The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-15
DAbNEY SAYS BRYAN IS NOT DEMOCRAT  Bryan and Roosevelt Pre-
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 JEFFERSON LIBERTY
Professor of Science of the University of Virginia Delivers Address at Celebration of JeffersOn's
 Birthday

Auburn, April 14.-(Special )-Wil- liam Jennings Bryan is far from being democrat in the sense that Thomas Jefferson outlined democracy, accord ing to Dr. Richard Heath Dabney of the University of Virginia.
 Bryan and Roosevelt prescribe the same remedy for all human ills" he said in the course of a lecture to the Auburn students yesterday afternoon Bryan and Roosevelt prescribe laws
 more laws, and still more laws; Jeffer- son prescribed liberty, more liberty and still more liberty"
 Dr. Dabney, professor of historical end economical science of the Univer- sity of Virginia, spoke to the students of Auburn yesterday on the occasion of the birthday anniversary of Thomas
 Jefferson. Dr. Dabney, probably tht greatest living authority upon the life and achievements of the third Presi, dent of the United States, was called to Auburn for the special occasion oi
 the lecture and for the commemora- ton of the life of the founder of dem- ocracy He will be in Auburn fol several days. the guest of pr. George Petrie and Prof. J. r. c. Southall, both Virginia men, and his personal friends
 In the course of his lecture Dr. Dab. ney outlined Jefferson's policies.
 "Minim- -ocracy, not democracy Is the modern acceptation of the term, was Jefferson's creed, he said. Jefferson vas not the founder of democracy as we understand the term. He believed in liberty, not in government. Egotists like Alexander Hamilton and Theo- dore Roosevelt think government is a good thing; they believe in government for it's own sake; they believe in over riding the masses in the name of gov ernment;. Jefferson believed in liberty of the individual.'
 Thomas Jefferson did not believe in the overthrow or in discounting laws Dr. Dabney pointed out. He believed ir established authority and a central government but not in government which would substitute it's authority for individual rights
 There are no such things as in aliepable rights said pr. Dabney
 'Th ere are only concrete rights, dele
 gated by law; however much Jeffer son in the Declaration of Independence spoke of nalienable rights there are no such things as absolute life, lib- erty and happiness-life for the mur- derer, liberty for the felon, happiness for the thief. Jefferson did not mean 1t as such; he was not dreamer. He was the apostle of liberty, and he spoke fguratively."
 Throughout his lecture Dr. Dabney spoke of Jefferson, not as the man, nor as the statesman, but as the being wh0 strove for liberty and who exemplified liberty. Jefferson, he said, did not glory in the fact that he was governor of Virginia, nor that he was ambas- sador to France, not that he was vice president or President of the United States, but he was proud that he wrote the Declaration of Independence; that he wrote the statute providing re- ljgious freedom in Virginia, and that he was the founder of the University of Virginia. "All threes deeds,' said pr Dabney, 'signifying' his undying en- mity to thraildom in politics, ignorance or personal conviction"