Sunday Washington globe., 1902-03-23

I'll sketch the world exactly as it goes"
What is government 1t is the power,
force OF institution supposedly established
by the people to regulate their affairs.
What is the primary obligation Of govern
mentp To aid the weak against the strong.
What has been adversely held as to
this question? That governments are not
bound to aid the weak against the strong,
upon the ground of creative inequalities
the survival of the 6ttest
Is there any special enduring guarantees
of protection to life, liberty and the per.
sonal pursuit of individual happiness in the
mere form Of government None, what.
ever. The substance aud not the shadow
or form is always to be inquired into and
felt.
What is a Republican form of govern.
ment1 AS defined, notOriously, by the i'm
mortal Lincoln it is a government of the
people for the people and by the people.
Now, what constitutes the cornerstone of
the Republic? Man Man Mani Not
the apple man, the ash man, the clergyman,
the legal man, the medical man or the
statesman, but man, taking him in the run
of men, with his virtues, foibles and follies
and educating the goo-ness that is in him
to conquer the animal which he inherited
to sell government.
What is a mOuarchical form of govern
menU II is the government of an emperor
OF king, usually restricted IN his powers by
legislative councils with little or no conf.
dence in mans capacity of self government
without force
What is the best government? Put the
devil in the White House and the angel
Gabriel Secretary Of State
And the worst government Put the
angel Gabriel in the White House and the
devil Secretary of State.
What is the real strength of government
Government, according to the laws of
physics, cannot be stronger than its weak
est part.
Where, in government, can you hnd the
point of least resistance2 In the link of
the wage-earuers and their dependents
What are the existing analogies between
the life of government and the life of man?
In infancy, physical, nav, helpless capacity.
In childhood, simple tastes, easily pleased
with a rattle or tckled with a straw
Jeffersonian. In adolescence, pugnaciOus,.
rampant argumentative, ohniscient. In
manhood, belligerent, boastful, dogmatic.
In early middle age, arrogant rapaciOus,
Haunting luxurious, lecherous. In middle
age, wealthy, unbecomingly extravagant
upon huge nothings, greed of foreign title,
social distinction and exclusiveness, as
heirlooms for pOsterity. In old age, nause
ating, lamentable, remorseful, gullible, the
common prey Of a manageable progeny,
of self-constituted aristocratic imps, pre-
maturely self made, impotent, but blue
bloOded in the recently chartered shoddy
college of heralds, only open to the sciops
of fabulous wealth, transmitted from sire
TO son through generations, who may carry
the fate of states in their vest pockets, the
pay OF legislatures a mere bagatelle, be-
coming a miscellaneous account with
jockeys courtesans and depraved states
men, These are the conditions of society
when famished, shivering man, the corner
stone of government, in juggernaut fashion,
casts himself at the feet of the mighty
Croesus for an aims. Then around the cor
ner is heard the tumult Of social upheaval.
Anarchism, nihilism, the reign of terror,
the furies of pent up suffering and long en-.
during patience, with sordid and inhuman
money-masters, taking wing, regardless OF
consequences then coup d'etai, and
whether it is to be a devil or an angel in
the White House becomes a matter of little
moment to the starving, but the changed
Oh the change!
If to-day is like unto yesterday, and ma
ture and human history are continually but
repeating themselves for what has once
happened will happen again. Conditions
being similar, aud Il is principle Of ethics
that the cardinal virtues and vices of man
never change, the weapon frequently
the analogy--is not overdrawn The con.
ditions can always be averted, and inde6.
nitely postponed, only through and by a
just and humane consideration for the link
OF least resistance in the fauric OF human
government, for every suitor going into
court of justice with meritorious cause Of
and losing it by chicanery or technicality, is
apt to return to his home embued with the
FIRST lesson in anarchism
But, independent of the analogy of men
and governments, are we not bound by con.
stitutional principlesl True but govern.
ments founded upon paper constitutions
are, when the time is Oppressively oppor.
tune, reduced to paper, even to waste
paper.
Will not the grand principles maintained
by our public school system of general
education coupled with our national honor
and unquestiOned integrity prevent an early
COLLAPSED No, nothing can stem the tide Of
human vengeance once aroused as a people
we are Overhead and book worn, the head is
loaded while the heart is empty, we are
trimmed down to the needle point while we
have done little or nothing for higher edu.
cation. AS copyists we can't be excelled,
but where are our Huxleys, Tyndals, Dar-
wins, Hoeckels, Farradays, Kepplers, Pas
teurs and Kochs. Let as hope that Car
negie' gift Of SIC, 600 900 to original research
will produce some exemplars
All governments mean to be honest and /
just toward subjects and citizens, but the /
Government of the United States is, by /
permissive negligence or misfeasance |
known to be the biggest dead-beat debtor \
on the face Of the globe. SO far as an honest 4
and meritorious claimant is concerned, /
every person in public Office is to him dear
Uncle Samuel, apparently sworn to miscon-
strue the law and daily with the facts in his
claim. His previous good character avails
him nothing, he stands officially suspected .
as an arrant rogue, being even denied the
criminal benefit Of the common law doubt
another lesson in anarchism. Since 1865,
Mr.. w c. Dodge, an eminent citizen of this
city, has been prosecuting his claim befos