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the present day and selfishly profitable affairs. At 

 times it has taken our best statesmen to reconcile 

 our twofold form of government with conditions 

 its original framers could not have foretold. One 

 of the best compromises we have yet devised is the 

 interstate commerce idea. 



Somewhat crude and clumsy, this measure means 

 well for the American people, and sometimes at 

 least it stands for the look ahead and for fair play. 

 Some curious applications of the general interstate 

 idea have been made. From the Standard Oil Case 

 to the Mann Act, it has been used as the vehicle 

 for carrying across state lines the nation's notions 

 as to fair play, morality and sanity. It has done 

 much toward safeguarding the property of all the, 

 people. 



As to the natural wealth of this country, there 

 was never another that had its like given it from the 

 hand of Nature. Wealth of all sorts is or was ours 

 of the forest, the mine, the soil, the waters and 

 even of the air. Most of this raw wealth was 

 handled under local or state legislation because it 

 was localized itself. Other items of that wealth, 

 however, could not be localized, but crossed from 

 state to state. 



It took us all the time from the Articles of Con- 

 federation to the year 1913 to grow wise enough to 



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