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Excerpt from Destructive and Constructive Energies of Our Government Compared: An Address by Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University, Before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston Meeting, Fiftieth Anniversary, August, 1898
As time goes on, it appears that more and more industries have a national scope. Thus, it may be doubted whether the mining of soft coal can be successfully regulated by the separate legislation of single States; for coal mined in Virginia is necessarily in com petition with coal mined in Ohio, for example, and the unprotected condition of laborers in Ohio may prevent the adequate protection of coal miners in Virginia. Within a few months New England cotton manufacturers have been startled by the development of the cotton manufactures in the Southern States; and one of the first suggestions of remedy made by the New England operatives was a national law to regulate hours of labor in cotton mills all over the country. This incident simply marks a tendencv. Interests com mon to many States certainly suggest that the common Government has duties in regard to them.
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