Federal Regulation of Industry Volume 32, No. 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1908 Excerpt: ... PART FOUR The State and the Nation as Units of Control FEDERAL USURPATIONS BY HON. JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS, Member Of Congress From Mississippi. DEVELOPMENT OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BY HON. THEODORE E. BURTON, Member Of Concress From Ohio. THE NATION SHOULD SUPERINTEND ALL CARRIERS BY HON. C. M. HOUGH, Judge District Court Of The United States, New York City. RAILWAY REGULATION IN TEXAS BY HON. JAMES L. SLAYDEN, Member Of Congress From Texas. CORPORATION REGULATION BY STATE AND NATION BY HON. HENRY M. HOYT, Solicitor-general Of The United States, Washington, D. C. NO COMBINATION WITHOUT REGULATION BY TALCOTT WILLIAMS, LL.D., Philadelphia. FEDERAL USURPATIONS By Hon. John Sharp Williams, Member of Congress from Mississippi. All governments, whether free or not, which have existed and fallen have fallen by weight of political machinery. There has come a time in their histories when government and its machinery was the first consideration, and man and his individuality--the support of government--the second. It is well always to keep in mind the primal fact that while government is necessary and ought to be made good, it is yet, after all, a necessary evil growing out of the vices of human nature. It is a means to an end, which end is the happiness and freedom and development of the individual man and woman; and is never an end in itself. This idea was carried further in the formation of our federal government than in that of any other government. In a certain sense indeed the federal government is not the government of these United States at all, but is a piece of central machinery organized to hold together in union the several governments of the several United States and protect them by union from mutual aggression and from aggression by foreign powers. Federa...