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" The Commoner.
OCTOBER 11, 1S07
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There are difficulties arising from
our dual form of government. If
they prove to be insuperable resort
must bo had to the power of amend
ment. Let us first try to meet them
by an exercise of all the powers of
the national government which in
the Marshall spirit of broad inter
pretation can be fourid in the consti
tution as ltuis. They are of vast
extent. 0 t
The chief dconpmie question of the
day in this country L'is to provide a
sovereign for" the gr,eat corporations
engaged in interstate business; that
is, for- the railroads and the inter
state industrial corporations. At this
moment our prime concern is with
the railroads. When railroads were
first built they were purely local in
character. Their, boundaries were
not co-extensive even with the boun
daries of one state. They usually
covered but two. or three counties.
All this has now changed. At pres
ent five great systems embody nearly
four-fifths of the total mileage of the
country. All the most important
railroads are no longer state roads,
but instruments o'f interstate com
merce. Probably eighty-five per
cent of their business is interstate
business. It is the nation alone
which can with wisdom, justly and
effectiveness exercise iover' these in
terstate railroada the thorough and
complete supervision which Bhould
be exercised. One of the. chief, . and
probably," the chief, of the domestic
causes for the adoption of the con
stitution was the need to confer upon
the4 nation exclusive control over in
terstate commerce. But tills grant
of power is worthless unless it is
held to confer thoroughgoing and
complete control over practically the
sole instrumentalities, interstate
commercetlie interstate,, railroads.
The Srailroadffaheitiselves have
been excedingIy"'s"hortsigh"ted in the
rancorous'bliterness -which' they have
shown against the resumption by the
nation of this long-neglected power.
Great capitalists, who .pride them
selves upon their extreme conserva
tism, often, believe,they 'are acting
in the interests of property when
following a coura4 sfcvshortsighted as
to be really an assault upon prop
erty. They have Shown extreme un
wisdom in their violenjt opposition to
the assumption, of complete control
over the railroads by the federal gov
ernment. The American people will
not tolerate the happy-go-luclty sys
tem of no control .over' the great in
terstate railroads, with the insolent
and manifold abuses which have so
generally accompanied it. The con
trol must exist -somewhere; and un
less it is by thoroughgoing and radi
cal law placed upon 'the statute bookB
of the -nation; it will be exercised in
Faint Spells
are very often attributed to billouo
noas, and the stomach is treated to
cathartics.
That's wrong.
OTaint .spoils are often accompanied
by biliousness, but you will also notice
shortness of breath, asthmatic breath
ing, oppressed feeling: in chest, weak
or hungry spells, which are all early
symptoms of heart weakness.
Don't make the mistake of treating
the stomach when the heart 1s the
source of the trouble.
Dr Miles' New Heart Cure
will strengthen the nerves and muscles
of the heart, and the fainting spells,
together with all other heart troubles,
will disappear.
"Four years ago I Was very low with
heart trouble, could hardly walk. One
day J had a fainting spell, and thought
I would die. Soon after I Taegan Using
Dr. Miles' Heart Cure, and after taking
three bottles I feel that J am cured."
MRS. EFFIE -CHOUGH, .Ellsworth
Falls, Maine.
The first bot,tlo will benefit, if not,
the druggist will return 'your money.
ever-increasing measure Ty the sev
eral states. The same considerations
which made, the founders of the con
stitution deem it imperative that the
nation should have complete control
of interstate commerce apply with
peculiar force to the control of inter
state railroads at the present day;
and the arguments of Madison of
.Virginia, Pinckney of South Carolina,
and Hamilton and Jay of New York,
in their essence apply now as they
applied one hundred and twenty
years ago.
The national convention which
framed the constitution, and in which
almost all the most eminent of the
first generation of American states
men sat, embodied the theory of the
instrument in a resolution, to the
effect that the national government
should have power' in cases where
the separate states were incompetent
to act with full efficiency, and where
the harmony of the United States
would be interrupted by tho exer
cise of bucIi individual legislation.
The interstate railroad situation is
exactly a case in point. There will,
of course, be local matters affecting
railroads which can best be dealt
with by locaji authority, but as na
tional commercial agents the big in
terstate railroads ought to be com
pletely subject to national authority.
Only thus ,can we secure their com
plete subjection to, and control by,
a single sovereign, representing the
Whole people, and capable both of
protecting the public and seeing that
the 'railroads neither inflict nor en
dure injustice.
Personally I firmly believe that
there should be national legislation,
to control all industrial corporations
doing an interstate business, includ
ing the control of the output of their
securities, but as to these the neces
sity for federal control Is less urgent
and immediate than is the caso' with
the railroads. Many of the abuses
connected with these corporations
will probably tend to disappear now
that the governmentthe public
is gradually getting the upper haid
as regards putting a Btoii to the re
bates and special privileges which
some of these corporations have en
joyed at the hands of the common
carriers. But ultimately it will be
found "that tLe complete remedy for
these abuses lies in direct and affirm-
ative action by the national govern
ment. That there is constitutional
power for the national regulation of
these corporations I have myself no
question. Two or three generations
ago there was just as much hostility
to national control of banks as there
is now to national control of rail
roads or of industrial corporations
doing an interstate business. That
hostility now seems to us ludicrous
in its lack of warrant: in like man-,
ner, gentlemen, our descendants will
regard with wonder tho present op
position to giving the national gov
ernment adequate power to control
those great corporations, -which it
alone can fully, -and yet wisely, safe
ly, and justly control. "Remember
also that to regulate the formation
of these corporations' offers one of
the most direct and efficient methods
of Tegulatlng their activities.
I am not pleading for an extension
of constitutional nower. I am plead
ing that constitutional power which
already exists shall be applied to
new conditions which did not exist
when the constitution went into be
ing. I ask that the national powers
already conferred upon the national
government by tho constitution shall
be so used as to bring national com
merce and industry effectively under
the authority of the federal govern
ment and thereby avert Industrial
chaos. My plea Is not to bring
about a condition of centralization.
It Is that the government shall recog
nizee a condition of centralization In
a flold where it' already exists When
the national banking law was passed
it representedin reality not central
ization; but recognitions of Uie fact-
vnai uie country nau so iar aavanccu
that tho currency was -already a mat
ter of national concern: and mu"st be
dealt with by the central authority
at "Washington. So It Is with inter
state industrialism and especially
with the matter of interstate rail
road operation today. Centraliza
tion has already taken place In tho
world of commerce and Industry. All
I ask is that tho national government
look this fact in tho face, accept 11
as a fact, and fit itself accordingly
for a policy of supervision and con
trol over this centralized comracrco
and industry.
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mestic poem, "Tho Hnnglnsv
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