Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1903-11-19

the 'rule" is lost, and the demos il by
racy is ideal when it meets all the con-
ditions OF total responsibility to Cod
when In the high -peerage Of that loyalty
OF creature to Creator all neighbors love
all neighbors as one family of the highest!
Love. vertical and lateral, is it's law-the
perfect law Of liberty
Therefore. hold both that Christianity
intends democracy, and that only in its
reality can democracy thrive or endure.
Other foundation it cannot lay. II the
Son of Man shall make the peoples free
they shall be free indeed. and not other
alton exalts them. His rights secure
theirs. In Him, who is all in all, they are
complete.
a republic is q democracy convenience
ing it's self-rule by representatives who are
it's agents. These are but trustees and
stswards-aScountable to the peoples in
Believing that under God man shall not
fail. believe utterly in democracy as the
final experiment of time, up to which all
others have led. II this idea is bankrupted
all goes down. Only as it reasons deeply
as to the source of it's rights and the
scope Of It's duties shall it avert failure
and eataclysm. God, or The deluge!
believe IN democracy because / hold
that man is not mechanism but me-
ehanie--that every individual soul of the
race ls sacred, that the probation of man
kind lies in the full consent to. human
equality. before God, and to all the equities
hulwark against. tyranny. This must be
the method, If there be any, before which
false subordination and false insub-
ordination are both to be banished. The
salvation OF the peoples is in divine hu-
man society which at last shall realize the
hr}n of II L..
not yet been seen; but "to this bear all
the prophets witness "a society feeling
al it's common responsibilities, and "each
FOR all'' fulfilling every reiation-this, and
because it is ideal" is the fnality In
it democracy and Christianity would
meet, and righteousness wed peace!
To conquer this ideal into actuality is
the task and travail Of time-to doubt
that it can be is to surrender the cause Of
mankind.
There is now III some quarters sckly
and sentimental dissent from the goal of
democracy, and cowardlv whispered
preference against the substantive claim
burden OF the problem and disregard of
the good OF the manv ls ordinarily tracea-
bic to a selfish and absentee spirit. 1t
assumes to dstrust what love of ease dis
| likes, and what comfortable and compla-
cent apathy would postpone. It's invest
Inents are all in the present, as it is, and
1t VIII take no stock in the future as it
| should be. It interprets the major con-
siderations of life by the minor. "The of
! tense OF the cross is not ceased" But it
| ls crucif1ion that leads to resurrection.
Away with this droning and whining pes.
! eiInism!
| And. on the other hand, there are those
who applaud democracy without reckoning
! It's principles and its foundations. Be
| tween it and absolutism there is, in times
long run. no logical half way. Can man
learn that democracy brings no one down
but every one up? Can man learn its
/ reciprocities and it's emancipations? VIII
man see the basilar doctrine of the in
he-ent' value and birthright of each several
| sou,-va!ue to itself, to all others and ia
the one God of alle
II not, then all falls apart and society
not made ,lp of a bulk of subservients and
! few preferred creditors is faulty and
q dream. and the Nazarene was dreamer
But that way hes the madness Of anarchy
Any government is, at given time
strong. as the ratio is Of its people (ol
rarts) who believe in it and are ready tx
back that belief. Ultimately it is as
sbaGns be4ed as int it h13 ap boom @ Meshy " tG Gs
ocracy is the utmost diffusion of two
things: (a> authority, (b) responsibility
Both Of these. Neither goes Vel or far
or can stand fast, alone. These balanced
centrifugal and centripetal forces main
tain the orbit. All the phases and hopes
reducible to the balance of this doub.s
idea. The duality is critical.
by this as a definition [ will stand
that true democracy is government IL
which every whole man, AM. because
man, counts one. Persons are the units
the sum Of all its parts. It's spirit is al
great as the number of spirits that share
it,. aud as good as the number of gooe
spirits that share it. Its division exact,
equals the dividend, and the quotient i
one.
Division Of labor" which is made tt
mean you labor and / divide" is no
OF authority and responsibility" ever!
man should be fitted to count one. Dem
ocracy menaces itself. denies its raiso,
G>etre, when 1t for moment negiects t.
seek this fitness of its merits. Represen
q tation is Of these fit merits. The proA.
is valid only in this. The ballot affirm
the Importance Of each integec. Its qual
Tied intelligence and its unlno,ested free
dom IL It's safety, that always it shall b
counted as one, and never more Or less
Less or more is the suppression somewner
OF manhood; less, it were tyrann'*e@'
lnore, II We're l.. -'':oa 10 corrup., /
seduce to intimidatc or to- suppress it
2 causes the rights Of minority to fear
8 majority. For all and by all this reco;
milton OF man declares that because ever
man should count one he shall! No othe
e method Of government Gec.ares this, c
:. attempts TO realize it. Resting its cas-
{ upon "the right assessment Of what col
e stitutes human va.ue,'' it imp les ths
= rights and duties are strictly corre'atiy
1 and reciprocal. It studies its rules in tt
Y daylight of its principles. Our Supre.r
) Court is governed by this overrulins equ
/ ty. Democracy is it's test and its dictiln
4 It is the ultimate national refuge OF tt
! people. It gives the higher law.
d The distributlvc assignment Of govern
y ,nent is the radical end of democracy, liz
descending TO man, but ascending wit
e him. It is not paternal, but fraterna,.
d Human ethics rising from loya ty
t one mere tribe or clan - Ishmae,itishi-
# rises toward the comprehension of ma
e right. The history of this growth of h
man institutions, making and remal1ir
u themselves, discovers that. they move wit
r the instinct of a generic human life. II
e impulse strengthens as if by hydrostat
= pressure. That great democrat. Lincol1
e that splendid representative of the fir
d old aristoerat1c family OF man, said wei
It. in 1856, what has the brcadest possib
l. application: ''They who deny freedo
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