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been a public officer in the State of New York, and having much more feeling for the State of New York and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts than I had ever previously had for the U.S.A. - when I say feeling, I mean those curious, nostalgic memories, a sense of belonging to the State of New York and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and merely residing in the U.S.A. - I had a great feeling of the importance of a state Governor. That changed as I began to be a public official of the U.S.A. and began to recognize this strange responsibility which the federal government has, and yet has not. This country would do perfectly well with a very weak federal government, so long as it had good state and local Governments.

So I was sensitive to the improprieties of a federal officer walking into a state and doing some work there without it being known at all to the state officials. As Industrial Commissioner of the State of New York I had been deeply grieved more than once at finding that there were federal conciliators working in the State of New York without ever saying boo to me, sometimes on a strike that we were handling all right and would have managed if they hadn't butted in. I've already discussed how annoyed I was at finding them setting up these half-baked employment offices in odd parts of the state without mentioning it to me. Even the highway commissioners would come into the State of New York and