St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-14

'Were we directed from Washing
ton when to SOW and when to reap
we should soon want bread" wrote
the sage of Monticello. whose birth
day was observed by Democrats
yesterday evening with banquets and
speeches. The sentence isrthe note
of that Democracy of which sJeffer-
son was but the earliest prominent
type in this country, but which has
existed ever since the race, inspired
by it, rose out of barbarism. 1t car
ries in it the whole theory of indi-
vidualiSm as opposed to paternalisTn,
the two anita gonisitic principles of
government that have been strug-
Cling for supremacy during all the
history of the Aryan race, now the
one and now the other dominant; pa
'ternahsm, fruiting in absolutisn,.
using power to repress; individual
ism, fruiting in freedom of men, gain
ing recognition and making advances
through bloody revolutions. y
Whether paternahsm,is expressed
in the aspirations of Bellamy or typi-
fed in the absolutism of Nicholas of
Russia, it is the same in spirit and
in method. 1t would, or pretendS it
would, better the condition of man
kind; 1T regards them as children
needing guidance and control; it
uses the aggregated power of all,
centered in the crown or the state,
ito carry into effect it's schemes of
betterment 1t overrides the indi-
vidual, depressing him, subduing him,
aiming to produce homogeneity.
Whether it acts by the ukase of the
ear or the BE it enacted" of the
state, its methods are ever tyrannica1
To the individual its constant COM
mand is: Thou shalt not. And its
tone is the same whether it speaks
by imperial edict or sena tusconsult
Democracy proceeds from the OPP
posite initial point by opposite meth
DDS. 1t believes that the individual
is capable of caring for himself;
that he is the best judge of his needs,
the best director of his activities, and
that he arrives at his best under the
freest of conditions for the develop
ment of his aptitudes in whatever
measure he may possess them. 1t
believes that man is developed by
inward, not outward, processes
and influences; that what he at
talns in life is the growth of the
germ Of character in him at birth.
modified but slightly by environ
ment; that left most to depend on
himself develops the innate strength
OF the man, as dependence prevents
that development, and weakens him
AS a nation is but the aggregation
Oh the men Who compose it, the ma
tlon Will be strong or weak as it's
clazens are given freedom OF deyeI-
opment under conditions imposing
the least possible restriction.
Under all DISCUSSES these arc tbe
TWO opposing concepts of the state.
out of whose conflicts, by the pro-
gresslve wrestling from paternaIism
CT lloerty for the individual, the race
mas reached its present position. Pre-
em1nently leading in this conflict is
the Anglo-Saxon people, the earliest
10 Wrest privilege from the crown
ana transmute it into liberty for the
SUBJECT, With the other branches of
phe Old root race struggling in the
rear, mingling their indiyid,1a1isno
with paternalism in their aspiration
Ior the one and subsection to the
otner. What of liberty we have to-
DAY, restricted and hampered as 1T
Is, is due ito the sturdy insistence of
the Anglo-Saxon on his individuality
and the maintenance of his personal
rights. What of restriction vet re-
mains is, due to remnants of pater
nalism still too strong among us.
and Just now showing a revival in all
these policies of state and nation
Tor the fostering, protecting. shield
ing, guiding, limiting the activities
of men,
Democracy and theoretical pater-
nallsm have the same end i'm view
would attain the same ultimate mr.
pose, but proceed by opposite meth
DDS. Each is striving to reach the
higher planes of human develon-
ment; each is altruistic in its aspira-
tlons; each strives for the better
ment of the conditions of men. De-
mocracy believes that this can onJv
be done by and through the indi-
vidual, leaving him free. appealing
10 une better side of him, trusting his
better Instincts; knowing that the
process, like all the processes of ma
ture, is painfully slow, but recos.-
nlzlng that they cannot be accele,.at-
ed by compulsion, satisfied with tha
progress if it is slow. Paterna1is,,,
impatient of the sluggfshness Of
growth, indignant at the displavs
MADE of the baser side of human
nature, disposed to think that tba
tendency OF the race lis to evil RI
De checked and restrained on1v h,,
force, appeals, not to the individ,,.1
out TO that aggregation of power
callea the state, to compel that To be
uohe at once which it ina eines ;s
LUZ the best of all. 1t ignores all
experience; 1T def1es the fundamer+a1
laws OF our nature: it treats w.,
as 1t would have them. not &c +t,o--
are. so 1t always results that sooner
VI later selfishness guides the holm
OF paternalistic schemes, and makes
che power of the state, invoked for
sooo purpose, serve its own greedy
ehos' Paternalism is sentiment dom.
lnatlng common sense; Democracy is
common sense holding sentiment in
healthy check. ~ III
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