The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-09-04

DEMOCRACY AND LIBERTY.
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There ere democrats and democrats
A. party lines are drawn men divide
from instinct from prejudice. from
self interest from all manner Of mo-
tivcA hut whenever In this massing
Of men along che lines Of opposing
ideas there Il found > man whoioves
democratic principle for IT, own sake;
who sees how men may become freer'
and, being freer. better; whose reason
takes firm hold on the few great truths
Of liberty and progress which ere true
always because they underlie human
nature: and who has the courage 20
stand for the truth he sees. there y
found . man whose work makes the
world better In his own generation and
for al generations 70 come. There
can be no higher aim In life than 70 DO
the work OF such democrat
Speaking at Iowa City IS IN Ameri-
san democrat 70 the people Of state
who have been cursed with the oppres-
zion OF benevolent bigotry, Hon. Roger
.. Mills has enunciated one Of these
great truths Of liberty and progress
with force and clearness that could
have come only from clear insight and
an entire conviction Of its paramount
Importance. 1.-THE great error OF pro-
hibitory legislation" he said. lis that
| Il locates virtue and vice in the physical
body; that IL puts temperance and in
temperance in the flesh, overlooking
the fact that they live in heart and
mind. in the immaterial part on which
law can lay no hand; that the great
work OF reform Is 70 reach ones sell
and not another"
| This is the very fundamental truth q
| democracy and liberty We're II false
! liberty would be forever . false pre-
tense: self-govcrnment for AL time
dream impossible Of fulhllment, ans
the progress Of humanity mere vanit.
and agment Of the imagination 1t mus
be true, for were Il not men were mer'
brutes. born TO Cypress each other ant
70 live forever BY fraud and force ap
piled against each other under the Law
that governs in all pandemoniumA
It is true that men are born free
They might have been born with NJ
power OF choice between good and evh
but they were left free to choose, =
suffer, TO learn. and 80 advance in tn
slow processes of time to some grea
end 70 be achieved through their lib
erty. We can see what they are, gives
what they have been. and 20 arrive q
some faint idea Of the progress the!
have already made through the suffer
ing incident to their freedom; but w
know not yet what they shall BE-" W
can only know that their progress do
pends on their liberty. and that he doe
most for the advancement OF humanit
, who does most 10 make II free.
And IL there Is one truth which NOR
than all Others can make and kee
men free, it il this, that "the grea
work OF reform IL TO reach ones scl
, and not another" Il Is within Cd
power Of every man ia his lifetime
deprive himself Of the power TO choos
, evil rather than good. Every man
=, capable Of self-government. IL he vii
he can live without wronging himse
! or otherA But - : matter OF huma
nature, men will not until experiens
! forces them - It Always they Ar
Il easier to govern others than 70 80
!; ern themselves; to force others than
]. force themselves Instead Of 20 :
forming themselves in heart and int
: lect that they can become . power 4
: GOOD over others, through the streng
: Of intellectual and moral force. tn
leave their own hearts and min'
sngoverned that they may use or
i the bodies Of Others the bru
force Of law. for more jails. mo
! shackles, more clubs. more bay
: nets. The world can never be better
! 50. for the betterment Of humani
!, must come through the betterment
its heart and mind, which no force
club or bayonet can compel 70 choo
the good. Men remain free In hea
and mind In spite Of oppression. viii
only weds them more FIRMLY 70 thu
: own wrong. and makes Il less possie
!. Tor them TO reach tho right
!. The remedy for every wrong % me
a right; for every oppression, great
: freedom. Only - men are free 9
! they govern themselves, only = Oh
= become capable Of self-Rovernment
= they useful in their own generation :
instruments in working out the reden
y tion Of humanity from the curse
= force and fraud. Of ignorance and
!; necessary suffering And wherever
= democrat Is found proc'aiming thu
= truths his voice Is - that OF one 9
y ing in the wilderness that the way
q liberty may be prepared and the PEI
= Of progress made straight st. Lo
a Republic.
: THE REPUBLICAN WoRksHc
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