Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-08-29
PRINCIPLES OF THE FATHER OF
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Jeffsrsonian Principles are Particularly AppIi-
cable at the Present Time. His Writings
Appear Psrvadsd With the Spirit Of
Prophecy.

Jefferson not only announced great
fundamental principles, but he applied
them to SO many different questions that
he can be read as an authority on all
questions of today. He was opposed to
imperialism and believed in self. govern
ment; he was for republic composed of
equal and self-governing states and ell.
trely opposed to the colonial idea.
He was opposed to Il large army and
believed that Il government was stronger
when resting upon The love OF the people
than when tolerated only because OF fear
He WAS so opposed to the principles of
monopoly that he only excepted copy
rights and patents. Here is the amend
ment which he suggested to the consi.
tuition: 'Monopolies may be allowed to
persons for their own productions in
literature, and their own inventions in
the arts, for term not exceeding -
years, but for no longer term, and for no
other purpose" AT another time he
suggested fourteen years as the limit for
patents.
His hostility to monopoly was exempli-
fed in 1887 in communication to John
Jay, in which he said: "a company
had silently and by unfair means OBJ
tanned monopoly for the making and
selling of spermacet candles lin France
As soon as We Lafayette assisted him)
discovered it, we solicited its suppression
which is effected by clause in the
Arret."
He denounced as fatal fallacy the
doctrine that national debt is a bless.
ing.
He was the relentless enemy of banks
OF issue. At one time he declared that
banks OF issue were more dangerous than
standing armies. At another time he
said: 81 hope We shall crush in its
birth the aristocracy of our monied cor
porations, which dare already to chal.
lenge our government to a trial OF
strength, and bid defiance to the laws Of
our country"
In 1919 he said: "Interdict forever to
both the state and the national govern
ment the power OF establishing any paper
bank; for without this Introduction We
shall have the same GIBBS and flows OF
medium, and the same revolution of
property to 90 through every twenty or
thirty years."
He warned his countrymen against the
dangers OF an appointive judiciary hold
ing office for life.
Of the freedom OF speech he said:
"The liberty OF speaking and writing
guards our other liberties"
OF the freedom Of the press he wrote
sour liberty depends on the freedom Of
the press, and that cannot be limited
without being lost"
He was the author of the statute OF
Virginia guaranteeing religious liberty,
and was also the father of the University
OF Virginia. He favored free school
system which would bring to every child
an opportunity to secure an education.
He was an advocate OF the jury system;
and he argued in favor OF freeing the
slaves three.quarters of century before
Lincoln issued his emancipation procla-
nation.
His writings fill many volumes and
cover almost every conceivable subject
but through all that he said there runs
the evidence of great heart as well as a
great intellect.
There is need today of a revival OF
Jeffersonian principles. He was not an
enemy of honestly acquired wealth, but
he believed that the government had no
right to exaggerate by favoritism the
differences between individuals. He be.
lieved that all should stand equal before
the law and that every department of
government, executive, legislative and
judicial, should recognize and protect
the rights of the humblest citizens s
carefully as it would the rights OF the
greatest and most inhuen tial.
Jefferson's principles, applied to the
problems OF the Twentieth century,
would restore the republic to it's old
foundations and make it the supreme
moral factor IN the worlds progress.
The application of his principles today
would restore industrial independence
and annihilate trusts. The application
OF his principles today would drive the
money changers out Of the temple, in.
sure to the people stable currency and
harmonic labor and capital by COM
Polling justice to both.
Society today has it's aristocratic and
its democratic elements; whether Jefier.
sons principles are applied depends
upon which element controls the govern
ment.