The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-11-11

whole purpose of Jesus Christ. It has
not yet been seen; but ito tris bear all
| the prophets witness"-a society feeling
all its common responsibilities, and each
because 1t is "ideal," is the finality. 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, 1t can be is to surrender the cause of
mankind.
| There IS now in some quarters sickly
and sentimental dissent from the goal of
democracy, and cowardly whispered
preference against the substantive claim
Of man as man. This reuctancy from the
burden OF the problem and disregard of
the good OF the many ls ordinarily tracea-
bic to a selfish and absentee spirit. 1t
assumes to distrust what love of ease dis
likes, and what comfortable and compla-
cent apathy. would postpone. Its invest
ments are, all in the present, as it is, and
| " will take no stock in the future as it
should be. II interprets the major con.
alterations Of life by the minor. "The of
tense Of the cross is not ceased" But it
,s crucifxion that leads to resurrection.
Away with this droning and whining pes.
| simism!
| And, on the other hand. there are those
who applaud democracy without reckoning
its principles and its foundations. Be.
| tween 1T 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 its emancipations? Will
man see the basilar doctrine of the in
herent value and birthright of each several
soul-value to itself, to all others and to
the one God Of all?
If not, then all falls apart and society
not made uD OF bulk of subservients and
few preferred creditors is a faulty and
a dream, and the Nazarene was dreamer.
But that way lies the madness of anarchy.
Any government is at given time,
strong, as the ratio is of its people (or
parts) who believe in it and are ready to
strong as. it has principles worthy to be
believed in. The bottom idea of dem.
ocracy is the utmost diffusion of two
things; (a) authority, (b) responsibility.
Both OF these; Neither goes well or far.
or can stand fast, alone. These balanced
centrifugal and centripetal forces main
tain the orbit. All the phases and hopes
OF a genuine and rational democracy are
reducible to the balance of this double
idea. The duality is critical.
| BY this as definition 1 will stand
that true democracy is a government in.
which every whole man, ana because a
man, counts one. Persons are the units,
and government of, by and for these is
the sum Of all its parts. Its spirit is as
| great as the number of spirits that share
spirits that share it. Its division exactly
equals the dividend, and the quotent is
| one.
Division of labor" which is made to
] mean you labor and I divide" is not
democracy. Since, in this long division
man should be fitted to count one. Dem
ocracy menaces itself, denies its. raison
d'etre, when it for moment neglects to
seek this fitness of its merits. Represen-
tation. is of these fit merits. The proxy
is valid only in this. The ballot affirms
the Importance of each integer. Its quail
flied intelligence and its unmolested free
dom Is its safety, that always it shall be
counted as one, and never more or less.
Less or more is the suppression somewhere
OF manhood; less, it were tyrannized;
seduce, to intimidate or to suppress it is
TO violate democracy. Democracy alone
| causes the rights of @ minority to fear a
majority. For all and by all this recog-
milton, of man declares that because every
man should count one he shalt No other
method OF government declares this, or
attempts to realize it. Resting its case
upon 'the right assessment of what con-
ystitutes human value" it implies that
! rights and duties are strictly correlative
and reciprocal. 1t studies its rules in the
Court is governed by this overruling equi-
lty. Democracy is it's test and its dictum.
IT is the ultimate national refuge of the
people. 1t gives the higher law.
| The dlstrlbutlve assignment of govern
ment is the radical end of democracy, not
descending to man, but ascending with
him. 1t is not paternal, but fraternal
| Human ethics rising from loyalty to
one mere tribe or clan - Ishmaeitish!-
| rises toward the comprehension of man
right. The history of this growth Of hu.
man, institutions, making and remaking
| ltham selves discovers that tbav r,,ov Wi \,
| the instinct OF q generic human life. The
| impulse strengthens as il by hydrostatic
pressure. That great democrat, Lincoln;
that splendid representative Of the fine
'loh aristocratlc family of man, said well,
application. "They who deny freedom
| TO Others deserve it not for Themselves.
and under the rule of just God cannot
long retain it," The paramount doctrine
! iof equal rights is that each soul has di-
to all the liberty he can use. and has the
right 10 stand .un. in his Makers image,
TO show what he can use. Its formative
| proposition is that @ just society lies in
the good of all it's elements, and that this
god.t good lies in the re5mSry,ing BY pick or
the affirmation Of social personality, lies
On its enabling and ennobling ESQ far as
circumstances, CAM eacn unitary being to
hve. the fullest possible life. g,lef
AL liberty" has social limitations, and
I its problem is to. reduce these limitations
to the lowest terms necessary to and con
sistent with its own utmost diffusion
| Freedom also is law. arlH
q. 1t is not the commercial, the strategic
/ bearings Of the Monroe doctrine that
| makes it strong in our American hearts
and determination, but its immense moral
meaning that democracy shall not have its
| providential arena narrowed, nor its scope
thwarted by the imposition of another
theory OF the people. America noble
America) is the vantage ground and the
bnlwark Of popular free government, and
to maintain this high theory of man un-
/ endangered, we will fight il need be
4 i(though God forbid the need) il all the
seas are to run red 1t was this tremen-
dous instinct in which, in one Of the no.
from under the bloody heel Of the line Of
Philip ii. and OF Alva. The peoples day
| advances. lILn.Nt Itl tl
l come, therefore, to assert that which
have tried to approach, and this it ISL
That the aim Of true democracy is in,
the most complete accord with the aims
of the gospel, Both are emancipative.l
Their implications are mutual They alike
Stand or fall upon the proposition of the
universal spiritual rights of all men as menl
bIach breaks down all middle wall of
PARTITION" and unlooses "the yoke of
bondage" opens the gates Of day to-
''eyery creature under heaven" Each
seeks the greatest auantity Of the highest
quality. Christianity, truly measured.
, oornea IN tha strong words of Henrv