The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-02

tion of a Divine Providence.
 The United States Constitution as finally adopted by the original thirteen States represented no haphazard work. It was the result of a study of all previous republics in worlds history that had faied-a study to discover why they had failed Benjamin Frank lin said that they examined the diff ferent forms of those republics which having been formed with the seeds of their own dissolution now no longer exist"
 The framers of our Constitution com pleted their wonderful work with the conviction that they had accomplished the task of creating a form of govern ment that did not contain the seeds of it's own dissolution. During all the years that have since passed, until re- cent years, their faith has never been challenged. No one until our time yentured to advocate amendments to the Constitution that by their very na- ture alter and destroy the system of government bequeathed to us by our forefathers of an indivisible union of sef-governing States. Their study of history had disclosed that all previous republics had met destruction through the centralization of governmental DOW CT imposed upon all the affairs of men. Centralized power in a republic means bureaucratic autoeracy. Bureaucratic autocraey is worse than the autocracy of single monarch ~who can be made responsible for abuse of power
 It was this seed of destruction, this tendency towards centralization that spells dissolution, our forefathers sought 10 avoid in Constitution that jealously m ad ba ernment and carefully safeguarded the rights of the States That drastic power over the liberties of man known as the police power was reserved to the States It is power that must in any civilized society for the good of the community be lodged somewhere but (so said the framers of the Constitution never in the centralized Federal Government, far removed from the community
 By way of further reinsurance the amendatory article of the Constitution was itself limited by the Tenth Amend ment adopted with the original Con- stituton. as follows:
 "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution. nor prohibited by it to the States, are re- served to the State, respectively, or to the people,"
 Prior to the adoption of the Eigh- teenth Amendment, Gladstone referred to the United States Constitution as the greatest document ever struck off by the brain and purpose of man" And long before Gladstone's day, one of Eng lands greatest Prime Ministers, William Pitt, shortly after the adoption of the Constitution. foretold that it would be the admiration of the future ages and fpr ft,t, ing"
 The Republican Party has been from its earliest history the true exponent of the rights of the States It's first platform when Fremont was nominated contained plank that declared for the rights of the States, as follows:
 'fhe Federal Constitution, the rights of the States, and the union of the States, shall be preserved"
 The convention in 1S60 when Lin- coin was nominated, strengthened this declaration and declared that these rights must and shall be preserved" and also adopted in the fourth plank of it's platform the following:
 The maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control It's own domestic institutions according to It's own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends"
 mat was good Republican doctrine then. IL IS good Republican doctrine now That was good American doctrine then. It is good American doctrine now.
 The time is at hand to return to the American system of government. The tune has arrived to adhere to the states rights doctrine of the Republ- can Party. It is fitting that the Ma tionai Republican Club in this en- deavor should take the lead. The Committee on National Affairs annro report and recommendation in favor of cal or the Eighteenth Amendment of ifs e lmitee' but the entire club by narrow m admittedly for the sake of expedienev , ,n the table