The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-07-03
Great Speech Of Dudley G.
Wooten-...C Corporations
Indiyidualism the Fundamental Law OF
Our Political and Social Fabric.
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The communist and social demo
clat, so.called, would have us to
wipe out all the necessary and nat
ural limitations of individual exis-
tence, abolish the salutary incen-
tives of personal freedom and pr.
vate endtavor. obliterate the Or
ganic distinctions between man and
man, and enter upon an era of vel
untary seIviiude to an imaginary
social equality, whose minute and
exacting tyranny would be the very
elimination of monotonous despot-
lam and annihilated manhood.
The ideal statehood toward
which our race has been aspiring,
striving and achieving its conquests
of thought and deed through 50
many centuries Of troubled human
progress, like the ocean, will have
its seasons of tempest and its peri
DDS Of ebb and flow, its momen of
sombre shadow and sullen calm and
its hours of jeweled waves and
dancing sunlig ht; but it will move
with the united aspirations of its
individual freedom, and swell with
the harmonious pride of its separate
currents Of personal ambition aud
private interest," distinct as the bill.
lows, one as the sea" Compared with
this, the ultimate and destined free
dom of the perfected social state, the
vagary of the communist is a verit-
able Dead Sea, upon whose dull and
leaden expanse all things will in
deed float upon a common level,
but in whose dark and tideless
waters all individual aspirations
will die and every spark of human
liberty expire.
Against the manifold and multi
plying dissentions that are fact fol.
lowing from these various political
and social conditions, it is a part of
prudence, patriotism and ordinary
common sense to seek some reason
able and speedy corrective. Surely
no more exalted and imperative
duty and mission can fall upon
those young men who, having en-.
joyed the fullest frution of the
bel eticsnt provision for higher
education that is so freely bestowed
by the state, are expected to yield
the best resources Of their thought
and invention to the preservation Of
its institutions and the maintenance
of it's prosperity and happiness. 1t
is to such young and vigorous
leaders Of public opinion and action
that our people must look for the
solution of these difficult problems
and the settlement of these unhapp y
complications.
Let US consider some of the causes
that may IT asonably be assigned for
the effects whose existence l have
thus briefly portrayed and whose
substantial verify no one can sue.
cessfully impeach.
Let us first understand few
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES.
and get clear definition of some
of the terms employed in this dis.
cussiop. . The political institutions
of a country are but the agencies
and means through which its social
conditions are expressed, embodied
and preserved. Free institutions
are such as exemplify and maintain
the spirit of elderly regulated
by law" as it has been gradually
developed and recognized by the
ost progressive people of
the world; and the OBJ.
ject as we'll as the effect of their
operation is to secure the greatest
degree of security, happiness and
prosperity to the greatest number
of those composing the organized
society IN which they prevail. In
every country thus free, and pos.
sessed of free institutions, the so.
cial and political forces which 20
to constitute and preserve it's free
dom and integrity, are Of two
kinds: First, those which are for.
mulated aGd embodied in some per.
manent and tangible shape. as by
constitutions, bills of rights and
! the accumulated body of legislative