Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-04
Lights and Shadows.

PiAAlooopuel, Jonn Locke, and Lord
Sha 1tsonry, one OF the prominent
members OF the Company, had drafted
constitution for Carolina Its auth-
ors and their friends believed it to be
the most perfect work of the kind
ever produced by the human mind. It,
was called the "GRAND MODEL, !"
and the members OF the company de-
clared when they signed it, that it
WoAld remain the SACRED AND IN
ALTEEABLE FORM AND RULE OF Gov
E1,NMENT FOREVER.'
The "GRAND MODEL" established
anobllity VINO practically held all pow
er. 1t also set up courts of justice in
tended to regulate everything from
the greatest questions OF law down to
the cut OF ii mans coat, or the trim
ming OF womans's bonnet.
But there was one omission in this
model constitution: it gave the COM
mon people-the very class that had
begun to settle Carolina no rights.
They We're not permitted TO vote: they
We're not to hold landed property; nay
more they were not even at liberty to
leave the soil they titled, without per
mission from the noDIeuIan who own
ed 1t. When Il wealthy planter Bought
a tract OF land in Carolina 1t was eX-
pected that he would purchase the
white settlers on lt--they, like the
trsss and the stones, were considered
TO be part OF the estate
But the Inhabitants Of the territory
decidedly objected to the "C,ltAEI)
MODEL" They were resolved 20
their hatds, to OVID all the land the,
could honestly buy, and lastly, to make
tL@ir own laws.
After TWENTY years ot contest they
succeeded: and the Toasted conStitu.
tion that was To last "Fol;i.S ..,:' was
given up.
In the light Of the nineteenth cen
tury the "GnAND MODII."reals like
slavery instead Of liberty. and there il,
not an american nlan bar would smile
in deriSion at this so called SACRED
AND UNALTERAHLl. I'ORM OF GOVERN
NENT," and we wonder ii the children
OF the twentieth century viii likewise
hold in ridicule and contempt some OF
our lueas OF !, free government when
tive pages OF history which we are now
writing, unfold to them the nonsense
OF Il government that claims to derive
governed and ;tt the same time CON
troll an,, govern a class oil people
while it with h-holCi5 from thlt class the
protection OF the ballot because OF
sex. "A government that places the
ballot IL hands OF the ignorant foreign
er and savage warrior and dsnies the
same to The intelligent christian moth.
erhood Of the country. a goVerlMenj
that hclus IN subjection the woman
hood Of America to that extent that il
80 states the mother has no legal own
erslip in her child. A government
that is the biggest partner IN bust
ness which holds Il mortgage over 81
900 cradles to-day which mortgage i
being foreclosed every year. A gov
ernment that controls untold wealth
While halt Il million children are Wag
eurners thus deprived OF chillnoo'
and education \ government tina
met in conference.-the other nation
and thus aided in drawing UP tn
Brussels Treaty, which forblds lmpoI
alton Of Alcoholics into Africa, an
then after IS other governments Ma
signed the aforesaid treaty, ours ot
defeated the ratification OF the treat
in the United states Senate VII
CLOSED doors. A government Whicl
defeats. the elevating influence of tn
work of missionaries by shipping q
0CO,o00 gallons Of rum a year on tis
same vessels with Christs mnsSe nge
whe lands only TO find the chufche
seated WIN the ram boxes, end hil
Ireds OF men and women lylh
beastly drunk. and only three 1anll!le