The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-28


 be perverted into tyranny; liberty may uegenerate into license. Obseryapee oi iaw tends Co orderhness; excess ot iiD- erty leads to lawiessness. Law and lID- srLy are the hapdmaIds of cmllizatton; sgd yFdanny an and license are monsirous m eTiss ss position to truth and justice.
 Human nature. lower human nature, Tspe!s A&alnst law ana abuses liberty. US tendency Is ever toward tyranny uYon the one hand and license or law !essness. upon the other; ana to a yield ing to this tendency in the one direc, or the evils of the times. t4
 InankS Go an all~wise Creator, there has been implanted in every human be- ing, side by side with his lower self, the germ of higher nature, which. if properly cultivated and directed. win develop Into controlling force in his provisions of the human minds consists m the fact that 1t ss able, of It's own voiition, to set up high standard for t: When the better self rules, law and liberty are entnfoned; when the lower nature prevails, tyranny and license is
 He who looks only at mans better nature sees only good in the world To him, law and liberty are over iii the tion. He who looks only at a mans oaser nature sees only evil in the world. To him, tyranny and license are OOn- slider mans two-foid nature is fortufi- ate in his temperament, and. if he Is blended in the proper proportion bis Sptlhhism Spd hn n and his pessidmism. Is wise tion To him. and to such us he, must We look for as an consideration of
 At the risk of being cIassed with those who have been described as pes- simists, am going to call your att tention to some of the conditions which have m onn n wyiA nes ( the tendencies of the lower nature. sometimes it becomes necessary to ex- pose the dark. in order to produce the discussing the unpleasant
 , Prevalence of LawIessness. ,
 The American continent was settled horrors of tyranny and injustice on other shores It is not surprising, there fore, that from the very inauguration 2 strong tendency to stress individual of law and it's orderly execution. This This state and church, and has found It's way grandaily to all tho avenues of way gradually to all the avenues of from very excess of liberty Only now and then, only here and there, has law been emphasized to the point of tyTan- nya.,-o a.. ,...,.,
 maninulation of svllogistic reasonifie. Is required to reach this conclusion. It rroVes Itself In the every day exDer- bTrsn snTss of eTgsrv6ody In an the telds of selves. mess life. Old practices, old theories o,d ideals. old conceptions Of nersonal fixed.
 Success at snv price is coming to he sthe motto That which Is not ITO. hfhited by statute Is regarded as ner- T1issihle. Take every advantsge under the law. If possible evade the law, if general pra ctice.
 'Paradoxical as it may seem, this excess of liberty in business affairs is being organized to the end that conlbi- nation Is lessening the field for inde- pendent individual effort, and monopoly is feeding and growine fat upon Iegiti- mate personal endeavorE And modern standards of society a re undermining the basis of r90ht living To shine is the social function. to be a recognized leader in the upner clr- is coming in some quarters to be more greatly desired than the fruitful life that springs from honest toil.
 Money Is heinz made the chief uual- ification for high social standing. Gold IS valued above brains: illgotten wealth above nobility of character. Marriage to be broken; and the divorce evil threatens 10 make of the home a veri- table pandemonium.
 "The church is disturbed hy conten- tion from within and hv criticism from without. Those who. by virtue If the high faith Drofessed. should be shining lights or Christian consistency ar too often examules of contep1atible hypo. crisy. People who should live in the sunshine of fraternaf happiness not in freausntlv wallow in the mireeof greed
 "InduiGence in the gambling habit. ! qualification of sensual desires. dis regard for the rights of others. obedi- | ence to the demands of money making. | money worship, are dwarfinR and en- slaving and brutalizing many human hearts. 1 An alarmingly large number of peo- ple act as if they were created only to eat, sleep, breathe. glitter and pass away--as if it were sll of life to live and all of death to die.
 "Government. too. is threatened threatened by both tendencies. Intox. icated by certain phases of material : development. maddened by the allure 3 ments of territorial acquisition, frep, zied by phenomenal success at arms : we are drifting upon policy of sub | iugation and colonial expansion i'm g perialisitic in tendency. which is caus ing many patriotic thinking people t, , regard the country's future with feel ings of deepest solicitude. With mis template the carrying of the flag whert 2 the constitutions does not follow. There is developing that central zation of power which, like some hydP; 1; headed monster. will devour the civil
 rights of the pennle. And, a natura f outgrowth of centralized power, poiiti ; cal corruption is sucking. like yam pire. the governmental lifeblood. Th teachings of history warn us to bewar'
 of these dangers.
 There is felt frenuentiy the shoel ! of conflict between labor and capital
 two powerful antasonists. which. hu for lawlessness upon the part of thu one or the other. would be friendly al lies. At times the whole world stands
 anpalled at the fierceness of these con
 flicts. and sometimes the very founda
 tions of government gre made to trem'
 ble in their places.
 protection for protections sake pre-
 sents its seductive forrn and thert comes forth palaces riches. power pomp and sp'endor for the few-hufs poverty. wretchedness, misery and ruir for the many Justice. enuql and exact
 justice, pleads for a departure from this
 @rhere exists that materialism. idol. atry. to which Las been the downfall of governments powerful and magnifi- cent. and which. infused as it Is into all the transactions of life is an angel of pestilence dropping germs of dis truction wherever it sweeps The golden age of Augustus and the results that followed tell what the harvest may
 The Taking of Human Life.
 phase in which the sririt of lawless. ness manifests itsef in the United quency. the recklessness, and the i'm punitv with which human life Is -akeu should bring the blush of shame 1 to the. face of every patriotic AmeTl, of horror to shake the nations heart In no other civilized country Is hu' man life so cheap. In pagan Japar