The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-18
BULLETIN No. 1.
Worthy Of Our Legislators
Reflection.

Government at the highest is a
guaranty of personal liberty, a free
field and a fair chance; the en-
enlargement of industry and edu-
cation, aud the resolute protection
of them all. And government is
nothing more. 1t is neither neces-
sary nor wise to embrace under
government supervision every sub
iect known to the human race.
Americans do not need to be
managed or advised i'll their
business, their habits and their
pleasures. The less they are governed
the higher will be their civilization,
and the more complete their freedom"
These excerpts from the report of
an address delivered a few days ago
at Boston by Mr.. Frank S. Black, a
former Governor of the State of New
York, commend themselves to the
members Of our Legislature for con-
sideration and reflection before talk
ing side and determining upon some
of the bills introduced for their &C
tion. They so commend themselves
because they 'hit the nail upon the
head and give evidence OF SOUND
n in the conception of the essence
OF government in a democratic Re
public.
Amongst those bills is to be mentioned
in first line the Local Option Bill" IN
troduced by Assembyman Crosby and
designated Assembly No. 92." What
is tho object of this bill? Primarily
a further step in the efforts to sup
press the natural and legitimate right
of personal INSTRUMENTATION in mat
tiers of ones own living by subordina-
ting 1t to the will or whim of a chance
majority of votes in a local community,
one or more of it's subdivisions or in a
whole county--no matter by what
means that majority might have been
procured. In other words, in the eff
forts to bring about by legislation a
further abuse of the doctrine of ma
joritv right to rule in a republic"
The majority right to rule" has its
limit In a republic, which, accord
ing to our great Lincoln's declaration
shall signify "a government of the
people, by the people and for the peo-
Pile" Here, in our country, that limit
is set in the following sentences of the
Declaration of Independence preceding
the establishment of the republic:
we hold these truths to be self-evi-
dent, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable rights, that
among these arc Life, Liberty and the
Pursuit of Happiness. That to secure
these rights governments are insti-
tuted among men, deriving their just
mowers from the consent of the gov
erned."
From the unaIienable right to lib
crty that of free self-determination in
matters of ones own living is in
separable-as long as by its exercise
the natural rights of our fellow man
are not infringed upon or impaired.
securing Of the u~nalienable rights OF
man is declared to be one of the pur-
poses Of government deriving its Just
powers from the consent of the gov
ctned. Hence: without Illegal usurpa-
ton of power by the government the
right of free self-determination of the
Individual cannot by legislation be
sacrificed to the caprice OF a ma
ioritV of votes. This is recognized in
The aforementioned u~tterances of ex-
Governor Black, and therefore they
cofqnlcnd themselves to consideration
arm reflection by the members OF our
legislature.
Ii every reader having at heart the
prevention of further invasion OF the
unaIienabie right of personal liberty
would make it his duty to refer the
representative OF his district at the
state capital to this matter by mail,
such consideration and refection mlsht
lie secured.
PRESS BUREAU GERMAN-AMERICAN
CENTRAL ALLIANCE or NEW
ARK, n. j.