Arizona republican., 1899-09-03

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 than anarchy and dynamite? Wha
 worse danger threatens your liberty than the danger of usurping majority
 over the will and action cla the few
 Consider that as beI.wsen the monarch
 and the mob, the one man. deSpot is fal
 easier to dispose of than the 10000
 men, the single snake than the hydra; but dispose of either by liawless force and you only turn snakes into hydras . with poison in fangs and tails both. Be Ic.Eent; there is no surer sign Ol
 ressEVsld, manly strength. Work with the working God whose patience is his
 most wonderful attribute. There is an element of time in every true reforma-
 tion t'He that bel:eYeth shall not make haxEe.'' Notice the unhurried move ment of the astronomic system. Law nowhere lets go its hold. Even where all seems most casual and irregular, in tha msltecrs as much as in the suns, n the comets whose wild visits, the maIth- ematicaI astronomers say, may be 300,- 900 centuries apart, reaches the up- holding arm of law. You young citi- zens of the republic can do your coun- try no better seEV.cei than to set your selves squarely against the perilous drift of GnsubordEnation-th false con- struction of the ambiguous maxim th-t
 
 governs least
 The nation newer norgets to ceiebra. e its independence, but it has no festival in it's calendar for the blessings of or der. Here is the fit mission of Labor day. Say what we will of the self satisfied giorying of independence there is a higher glory yet-the glory of intelligent, willing, principled obe- dienee where obediencei is due. Agony and blood have had to drill ;.s into the understanding of most peoples, as Gods finger drilled it into the stone tables at Mt. Sinai, that no man or na- ton is fit to command ths., has not learned to obey. We shall have 'brok- en contracs, and contracts that only scoundrels could ever have signed, fugitive bondSmen and successful swindlers, banks robbed from without und robbed from within, thievish trus- tees of orphan houses, bribablel juries and merchants bankrupt of everything else bub mCney, wherever men and women do not believe in a rectitude that they cannot buy CT sell, in wor- sEtp which is not a breeze of fine senti- ment or a pageant flor the eye. in a church which is ncs. an insurance of fica for privats salvation or a club for enteuta nment, but the law-educated and law-honoring body of a Master Christ, and in a God who will by no means clear the guilty. 'I am not ccme t die-i icy the law. but to fiI u full" Put them in mind to obey mag istrates, kings, goyernors, whatever the ordained and institutional pow ers' may be, for "they are Gods min isters for ths.s very thing"
 Neither the philosophy of Hobbes nor of Rousseau can keep permanent hold of any people under the sun. So- c.ety is not a cunning balance of self interests or a see-slaw of competing ups and downs, nor is war the normal state of nations or nekghbors. Nation al greatness will come of obedience to this law especially; that what is best for all the parts is best pcr the whole and what is best for the whole is bast for alN thei parts. That was very sa gnciOus ser1ence which the master workman Of the Knights of Labor re- CaDly wTcLe: "If ,ha th1cry that the men who own capital age our enemies | wsre true, then the workman of today l would be the enemy of his fellow t0il | CT Cnl '-he morrow; fer after all it is | how to acquire capital, and how to use it properly, that we arg endeavOr.ng to | lCurn-"
 Suppose a capitalist, whose capital is |
  age of the workmen's families has | grown up about him, makes their well ! fare in every line his personal and en- thGC'i2C.-ic care, their dwellings, their their play grounds, reading | room, library, holidays, churches, food, water, health, drainnge-who doubts i that in any pinch CT outbreak the hu- man spirit would triumph over any temporary discomfort by these Flair humanities Cf old religion? k is not so much the times" that are hard as the hearts of mem and women, peItrified by avaricet or trod- den down by cppressicn
 Man" says Lamartine, never yet one end of 3 chan around the neck of his brother thu. Gods own hand did not fasten the other end round the neck Of his oppressor." It will be hard to find any social disloca- ton not cuIable by the New Testa- ment rule Let no man seek (exclu- sively) his own, but every man (also) anC.-her's wealth. Call it Utopian- sm, call it altruism, call it impractical theory, it IS at any rate Christianity We challenge the objector to find a spot on the earth where j. has been ried without the harmonizing of dis ,ord, the abatetmeht of crime, the :n- CeSS O1 1Il, economy 1 :, md every vi1tue, the royal growth of individual freedom and public peace, md what are these but the coming of he New Democracy, grander than any Jtopis. or New Atlantis, in these later lays on these western shores? Carry up all your dealings with this ! argei question 70 that highest height where your Lord lifted 1t, and hold it | here. My Father worketh, and work" After all, and at the last, the capital -andAabor question is not of e 'rope1'-y, but of character, on both it's ides; not of money, but of manhood | t is the old question between money : md right; and 1t never was and never :. an be solved by a faithless material ! sm, but only by something greater in nan which makes him enc of the sons f God. The masters of industries must ba |