Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-04-28

liberty and property. The love of liberty was not born in this country O. ours It was cradlcu Hloll" the Danube and about the shores of tue Baltic, even when Rome had reached the limit of her imperial grandeur. Increasing in intensity with the passing of the centuries, il found it's highest express sion in the older countries in the great English charter of civil rights, which forever guaranteed to the people of that land immunity from the dcs!,otism of those who claimed to rule by virtue i of Divine right
 One hundred and thirty two years ago the great contest of humanity was transferred from the old world to the new, and here. because of the iSola- ton of this country because of the high character of tue man who cS- poused the cause of liberty and he cause of the signal victory achieved by them in that struggle, an opporln nity was afforded to cryst;lize into written law the aspirations of the pa triots of all the ages The men who built the foundations of this govern ment were those who had submitted | to the supreme test of patriotism. for | those who inspired the constitution of | the United States W~re the same who
 had pledged their lives, their proper | ties and their sacred honor to the cause | of independence.
 While the primary object of writ | ten constitution is to define govern ] mental powers and to limit govern mental departments, the overW helming ! necessity for such aD instrument is to prevent insidous encroachments upon l the rights of the individual citizen l both from those in office and from 1 and power have an influence far great l CT than that possessed by the average
 ] citizen And so Che constitution of the i United States wac regarded by it's ] framcrs as an instrument of thc most 1 sacred import an alteration of which 1 could only be made by the people them i selves in whom al! ultimate powcr k vested, and theu only after the fullest discussion aud widest publicity.
 Under the bencicent government so l established the nation has prosperel ! tl fl,,f ] cloud came upon the nation in the
 form Q, an awful civil War, in which i two sections of the country were in 1 conflict with each other The heroes
 who rest hcrc gave their lives that this
 nation might be maintained as it came 1 from our forcfathers. On another bat. tlelield of that war Abraham Lincoln ! said: Tt is for us. the living, rather to i be dedicated 10 tue unfinished work l they have thus far so nobly carried on 1 1t is rather for Us to be here dedicated | to the great task remaining before us; l that from these honored dead we take i increased devotion for that cause for which they here gave the last full l measure of devotion: that we highly re- solve that these dead shall not have | died in vain; that the nation shall un- ! der God have a new birth of freedom, 1 and that the government of the people 1 by the people and fer the people Shail | not perish from the earth
 Our concern is not of the past nor wholly with the present. but much with the future If the destiny of the | republic is ill the hands of the Amcri car ol today. then il becomes him to i be guided and governed only by patri. otic impulse and the desire tu do that which will most largely cuutrib;:te To the permapmcy of republican inStitu- tionS. Advancing oar civilization 50 that we will not. by recognizing tho l false caiuS oi selfish interests and fu: getting the American maxim that our object should be to attain the greatest good for the greatest number, incur the penalty which other people have paid. | rather let us hold ever in mind that | those who framed our government be- lieved in the equality of the people and that the chief aim of government is to ! maintain that equality.
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