The Russellville Democrat., 1891-08-20
Judgc Wallace's speech.
FREEMAN SPRINGS. July 10. <

In response to q warm 6oiicllatier Judge J. G. Wallace WAS present tc address the Society on matters per taining to it's social and financial in terest.
 At all early hour the eager throng was anxiously waiting to hear and receive the great truths in store foI them by that able exponent of civil rights.
 The Society was called to order at 10 8. m., and having dispensed with it's special order of business, dinner was prepared by the ladies, which was an enjoyable part of the occa- sion. Soon after dinner the crowd was assembled to hear the address.
 The Judge never apeared in better trim for great speech, and for near ly two hours he held the people spell. bound. We can only give synop- sis of the speech, which is substan tially as follows:
 After hls congratulations he said ours was an improvement over all other farmers organizations he had yet known. That while it had shot up in the remote township of Free man, it was nevertheless an organi- zatlon capable of great growth and expansIen and was full of manifold blessings to the agricultural interest. That it was an enterprise calculated to foster industry and economy, and to influence and refine the home cir cle. That industry, economy and neatness is the road to prosperity and happiness, and he would guar antee any family that would follow these rules for few years to be a wealthy and happy family. That the same would hold goed as to na tions. He believed the movement of man to be progressive and not re progressive. That the earliest histo- " of our human race taught us that our primeval ancestors lived pasto ral life and their only government consisted merely of tribal relations; 1; but he has advanced gradually from the shades of barbarism into the light of splendid ciyilizatior.-Of course we make many mistakes, but failures and mistakes are necessary in the progress of civil government; we only know the true by discover ing and conquering the false, so long as we have the wisdom to dis cover and the patriotism to correct our mistakes, the liberties of the people are secure.-I believe gov ernment will progress until it's true ends are attained and the civiliza tion taught by Christ is set up on earth. The fact that we have for ages stumbled blindly over wrongs engrafted in our institutions without until now beginning to discover them, is healthy instead of bad symptom. The common brotherhood of God and the general brotherhood of man is universally recognized by all men. Every generous impulse of our nature teaches us that we should live for use and not for gain. There are great evils engrafted in our institutions which lay at the very foundations of society. which may be peaceably solved by dis covery of the true principles of gov ernment and reducing it's theories to practice. There are but two theo ries of government, Tn fact--one is IndIviduaIism and the other Pater nalism. The government of the United States was predicated upon the theory of Individualism-De- mocracy pure and simple-and so long as administered upon that the ory the conditions of the people were were equal, all had general comfort, nobody very rich, and we were the happiest people in the world. But thirty years Paternallsm has cen trallzed the wealth of the country into the hands of the few, has pro duced the greatest inequality of con ditions, oppressed the poor and sue cored the rich until our institutions are toppling over. Individualism produces the greatest equality of conditions, independence, dignity and freedom. It acts upon the prin- ciple of non-interference with the liberty of the individual citizen and gives tue greatest latitude of action, restraining him only in so far as IS necessary to the public welfare of society, recognizing the only le. gitimate subjects of legislation to be life, limb. liberty and property. leav- ing tue morals of the country in. the hands of the people to be fostered by home influence and moral suaslon and is the best adapted to the pro duction of the stuff that men and women are made of, towit: Moral, intellectual and physical force, Pa ternalism is the principle of govern ing the people by governmental in- reference with the individual citi- zen, and is best defined as the oppo- site of Individualism. It fosters trusts, monopolles aAd combines. ia vors and succcrs the rich, places a system oi espionage over lhe cltizeh, prescribes his meats and drinks, and feeds the poor from a common kitch en, produces all sorts of cant, hypoc
 risy and fraud, and encroaches upon the field of the preacher, leaving him without occupation by prescribing to the individual citizen code ol morals and giving to it legislative sanction. Some of the specific evils of the times IS the extravaganza o our public servants and all depart ments of government. The last con gress squandered one billion, eighl miiliana of dollara ol the neoDle's