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faintest rejection of the Golden Rule. The

faintest rejection of the Golden Rule. The
result IS that:ail these schemes carry death
in their elotl.es; for the government of
society by ing ividualisn they would substl-
tute the hideous tyranny of state socialism.
thing WITHOUT brains. sanity. practical
ity or Christian equity as expressed in the
Golden Rule Government by individual
ism is sounddn theory; the imperfection
of its adm . istration IS only incident to
the fallibiiitv of human nature, but meas
ured by its f'Slits it is the best government
the world bag ever seen.
What does 4his government OF individ-
uaiism needz 1t needs only better and
wiser and more upright administration.
How will it get that? Only by the in
creasing potenuality of the essential spirit
of Christianity; the equity of the Golden
Rule among mankind. Nothing else will
save this government or any other form of
government from ultimate decay and de-
struction but more real Christianity. both
in legislation and in the conduct of life.
Government by individualism Is good. but
its evils will oniy disappear when its errors
are corrected by the overwhelming spirit
of Christian jsistice and equity in the every
day conduct o8 life. No substitution Of gov
eminent by ssate socialism or paternalism
will do any good, for the trouble does not
lie in any deEect of our form of govern
ment; it lies only in our incapacity or
unwillingness to irradiate eur every day
conduct of nublic and private business
with the spiris of the Golden Rule. With
this spirit our present form Of government
is better than any other; without this,
any other form of government would be
far more in,oserable failure; a more dread
full. because a more stupid and barbarous
tyranny, WHICH sinks individual rights
out of sight 3, order to fit a war club to
the hand Of aate socialism. which would
beat ont the brains Of human liberty
and end in anarchy and state suicide.
Carlyle said the French Revolution was
''the eighteenth century blowing its brains
out" There is no excuse in America for
blowing our brains out" by resorting to
tyrannical stste socialism and paternal-
ism. What is wanted is more Christian
ity; more Golden Rule in the conduct of
life from the top to the bottom of society.
Give US more christianity; more Golden
Rule in practice, and We shall get on we'll
enough; without more of this we shall fail
and without it every other scheme of
human goyernment will fail. No social
machinery; no patent methods of reform;
no legislation will redeem the soul and
heart Of man from bitter. acrid, spiteful
selishness, etviousness and malice; and
all the present quarrels between capital
and labor, between employees and en-
ployer are difficult of solution, not because
of any imperfection in our form of govern
ment, but because selhshness and greed
are conspicuous on both sides.
Labor is as often liar, envious. mali
cious, graspin,, unfair and inhuman as
capital This militant attitude can only
sides. If weshave it not, there will al
ways be industrial wars and riots no mat
ter what is the.form of government. The
''jawsmiths" no think to redeem society
from all its ills by the application of their
new social machinery need to ponder on
the wise words addressed by William Penn
to his people of the commonwealth Of
Pennsylv ,nias
Governments, like clocks, start from the
movement that men give them. As govern
ments are made and moved by men, by men
also are govern .lents conducted to their ruin.
This is the ressoa that governments depend on
men more than men on governments If men
are good, govern slent cannot be bad; or 4 it be,
men render it gost II men are bad, however
good q government may be, they will set to
work ana spoil a1d corrupt it.
In the meant5me let no one worry about
our drifting rapidly into the state that
precipitated "ehe French Revolution"
The French Revolution came under cir
cumstances of serrible oppression and con-
sequent populay misery; it ought to have
come; it ought:to come again under like
circumstances, but the French Revolution
will never coma in America until we re-
peat its preceden; of horrible popular mis-
government; il certainly will not come in
our country s.: long as the individual
ownership OF property is universal and Sc
cure. The french Revolution was born
out of great wrongs; it was born out of
state Of tremendous industrial, social and
political tyransy; not out of such a civ
ilization of uni 7ersal industrial. social and
political freedom a, blesses these United
States. The Fyench Revolution was not
the windy chile of clump of mere claw
smiths" respitIning into new stocking
the old yarn of theories that long ago lost
both heel and t4,e