The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-27
A PLATFORM FOR THE NEXT
PRESIDENTIAL, ELECTION.

Art. l. Every political purpose, plan
and policy, should be tested by the
touchstone of nature.
Explanation: We believe in God; that
nature is His handiwork and that in ma
ture and the laws of nature He has ex-
pressed His thoughts and purposes; that
nature produced us and our thinking
mechanism, and that our thoughts
from hard headed common sense to met
aphysics-we have distracted from ma
ture; that we are not liable to improve
on the thoughts, plans and purposes Of
God in nature, and that every human
plan, purpose and question, so far as
may be, should be submitted to nature
and the question reverently and honest
ly asked. What does nature say about
it?" that in endeavoring to get an orac-
ular answer every available means
should be made use of, including expert
ence and the knowledge Of specialists in
the field in which the problem lies, the
sole end Of it all being truth.
Attraction of Gravitation" made Sir
Isaac Newton famous; Evolution"
made Mr.. Darwin immortal; "Conserva-
ton of Energy" rendered Mr.. Joule il
lustrious; and so on from all the great
thoughts down to the smallest, yea, even
to the atom" that rendered Dalton re-
nowned; all are thoughts, but every one
of them existed in nature first, and from
nature they were distracted and the alb
stract, the mere reflection of natures
concerted thoughts, was sufficient to
render the students immortal
1t is not single thoughts alone that ex-
list in nature, but they are strung to-
gether into serials like the nebular hy-
pothesis by which cosmlc dust is worked
up into worlds and systems of worlds;
like the rythms of indignation, differen-
tation and survival Of the fittest, by
which the primordial germ cell is
worked over and up into man; like the
mysterious poems and symphonies men
call Gods thoughts and the music of
the spheres
No one supposes that Ricardos theory
of rent Nautilus doctrine of popula-
ton, the wages fund theory, and all the
rest of them, We're invented out of whole
cloth and forced upon an unwilling pub
lie; on the contrary Ricardo, Nautilus,
Adam Smith and the other economists
are spoken of as "dscoverers" of this,
that and the other principle and law.
The thought existed and disported itself
in nature before the discoverers were
born.
Mr.. Henry George claimed that the
"single tax is a principle and law fixed
in the nature of things: that it is one of
Gods thoughts; and that it is its only
hope, for if it be not it will shortly dis
appear.
If the people. sovereign by the grace
of manhood suffrage, could only catch
the idea that all intellectualsm rests
eventually upon and in nature; that no
plan, purpose, policy or institution, into
which thought Is to enter, is of any
value unless 1t squares with the intel
lectualism of mother earth; that ma
lures thoughts can be grasped and I'M
only through limited expert
ence or its great substitute, unlimited
study: that knowledge, If not virtue is
at least power; then would the sway of
the ward healer, the caucus worker and
politician be gone, the day Of
small men and policies disappear, and In
their place the student and man OF
brains, the man Of integrity and un-
questioned honesty, would be in demand
and at a premium in politics. We
should then get something done, and
questions that every intelligent man has
decided tWenty-fv years ago would be
met, settled, concerted into some appro-
pirate political product, and men per-
nitted to advance to something new.
(To be contnued)
GEORGE M WALLACE