The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-08-11
GOING BACKWARD,

new party to be simon-pure Jeffer-
sonian Democracy, and that the
Democratic party has depar ted from
the teachings of Jefferson and the
fathers of the republic.
1t becomes, then, an interesting
inquiry to discover what IS Jeffe.-
sonian Democracy.
From the first settlement of this
country, the South has always stood
tor the right of self.government and
the largest possible liberty to the
individual citizen.
The development of the individual
comforting upon him the response
bilities Of citizenship, giving to him
special individuality, local habi-
tation and name as it were, were
among the earliest undertakings of
the colonies. From 1923, when the
general assembly of Virginia defined
the rights OF colonists and limited
the powers of the executive; from
the time the Maryland colonists,
under the guidance OF Lord Balti-
more, passed the liberation act on
the End of April, 1910; from the
time that Jefferson wrote that great
bill of rights known as the Declare
ton of independence, down to the
present day the guiding star of po-
lltlcal conduct on the part of South
ern people has been to promote self
government, develop individual re-
/ sponsibility and manhood, and to
! guard against all encroachments BY
the powers that be upon the rights
OF states and the rights of persons.
Civil and religious liberty and JET
tersonlan Democracy were the
South's contributions to the Ameri.
can republic. Protection OF the
states and the development ofrthe
individual liberty of the citizens be-
came, under Mr.. Jefferson, the fun>
damental principles of Southern
/ Democracy.
Are such the principles of the
new party? Out o; the mouths of
It's own witnesses let it be judged.
What does Mr.. Edward Bellamy,
next to lgnatious Donne!ly the most
prominent member of the new or
ganizatlon, say? In his article in
the June number OF the North Amer
lean Review, he glories over the
tact that the new party are nation
alists. The peoples party platform,
he says, demands naturalization of
banking, national ownership and
operation OF railroads, national
ownership and operation of tele>
graphs and telephones, and declares
land the heritage OF the nation. He
congratulates the new party upon
its rapid strides to, nationalism.
Now, what is his definition of na>
tionGlism?
"Nat;onalism is the doctrine of
those who hold that the principle of
popular government by the equal
voice of all for the equal benefit of
all, which in advanced nations, is
already recognized as the law of
political organization, should be ex-
tended to the economical organizaN
ton as we'll and that the entire
capital and labor of nations should
be nationalized. and administered
by the people through chosen agents,
for the equal benefit of all, under
an equal law of industrial service"
Thus speaketh Mr.. Bellamy whose
views form a part the foundation
stone of the platform which the new
party calls the second declaration
of independence"
Mr.. Bellamy further speaks Of the
peoples party platform as radical,
industrial solution Of new problems,
and laughs at the old followers CT
Jefferson Tor thinking he had ar
ranged matters for all time. Mr.
Bellamy would discard the Jefer-
sonia2. theory OF government. lie
prefers to go back to the old world
and pattern after its paternalism
and Capitalization, to be >trced from
which this republic was founded.
The principles of Jefferson have
made the South distinctive through
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