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incompetent to deal with this question is to admit that the whole theory 

 of separate State governments is a failure. If a State government can 

 not be trusted to deal with an essentially domestic affair, an essentially 

 State affair, then it seems to me that the sooner State government is 

 abandoned the better. If we are to entrust the management of our 

 industrial development to congress because of a fear and distrust of our 

 State government then statehood is a failure and State government ought 

 to be abolished. Personally, I believe that such fear and distrust is 

 without adequate foundation; that the theory of State governments to 

 administer local affairs is a correct theory; that State governments are 

 fitting and appropriate custodians for the control of ail such matters; 

 and that one of the most injurious, one of the most dangerous tendencies 

 at the present time, is the disposition to transfer all power, all authority, 

 all responsibility, to the national government. 



