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Show STATE'S RIGHTS. The governor of Florida has caused the arrest of federal labor agents who aTe seeking men for the war industries. indus-tries. Florida has a law which compels com-pels ordinary labor agents to take out licenses, and the fees are said to be prohibitive. Some of the federal agents arrested have been released by district attorneys, but Governor Catts has ordered or-dered their rearrest. We do not know anything about the labor situation in the land of everglades and alligators, but we do not believe that the duly accredited agents of the United States government can be forced to take out state licenses before being allowed to operate in Florida. Undoubtedly the states of the union have certain rights, but the governor of Florida seems to have an exaggerated notion as to how much territory is covered by those rights. The question was fought out nearly sixty years ago, and Florida occupied oc-cupied a place on the short end when the decision was finally rendered after four years of warfare. We are not inclined to make any predictions pre-dictions as to the outcome, but if the government has not sufficient power to send agents into the southern states to engage in the work of recruiting men for war work, it lacks the necessary neces-sary power to carry on the struggle as it should be carried on, and the president presi-dent must depend upon the whims of the state executives. This is unthinkable unthink-able and it is the president's move. |