The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-15
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Mr.. Billings Believes We Have No Right
to Fool Our Money Away Elsewhere.

! WI OihIHSS pSl!SNS9 VIC iFdVC NO my u
to Fool Our Money Away Elsewhere.
! To make the assertion, Amer
i lea for Americans applicable t.
existing conditions, it should read Am
erican money should be spent only fol
the benefit of Americans" The time
has come for the formation of a new
party. A political revolution is neces.
sary to the health of the ma
ton. The politician, the dema-
sogue, and church militant shout
Expand! The sober, common sense OF
the country says, Retrench, Sober
common sense is too often in the min
GRITTY. The day is not far distant when
the solid element of the country may
declare theIate war uncalled for and
objectionable No government that ever
| existed no government that ever will
exist, is, or will be justified in forcing
war on its people for humanitarian
purposes. The government of the
United States went into the late war in
anarchiStic defiance of natural law and
reasonable disregard of the Declara-
ton of Independence and the constitu-
ton. To make those points plain is
the purpose of this writing. Let us get
down to the bottom of things. Let US
drop superstition. Let us think for our
selves. The thinking man needs no in
terpreter of law or constitution. Law
is but the EXPRESSION of certain funda-
mental necessities innate to every per
son. The action of government in re-
gard to the late war was the exact
counterpart of some Alexander or Ma
poleon, fired with the insane ambition
to conquer the world. Governments
are not supernatural monstrosities.
Governments are plain, commonplace
every day institutions. Governments
are socialistic institutions. Governments
are the result of theindividual necessity
to live. Individual self-preserVation
was the necessity that led to the form
alton of governments, and is the neces-
sity to their continuance. In union
is strength to those uniting. All par
ties in the union must contribute
equally to its maintenance. "Self-pres-
ervation is the first law of life" That
is natural law Of late an epidemic
of emotional insanity is spreading over
the country, the germ of which is self
destruction. If there was any virtue
in the late war it was of this anarchis-
tic character. Governments being in
Gus vi dlCd Wy IO1 tllSll ~
sonal preservation, any action of any
government calling on any citizen, or
imposing any tax for any other purpose
than national preservation, which
means that of each individual. is an
archistic on the one side and high trea-
son on the other.
A sane man will only risk his life
when necessity forces him so to do to
preserve it. There is such thing as
doing the duty one engages to do with
full knowledge of the risks incurred.
Such is the soldiers, the firemans, the
life savers duty. Heroism is a form
of acute or spasmodic emotional in
sanity. There is far more of the heroic
in many a poor washwoman struggling
against adversely to feed her BARNS
than in the semiinsane leader of a
fOrlorn hope with the glories of immor-
tally firing his over-wrought brain.
1t being a natural law that no man
will risk his life except under the nee
essity of saving it, so no man will risk
his property save as by so doing he
hopes to gain and thereby make his
life more secure. Man, individually.
being unable to maintain himself, he
resorted to socialistic union, thereby
finding strength to better maintain
himself. No man enters into such
union with those unable to maintain
themselves; hence, to uphold the union
Here is a big point, no one has any
rights under a government 6to5its pro
tection) who does not contribute to the
maintenance Of that government!
These are fundamental principles
which no one but an anarchist. a trait
or or an idiot will deny. Under such
fundamental conditions, what justifica-
ton can be found for our governments
calling for volunteers or sending the
regular soldiers or sailors into the late
war, or increasing our taxes one-mil-
lioneth of a mill. What right had or
have the Cubans to any assistance
from the people of this country? What
is it but unadulterated treason to pro-
pose increasing the expenses of this
country $3,000,000 to bribe the So
called Cuban army to keep the peace.
or to eXpend $10,0000O0 to make the
CITY OF Havana fit for Cubans to live
in?
One billion dollars for Cubanity. and
not cent for the hungry, the starv-
ing, the sick and the suffering poor
at home. Noble government! Suppose
some congressman should propose that
two hundred millions be spent at once
for the benefit of the needy in the
United States, and one hundred mil
lions year for an indefinite term of
years, Cwhat these foreign brothers are
to cos), does any one think it would
not cause revolution if persisted in?
The fact that no sane individual will
expose his life except under the neces-
sity of preserving it, is one of the fun
damental principles in the foundation
OF government was most pregnantly
stated by the fathers, when they de-
clared that "all men are endowed with
an lnalienable right to life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness" which means
not that they have natural right to
either when they have not the in
dlv1dual strength to maintain all three
conditions. but that having it, being
self-supporting, contributing to the
maintenance of the government, that
that government be it monarchy or re-
pupllc, mas no right over the individual
citizens life, his liberty of action so
long as he acts according to law, only
When the government itself is in dam
ger. When the national TERRITORY is
threatened then the freehold of each
cltlzen IS endangered. In other words
d defensive war. There are conditions
when an aggressive warfare is iusti-
hable on the part of an indiyfduaI or
nation. They are of the same nature
When continued existence forces tbe
acquisition of property or territory pc
all uIdVoldaple necessity. Did any such
condltlons exist in connection with
our aggressive attack ON Spain? IF
there is any virtue in the humanitarian
cry, does 1t consist in pushing an al
READY per1shing nation still farther into
the valley Of despond and slough of do
S SIl IN the struggle for existence?
was not our attack on Spain tbat of
Dig bully pra-conf1dent in the weak
ness OF his opponent? How much
protherhood would we have felt for The
Cupans had we not been confident we
could oVerpoWer poor decrepid Snain ,
Having shown That thn L. - -