Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-28

with the wants of the people.
Movements to be Regulated, not
Controlled.
Ever since the days when Abram
was very rich in cattle, in silver and
gold and Lot had abundance of flockS
and herds and tents, and the land was
not able to be ar them that they might
dwell together their substance was SO
great, wealth and power has bred coli-
tention. If men under prosperous CON
ditionS had room as those ancients had
to expand without touching anybody else
each could go to right or left while
each of the others could go in opposite
directions and there would be no con-
tenton between them or their herdsman.
But unfortunately that is not the situa-
ton now. Men cannot stir now without
coming in contact with each other and
the more frequent the contact the more
frequent opportunities for collisions oc-
cur. Man in a sense is as gregarious
as he ever was and he ever will be, and
will coalesce and assume the forms of
classes with interests, tastes and charac-
teristcs which distinguish each class
from all others. The result is that the
world is filled with nations and classes
moving about on the face of the earth.
And so while the old patriarchs got great
credit for the conciliatOry manner in
which they disposed of any contention
between them or their herdsmrn it
should be remembered that they had
the whole world to do it in. They
would probably not he a success today.
They would very likely run blunderingly
in contact with others without the eXer-
else of any diplomacy, and rude and bar
barous intercourse and collisions would
always attend them if they We're on the
earth today. This shows that the world
has improved in skill and diplomacy
since those olden times, probably in pro
portion to the increasing necessities of
man and density of population. Unjust
be said that men have grown at least
more systematic and refined in cruelty
to each other. They do not conduct
their movements individually or collec-
lively as blunt or open as they used to.
| They do not torture each other for re-
venge as much as formerly, and when
cruelty is inflicted it is as a means to
the accomplishment of some purpose.
In very ancient times men were said to
have been moved about by the hand of
God; in the middle ages by the hand
of leader; and in modern times by
principles. TO deny either of those
propositions would be regarded as al.
most meriting social ostracsm; and vet
the first conditions involved some prac-
tees not divine, the second some very
humane and patriotic leaders, and the
third nearly always inducements of gain
and advantage.
This brings us to what we believe to
be the true philosophy of the matter,
viz: that men, especially when massed
are moved by impulses which inhere in
human nature. A peculiar people
cropped out in Europe. They possessed
characteristics distinguishable from any
other people. They formed a vein in
human nature the like of which has
never been seen elsewhere before nor
since their day. They went to Holland,
but they were in touch with the world
there. They must have a place in which
they would be entirely excluded from
the world. They came to America
They had no power to build Chinese
wall, but they walled TIL emselves in
from the outer world all in their power
by intolerance and the harshest and
most austere bearing towards all who
were not in sentiment and by nature like
them. Having the whole country to
themselves and being in contact only
very lightly with other nations they
grew into conditions of prosperity, great
strength and vast wealth. They We're
contented, frugal, industrious and virtu-
Gus. They were hospitable and pru-
IDENTIFY generous. They became strong
If clumsy in intellect, and very rich if
not brilliant in mental attachments
They laid down certain rugged funda
: mental principles as rules of national ac
ton. They lived up to them for on,
hundred years and they thought that thu