The copper era., 1910-10-14

The Foundation principles of Our Political Structure,
 l Federation or Union.
 ? Local Self government.
 Sunday, October 3Oth, 7:3O D. m.
 Popular Discomfort,
 Cause of discontent.
 Significance of discontent.
 Sunday, November 9th, 7:30 p. m.
 The Necessity of New Methods,
 A new Patriotism.
 ? Personal contact.
 Cooperation.
 It is not the purpose in these lectures to entes into an historic dis cussion concerning the development and status of the different depart ments Of the government under which we live but to state something of the legitimate character and principles of the government.
 Extravagance and insurgency now prevailing in the Republican party is first manifested in the election of Democratic Senator from Maine. The first time that Maine has thus been represented in the United States Senate within the memory of but few living men-since lS40. Un- mistakably these widespread in- iuences foreshadow a crisis in our municipal affairs. The breeze of dis content and heated debate blows from all points of the political con- pass. The party ship which has sailed uninterrupted for so many years has at last split upon the sharp rocks of competition and progress and is fast going to pieces. In our search for a safer vessel than that of the Republican party it is well to re- mind ourselves of the nature of the stream on which we are sailing. We have our conflicting surface currents and our varying winds of opinions, but the great uudercurrent of our civilization moves steadily onward in its fixed course of progress.
 The fountain of American ciyiliza- tion bursts forth from the one Mas ter passion, the love ot liberty and the instinct of selfgovernment. Its power was generated by the Anglo Saxon race and made effective through the three grea inst tutions of state, church and schools. To be ignorant of these facts or to ignore them is to be crushed by their mighty force. If you are a lover of Americanism turn back to thy first page of American history and read Ianders and their voyage to our shores in the Halfmoou. Their fath- CTS Caesar could not conquer and they followed that instinct of free gerous continent tn re known. On the same page is the name Pilgrim, given to a people who prized most of all religious freedom, and the cele- brated compact written in the cabin of the Mayfower will never die. Its influence will be a growing force when the monument of Faith that now stands to its memory in Ply mouth is leveled into dust
 Standing beside the Hollanders and Pilgrims around the fountain, and listed on the first page ot our history, are the Puritans, Hugenots, Quakers, Cavaliers, Danes and Norwegians, representing the noolest interest of the human family and possessing the highest intelligence and morality. The history of man in organized relations affords no example ot a harmonious union of equalities and forces for good, equal to that repre- sented by the thirteen colonies bound together by the one conviction that all men are equally entitled to the enjoyment of life, liberty and pur- suit of happiness"
 The numberless questions regard ing liberty and law, the source and strength of the state, the rights of capital and labor, the relations of civil and religious liberty, the sphere and function of the church, and the best methods for conducting our free school system, cannot be correctly by any party or individual who knows nothing of the forces which have produced our free insti- tutions. J. w. AKER.
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