The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-12-07
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HNWIkAtY F4DeFs
DEMOCRACY,
The march Of democracy is ever for
Ward, as the movement of autocracy is
ever backward.
Ihere are skeptics here aud there I
there are pessimists who doubt, but
nevertheless every step is toward more
liberal government, toward constitu-
tiohal rights, and away from monarch
Cal restraints and the idea of the divine
right OF any mortal, whether he be
priest or king.
Inc rights of man are here and there
derlded as founded in sin and selfish
ness, but the component parts of every
thing indicated by the word is good.
Right is like truth-it is of God, and
no theory that one man was born booted
and spurred to ride his fellows, or so
intellectually equipped he should thence
be master over others,c can stand against
the Jeffersonian leaven that is leaven.
ing the whole world, that before the
law all men are created eoual: endowas
by their creator with certain inalienable
rights; that among these are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness {;
that to secure these rights g-overnme,,s
are instituted, deriving their just pow
ers from the consent OF the governed.
Here and there q priest rebels against
the Tendency of tho aoa. hare "a
there a politician essavs to s,av !, with
the old superstition of a king. or will
the more modern Napoleonic idea q,
glittering imperialism: here and ,haral
an aris;ocrat or an -aristocraev hausss,I
Ing is paniahing pomo. sn.a o.8..
aaa4aaaiaiioo seskas e a.. 81 "a
bnf Il Is alle 81 III, I ie. ~ -.
which hung s,ver Batb,eham Ga Iod
the wise men 10 the Rodoomar -
came to disentbrau ,ham f,om ,ho;.
chains of se,6sbnass ord Gin 49,
immortal words OF Patrick Harry IN
the little church an the b,,l .x-,xx}
flaming sentiments of .Jefferso, have
been as thouob SET !, tho skv 90 twi,
stare to lead the world 70 froodnm Old
10 Iisbt.
eonr own dasr land dssn;,as.ss
lakes and worse. demoeracr marcbes
on and on. peoplino new tields buiId-
inv new churches fonnd;no now onI
leees. conon.r;no new acres odd;n.
new states.
North of M r. 10 bol5 :, ros,v.;,,
only by the ,hinne.l oora
south OF us it has but yesterday
nnIshed the conquest OF contihent.
France, where the sacred name OF
liberty has SO often, by monarchical
schemes and tricks- baan Sdisgrs,ad h,
I,.a,.o E.aaaa
!es' u The
via ~extraVagances OF united Boulan- !
gists and Bourbons, and become d
nited country on the lines ot cops,;,, {
-, ..aoa-..,- -. ,
m NV iisn' |.
England wears the yoke OF royalty I
impatiently, and contemns a nobilit, )
which has forgotten the old maxim thai, t
ao1Joaos 49, I,aIv 70 f.oo q
stronger =
thah ever IN ius history. Zen Russia, !
brutal in its arrogance. and haughtiness, 1
is brought 10 it's knees by the persis. r
IF Tho r,bannv N;b;,;o,a a.,
o" anu
emma ana Japan oeglh 10 yleld to the =
influence aud the example of the west. .
II ia in the air Democracv-a gov. t
of Tho noon,o ona g.. G
7ssst1sns " 'no poopio anu W inc pee =,
~ 49, a
1911 says, Ii
500 Ky ~ = ~ , III oia b
one thing 5elieye with ali INV Il
heart ii is that before fifty years Europe to
viii De republican from end to end, and al
bout without the horrors of war, 9 pl