Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-03-05

istencc as nation. surely ~ ii one
of tho sarcasms Of history that a
government which proclaimed
to tho world the Monroe
Doctrine as just defense
against the measure Of the congress Of
!aybach, should itself adopt in later
nge. tho substance of the policy dcclar'
I'D by tho Holy Alliance. But even so
1t Is, "Tbe stone that the builders re-
jected is become tue head Of the cor
per."
am quite aware that the attitude Of
our government towards its new found
subjects we have come to the time
when we are to have subjects as well
as citlzcns-.-is promised to be "bcnevo-
lent;r that we are the self.constituted
trustees, under God, of the world $
civilization" that Divine Providence
has thrust upon us the duty" of gov
erning men without the consent Of
those same men, and 30 forth. But all
this amounts to no more than the claim
of the Stuarts that they were to reign
as Gods anointed;" Of the kings at
! Laybach that they were the ones
whom God las rendered responsible
for power;;' of King Bomba that he
welded irresponsible authority by d.
vine grace, for the good of bis sub
jects; by the Chcvalier Hulsemann,
that his master Of right might crush
Hungary for tho welfare Of the Hun
garian people. aud Of the oligarchy OF
slavc-diivers who 80 years ago In like
defiance Of our cherished principles OF
government, undertook to hold part
of their countrymen as 50 many chat.
tells, and TO turn the rest into an equal
" servile gang OF slave eatchers. aud
appealed TO the Bible to sanctify hu-
man slavery as an institution "ordain-
cd Of God
Between our government Of the cen
tury aud more past, aud that thus pro-
jected into the century that lis before
ms, the difference is radical and IRE
.conclleable. and we have come to the
parting of the ways. Tho choice OF the
Proditian Hercules soon will be no
longer open to us. BY the apparent
acQuescepcc, II not the wish, Of tho
majority of our people, our policy is
op the stroke of being fixed beyond
recall, The new government may not
be, for us. a worse government than
the old. It may oven be grander
government, as the world counts gran.
deur, to those who are careless vt tho
moral heights and godlike traditions Of
the heroic age of our past. But II will
not be the same government The diff
ference IN principle is as wide as that
of the poles. And this Ia SO because
we have repudioted our hitherto ae'
cepted axiom OF the equality Of all men
before the law, The new government
necessarily postulntes the reversal OF
Mr., Liucoln's saying that It cannot
"permnnently endure half SLAVE and
half free ATepubiic aud an oligar'
chy, mixed in one polity, have always
in history been destructive of the for,
mer.
The new departure into which We
are swinging, may not be the begin
ming of the end for us; but 1t Is the end
of the beginning, Like the struggle OF
Mr.. Stewards time, 1t must beget ''ar
iSrepresslble conflict between opposing
and enduring forces" 1t was spyina
OF Hallam that nothing 80 much tends
TO the breaking down Of all notions OF
the supremacy of law as the constap'
Interference Of those who are governed
W cuVtuti iuW' AuN WI 'MPNtHo
policy purposes the imposition by us
Of law which Is not our law, upor
some nine millions Of people who are
in advance condemned to its operation
without their consent or choice; with
out Judge or jury: without accusation
or proof, indictment OF trial, notice OF
hearing"
1t would indeed be unjust to charge
the burden Of a plan OF government
for our dependent peoples. so entirely
at variance with the practice OF our
past, SO alien to all our notions of con.
stitutlonal safeguards inhering in man
because he Is q map, SO plainly n
cross-purposes with the genius and IN,
spiration Of free institutions and so re-
pugnant to our loud protestations OF
law-abidingness. upon any admipIs-
tration, or party majority In Congress,
1t is not likely that so radical n change
from our lifelong polity would, or
could, be effected unless considerable
portion of the people either call for or
acquiesce in, it, Aud the dominant
party of today Is not 80 devoid Of pol
teal. sagacity as to risk ship.wreck OF