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Show 1 ITSesIeF I FOR 3 Wf: SIGHTS H In Fourth of July Oration Gov- H , enior of iMissouri Discusses H Economics. SEES DANGER IN THE 1 FEDERAL ENCROACHMENT I Declares That Federal Injunc- H tion Veto Embalms Valu- H able Laws of State. KVAXSVILLE. lnd.? July I, Before q crowd of almost. 10,000 people a I. the, Chautauqua assembly hero this after-noon after-noon Governor Joseph W. Folk of Missouri delivered an address upon (he Tour Ih of .lub'. He said in pari: H' l believe the reaJ work of the next few years Is to be done in the States. These are the great experimental stations of representative government, and they 'aave been most neglected. I The States are supreme in their sphev. 1 limited only by their own constitutions I and bv the powers which they have dcle-J dcle-J pated" to the Federal Government. In the tendency to centralize power In the i Federal Government, which has been ctven such an impetus of late, there is danger to our constitutions and the in-tegfity in-tegfity and dignity of these States, so necessary to the preservation of the Ideas i of government that were crystallized in the formation of the Republic Nowhere Is this encroachment on the rights of the State more marked than In the wholesale nullification of State laws by Federal sub-Jec-ts wltl'jout hearing and before. trial. Pointed Ulustratioon. The result Is. unless the consent of a railroad can be obtained to pending logls-latlon. logls-latlon. the State becomes powerless N'o sood citizen desiros Lo be unjust to rall-j rall-j roads. But that, tlioy must be regulated i and that the States should not he left as mere subjects of their benevolence all must admit. No one could object, to a court. State or Federal, declaring the. statute unconstitutional, uncon-stitutional, If found to be so after hearing. But there should bo protest against statutes sta-tutes of the States being suspended as presumptively bad until the case is determined. de-termined. This Is like punishing a man ilrst and trying him afterward. A number num-ber of important laws of the State of Missouri are now embalmed by the Federal Fed-eral injunction veto. In the course of years, when the cases are tried, the court will probably hold they are valid, but they might aB well be killed as to be chloroformed by Injunction until their vitality Is gone. The people of .Missouri are not prejudiced preju-diced against railroads, as such, and the same sentiment of justice which brought the freight rate law and the 2-cent fare law into being will cause their repeal If they arc found to bo unfair. But the people peo-ple of Missouri object to a Federal court despotically enjoining the State from en-' en-' forcing Its laws before they have boon declared Invalid. Tills Is merely a sample of what Is going go-ing on all over the country. If these conditions continue, as they will without a vigorous protest from those who believe in the rights of the States to control their local affairs, State sovereignty will soon .be merely a theory. This is the greatest nation in the world great because It Is an "Indissoluble union of independent Slates." Let us keep It so. for Its decline will commence when the self-government of the Stales. Ihc source of Its power, Is destroyed. |