The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-06
Will the American Republic Last ?
BY W. D. NASsER

he anticipates and forestalls them. Not indeed that he is naturally weak or hos tile to the union, for when the majority decided against the claims of the parti- sans of nullfication he put himself at it's l head asserted the doctrines which the nation held distinctly and energetically, and was the first to recommend forcible measures: but General Jackson appears to me, if I may use the American ex- pressions, to be a federaist by taste and republican by calculation The party of Jefferson and Jackson was still in De Tocquevilles nomenclature republican,. now democratic.
 Of course slavery had it's effect on De Tocqueyiles view of the permanency of our republic. He considered slavery doomed, because the Christians of civil ized Europe regarded it as immoral, the political economists as unprofitable. But slavery would continue in the south after that section had separated, without re- sistance from the other sections. In the meantime all the slaves would have been shifted to the south, because they were more valuable there. But the blacks would ultimately be freed, or free them selves, and the south being without the support of the other sections, the blacks would seize the reins of government and
 
 they would be so largely outnumbered. would gradually pass out of the country, as the Moors from Spain Such was the reasoning of, in many respects, very llearned and sagacious observer and bril- liant French literary light.
 History has disproved the predictions of l De Tocuueville The union has proven It's strength. The south is rid of slavery, and the whites are secure in the possession Of their inheritance. While the distinguished authority concludes his chapter on the future of American democracy with the assertion that the union would be dis solved, he admits that as long as the con- stitution Is not seriously altered ''an in ternal crisis, or a war, may restore all the vigor which ittrequires." As a matter of history several important wars have con- tributed to that end. The greatest strug- gle of modern times the American civil war, four years of splendid display of military skill and soldierly valor, with the particular issue of secession at stake, re- suited in decisive victory for the union. l Professor Browns article in the North American Review and the prophecies of Macaulay and Ambassador Bryce. which he reviews relate to the conflict between the working classes and the immensely wealthy combinations of capital. And it is just that matter which the history of our country is reassuring upon. The ma jority of the American people have al ways acted wisely and honestly in set ting issues which interested localities or classes have raised. In early times the excise laws seemed to those concerned unjust; but the whisky rebellion was easily crushed by the federal government, Representing the majority, Furthermore the American people in some localities and even few states have shown them selves willing to impose upon themselves sumptuary legislation in the shape of pro- hibition laws, which Ambassador Bryce, in the work recalled, his American Con- monwealth, declares no European sover- elgn would dare attempt to- enforce.
 Notification vanished at the bidding of the majority through the federal govern ment. As to labor outbreaks, the most se- rious of them all, the one which resulted in the assassination of a governor of a Istate, was defeated by the militia and National guard. acting energetically in a remote and rugged section of the Rocky mountains. Organized lawlessness will be met with superior military forces
 It is inconcevable that the majority of the people, led by patriotic statesmen, will submit to oppressive measures of the plu- tocrats, and the military power of the government state and federal, will al-
 
 breaks of labor and it's sympathizers whenever they take up arms.
 Such legislation as Professor Brown suggests may be needed to control the money power. Hume tells us that at ont time in England the prices of meat and wool were so high by the expressing oi the sheep industry that no one person was allowed to own more than 1000 sheep Precedent may be found in the common law for whatever legislation our states men may deem necessary, and for tho rest we may trust the common sense an( honesty of the majority of the American people On that rests the hope of free in stitutions. It has not failed in the past and we believe will be equal to all emer gencies to arise
 The beautiful and harmonious plan o our forefathers wheels within wheel is still the ideal government, and it vii continue to secure local self governmen , and defense against all foreign enemies throughout the ages. to all the American : people, from the fiower-embelished cana zone to the snowy peaks of Alaska
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