The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-03-27

ditch Tie Epghsheonstfntion has
been lauded as tie most perfect ever
made by the hand of man, yet the
liberties of the people are depend
ent on the union or disagreement of
the rich men and the lords. Hamil-
ton saw no better basis for our own
government than that which had /
worked we'll in Great Britain for
many years, but the time is fast !
coming when the political wisdom
of Jefferson will be better apprecla
ted than ever before. The "w61m |
i the bud" with cur British cousins |
IS found in the doctrine that the I
state must do everything; in obedi-
ence to a tendency irresistible as
destiny and more renlorseless ethan
fate, the public with them. is to be
the great moneyed power mhichwill
crush out private enterprise, and be-
come a gigantic corporation >swal-
| lowing railroads and factories, capi-I
tai and brains, and ultimately land
and people under bureaucratic sys-
tenn more crushing than that of
France before the revolution. Even
as George advocates a community of
land, so Joseph Arch foretells the
existence of ''armies of agricultural
laborers" who shall move at the
word of the government and under
the direction of oyerseers appointed
Eby ID central power. This is the
"freedom" promised by the prophets
: fof the new political dispensation!
Thcsc be- the false gods towards
whose affairs. the eeptraizing, ideas
of Hamilton would lead us Can
mortal man be trusted with such abs
solute direction of his fellows ? How
would the citizens of a land under
such a rule be other than slaves? 1t
, would bring us in a few generations
to the dead level now observable in
China; instead of apriestgand faith
err, the chiefs of bureaucratic gov
eminent would be. our fathers and
z masters. I1sisBI { = l., EsHj
III What is the fundamental pfinci-
pie of our republic differing radical
,, ~ from all others, and promising to
l be the heart of our political body to
2 which we may trust for the diffusion
, of life. and health to the renaotest
extremities 1t is found alone in
the Jeffersonian doctrine that the
people should retain all power ( not
necessarily delegated for the preser-
walton of peace and Justice. In the
state of ignorance power must be
vested in the strongest to preserve
: peace because in war man cannot
, work out his political salvation
when education becomes general
power must be vested IL the midi
| vidual citizen TIL the political mil
. lennium arrives wherein each mar
I will know his rights so well that he
: will commit no treSpass on hi
neighbor, GE&I>5 @LE
1t AS Russia will be engulfed in an
$ arehy caused by, thcEsudden expto
II sion of forces long restrained by
II brutal desPotism; as England tend
= towards bureaucratic communism
y so the doctrines of the republican
d party in the United States woult
n lead us rewards Capitalization, anC
is the principles of, Jefferson. reeoglrz'
is as best only the government which
gives to individual action the wides
: latitude compatible with the publi
a good. AT one extreme is de$potslll
y at the other anarchy, and to the PEG
&c pie must be left the salutary, re
1 4 2 - =
Is straints dictated by the experience
IS the political wisdom and the pruden
4 tial frcethought whereof, they ma!
d stand possessed. While all of II
N are in state OF pupilage, govern
/ ment is necessary, but we can hes
st subserve our interests by keeping a
rs home all powerlnot necessarily del
p, egated for-oar own good. And tn
s. members of our constitutional con
N vention must give to the state a
a. little power isis consistent with ex
4 eeutiye efficiency. We want n.
1t such king in Florida as was cfeatel
As by the republicans in 1865.