Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-06-29

light ought to be free and independent
states and that they are absolved from
all allegiance TO the British crown" his
own boy was at that time attending an
English school This American youth,
some weeks later. was standing beside
one OF his teachers when a visitor ask
ed who Is that boyy' HE is the son
of Richard Henry Lee" was the teach
er's answer. Then the visitor placed
his hand upon the lads shoulder and
hid. boy. we shall yet see your ia
TIERS head upon Tower hillr' To this
the son replied. Yes. you may have 1t
when you get itr' IL Richard Henry
Lee for years had been conspiring for
American independence. he would new
er have sent his son across the sea to
be educated under the domination and
influence of the English throne. The
Declaration of American Independence
was written and signed as last resort
and because the British ministry would
not listen to American petitions. 1t
was written because King George with
the faulty Of royal and imperial ma
lures imagined that he had the right
TO enforce his will on people as reso-
lutte as himself. He believed that it
was for him to command and for them
to obey and that their protest against
taxation without representation was
wicked rebellion against divinely con-
stituted authority. 1t was written be-
cause our forefathers believed that I'm
a struggle for right and justice God
had to contend with a foe more power
full than themselves.
EngIand's Mistake.
Standing here. in this year of grace
1903. with our hands upon this venera-
bic and sacred scroll, we may learn the
mighty lesson that the really true. the
great. the omnipotent and enduring
government is not that which rules by
force of arms. but by the ell conquer
ing power of justice. and of justice
alone. This is the historical teaching
of Englands mistake in 1716. We
from the Atlantic to the Pacific and
from the gulf of Mexico to the great
lakes-a nation of over 10000, 900 souls.
But our people will remain a great ma
ton only so long as they are an honor
able and an honored people. Beware
of the legislation that would make one
law for the rich man and another for
the poor man. Beware of the law
that would send an ignorant criminal
to prison and yet permit a brutally
selfish coal baron to traffic in child
labor. Beware Of a social condition
which makes 1t possible for capital to
starve and grind down labor while la
Dor. with an honest heart is ready to
give capital a full days work for a
fair days wage. Our laws should tol-
crate neither tyranny of capital nor
tyranny Of labor, but should afford
equal protection to both and facilitate
mutually of interests and friendly re-
lations between them. 1t is only when a
government honestly tries to admins
ter equal justice and afford equal pro-
lection to all its subjects that 1t gathers
the robes of immortality about its
loins. WbeR a government by unwise
laws and administrative neglect makes
possible the enslavement or oppression
of its seemingly helpless ones such a
government is paving the way for it's
own disintegration. Had King George
III. been a wise ruler and had Britain
tried to be as just to the thirteen colo
mics In 1776 as she is honestly trying
to be to her colonies at the present
time our country might have remained
the brightest jewel in the British
crown. Would that our own land,
profiting by this great lesson. so closely
interviewer with our national birth and
childhood, might always be just to the
helpless. the weak and the poor as well
as to the rich. the influential and the
strong.
| Strength In the Right.
The strength of our present govern.
ment Is due to the fact that it tries tC
be just to all its people. Irrespective OF
class. ours is a government" said
Theodore Roosevelt in a recent speech
"of liberty through and under the law
No man Is above it. and no man is be
low 1t. The crime of the cunning. the
crime of greed. the crime of violence
all are equally crimes. and agains
them all alike the law must set its face
This is not and never shall be a gov
eminent of the plutocraS or of the
mob. 1t is. as it has been and as i
will be. a government of the people
including alike the people of grea
wealth. of moderate wealth. the peopl,
who employ others. the people who ar,
employed-including them all. protect
ing each and every one if he acts de
Gently and squarely and discriminatin;
against any one if he does not &C
squarely and fairly, if he does no
obey the law. While all people ar
foolish if they violate the law or rebe
against it-wicked as we'll as foolish
but all foolish yet the most foolisl
man in this republic is the man o
wealth who complains because the lay
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