The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-22

whence 1t came. line aVerage 10T-
eigner, who comes over here gets no
conception OF the truth. When he
goes home he tells them that Boston
is intellectual and New York rich
perhaps he says, in confidence, that
both are yulgar-and that is all he
knows about it
So far as my poor Information goes
| am led to believe nat the chief ex-
PLOTS of New England in the orvsn
ton that formed the Constitution Of
the United States, was the forcing in
10 that sacred instrument the right OF
h merchant marine OF New England
TO continue the African slave trade IN
I'll 1905, and the beSt-rememberec
speech Roger Sherman made in the
convention is that where he favored
clause 3, section 2. Article1, in which
he argued that it was as proper to ap-
prehend and return to his master a
runaway negro as it was TO catch n
return to its owner an estrayed horse.
The late John James ingalls, declared
only man Of letters from abroad who
saw the fiction dS it was. He Went up
and down the Mississippi on a steam
that the wiekedness Of African slavery
at the South was not made manifest
to the abolitinists Of the North until
it was made abivious that slavery
could not be made profitable in New
England. All Of us are reform
eTs if the victims Of our r.
formers if the victims Of our re-
form can be made to foot the
bills.
am not saying anything i'll re-
proach Of New England; l am only
trying to straighten out some shack
ling history. Champ Clark advises The
South TO u historian, bu | ObJecr TO
the South dropping into narrative IN
less she has got the great, the prec-
ious, the priceless gift of truthful
speech and has learned to tell an I'M
vanished tale, naught extenuating and
setting naught down in Malice. All
other history is not only vicious, but
worthless. Your historian should be
one who
Never dreamed, though right were
worsted, wrong would triumph;
Held We fall to rise, are baffied to
fight better;
Sleep to wake
Be sure the truth will find a way.
Fact will not be denied, for truth is
stronger then error and must prevail
in the end. False history may live
long and prosper, but it is mortal
and must die.
The Virginia idea prevailed for
three-sCOre and ten years Of our nat
iOnal history. It is cOmprehended IN
the term MISUNDERSTANDING the gov
eminent was made for the citizen and
0 for the government. Dr. we may
put it this way-the government is
a convenience and not Il providence.
Or We may say the government is a
servant not a master. And the Viz
ginia idea is thoroughly comprehend
ed in the declaration: The Federal
establishment shall do nothing the
States can do, the State shall do
nothing tn e county can do: the
county shall do nothing the indi-
vidual can do This We call home ruie
and it is Il: principle of government
that the more remote power is from
the people the more irresponsible
it is and the more liable the admins
tration to corrupt influences.
In 1861 the opposing idea supplanj-
ed the Virginia idea. We may
call this cOllectiyism, and 1t has DOM
mated in the administration for near
ly half a century. 1t is the mother
of privilege, and privilege is the moth
err Of corruption. 1t is everywhere,
Whenever the citizen stumps his toe
he shows it to Congress and demands
that Congress shall pOultice it. It is
fragrant in the tariff; it is glarlng on
the pension Toll; it is out yOnder in
the Philippines; it is down yOnde'
at Panama; it is the vital principe Of
monopoly, II without it the beef
trust could not have perpetrated its
revolving and horrible iniQuities. 1t
is in Carnegie's charities, and it turks
in young Rockefeller's Sunday-schoOI.
1t has separated the American people
into classes-the privileged and the
Subsection if | must take Of my earn
ing to protect somebody who makes
hats what am | but the mans slave,
to the extent of the ''protection' the
government authorizes him to eX-
tort to me? He is privileged for the
government has laid on me a tax
that it never intended to collect for
the Treasury, but required that /
should pay to the hat maker.
No wonder the country is reeking
in graft. If the government by law
makes the manufacturer a tax-ester.
why shall not a railroad also indulge
in corruption? Here are certain in
surance companies dealing in elections.
They convert the trust funds Of their
policy holders into Doodle funds OF
the party in power with which to cor
rupt the electorate. Why, q volume
would be required to catalogue the
graft that is rampant everywhere.
Talk about cleansing it! It will be
cleansed when this government aban1-
ons the idea of c~ollectiyism and re-
TINS to the idea of indiyidualism, and
no. until then. AS we'll attempt to plow
up hell with a pine single else.
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