The advocate., 1897-09-08

of digging the canal has already cOm>
menced II is not hazardous to predict
that the monstrOus Undertaking will he
duly consummated.
Prof. Parsons, in the New Time: When
men first came together for aggression
or defense, there was little control but
that Of individual strength and cunning
The leaders, once firm in their seat,
abused their power, and when the peO-
pie became aware Of this and were wise
enough to understand the remedy and
brave enough to apply it, democracy was
the result. In religion similar changes
have been wrought. In industry the
same great facts appear. Everywhere
there is a tendency for the first simple
underlined association to become a mas
terry, which advancing civilization inev.
itably transforms into partnership or
a democracy, and will finally transform
into a devotion. At first men worked
alone. Then, finding out the power Of
union, they worked in grOups-partner-
ships, factories, corporations, syndicates,
trusts, combinations Of greater and
greater magnitude. At every step the
organization must have management,
and chiefs and monarchs of market and
mine, railroads and manufactures came
into being These leaders have per-
verted their power to their own selfish
purposes, just as the leaders Of religious
and political combinations formerly did.
The people are awakening to this fact,
and soon they will write their industrial
constitutions and hold the rulers of
wealth responsible as they already do
the rulers Of war. Organization, leader
ship, despOtism, demOcracy--that has
been the history of religion and politics,
and it will be the history of industry
also,
Springfield Republican: Now, put
aside the fine points about the Paris
award, the sealing regulations and the
preservation of seal life, and calmly
inquire whether all the seals in the
Behring sea are worth single hours
bitterness Of feeling between Great
Britain and the United States. What
a ridiculously inadequate issue this is!
Give us something to get excited over
If, with the bellicOse breathings of our
wrath we are to churn into fury the
waters Of international comfy, let us
have something worthy of the descend
ants Of '76. Are we the sport of a trav-
cling mesmerlst that we should sweat
while sitting on cake of ice? But if
England refuses to do her duty, it may
be asked, what course is most fitting to
pursue? Let us pity her, and see that
history holds her responsible for the
extinction Of an innocent fur-bearing
creature (calloThinus ursinus). We are
great enough and strong enough to just
pity her, and there's the end of 1t.
illustrated American: Gladstone as
private citizen is at liberty to say
much it would have been indiscreet and
utterly wrong for him to say as Pre-
mier, when he represented a great ma
tion. Any man in position of
delegated responsibility represents
not only himself but those who have
intrusted their interests to him. A pri-
vaLe tutor is amenable to O. child's pa
rents for what he teaches, though be-
fore he was hired he had right to
teach that child what he pleased, If he
had the opportunity. The college pres
ident, while larger independence is
given to him, is, nevertheless, the
teacher hired by the parents, and they
have always the right, collectively, to
put restraints upon his utterance.
Freedom of speech is the priceless
hcon" of every citizen in America. But
when citizen enters into a contract
with another citizen to do certain
amount of speaking by way of instruc-
ton, he voluntarily consents to a pos
sibility of restraint. There is nothing
to quarrel over in this. No man needs
to foregO his freedom of speech If he