The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-07-09
CONSENT OF-THE, GOVERNED
To the Editor:

10 the Editor:
Primarily, conclusivcly and abstracty,
no government. human or divine can be
Il fair equable and true government
without voluntary assent. From the be-
ginning of time this has been with the
honest and true Il recognized principle.
\ government of force engenders hate
and destroys the better impulses of hui
man nature.A
God himself never uses force, bit
warns and persuades.
Doubtless the trainers of our great
compact took this view from inspired
love as set forth in that grand constitu-
ton of Gods Kingdom on earth as pro-
claimed by the Great Expositor on
Oliyet Here man first obtained his in
depreciation of the harmonious blending
Of the human and divine government.
built on the basic idea of the Father
hood of God and the brother Of man
epitomsed and alchemsed in the sen
tentious maxim: do unto others as
you would have them do unto you'-the
golden rule by which all huluaD conduct
should be measured
with the great men who founded our
Republic.
The multiplicity of combines of the
present evoke the conclusion that we are
wandering very far from original pur-
poses, paraphrasing the golden rule:
Take all you can get, regardless of
methods or equivalents" If carried out
this plntocratic shibboleth will soon
undermine the faith of the masses in our
msnamed Republican system.
1t is self evident Il government to be
on lines of equity and justice, must be
on the line of compromises and chcerf'.'
submission on the part of the minority
to the will of the majority-this is the
only way we can get at 1.-THE greatest
good to the greatest number
Our modern shylock solons go for
the biggest money for the fewest num-
hers" They have positively and very
adroitly set up means to this end first
by the iniqntous process OF the single
standard. which readily opened the gate
ways of opllence to the favored few by
the 'cornering Of gold-the dear money,
out of reach of the multitude, but sub
servient to every interest Of its posses
sors by great combinations shrewd
venal procedure unparalleled for its
greed and baseness in the annals Of
t.me-a leverage which. if not soon
fractured. will engulf the American PEG;
pie i'm vortex Of ruin.
They essay to humbug the people by
the specious falacy of the prosperity OF
the people, this is true only in part. aud
fearfully misleading-thc fact is the
country through the immensely and fer
tiiity of its resources and divine benifi-
cence. is rapidly advancing in wealth
despite the inefficicncy and corruption
OF the rcigning dynasty, but the benefits
.are reaped by the treacherous few, and
the multitude bend under the heavy in
cabus of crushing sorrow. thus the con
sent of the governed is converted into Il
phrase Of hooking impotency. and ira
vested Justice. In all my reading
don't think | have ever seen the idea
more beautifully trenchantly, and truth
fully expressed. than in the words of
the great Senator from Delaware. Mr.
Payard, who says III referring to pro
lection:
1t has perverted taxation from its
only true justification and function, ere.
ating revenue for the support of the
government of the whole people info an
engine for the selfish and private profit
of allied benefciaries called trusts
Under its dictation individual enterprise
and independence have been oppressed
energy and invention debilitated, and
discouraged, and politics placed on the
low level of Il mercenary scramble"
Thus through the descending centuries
Of timeThave the masses been the 'dupes
Of the designing and nefarious few. In
our country the only hope Of the true
patriot rests in the rapid dissemination
Of cognate facts and wholesome princi-
pies among the people who. if instruct
ed and harmOnzed. ran overthrow all
mischevous designs of concentrated CAPT
tai despite their shrewd devisement-to
facilitate this desideratum all honest
patriotic men should labor with persist
eih effort and intelligent zeal.
JOHN ID. TIIOKNE.
Littleton, n. c., July 1, 1889.