The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-07-06

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IlEI present a real DEMOCRACY.
IT, is true that ours is re-
publican form Of government, vet
the term republican signifies every
component part Of a genuine DEM
ocratjc Government.
AS resistance to the tyranny Of
the mother country the early set
tiers emigrated here in a new land
where they hoped to breath life in
free republic. In order for them to
establish such &, government, the OPP
pressive yoke OF British aristocracy
had to be thrown Off.
Some people Of our country never
take time to realize what it cost to
gain such victory, throw off such a
yoke of cruel oppression, establish
such a land where liberty of con-
science was acknowledged, where the
freedom of speech, freedom of press,
privilege of ballot, voice in the re-
public were recognized; relief from
unjust taxation, opportunities to
claim what was yours and allow yollr
felloW-man the same unhindered
and sovereign right. Yet all these
sacred principles of good government
cost the blood and lives of brave men.
That a democracy might adorn civili-
Z2tion that g representative govern
ment might open the way for others
in which the people would be rulers
and not red handed tyrants, were
the ideals sought
If we consider the hardships the
founders endured, without murnur,
in order to establish this governm ent
and the principles and ideals they
had in mind, and then glance over the
present conditions you will be mar
Yelling past all power of human i'm
agination to see how far backward
the people have allowed their coun-
try to degenerate.
Democracy intended that the peo-
pie should rule; that all public SER
wants were only representatives Of
the wishes Of the people; that laws
be passed for their protection and ben
eft; that all classes of citizenship
should receive the same treatment;
that no special favors should be
granted to q few that no laws should
be forced upon them unless they had
uniform operation; that Federal
Courts should not usurp the state
rights; that no set Of men should
frame laws behind closed doors; that
no Chief Executive should allow cap
italists to force the issuance Of bonds
and sell to Wall Street cheaper than
the bonds of negro republics were be-
ing sold; that enterprise should not
combine into trusts to fight small COM
petitors in order to Cypress the peO-
pie with high priced neceSs2ries; that
tariff wall should not be thrown
round this country especially pro
tecting the American manufacture
ers and thereby forcing the people to
pay til prices of the trusts; that the
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives should not be a Gar; a Frank
ing privilege should not carry auto
mobiles and type writer's for officials
free OF charge; that a tariff being for
the purpose of raising revenue should
not be SO framed as TO Cypress the
millions of consumers with out
ragoOus taxation, which resulted
in favoritism to a group of trust mag
mates; that the government should
not charter National Banks, giving
them the peoples money without
interest and then allow the National
Bankers to charge the people the
same rate Of interest that other.
banks do; that no law should be
passed favoring the National Banks;
that laws should be passed that. rob-