The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-02-15
ExpansiOn.


 grained into the constitutions of me
 such traits as application, perseverance
 and industry. Northern races hay
 learned it's lesson, or other things, com
 petition for instance, sufficiently swin,
 the lash. Whatever was good in it ha
 been substituted by something better
 while it's evils alone possess mems con
 sciousness
 A savage people, such as are some o
 the African tribes, requires cores
 pondingly savage government. It i
 better than no government and the bes
 they can endure
 The absolutism of Russia exists be
 cause her people need it and are fitted
 for nothing better.
 Constitutional monarchy can exis
 only where the people have made a con. siderable advance in civilization, while
 democracy is an attempt to get along With the greatest amount, practicable, of freedom and the least amount, necessa- ry, of restraint, on the supposition that men no longer live altogether under the law, but have it embodied in their con- stitutions. Desires answering to re- straints have perished, while impulses | answering to commands have become | spontaneous.
 Democracy is the highest form of gov ernment yet in sight; has been acquired, so far as acquired, by long, tedious struggle; and costs somethng-eternal , vigilance--to maintain it.
 It is still experimental, depending upon whether men are sufficiently ad- vanced to permanently sustain 1t. In external form the United States, in es- sence Great Britain, possesses the most ideal democracy.
 To make democracy possible, in the modern sense, men must possess traits characterized, en masse, as the princi- ples of civil liberty.
 Life, liberty and property, the right to alienate land, the right of petition, the right of assembly, freedom of con- science, freedom of speech and the press, home rule, no taxation without repre- sentation, and many others, are ele- ments of civil liberty that have been ac- quired by hundreds of years of strug- gle, distress and bloodshed, the acquire ment of which has laid the foundatit n of modern democracy.
 The right to draw up petition and forward it to some power that is, or the right to hire hall and promulgate ones latest hobby, seem so self-evident, so easy, as to be almost worthless; yet they arg not.
 It took the civil war to purchase free dom for the negro, and he is not free yet.
 The religious people, with their thirty year wars and their Saint Bartholo- mew, can tell something about the cost of freedom of conscience Freedom of speech would send Russian to Siberia, a German to prison
 Ireland, in thanthroes over home rule, can tell something about the travail of soul necessary bring forth an element of civil libertyg
 To bring it to ourselves-when we broke from England we broke bond or restriction which the mother country had placed about us, part of the West Indies and herself; it was trade restric- tion, forbidding Us and her other colo nes to trade except with herself. Eng lshmen had not fought out and in- grained upon their brains and nervous systems the element of civil liberty called freedom of trade, We therefore could not inherit this characteristic from ancestors who themselves did not possess it. When then we broke the po- litical bond, the old mercantile system bond had to snap, too, but one of it's pieces collapsed about ourselves. We call it the protective tariff
 Englishmen fought out for us many of the civil liberty clements which seem so easy now, and this one, after the break, they fought out for themselves under Cobden.
 We couldn't inherit 1t, can't permit | to have it. and hundred | years have not been sufficient in which 10 acquire it for ourselves We are as helpless in the matter as monkey | with hts arm in bottle, his hand | yrasped about lump of sugar, and su- gar and hand together too large for ths 1ottles neck.
 Here is a principle of civil liberty .,l he which we are not competent ! Or elf-determination, until we have lected ourselves to office, whereupon we the office- e-holders-with little in- truction from disinterested corpora ions, at once become omniscient self ppointed wet nurses to nature, know ng exactly when, where, how and with whom, the great majority one of whom ve were before election, ought to trade. We will have to fight it out before we an permit ourselves liberty to buy and ell as we please. It takes long, tedi- us grind to change character, to make haracter, to go up hill; and when it's one it is worth at least what it cost. 1ndustrialism is pregnant with con- ract equality, justice, freedom, civil berty It's antithesis is militaryism ,ith it's status, patriotism, paternalism, bedience-a nyramidal arraignment lnnirg from ruler to lave. Society has advanced from the hunt l lg to the pastoral, to the agricultural tage, and is entering the manufactur- ] lg stage, in which farms will become ; hat factories are--that is great physi- al and chemical aboratories-where art l ill more and more supplant nature, { here mother earth will be compelled { produce a dozen crops where now she ( lkes all summer to produce one, where ( ach piece of earth will be presided over, l 5 is the mine the mercantile establish ' lent and the factory, by great cap I lin of industry ! Industrialism, with it's mechanisms, is f pproximating art to nature, and will