That [State] power of regulation and control is gradually passing into the hands of the national government." "Sometimes by an assertion of the inter-State commerce power, sometimes by an assertion of the taxing power, the national government is taking up the performance of duties which under the changed conditions the separate States are no longer capable of adequately performing." "We are urging forward in a development of business and social life which tends more and more to the obliteration of State lines and the decrease of State power as compared with national power." "It is useless for the advocates of State rights to inveigh against ...

the extension of national authority in the fields of necessary control where the States themselves fail in the performance of their duty." He is not announcing a policy; he is not forecasting what a party of planners will bring about; he is merely telling what the people will require and compel.

And he could have added--which would be perfectly true--that the people will not be moved to it by speculation and cogitation and planning, but by _Circumstance_--that power which arbitrarily compels all their actions, and over which they have not the slightest control.
_"The end is not yet."_ It is a true word.

We are on the march, but at present we are only just getting started.
If the States continue to fail to do their duty as required by the people-- " ...

_constructions of the Constitution will be found_ to vest the power where it will be exercised--in the national government." I do not know whether that has a sinister meaning or not, and so I will not enlarge upon it lest I should chance to be in the wrong.