The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-10
CURES FOR SOCIAL ILLS
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purpose Of protecting the individual in
the enjoymer' If his natural and in
alienable righs When the government
oversteps this line, disorder is a certain
result. God has made laws for the reg
ulati0n of human society. il is our duty
to discover these laws and apply them
to our needs. One of Gods most sacred
laws is that of individual liberty. This
Is the law that all schemes Of socialism
would, il adopted. violate. And any
scheme Of social organization which
would override the liberty of the In
diyidual must, of necessity, result IN
despotism.
AS civilization advances intelligence
grows. Intelligence is an attribute OF
the individual. 1t would seem, there
fore, that the individual would require
less and less government as we progress
in civilization, instead of more and
more, as the socialist would have us
believe.
No! Gods universe cannot be gov
erned by the arbitrary interference of
puny man. 1t is not, therefore, by leg
islation and governmental restrictions
and regulations that humanity will
reach a state of earthly bliss, but rather
by the realization of the principles
enunciated in our Declaration of Inde-
pendence, when governments will he
confined to their proper sphere of pro-
tecting the natural and inalienable
rights of the individual citizen
No socialist has ever shown how the
government could possibly regulate the
intellect, the family and the church. 1t
may be possible for it to produce and
distribute wealth, and determine how
much of this wealth should go to each
wealth producer, but no such possibility
exists, when We consider the intellect or
genius manifested in any line of human
activity. Let me suggest Madame Patti
.fsxI
ist Madame Patti and her wonderful
voice belong to society. According to
this theory if Madame Patti We're to
sing and demand remuneration from
persons privileged to hear her-wnat
would be the consequence? Socialistic-
aily-the state must interfere and pre-
vent her. For under this supposed des-
potic state rule, to buy or sell from any
one but the government would be alb
solutely forbidden. The world could then
only enjoy the magnificent natural gilt
of this great artist by her voluntary
submission in some way to government
tai control. And yet this is the promised
freedom, Is it not tyranny in its worst
form? If socialism should, unfortunate
~, be adopted, every genius would be
subjected to the same unbearable diSci-
plinet But no, there is every reason to
believe and hope, that these POSSIBLE
ties shall never be realized. The Ameri-
can people love freedom too we'll to let
themselves be deluded, for one moment,
by the sophismS of this attempted So
cialistic reform.
Indivieiualism Necessary to Progress.
Macauley once said, History is full
of the signs of this natural progress OF
society. We seen in almost every part
of the annals of mankind how the in
dustry of individuals, struggling up
against war. taxes, famines. confiagra-
tions, mischievous prohibitions, creates
faster than governments can squander,
and repairs whatever invaders can de-
stroy. We see the wealth of nations in
creasing and all the arts OF life APP
preaching nearer and nearer to perfec-
tion, in spite of the grossest corruption
and the widest confusion on the part
of rulers
dividual liberty. Their ideal of a just
government is one conducted upon the
principles of militancy.
But woe to those who would destroy
individual liberty. for, in SO doing, they
are destroying that for which patriots,
in all ages and in all chimes, have fought
and died.
When liberty is gone.
Life grows insipid and has lost its
relish.
A day, an hour. of virtuous liberty
Is worth a Whole eternity of bondage"
"Aristo tells a pretty story of a fairy,
who. by some mysterious law of her ma
turc, was condemned to appear at GER
tain seasons, in the form of foul and
poisonous snake. Those who injured
her. during the period of her disguise
were forever excluded from participa-
tion in the blessings which she be-
slowed. But to those, who, in spite OF
her loathsome aspect, pitied and pro-
tected her, she afterwards revealed her
self the hpa 11fifi11 nd celestial form
which was natural TO her, accompanied
their steps, granted all their wishes
filled their houses with wealth, made
them happy in love and victorious In
war. Such a spirit is liberty. At times
she takes the form of a hateful reptile
She groyels, she Kisses, she stings. But
woe to those who in disgust shall ven-
ture to crush her, And happy are those
who having dared to receive her in hel
degraded and frightful shape, shall al
length be rewarded by her, in the time
of her beauty and glory
There is only one cure, says Lore
Maeauley, for the evils which newly
acquired freedom produces and thai
cure Is freedom. When a prisoner first
| leaves his CELL he can not bear the lighi
of day; he is unable to discriminate
color or recognize faces. But the rem
edy is not to remand him into his dun.
geon, but to aecustom him To the rays
/ III the sun L lit bIdLt III iIilH III
! erty may at first dazzle and bewildel
| nations, which have become half blfnc
! in the house of bondage. But let then
/ gaze on and they will soon be able Il
| bear it. In a few years men learn Il
| reason The extreme violence of opin
/ ions subsidies. Hostile theories eorrec
/ each other. The scattered elements o.
/ truth cease TO contend, and begin Il
| coalesce and at length a system of jus
| tice and order is educed from th'
/ chaos"
| 1t is not by the jntermeddling of th'
/ socialists idol, the omniscient and ON
/ nipotent state, but by the prudence anf
| the energy of the people. that we hav'
| hitherto been carried forward in civil
| cation. and 1t Is TO the same prudenc-
and the same energy that we now looi
with comfort and good hope. Our ruler
will best promote the improvement o
| the nation by strictly combining them
/ selves to their own legitimate duties
| by leaving capital TO find its most lucra
| tive investments; commodities. thel