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•WMNESOTA EXECUTIVE MAKES i
NOTABLE ADDRESS.
QUESTION OF STATE RIGHTS
Ooea Net Approve of Commonwealth*
Be -3 Made Subservient to In
ferior Federal Courts—Would
Uphold Constitution.
Got. John A. Johnson of Minnesota
delivered at the dedication of the Min
nesota monument on Shiloh battle
field, April 10, an address that will
rank as one of the ablest public de
liverances of recent times. Spoken
on a battlefield that may be taken as
the symbol of the great war for the
union, the governor took occasion to
teil of the peril that threatens our fed
eral form of governmen. This peril
■was emphasized by the recent deci
eioc of the supreme court In the rail
way cases going up from Minnesota
and North Carolina, which practi
caily makes the state governments
subservient to the inferior federal
courts. The significance of these de
cisions is widely understood, and they
have given rise to a general discus
sion of the question of the rights of
the states, and Gov. Johnson’s speech
will rank as an important contribu
tion to that discussion. The dedica
tory address in part follows:
Representing the people of the com
monwealth of Minnesota, we are as
sembled on one of the historic battle
fields of the civil war to pay our trib
ute of respect and affection to the
memory of the sons of Minnesota
who here yielded up their lives that
this might continue to be a united na
tion. Their sacrifice was not for per
sonal gain, but was in response to
duty, and a contribution to the civ
ilization of the age, and for the pur
pose of perpetuating the institution of
human liberty.
I appreciate that nothing which 1
can say will add to or detract from
the glory of their achievement, which
In itself is an enduring monument to
the patriotism and heroism of the
American soldier. Their sacrifice,
however, was not different from that
•which has been made throughout al!
of the ages by those lovers of liberty
who believe in a government which
might give to all the people the right
to life, liberty and property. The
love of liberty was not born in this
country of ours; it was cradled along
the Danube and about the shores of
the Italtic, even when Rome had
reached the limit of her imperial
grandeur. Increasing in intensity |
with the passing of the centuries, it
found its highest expression in* the
older countries in the great English
charter of civil rights, which forever
guaranteed to the people of that land
Immunity from the despotism of those
► who claimed to rule by virtue of Di
vine ri>ht.
One hundred and thirty-two years
ago the great contest of humanity was
transferred from the old world to the
new, and here, because of the isola
tion of this country, because of the
high character of the man who es
poused the cause of liberty, and be
cause of the signal victory achieved
bv them in that struggle, an opportu
nity was afforded to crystallize into
written law the aspirations of the pa
triots of all the ages. The men who
, built the foundations of this govern
ment were those who had submitted
to the supreme test of patriotism, for
those who inspired the constitution of
the United States were the same who
had pledged their lives, their proper
ties and their sacred honor to the
cause of independence.
While the primary object of a writ
ten constitution is to define govern
mental powo s, and to limit govern
mental departments, the overwhelm
i ing*necessity for such an instrument
is to prevent insidious encroachments
upon the rights of the individual citi
zen. both from those in office and
from those who by reason of their
wealth and power have an influence
far greater than that possessed by the
average citizen* And so the constitu
tion of the United States was regarded
by its framers as an instrument of the
most sacred import, an alteration of
which could only be made by the peo
ple themselves in whom all ultimate
power is vested, and then only after
the fullest discussion and widest pub
licity.
Under the beneficent government so
established the nation lias prospered
and the people are happy. One great
cloud came upon the nation in the
form of an awful civil war, in which
two sections of the country were in
conflict with each other. Tli ■ heroes
who rest here gave their lives that
this nation might be maintained as it
came from our forefathers. On another
battlefield of that war, Abraham Lin
coln said: "It is for us. the living,
rather, to be dedicated to the un
finished work they have thus far so
nobly carried on. It is rather for us
to be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before us; that from these
honored dead we take increased devo- j
tion for that cause for which they here
gave the last full measure, of devotion;
that we highly resolve that these dead
shall not have died in vain; that the
nation shall, under God, have a new
birth of freedom, and that the govern
ment of the people, by the people, for
the people, shall not perish from the
earth."
Our concern is not of the past, nor
wholly with the present, but. much
with the future. If the destiny of the
republic is in the hands of the Amer
ican of to-day, then it becomes him to
be guided and governed only by patri
otic impulse and the desire to do that
which will most largely contribute to
the permanency of republican institu
tions. Advancing our civilization so
that we will not, by recognizing the
false claims of selfish interests, and
forgetting the American maxim that
our object should be to attain the
greatest good for the greatest number,
incur the penalty which other people
have paid, rather let us hold ever in
mind that those who framed our gov
ernment believed in the equality of
the people and that the chief aim of
government is to maintain that
equality.
I nder our system of government
the nation has reached a material de
velopment hitherto unknown. The
people have prospered beyond the
i dreams of those who lived a century
ago. But with the development of the
country and changes in economic con
ditions, and particularly with the
growth of great private corporations,
performing many of the functions cf
government, has come the necessity
for the exercise of strict governmental
control, and a rigid enforcement of all
the laws enacted to restrain the rich
and powerful from encroaching upon
the natural and legal rights of the
poor and weak.
The constitution of the ancient re
public of Rome, which for 500 years
had recognized the voice of the people
ns supreme, was expanded by execu
tive interpretation and contracted by
executive administration, until Rome
fad so completely outgrown its demo
cratic conditions as to become only
a tragedy and a tradition. Let us ini- !
plore the aid of Him on high to pre
set ic us from the errors which ruined
Rome, by the avoidance of which
America may travel on to that destiny
and reallzt that fulfillment which will
be the inspiration of right-thinking
men of all ages yet to come.
Our government is divided into
three separate and distinct co-ordi
nate branches: the legislative, the
executive and the Judicial. Danger
will surely come to this republic when
any of these departments of govern
ment attempt in the slightest degree
to usurp the functions of the other.
And while noV and then It may be
that a court of the land, in construing
the constitution, may nullify a section
of it, I havethefaithto feel that the peo
ple of the country will rise above the
fallibility of judicial tribunals and
assert and preserve their own rights, j
Our duty if not to criticise the execu
tive. the legislature or the judiciary.
Very recently there has come from
the highest judicial tribunal in the
land a decision of vital interest and
concern to the American people, be
cause it has established a principle,
as stated by one member of the court,
which “would work a radical change
in our governmental system and would
inaugurate a new era in the Ameri
can judicial system and in the rela
tions of the national and state gov
ernments It would enable the subor
dinate federal courts to supervise and
control the official action of the states
as though they were dependencies or
provinces. It would place the states
of the union in a condition of infer
iority never dreamed of when the con
stitution was adopted or when the
eleventh amendment was made a part
of ihe supreme law of the land.” If
this is the result of this decision, it
j is, to my rnind, one of the unhappy
j Incidents in the history of our repub
j lie, because the very theory of our
j government is based upon the right of
the states to control absolutely their
own domestic affairs.
If, then, our whole system o? gov
ernment is changed, have we not only
retarded the progress of the republic,
hut have we not gone back a century
toward a centralized form of gov
ernment which is not to the advan
tage of the people? What this gov
ernment needs is not more power.
What it needs to-day is to so dis
tribute the privileges under the gov
ernment that all citizens will have
equal opportunity. America has been
called the land of opportunity. But
American opportunity should ndt
mean a granting of special privileges
to any class, but should afford all alike
the means for culture, education, pros
perity and contentment.
rin m-arij a century and a flair
America has presented to the. world
the spectacle of a happy, prosperous
and intelligent people, maintaining a
pure democracy founded upon their
supreme will. The hallmark of a de
mocracy is that the powers of gov
ernment are close to the people. |
Throughout the world, wherever de
mocracy is advancing, its progress is
marked by a greater measure of self
government to each community. Will
the American people turn to the set
ting rather than the rising sun? Shall |
we now, because some laws are found !
Irksome by a class and interfere with
their selfish aims, commence to de
prive our sovereign states of that
measure of home rule which until now
they have seen fit to reserve to them
selves? I cannot believe it. Upon
the contrary 1 believe that the limita
tions upon state and federal govern
ments, the nice balancing of the pow- j
ers of each, and of the different de- i
partments in each, which have been
so efficacious in the past, will be
maintained in their full vigor in the
future.
Therefore, discharging all of our
responsibilities as citizens of a coun- .
try, refusing to surrender our rights
of citizenship in any degree, let us so
live that the heroism exemplified on
this and other American battlefields
may not be simply a tradition, and
the national wisdom of our forefa
thers a mere legend, but that through
us and those to come America will
reach her full destiny in the perma
nent establishment of a perfect union,
which shall he not for to-day nor for
to morrow, but forever, and be so es
tablished that it will be for all of
the people, and that their government
shall not perish.
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ftiy tho makers of put-up medicines for do
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end compfjge list of all tho ingredients
omposition of his widely
ies. Thus he has taken
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ice. Thus too he has re
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