Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-09

heads with Solomon, II more ferocious
than wild beast--more terrible than an
army with banners. This is govern
mcnt Of law which proposes to redress
every wrong of which the citizens can
complain, whether that wrong grows
out Of the aggressions Of
government or the citizen In
his individual or corporate capacity upon
his rights, and not one OF license as some
seem to think, for license they mean when
they cry liberty. Indeed, liberty Is the
creature--the child OF law, and cannot
live divorced from law except as pollti-
cal hsrlot.
You know, wlthal,
Since thy original inpsc. true liberty,
Is Lost, which always with right reason dwcls.
Liberty is priceless inheritance TO the
human race and like the virtue of women
when once lost, IL can never be called
back or restored, but Is lost forever. tits
TO. government what the soul is to
man, the only spiritual part
OF its existence. Greece TO-DAY
has the same climate, the same
clear, running streams, the same
blue sky, tine same soil, thatlt had when
Dcmosthenes Numbered his Phillipics
against Philip Of Macedon, Lycurgus and
Scion wrote her laws securing the liber-
ties OF her people, Alcbiades the lust
dictated her foreign and domestic policy
and Leonidas led herinvincible armies on
the ever memorable plains Of Thermopy-
lac. Yet II Is living Greece no more
Like old Rome, liberty has taken its
flight to more coDgenial chimes, and desc
lation broods with the biackness Of dark
ness over the once fairest portion OF
Gods earth.
Proud Niobe of nations! there she stands,
Childlcss and crOwness In her yoiceless woe
An empty urn within her wifhered hands,
whose holy dust was scattered long ago,
The sciplo's tomb contains no ashes now, the
very sepulChers
Lie tenantess OF their heroic dwellers
Dost thou dow old Iibcr through a marble will
Rise and with thy yellow waves mantle her
distress.
In our own state we observe an unfor-
tunate disposition on the part of many OF
our social organizations TO enter the do
main OF politics. The farmers alliance
Is talking seriously in this direction, if
indeed some Of them have not already
taken the fatal leap. The Sons of Tenn
perance, too, in their social or
CARNATIONS, in many instances, have
in an unguarded moment rushed into this
political maelstrom Of destruction and de-
manded that prohibition should be made
part of the organic law OF the state.
Now Of course we think this last social
organization, (as well as the Farmers
alliance eminently right and proper so
long as confined TO moral and social OBJ
lects and purposes, aud further that II
carries with it when so confined the only
true solution of the social evils resulting
from intemperance-the only means
commensurate with the great end of
mitigating or destroying these admitted
social evils, for all governmental inter
ference on this point can only tend TO
enlarge and Increase them, both in kind
and degree.
In this connection we were much graf
lied at the recent letter OF Mr.. POwderly
to the knights Of Labor, o6ly 70 did not
go far enough. He and others should
teach them by example as wcll az precept
the great social virtues of selfrellance,
selI-help, economy, to the extent at least
OF living within their means, sobri-
ely ana temperance in oil things,
and proper pride OF character
MI Powderly, however, seems to Inti-
mate that there is q real conflict betYeen
laoof and capital. Let bin disabuse his
mind OF this gross error inculcateG BY
-ANNAfiy NlAAlho 10 llEuIl ATtOEEG ana
few fanatics aud demagogues la this
country for purely selfish purposes. for
the most OF them are greater knaves than
fools. This assumed conflict is not real.
but imaginary-as unreasonable ms the
hleroglyphics on the pyramids Of Egypt
as unmeaning as the leaves which the
Sybil threw in the wind. It is
solicism, paradox ia physics ns
well as language. 1t reminds one
OF the ancient fable of war
between the members of the body. How
absurd the idea of a conflict between labor
and capital when one could not possibly
exist without the other With inst as
much reason might 1t be held that the
elements OF nature were at war with each
otner, and that God was Il being of dis
order and confusion rather than of order
anu system. No, these imaginary con-
hlcts II suit from mans own moral 10
norance, selfshness and vice for which
he has no one TO blame but himself. La
Dor and capital should be lett free to be
governed by that great and most Impor-
tant principle in political economy-the
great law OF supply and de-
mand which is the barometer
OF all commercial values in the
country needing only the auxiliary HELM
OF Tree trade TO revive and fructify the
dropping and almost dead commercial in
terests and prosperity OF the country.
Let the knights of Labor and Others
learn the great social virtues of self-help.
selt-reli8nce and economy, and a broad
and generous individualism, and sion
looking to government for little oint.
ment every time fellow sprains his foot.
a broad and true character compre-
bends not only the integritythat will not
do wrong to another, but the spirit that
VIII not submit to wrong, and this,
whether possessed by an individual or
nation, is the sure Foundation of peace
independence and safety. The feather
that adorns the sovereign eagle of Amor
lea supports his flight. STRIP MIN Of bis
piumage and you liz him TO the earth.