Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-11-26

omen to all under equal laws and with
every man equal before the law. But
without our scarcely knowing and certainly
not recognizing its extent and the possiDll-
| ity of concentrating it as political force
discomfort had seized upon the people as
never before. 1t assumed again the form
of an assault upon the time-bonored ana
Revolutionary principles of American lib
erty. AS we enter upan the fourth pc
riod let us remember that shifting stan
! dard of value is not American. A paternal
government is not American. Any effort
TO array the people into classes when en-
ployers and employees are constantly chang
| ing places in not American; AN asstuiV
Upon the independence OF the judiciary Is
not American. American liberty is the
liberty of law and order; American gov
eminent is government by the people I'M
der universal suffrage. They make their
own laws and the genius OF our lnstltu-
tons is that those laws, thus made by tue
people themselves, VIII be obeyed by Ine
power which makes them.
The Green Mountain boys did not ask for
the town, or the county, or the state 10 sup
port them or give them occupation. Ihelr
struggle began to obtain title to the lands IN
the wilderness from which they had cut the
forests Their struggles continued to protect
their savings for themselves and their help-
less ones Their struggle eliminated In
government of law where every man should
have an equal chance and take his place as
God had gwen him mind and muscle. But
he should take his place only under
laws which protected all alike, which pre-.
vented the strong from Expressing the weak,
which gave to everyone bis just rights and
which through the state and at the exp enss
of the state, offered the opportunity 70 all
for an equal education to the duties OF citl-
zenship and for the battle OF life II there
are unequal laws, they are contrary to the
fundamental principles OF American citi-
z9nship and should be expunged from the
statute books. II there are laws which per
init disc limitations against the individual
or or ant the oppor unities for any power in
)m bination TO desr)y American opportu
nifty, such laws should be repealed. in the
Interpretation of laws the protection Of the
people is an independent, pure and unim-
peachable judiciary. The only element
which is original and plrely American IN
our institutions is the supreme court OF the
United States. There have been two houses
OF congress or parliament, ever sincs men
have led TO govern themselves There
has been an executive ever since g0verl-
men. originated, but TO prevent revolution,
rash measures, the injustice that comes from
tile turbulent passion OF the hour being I
cryst .lized into statutes, the Fathers OF the .
Republic created that great tribunal which /
should say TO presidents and To congr 'sses,
within the charter granted you by the p5o-
Pile under which you exist, or they are With
out that charter and contrary 10 iis princi
PIES, and therefore null and void " To this
great court we owe 1t that the st ites Of the
common wealth cannot declare war aglins'
each other. To the interpretations OF thi,
great court we are indebted for a system OF
.tion which has made our
Internal commerce vaster than the trade OF
all the rest OF the world put together; IL
is by the interpretations of this great court
that the government has been invested with
the power TO enforce the federal laws, 10
preserve the National Union and to protect
II the United Sta'es against any local in
rights.
Gentlemen let us study Ticonderoga,
Crown Point and Bennington, let as study
p itriots, Washington, Hamilton, the Adam
,es, Jay, Jefferson and Madison on the one
'ide, and those rough and ready sons OF
freedom, Ethan Allen and General Stark
and Seth Warner, on the other. Let us
earn and teach the principles upon which
)ur government has grown to its great and
Denehcent proportions; let us enforce the
essen that American liberty Is the preser-
7ation OF American opportunity for every
nan TO rise above this condition In which he
vas born, and to receive the full fruit in
lonors from his fellow citiz lns and In pro-
ecton from bis country Of the sulls which
lave come t. him by his talents, his indus
ry, his wisdom, his prudence, his thr II and
us good citizenship.