Okolona messenger., 1905-01-11

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AE2 their birth, and point to an epoch
Sse59 ~ s1lza in the history OF man. AT this age
- Of the world it would appear pre-
pOsterous to say that few men n
ages past had fully devised system of government
for all time to come Man has learned that progress
means change, and change, like the hand on the DIAL
points to the particular comprehensive reality on
the intellectual thermometer of the world, changing
and ever changeable chart.
You have doubtless heard it said that 'Equal and
exact justice, with special privileges to nOne would
give us a perfect government; but after theorzing
and mOralizing, we are brought back to the fact :
that governments are instituted by men, for men,
and that the sefshness of man crops out in all his
work. Aud, iurthermOCe, selfsSness presupposes
and admits OF a disposition to take advantage. 1t
must be seen that the Of man, at the highest
point of moral aud intellectual Development reflects
both the animal and the spiritual. How, then can
you expect perfection to Cow out OF imperfeetiOn
''Equaa and exact justice unto al men" is simply
impossible; for men differ as much in moral and
intellectual power as they do in physical strength
Who is it that can measure the exact lines and fix
the exact point where injustice ends and justice be-
ginsf justice is state or a condition beyond the
possibility Of progress in Short stands for perfec
tion.
II ell men we're honest we would need no charches
nor courts to set in Judgment; for, do not our
churches alter their creeds and our courts reverse
their decisionsq Hence, just IS man advances in
knowledge does he ever seek to close the record OF
mistakes and wrongs done
The Journey Of man, from barbarism to civiiiEa.
tiOn, is but history Of war, murder and blood
The savages have always had their chief, and the
civilized races have always had, and still have their
leaders, and the civilized like the savage follow their
leaders, whittier sOeVer the leader leads, whether
in peace or war; That the masses Of mankind re-
main dormant abiding in the ability OF their res
pective leaders to make just laws for their govern
ment, there seems to be no doubt And to this fact
We can trace the slow progress Of man.
y The King, Priest and Politician have, in all ages
preyed on the ignorance Of the iiterate Masses and
II they ever knew how to elevate their fellOwman
they withheld the facts for their personal ben
efts.
A pOlical boss proves the existence Of political
slaves, and demonstrates the inability Of the many
to think for themselves. A political boss, like q
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believed. You can see the necessity Of reminding
him.
The whole system Of our moral training, copied
largely from the past was and still is wrong, and
the wrong consists in the belief that legislation can
bring all men to q common inheritance Of prosperity
The truth is that just 80 long as man is made to
believe that some one else, power can right
his wrongs and put him on equality with the "Other
fellow" just long you keep him looking for that
which never comes; and, having sunk his individu
atty into that Of another, independent action is lost
and slavery follows.
It is said GA stream can rise no higher that its
souroe'' and the truth is just as obvious that the
administration Of government will rise no higher
than the morals Of the people it governs. The poll
tican can be relied on giving the people all they
will stand for, and it doth not yet appear what the
msiority Of the people would stand tor from party
in power.
Why all thisi
NV answer is that the chief and fundamental rea-
son can be ionnd in mans Ignorance Of the origin
and nature Of government and his individual rela-
ton to it.
/ am not advocating any theory especially new
when promugating the idea that intellectual deve-