United labor bulletin., 1911-06-01
is WOODROW WILSON A DEMOCRATS
Declares for "Heaven-Made Standards"
and Repudiates Government by the
Consent of the Governed.

In his address in the Denver Audi
|torium on THE Bible and Progress"
Woodrow Wilson made some very unfa-
vorable remarks as to the right of the
people to be ruled by standards of their
own selection.
Considering his ambition for political
honors one ought perhaps pay no great
attention to what he said, and yet, again,
that ought to be the very reason why
great deal of attention should be paid to
mis- stand on any and all questions.
And when one such almost literally
denies the fundamental principle on
which the nation, to which he aspires for
leadership, is founded, it ought to be
known and when he affirms that eccle-
siastical standards are more binding and
of greater authority than human stand
ards his election ought to be strongly
discouraged.
This Mr.. Wilson does in a very def
mite way He says: For this book
which reveals men unto themselves, not
as creatures in bondage, not as men
under authority, not as those hidden to
take counsel and command of any human
source" Accordingly we are not to be
governed by the consent of the gov
erned," but, by something of an unhu-
man source. The idea that authorities
and laws derive their just powers from
and through the deliberations of reason
and human conventions Mr.. Wilson here
clearly denies. He distinctly repudiates
both the counsel and command of Amer
ican government-the unimpeachable and
inseparable guide of man-reason.
You might as well say that things can
be seen without eyes as to maintain So
cial order on some other authority than
human. In the same measure that the
power and authority of the people is lost
or overruled either in individual life or
in the social life does anarchy and re-
progression appear.
But Mr.. Wilson (and it is astonishing
when we consider the educational oppor-
tunities this man possessed and con-
trolled) thinks there are standards
laws which are made in heaven and are
beyond human amendment and repeal
and to which blind and abject obedience
must be rendered. To quote: I'VE know
that there is standard set for us in
the heavens, standard revealed to us
in this book which is the fixed and eter-
nal standard" How unfortunate, how
dangerous for government which de-
rives its standards from the consent of
the governed to have a confessed traitor
to this principle aspire to its highest Of
flee, To quote again: "And SO it seems
to me that we must look upon the Bible
as the great charter of the human fold,
as the Magma Charta of the human
soul"
Is it not the height of folly to set this
book against the colleges and universi-
ties or even against the congress of our
country and say that standards of two
thousand years ago are miracle-made and
infallible while in our age and time a
thousand years of scientific investigation
have failed to find proof or an indication
of evidence that a miracle is possible?
Yet Mr.. Wilson teaches that the Bible
is a heaven-made book, that its authority
is above human and that the welfare of
nation is dependant on reading the
Bible.
What does history teach? 1t is very
positive in establishing the fact that i'm
mediately after the original incorpora-
| tion of these same heaven-made stand
ards into power the world became dark
and stagnant for thousand years and
only when human law and worldly
| princes triumphed over ecclesiastical
and inhuman powers did light and prog
ress again appear
| How is it today? What is Spain and
| Italy and Russia clamoring for? Is it
not release from heaven-made, institu-
| tions-release from Bible government?
In the light of these things Mr.. VIII
sons speech makes him appear either as
| ignorant of history or political
gamester caring nothing for truth and
right but only for ways and means by
which to elevate himself into place and
! power.
1 OF the people whose faith is not rooted
in the Bible, he says: These men are
simply cropping and staggering in their
| ignorance to a fearful day of judgment
and those little scheming, contemplate
creatures that forgot the image Of God
and tried to frame men according to the
image of the Evil One will be forgotten
In a sense Mr.. Wilson describes those
who believe that "the voice of the people
is the voice of God" as cropping, stagger
ing, ignorant, little scheming, contempti
BILE creatures and seemingly wishes for
them some horrible fate.
In vain does the union man hope tc
find some little mention of his great
cause in the many reports OF the sayings
of the honorable governor. Seemingly
he is somewhat supernaturally Inclined
and thinks more of mansions in the skies
than Of the little necessities of laborinf
men. Distinctly the governor is a greai
disappointment OF course, he rehashei
a few pfanks purloined from populistit
platforms but in reality he only usei
them as sops for the progressives. JUS
a smooth tongue-wagging tory-whicf
the interests and churches are boosting
to pull the wool over the peoples eyes