Show ARE THEIR THER IMPORTANCE Pi sent Tendency Toward a Federal Regulation of Everything CONGRESSMEN WILL RESIST n Reactionaries z Sa Say Uncle Sam Hns Infringed Iii In- 11 f fringed lU Rights of or Has 1115 GOI Gone Par Far Enough Il It I Is q that from froni now iio now on on many f influential members of or con congress 8 to resist 1 tp t to have 1 C the Hie Federl Federal sv do for fortl or tl hi states things s tho states might do to foi them themselves fol l Secretary Roots Root's re recent lC- lC re- re C edit cent speech In New YO York has had the ther Affect fre r CL of oC separating congress Into two camps camps tho thoss thos wh who l would Ii T an any limit on w what at congress ma may do und under under un un- un- un d der the eom constitutional clause which authorizes Itt e. commerce a It to 10 regulate commerce th foreign ant apIng S the several fP claI states slate nu and amid with wih tie the Indian IndianS v S- S tribes ud tho those Jio who 1 declare the mo to n toward a n c centralized has gone far fal ai Ur It Is IH not nOt yet et 1 po sible to Ii which will wi lJ bo be the thin larger but hut it ala may mar b bohl be saul ohl that from Crom thI this C forward a c every l legislative nu that Is based RC on the Idea that the tho ioa Federal government govern o ment can ean and should hOl undertake to tn regulate which ml might ht be Le loft left to tn t the In Individual ual shafer 1 will be con con- tested Unless the signs of ot the times time c are misleading there is la to be j a re- re movement congress will call n u halt hall hall It I may harl hark lack back to the tIme doctrine of ot the tIme fathers that states t must be left leU free IC to lo deal heal with wih such f problems as come within their pro pro- vince since The TIme no RooK cn ch lt Platform A most mol important question queston of or na nl- nl na- na policy has been raised and amid re- re um f legislation JI may b be halted while the statesmen of ot the times s debate out r the l I hsue sue ue The noo Roosevelt platform ma may i bo be summed U up as follows Jow Ir i j ic r f c 1 1 Time The American government i is the time American merican people 2 er E Every national evil must be bo cor- cor reeled lJ by national Jc legislation 3 1 Every g er state evil must be corrected cor- cor reeled I by 13 r state stale legislation Public men who arc are familiar with wih tho the views say 83 his J Idea ea is 15 that most of or the evils of or time the times arc national In lii character State it J is pointed out suffer alike aUke and amid it J becomes becomes becomes be be- comes Incumbent on the Fe Federal leral government gov GO to fn find the cure curc and apply appl It I. I The reactionaries and they number num num- ber 1 both Republicans and Democrats f buc It H Is time to call cal a n halt Some SomeI I I I 0 of them are ure almost l persuaded to ho reet ro- ro et ct that precedents were set sot b. b by the lie enactment of the tho meat ment Inspection law arid and the tho pure food lood inspection Jaw law of ot S J i t Jp t winter inter and nd the tho enactment of a n law T ng time the first fint week of this session ion to exclude from Interstate commerce I prison made goods goods made mado maden n In Un an any state prison un under cl state authority Xo So Limit l fo to r i J c i t 0 oi l I on Qt hi to ba l l- l to to CO rot IOu tor correction there will ll bo be no UD limit to which con ress may RO go o lf it hours hous oC or la labor ol are arc too loo lon long throughout through out nut the country they Ia my may there I is no reason ol why congress under the new doctrine ma may not pa pass 1 a law In ing from ruin lom interstate commerce articles made mac in factories where the em lores more mon than eight hour I or ci whatever the legal day as bi by y congress m may be The Federal cones The legit legis- lat bot body might H it I Is aS asserted g go 0 even oven further and ant exclude e from th the channels of or interstate commerce goods that were not made b by union labor manufacturers of or the thc country countr to comp comply com corn p ply with certain safety appliance lEsl legislation or find their goods unable to get et an entrance into time the Interstate trade of the country Some bills is arc pending before congress con con- gress gi-es which will H bring up UI the time question queston for debate cba if thc they are ever reached One of or the these c is the child labor bill which proposes to tul deny tieny the use uso of or the Interstate channels of oC commerce to tonn nn any ally concern that employs children of ofa acer a n certain taimi age ago May Not Get el E Everybody lo appreciates that the aims and md purposes of tIme the bill 1111 are arc praiseworthy praise ralso- worthy but lUt the JIu is that lint It i will wm never nevel or no g get t through brought congress b because of ot the reactionary movement mo against the thc further centralization of or power The Tho argument for the time legislation will wi be beha ha bated cd on the thc as assertion that child abol labor laboris is a n national evIl f 1 anti and therefore must he by the nation naton Even Evon the lie President wI when I 1 he lie nl his hiIm recent mc message to n congress t was not willing willingto to suggest the enactment o of if a FC Federal hUd child labor law Jaw but the tho advocates of ofle he tIme le l I legislation now a assert lt that ho he Il has been won von over o and ahil will wJ In II time let congress engre know that he believes beJe 8 a Federal remedy should hould be applied applet |