The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-19
tarily governing itself by law higher
than it's own desire.

worth contending for do they discount
Jefferson and his teachings. More and
more as men come to regard equality
freedom of opportunity, fair chance
and justice as the only realities worth
contending for do they honor Jefferson
and his teachings. No trust magnate,
planning and scheming to enrich himself
at the expense OF others, ever dared to
let the Just eyes from portrait of JEFF
ferson look down upon him. No colonial
ruler, seeking to govern men without
their consent, dares allow a picture of
Jefferson to hang in his portrait gallery
No religious bigot, STEPPED in the mar
rowness of a dwarfing creed, can bear
to look into the benign countenance of
the man who regarded as one of his three
greatest achievements writing and pass
ing the Virginia statute of religious lib
erty. Jefferson is the patron saint only
of men who adopt this creed, enunciated
by Jefferson in his inaugural, March 4th,
1901.
Equal and exact justice to men OF
whatever state or persuasion, religious or
political, peace, commerce and hornet
friendship with all nations, entangling
alliances with none; the support of the
State Governments In all their rights,
IS the most competent administration for
our domestic concerns, and the suroEt
bulwarks against anti-republican tenden-
eies; the preservation of the general gov
eminent in its whole constitutional vigor
as the sheet anchor of our peace at hone,
and safety abroad; jealous care of tho
election by the people-a mild and safe
corrective OF abuses, which are Topped
by the sword of revolution, when peace
able remedies are unprovided; absolute
acquiescence is the decision of the ma
jority, the vital principle of Republics
from which there is no appeal but to
force, the vital principle and immediate
source of despotism; a. we'll disciplined
militia, our best reliance In peace and
for the first moments of war, till regu-
lars may relieve them; the supremacy
of the civil over the military authority;
economy in the public expense that labor
may be lightly burdened; the honest pay
ment of our debts and sacred preservation
of the public faith; encouragement Of
handmaid;s the diffusing information and
the arrangement of all abuses at the bar
of public reason freedom of religion;
freedom of the press; freedom of persons
under the protection of the habeas cor
pus, and trial by jurics impartially select
ed"
This creed Is to true political action
what the Ten Commandments we're to the
followers of Moses.
In his celebrated speech on the ques-
ton of imperialism, delivered in the
Senate. ON the 18th day of April. 1900.
Senator Hoar, put Jeffersons fame and
his Declaration where they Justly be-
! long. He said:
In all generations the statesmen who
have appealed to righteousness and JUS
tice and freedom have left an enduring
place in the loving memory of their coun-
trymen, while the men who have coun-
selled them to walk in the path of injus-
tice and wrong, even if it led to empire
and even if they were in the majority IN
| their day, are forgotten and despised
| AN, Mr.. President, that gentleman says
| We are the anointed by the Lord, as the
| Jews We're the anointed of the Lord. But
! the Jewish empire is forgotten. Tho
! sands of the desert cover the foundations
of her cities. The spider spins its thread.
1 the owl makes it's midnight perch in
| their palaces. But still these little
/ words, ''Fhou shalt not steal; thou shalt
/ not covet that that is thy neighbor's ;
/ whatever we would that men shall It to
you, do ye even so, again unto them "
/ shine through the ages blazing and I'M
/ dimmed Mr. President, you may specu-
/ late you may refine, you may doubt
/ you may deny But the one foremost
action in our history the foremost ac-
! ton in all history, is the writing upon its
pages those simple and sublime opening
sentences of the Declaration of Indepcn-
| dence. And the men who stand by it shall
| live in the eternal memory of mankind
and the men who depart from it, however
| triumphant and successful in their little
| policies, shall perish and be forgotten,
| or shall be remembered only to be de-
| spised"
! Nothing more eloquent was ever ut
! tered unless we except the concluding
sentences of Senator Vests great speech
on jefferson delivered on the 31st of Oc-
tober, 1895. on the occasion of unwilling
bust in bronze of Thomas Jefferson.
He said:
Upon the canvass of the past WASH
! ngton and Jefferson stand forth the
central figures in our struggle for indie
pendence The character of the former
was so rounded and justly proportional,
that so long as our country lives or
| single community of Americans can he
found, Washington will be First in war,
| first in peace and first in the hearts of
his countrymen."
ITO Washington VIC are more indebted
than to any one man for national exist
ence, but what availed the herosm Of
Bunker Hill. the sufferings of Valley
Forge, or the triumph of Yorktown if
the Government they established had
, been but an imitation of the monarchy
from which we had separated?
ITO Jefferson we owe eternal gratitude
fo his sublime confidence in popular gov
| err iment. and his unfaltering courage in
defending at all times and in all places,
CC'onttnued on twelfth Dage.)