M. Coolidge continued in opposing public operation of business. .srests on higher level than com munism. We want our people to be the owners of their own prop erty in their own right. We re- cognize that they are all capital