St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-23

cans these things that they may COM
prehend what political and personal
liberty are. Herbert Spencer tells us
that 'every man has the freedom to
whatever he wills, provided he infringes
not the equal freedom of any other
man." Teach them these things and
they will understand that the privilege
and compulsion of knowing how to read
should be conditions precedent to vOt-
ing; that to vote without knowledge to
read is as dangerous to the welfare of
Somebody will be hurt by the blind
ballot and the blind bullet.
POLITICAL TRAINING
is necessary for intelligent citizenship,
and intelligent citizenship is necessary
for the preservation of constitutional
Republican government, and cOnstitu-
tlonal Republican government is neceS-
sary for the highest development of
human character, and the highest devel-
Opment of human character is necessary
that man may go on through the evolv-
ing process of nature from lower to
higher spheres until he stands physical
~, mentally and morally in the image Of
his maker.
With reason, honesty and humanity as
governing principles, let us teach and
services, and the halls of congress, in
the capitals of states, and in our domes-
tic affairs, and thus will we avoid per-
sonal jealOusies, party malice and sec
tional hate. This knowledge will make
the labor of life lighter. the line of duty
clearer and the practice of humanity
easier. 1t will make known to the office
holder that he is the servant of the peO-
pie and not wrathful god to upbraid,
or punish, nor demon to rule with a
fiery scepter. 1t will enable all to I'M
derstand the equitable relationship be-
tween employers and employees. By
it capitalists will know that
laborers are entitled to fair treat
for their services. By it laborers will
know that they owe to their employer
sufficient service and fidelity to duty.
1t will also enable the employed to know
that the great questions which are con-
Stantly arising between capital and
labor cannot and should not be settled
by strikes, or bOycOtting, by communism
or by anarchy. 1t will teach all that
these questions can only be perman-
emily settled through the evolving pro-
cesseS of an education, wherein truth
and reason, generosity and forbearance
are made leading features; that in the
nature and fitness of things there must
be the employer and the employed; that
some must control while some must be
controlled; that capital and labor are
the compliments of each other and like
centrifugal and centripetal forces which
hold the planets and suns in their orbits
they should be so adjusted by the
wisdom and benevOlence of man as to
keep in balance and in peaceful opera
ton the human forces and energies that
move the diversified industries of the
world. 1t will make clear to all that
LABOR OF HAND AND OF BRAIN
are alike honorable, and there is no
aristOcracy in brain-labOr over hand
labor. The pagans taught that labor
was the price which God placed upon
all that was excellent. The Bible tells
us that God himself not only worked,
but commanded man and woman to
labor. The Master was carpenter,
and his greatest apostle tent maker.
This knowledge will show that the null
tiplication of laws inconSiderately en-
acted are curse to the country, and
that thinking, reasoning statesmen can
do more good by repeating many old
laws than by enacting new ones. 1t
will show the Democratic and Repub-
lican politicians that they are as far
from the truth as Neptune is from the
earth when they proclaim the ruin of
the country. or the crumbling of the
pillars of the temple of American gov
eminent in case of the election
to the presidential chair of
either Harrison or Cleveland. 1t will
enable the honest people to see and to
know that the wailingS, the passionate
miSStatementS, the waving of bloody
shirts and the word paintings of new re-
bellionS in the solid South mean only
political arguments, not political ethics,
for personal gain and patty success.
When centuries cover the forgotten
tOmbs of the non-ethical bloody-shirt
politicians of our day, the goddess of
liberty will hold her place on the dome
OF the American capitol, regardless of
the named and the politics of the men
who have presided in the White house,
and the Southern people, side by side
with their Northern brethren, will
stand around the constitution of the re-
public.
Lastly, a knowledge of politics. Plato
thanked God for three things: First,
that he was man; second, that he was
a Greek; and third, that Sophocles was
his contemporary. l, too, thank heaven
man; second, that l am an American:
and third, that L live in an age that is
liberating woman from the bondage,
prejudice and abuse of sixty centuries,
and is lifting her into a sphere where
her capabilities, her lovliness, her gen.
JUS and her humanity may be exercised
for the blessings of mankind on earth
and for the glory of God in heaven.