Mexico Missouri message., 1900-08-09

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Clio Saxon blood could be and
should be trusted to take care of
themselves; that while it was true
that the majority III all ages and
among all peoples were not finely
educated, yet II minority could al
ways he found to he capable of
sclf-govcrnmcnt and strong enough
morally and intellectually, to build
up. maintain and hold their gov
eminent to II respectable place in
the family of nations; that the bet
ter class of society, or the aristo-
cratic element could not long he
trusted to lcgislatc for the "com-
mon good; that favoritism in gov
ernmental action would be the re-
suit and oppression would follow;
that such Il government would ne
cessitatc the use of the military
arm to hold it firmly in position;
and that the use of the military
arm in civil government pointed to
the death of liberty.
The Hamiltonian idea of govern
mcnt was supported by many earn
est and good men who pledged
their lives. fortunes and sacred
honor on the issues of 1776. They
ridiculed without limit, they IL
bused without mercy, they belit-
tied without reason, jefferson and
his followers.
The greater the ridicule. the
coarser the abuse, the more sting
ing the disparagement, the greater
and more earnest was the cnthu-
siasm of the plain people rs they
gathered around their bold, daring,
unninching leader and friend. In
him they placed their confidence
and in his idea OF popular govern
mcnt these plain people saw equal
chances and equal opportunities
for them and their descendants
with the "cocked-hat gentry of
the colonial days and their proud,
high-rolling sons and daughters.
TIE men of those days, from
1889 to 1900. and their ancestors
for several generations before
them, had been accustomed to Il
ruling class" Il middle class
and a serving class" They were
naturally slow to take part in a
movement that promised to wipe
out all classes in government and
place all men on an equal footing
in public life, so that individual
merit and individual capacity
might haye full and unhampercd
scope and power. They were all
eager for self government, but
many of them We're afraid of Jeff
erson's extreme views las they
deemed them) and were reluctant
to subscribe to his declaration in
the Old Virginia Bill Of Rights,
that Arbitrary power existed no.
where in a Republic, not even in
the greatest majority" They
could hardly realize that they had
suffered for more than eight years
and had shed their blood from
Bunker Hill to Yorktown for this
very idea of self-government and
home rule.
George Washington, whose very
name is spoken with reverence and
praise wherever civilization has
left a foot print, was Il Federalist,
but he loved and relied on Jeffer-
son and never failed, in the last
analysis of all propositions, to
stand with him. Old John Adams,
GLORIOUS old john whose devo-
ton to the American cause during
the revolution will be gratefully
cherished by the American people
as long as the history of the revo-
luton shall be read, was a FEEDER
alist, and many others We're like
unto him.
The contest between these two
ideas of government-thc concen-
tration of power in the head of a
strong, splendid, overseeing gov
eminent, and the division and dis
tribution of powers among the
three great departments of govern
mcnt, the legislative, the judicial
and the executive, with the people
themselves as the sovcreigns of all