The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-07-05
Great Speech Of Dudley G.
Wooten..-C Corporations
THREATEN THE LIFE OF OUR NATION
IndiyidualiSm the Fundamental Law
Our Political and Social Fabric.

TIE malign and destructive ope-
ration of this pernlci ous do,trlne of
CO operation, combination and in
corporation, as opposed to the
healthy and natural sway of lndl-
vldn,l eff ,rt and personal indie
pei d-nce, are easily discernible in
the various tangible and objective
mani e-,a ions already deecrlb I'd.
He who runs nay read the results
in the growth of the altagonism b.
tween labor and capital, IN the dis
int grating influence of special and
class eg,riation, in the gradual ten.
dency toward division of the
country into warning and discor-
dant actions in the unjust and dis
proportlonate distribution Of wealth
among the people, and in the griev-
Gus d spariries that are rapidly sep
arating rich and poor, high and low,
employer aud employee. They are
fast driving us toward an inevlta
BILE conillct between democracy
and paiernalism, for no gov
ernment can long subsist
and maintain its equilibrium while
such radically divergent forces are
at work among its people. Either
the ci.izen must triumph in the full
and free exercise of his natural and
inalienable rights as an indiv dual,
or he must sacrifice some part of
his liberties in order to bride the
excuses aad control the power Of
his artificial corporate competitors
But these visible and objective
evils are, if possible, surpassed in
their ruinous tendencies by the in
sldlous and subjective demoraliz,
ton that is sprea ling it's faint
through every department of our go
cial, economic and industrial life,
as the logical result of the same
caus
The visible and tangible disor-
ders attack merely the formal insti-
buttons aud political mechanism of
our government: there are others
that lie d5eper and iavove the de-
s.ruotion of those organic and in
nate ideas that form the very base
and staple of our character and
strength as free and enduring
people.
The IN ,st potent, durable, con
sistent aud valuable trait that has
given
GLORY AND pRoWGss
to the Aryaa race, and especial
ly to it, noblest offspring-the An
glo.Saxons-has bsen the recogni.
ton of individual! responsibility
and dev to personal duly.
TINS cardinal virtue and never
failing quality are the natural
sequence and inevitable coroll ary Of
tha. system Of social and political
life that adopts the individual citi-
2 n as the unit and foundation of
organlz-d freedom. 1t has been
he most conspicuous and constant
factor in all the historic develop
ment of Aryan civilization. 1t
& I'VE splendor to the noblest age of
Athenian genius and rendered
heroic the annals of Spartan cour-
age Is highest exh bition found
uttera ice in the sacrlticial carna ye
of Thermopym aud was voiced in
the epitaph That immortalizes the
followers Of Laonldas. Those 800
Warriors lie there in obedience to
no written enactment nor in re-
spouse to any formulated code,
but because Of their loyalty
to the law of Individual
duty to the obligations of patriot
Ism and the unconquerable fidelity
of Spartan valor. The same sterr
sense OF personal responsibility and
trust was the adjoining virtue Of
h man character aud has made i'm
mortal the names of Brutus, Cate
and LIcinius. Amid all the wilo
and bar ,arous freedom of the for
est, a fierce and unrelenting stan
dard Of individual manhood
aud personal obligation wa
The one crowning character
'stic of reutonic courage, anc
among the somore and silent war
rlors n hO list DeOpled the coast n