| Show the shifting sceptre tre vre we elsewhere see dr s NEWS april d a remarkable edi edl editorial tonal todal brorn from the london times temes on the political tendencies of bur territorially territorial sy term tern m while leAhe uhe the writer errs eris frequently in matters of minor detail dates the copulation of dis districts onico kec ked fec c he sees clearly what so often is not seen in this country the fact that the sceptre of empire is rapidly and surely passing westward very probably there are those living who will see it beyond the mississippi johen Engla iid ild see sees sibe the impending domination of bf the states states astride upon poa the Rocky bocky mountains we ne ednot hesitate to accept the fact ourselves dur selves we do not accept it however because we do not see it tt Ills missouri the threshold state beyond the mississippi is now the fifth state in the union and st louls loula is the fourth city of the unit ed states but who ever gives a thought to the grave graye inference that this fact demonstrates and records with more than dramatic force the westward march of or power the united states senate now represents not the small states against the large ones as was its ita ta original uri ginal lual idea but the he new now western commonwealths with their thousands of population against the old states State af pf the east jtb their millions in the control of the senate today to day has passed pa sed beyond the ohio even connecticut and rhode island and lilliputian lili delaware and new hampshire and vermont have failed to keep it tt is not A movement however on which we look with regret or distrust gitig it is astep astop forward which Wd marks marus irlis towards continental supremacy and the shifting meaning of the senate although a radical one Is not in danger that body still holds its original intended function as a part in a system of political political oli checks and balances tte tt e united united states senate of the future will represent the geographical empire of the north american people th the eHouse house of representatives the popular empire and so the great idea of the framers of our constitution holds yet entity and force ah all though times and the world hav have e c changed b a n ge d ph i la d cal A i a presa fresa pr c s a |
