The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-05-17

The United States of America is a constitutional gov
eminent Its orgaLic law-the Constitution compre
person in the enjoyment of life and property and giving
each the fullest expression Of liberty possible having regard
for equal privileges for all.
1t was pronounced by most distinguished European
statesman the greatest document penned by the
hand of man." Protected by it's wise provisions in little
more than hundred years the most powerful the most
enlightened the richest and feest nation earth has
challenged the admiration and become the envy we'll
the model for all civilized countries The American people
have all the oaganc safeguards necessary to protect the
rights Of the subject and the weakest citizen
Each of the fortyfve states has made this great law
the model for it's charter of the liberties of it's people,
On southern border lies another American Republic
Mexico for than half century has possessed cons
tuition embodyng the principles providing
equally with ours for government or by and for the peo
pie. organic law alone make free and self govern
ing people the citizen of Mexico should live under broad
LIBERAL enlightened laws and rules does any citizen
who points to the stars and stripes the emblem of all
that is ought to be true just and representative in
earthly government Yet our sister Republic much of this
time has been absolute depotism exists and calls
Our countryfree enlightened, liberal, sefgoverning
Meteorological tyrannical and ignorant
One the envy Of the world, the other feared and res
pected by Both constitutional Why the derence
The difference is with the people, 1t has it's origin in
the contrast in intelligence and in the extent to which the
people exercise their rights citizens The difference is
not SO much in the rulers as in the citizenship.
No nation working under constitution the most ber
al people possessing the fullest right and Of self
government long maintain truly representative
when the of the citizenship to exercise it's
right to participation delegates them to Others The
such rights placed in the hands of individual
the farther recede from Democracy and the ap
proach to depotism In other Words just far the
citizenship any community negects assert itself and
permits by acquiescence small percentage of the popula
ton to the legislators and rulers just to that extent
do approach despotism and dscredit our heritage.
ADemocracy is government of the people and by the
people, Despotsn is government of the people by
one Individual
The Democracy Of people measured by the extent
to which it's voters exercise their rights in naming their
of
guaged not alone by the character of it's component parts
but by the expression of character in always exercising the
rights which the chief glory Of citizenship in Repub
lie OF Democracy.
Possessing those rights if fail place them
tive cooperation with others desiring to promote the same
cause maintaining the principles unworthy
to dwell in land which floats any emblem of popular
government and we have right to complain of recreant
legislators or indifferent or tyrannical rulers
If the people who possess the ballot, permit ranspOr
taon companies and special interests to elect and protect
their servants they should meet only and contempt
when they complain that their rulers serve not the voters
but the interest to which they their election.
great contest today being waged in the Senate OF
the United States between senators who their e
gal constituents and those who have been placed position
by these special interests Public sentiment is onesded
and the conflict would be onesded had the people of all
sections and states done their duty 1t has become almost
people do not elect their servants while the corporations
hence will serve the corporation. In state is this
palpably manifest than in North Dakota.
believe in state of the union considering popula.
ton and amount of public expenditures have the taxpayers
and oftener betrayed often msrepre
sented. Why is this so?
Secretary Of War Taft in an article written for the
New York Independent after his visit to the Philippine
Islands last gives why the inhabitants
of these islands will not be capable OF
quotation from argument made by educated Filipino
in favor of Independence. The Filipino said:
I'VE have directing class composed Of five per cent
of people who have education and know how to
and have governabe class composed of nnetyve per
of people who have shown in the past that they
know to obey and submissive and
loof0 co1f
as these reasons for calling ourselves self
governing9 While short the five per cent who