Arizona republican., 1910-07-25

the free air of forest, mountain and plain, could never be so completely conuuered and tanned that the citizen would lose his identity and disap- pear. He struggled to maintain that identity. It was this struggle that has given Continental Europe her history. This is the secret of her political divisions The struggle was a long one but at last the dark ages gave way to an age of greater light
 The period of conception, birth and childhood of European national life was past. The great Continental powers became matured. Society crystalized into it's permanent form and though much was gained, still the citizen of those nations in the seventeenth century was but little advantaged over the Greek or Roman.
 England, however, while adjacent to. and had all the advantage of the continents Nexperience in growth and life, was not a part of Europe. protected from the great errors of the continental nations. Being nat urally independent of other peoples, as well as haven and resort of those spirits in search of freedom and liberty, she developed in time novel forms of law, government and religion. And advantaged as Eng land was, she became the defender of the reformation and consequently the place for the deposit of the richest thought and life of the old world
 We have said that the United States constitution and life was Gods objective in a> course of four thous- and years of government It was in England. France and Germany how ever. the great sitting process vas effected Their great men of letters wrote with their eyes open to plain suffering truths. Men of faith. men of scepticism, jurists, students, too many to name, threshed over the sheaves from the past and sifted out the wheat. the golden truths Of a free citizenship. But all European territory seemed to be affected by the heresy of tyranny. Even Eng land was compromised by ancient error. So the new world which God had reserved uncorrupted. was the field into which he planted the new ideal of government, "of. for and by the people"
 Blackstone. the father of English. and therefore of American and mod ern jurisprudence, has given the best approved definition of law and gov ernment, beginning with the individ- ual as the unit. Says he: And consequently since man depends ab- solutely upon his Maker for every thing, it is necessary that he should in all points conform to his Makers will" In another paragraph he pro ceeds, saying. This will of his Max CT is called the law of nature. For as God. when he created matter and endued 1t with the principle of mo- bility. perpetual direction of that mo- tion so when He created man ana endued him with free will to conduct himself in all parts of life. he also laid down certain immutable laws of human nature whereby that free will is in some degree regulated and re strained and gave him also the fac ulty of human reason to discover the purport of those laws" And as quoted in the first paper, those def initiOns of diety which God has all olwed human reason to discover are such as are necessary to mans safe conduct" Among such are these, We should live honestly. should hurt no body and render to every one his due" Thus by a review, of history. and aid of the best legal light of his time. we arrive at the old conclu sion in regard to the purpose of law and government. Namely. they are constituted by God for the wei fare and happiness of mankind.
 We have quoted thus much from English authority because in il is re- vealed the temper of justice and faith of that people who made America It was this spirit of freedom and practical grasp of justice, coupled with faith in God, that brought the makers of our country victory over the great tryanizing powers of the old world The mother country had taught her American children too well. to make of them profitable slaves to her greed. It was writ ten in the very bone and sinew of the American colonies-man was vas made of God to be free. He was born to have equal desires with every other member of the race. Every one was created with inter ests common to every other one. and it was the high sense of justice maintained by our forefathers which brought into existence a nation. whose interests were commensurate with the welfare of every one of its citizens.
 In the articles of independence. our fathers gave their creed of gov ernment, saying: We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pur- suit of happiness. That to secure these rights. governments are insti- tuted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the gov crned; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it. and to institute new government, laying it's foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such form. as to them, shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness" And when the defeat of Cornwallis at