The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-07-03

ell utes of wealth, privilege and i'm
hS&unity-natural individuals, not
e%} Combinations and corporations OF
Her. ain persons and limited classes
sIn society. They declare that
s&&hese NJ en- have been endowed by
md kheir creator with certain 'inalien'
or. Sble rights, among which ore life,
liberty and the pursuit of happi.
ness When they declared that
these rights were conferred upon
ntman by the God who made him,
tsthey intended it to be understood
that the enjoyment of these rights
ri should be prompted, controlled and
Pr Nmite d by the ordirar and natural
III laws that regulate the capacity and
~ 6uration Of individual existence.
eF1t never entered their minds to
ls6ring into existence new and ticti-
al tious class of citizenship, claiming
81 md enjoying all the inalienable
CT privileges Of natural manhood,
s6ompeting on an equal footing with
1T the individual citizen, demanding
and receiving the special pre- roga-
OF tive and protection of the state, and
at yet absolved from every generous
|. impulse and emotion of human
Ps nature and relieved from the ordi.
IL nary responsibilities and mutations
otgCf social existence.
Nv Nowhere in all the political liter
nature of those days can there be
~ :found warrant or justification for
: Introducing into our social system
this class of artificial citizenship,
y clothed with all the powers Of
personal existence, invested with
special and sovereign franchises by
~ the government itself and yet ex-
smpt from the vicisitudes and obi.
cations of individual manhood.
Every utterance of those sagaci
G. GUS men is full Of po.itive and
III prophetic protest against the rise
pr and .pread of ideas SO foreign to
r the whole genius and destiny of the
Pl rspublic they were establishing.
I va The Usage of Monticello" select
Hsed from out of all the triumphs of
Ibis long and illustrious public SER
N vice the achievements he most de-
sired to be remembered by his
h' scountlymen, and by his express d.
re ction they are emblazoned on the
simple shaft that marks his last
o. resting place among the purple hills
ESof Virginia. He chose for his cpl.
Ttaph alongside the authorship of
q, the declaration of independence,
the fact that he had abolished the
laws of primogeniture and estates
ls tail in his native state. Yet we,
protesting to revere his wisdom and
TO follow his teachings, are propa-
e. eating an rtiticial system of privi.
lege and perpetuity that involves
All the evils of primogeniture and
10 entail, with none of the compensat-
+. sating advantages of ancestral
y pride and inherited virtue.
aThe great work of Adam
lie Smith, given to the world in the
it very year of American independence,
II and which has never been surpassed
for philosophical acumen and analy.
sis by any later production on the
same subject, does not dignity these
fictitious creatures of governmental
authority with distinct discussions;
but throughout the "Wealth of
a. Nations" he points out their per-
pInlcious and destructive influence
upon the political, social and indus.
cstrial fortunes of a nation.
slI am not one of those who believe
that questions involving principle
,should be decided simply by the
force of precedent. The truth
gains no new virtue and can derive
No added strength from the sanction
lcf any individual, however exalted
bneither should one generation be
pSaled by the dead sceptre of pre-.
sysesding age whose ideas and
d1sactices may have been in
sMrired by totally different condi
pms. But there is safety and sue.
oses in obedience to the Apostolic
behest: "Prove all things, hold
fast that which is good" and l do
believe in the indestructible virtue
and the unvary'nu noooae;+y ne +hoso