IX 

 WEALTH ON WINGS 



WHEN the fathers of our country framed 

 the Articles of Confederation, and after- 

 ward the Constitution of the United 

 States, they suffered under the embarrassment of 

 not knowing what was going to happen in the fu- 

 ture; an embarrassment we share today. Casting 

 about for some scheme which would give every 

 man a show for his white alley, they hit on the idea 

 that in union there is strength but that there 

 ought not to be too much strength in the union. 



The war between state rights and centralized gov- 

 ernment began then and has never yet ended. There 

 is considerable geography in the United States 

 enough to furnish different environments, and dif- 

 ferent environments sometimes have led to different 

 interests and different opinions. 



In general terms our central government, rather 

 than our state governments, stands for the look 

 ahead and for conservation, whereas state rights 

 and personal liberty concern themselves rather with 



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