The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-07-05

irons of despotism.
The object of the Revolution was ac-
complished and America was free. She
was free and ready to put to the test
those principles of government advocated
by the Declaration of independence.
The end of the Revolution was the be-
ginning of universal emancipation, for
the powers across the Atlantic were not
long in reading the handwriting on the
wall The reformation it induced was
sudden and very extensive. There was
rapid intrenchment of tottering thrones
Their crowned occupants felt the pres
sure of the times and sought the advice
of political doctors. These great state
physicians saw too plainly that king
rule was at an end and that sooner or
later unlimited monarchies must fall be-
fore the reign of the common people.
They realized that taxation without re-
resentation was a failure, that no power
however strong, could long maintain SOW
ereign sway over the people, whose right
to participate in their own government
was inherent and indefeasible. Conse-
sequently the civil freedom of the SUBJ
ject was everywhere enlarged and the
power of rulers correspondingly circum-
scribed. The effect of the Revolution
was to reform the political constitution
of nearly every country in Europe.
A certain arrogant nation of that con-
tinent that declined to profit by the in
glorious experience of her neighbor, and
who was running one of the old-time ma
chimes down in Cuba a few years ago,
Is an example of tardy, but very thor
ough, reformation. That example is also
a luminous illustration of the advan-
tages of early education.
So wher impartial history presents the
national and international results of the
Revolutionary war to my view, I feel as
sured in my heart that the American
flag does not simply signify American
liberty under American laws. but that
human liberty under the laws o mature
and of God is it's transcendent and uni
versal mission.
After independence had been achieved
and acknowledged by the treaty of Paris
in seventeen hundred and eighty-three
theforefathers commenced the work of
rearing that structure of popular gov
eminent that was to put into operation
a new set of political principles. The
Articles of Confederation that had bound
the colonies together during the war were
abandoned and the Constitution of the
United States framed and adopted in
their stead.
The people of this country regard that
instrument as the charter of their liber-
ties land it has been said that its build
ers builded better than they knew
With its three departments-the legis-
lative. the judicial and the executive
it Is the supreme and written mandate
OF the peoples will. They alone can
amend or modify it, and all powers not
delegated to it remain in them. BY it's
ordained rules and principles every law
which is opposed to 1T must fall before it,
1t sweeps out of existence every vestige
of arbitrary unlimited power. Under
its operation every citizen of the United
States feels with pardonable pride that
his is the most perfect government ever
established. Our present standing as a
nation is certainly dependent upon the
Federal Constitution, and its simplicity,
its varied excellence. its provisions for
almost every exigency that has arisen in
the past, stamp it as just standard of
human conduct.
The Constitution was adopted in sew
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