Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-20

of John Swinton and Kate Field on Vari-
Gus Subjects.
copyright, 1899, by American Press Associa-
toni
The federalist founders of the republic
of the United States, Jay, Hamilton and
Washington, as interpreted by Marshall,
Kent, Quincy Adams, Seward and Lincoln,
are felt in our day through the decrepit or
chaotic provincial states as the spinal life
and brain of our system.
These opponents pass more and more to
the rear as demagogues and confidence men
as the superiority of our federal institu-
tions and spirit are seen by the rising gen
erations.
In proportion as the subsidiary states
share this federal or national instinct do
they rise to the success of the nation.
apprehend that it will take another con-
vulsion, and that probably not an extensive
one-perhaps foreign war-to permanent
ly settle the supremacy of the nation in ev-
cry uncriminal mind.
The weakness of the federal government
now is due to the states who contribute to
it their representative caitiffs as senators,
justices and even presidents.
The last message of the governor of South
Carolina, the most wayward of all our early
provinces, shows the failure of an obstrep-
erous state sovereignty in the refusal of
the people, though they disobey the federal
laws of suffrage, to pay their taxes, main
tain their public schools, uphold their one
university--the first one where free trade,
rebellion and secession were taught-or
subdue their factional and social animosi-
ties Good citizens of such a state must in
evitably turn toward the cordial and help
full federalism at Washington, and so, /
think, when we have a less mercenary
newspaper press and can for less income
tell more TRUTH the poorer and raggeder
states will come in like the prodigal son
and say, Father, | have sinned against
heaven and in thy sight; make me one Of
thy hired servants"
The necessities of dull states the good
sense of great states, all bear toward rails
ing and respecting the one federal father
hood which taxes while we sleep, so that
we do not feel the rib taken from our body,
and applies that subtraction to delightful
taste and intercourse
Out of the one public estate have come
all these railways, school sections, new and
great cities, irrigating works, mines, etc.
Where the federal works are expensive the
state politicians make them so. Who
engineers than a state legislature. either
for wisdom or virtue?
The faith heretofore lacking in the SUI
preme legislature through local and press
demagogy will, when restored, make honor
at Washington the public standard.
Liberty has descended to us through tim
orous and exctable men like jefferson, as a
stockade surrounded by Indians. Liberty
ought to be not the suspicion of mutual
egotists, but the beautiful respect and har.
mony between man and his family
The unequal civilization of the parts of
our country, the assem- bling as tribes in
stead of fellow countrymen, the law of life
and property in one part, the law of spasm
and force in another part, the long results
of slavery and nonpayment of taxes, must
and will yield.
Excessive wealth ought to be taxed in its
full proportion, not more, for remove the
stimulus of wealth and at present America
is nothing
The church has become nonentity, except
as dead pull back on bold and noble
thinking. Literature, until the other day,
had no care from the lawmaking power
Scienceis doing WELL but is taking fat tolls
from it's generation. Would not a better
Interpretation Of government than ours
have bought the telephone at the outset for
million dollars instead of taxing every
customer in two generations fifty dollars a
year9
Europe is influencing us greatly, and that
will last long and probably for our good.
What could we learn from North Carolina
or Indiana that would be better than
European intercourse?
We must nourish our peasantry, includ-
ing the 100000 of our blacks, for an
empire without servants might almost be
without homes or utensils. What have
these wretched states done to discipline the
poor in the mechanic and household arts2
The farmers are without public spirit or
they would have better roads and CON
veniences. From the cities and the villa
seats are to come the immediate helps to
progress.
Individual life needs more liberty than
dogma and fashion will accord He who
confiscates my Sunday to serve his super
stition tyrannizes over one-seventh of my
life
When we become free indeed it will not
cost US so much to live, for fashion and
church thrive upon our acquiescent slavery
The home, too, should be free, the civil and
not the clerical power should do all the
LndLI ~ my IueS9 DTOheu MONIES are often
the result of the mercenary and secret
priest marrying the dissolute, the half
grown and the runaway to each other.
Temperance and legislation have little to
do with each other. Liquors ought to be
inspected and adulterating brewers to wear
stripes.
Woman's great triumph, and mans, too,
will be not to need the ballot often; she
ballots alone and uninhuenced for a man.
Perhaps the old maids might be given the
Australian ballot to widen the understand
ing of it.
Private societies usurping the laws func-
tions in the name of morals are Spanish in
QUESTIONS and too often directed by men of
hideously perverted animality.
The United Statesmen the Texas con.
trived interstate commission-ought to be
strong power in our railways and to own
the telegraphs. The world is interested in
our becoming not Christian so much as a
humane and scientific empire, with one
hand secured upon the peoples will and
the other free to labor for their lasting
welfare.
| hope the most honored American in
1898 will be George Washington.
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND