Capitolo 20
uneasiness. Now it is, as it is notorious, more in evidence that never
before. The tendency to assemble to Washington, the application that the
central government, while supposing a function after another, it will become
imperial, the to whine for the national promulgation of laws, if relative
to marital divorce or to industrial combinations,--all bumps against on the
fundamental principle of local self-government that supposed his
it forms taller and more pronounced in the application of the National Sovereignty. I am
now affirming only problems. I am not discussing the political ills or
social benefits that can possibly be the result of action. Nevertheless,
all, I think, it has to admit that the gravitation tendency and
the attraction is to-day as pronounced and as dangerous, especially in the
the industrial communities of the north, as it was the separation tendency
and segregation pronounced and seventy dangerous years ago in the South.
To this self I will return later. I point out only now that al which I learn me
is a tendency to extremes--an excess in the rocking of ours
political pendulum.
Us next come to that industrial factor as which I have assigned the
you publish between the free trade of Adamo Smith and Protection, as inculcated
from her so defined American school of political economists. The phases
what this problem has supposed it is, I submit, well it calculated to excite
the attention of the careful and thoughtful one. I allude only to them
now; but, in till now as it is in my power to do him/it so, my wish of allusion
is specific. I frankly admit me a Marketeer. A Marketeer
in theory, it was it in my power I would be a Marketeer in national
practice. There has been, till now as me I know, but an example of absolute
free trade on the greatest staircase in history of world. That example of the one,
besides you/he/she has been a success as, deprived of the necessary requisite as undeniable. I assign
this the American union of ours. We have here a country that consists of fifty
the local communities, extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific from