The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-02-15
BASIS OF ALL
GOVERNMENT
And How 1t Applies to the
Individual.
OUR Representative FORM
governmental Review of
Conditions Pertinent to
the Present.
HUMAN VAGARIES OF ALL TIMES


governmental policies.)
"It is easy to hold fast a door
which, once fairly opened. 1t may be
impossible to shut; it is easy to
prevent a movement which, once 1t
gathers way, may prove resistless."
Among the last public utterances
of Patrick Henry, that profound stu
dent of social organization, who,
when fired by the spirit of liberty
shot up from the commonality like
some blazing, dazzling meteor,
whose opinion on public affairs the
world awaited with bated breath,
whose bold and masterful defense of
human rights electrified mankind
and the impress of whose matchless
genius CLOVIS in every line of our
constitutional bulwarks against Fed
eral aggression, was this solemn
warning to his countrymen:
"FOr. If ever you recur to another
change, you may bid adieu forever
to representative government. You
can never exchange IL but for a mon
archy." 1t was Lord Byron who
said: "A thousand years scarce
serve to form a State that an hour
may lay in the dust"
In it's ultimate analysis, the OBJ
ject of all government is the secur-
ity of the private home, and the nat
ural right as well as desire to own
that home is the basis of all its
hopes and possibilities. The right
to own property is the clutch of steel
that binds society together. With
out it society would disintegrate
and whatever vitiates that desire or
abridges that right. can have but
one of two endings-either revolt
or decay.
From the dawn of history, exper-
mental government has drenched
with blood the pathway of human
advancement. The field is well nigh
xhausted-there's nothing new I'M
der the sun-and. in the light this
bloody history sheds upon our times,
it is passing strange to find so many
Adventures, bold and confident, so
ready to drag from limbo a lot of
old heories-tried, repudiated CEN
turtles ago-trot them down to the
foot-lights and with much saving of
arms, grabbing at stars and firing
off old boss pistols, exploit them as
New" God save the mark!
Edmond Burke says: 1.-THE peo-
pie never give up their liberties but
under some delusion."
In this article | trust I shall be-
tray, as I feel, no partisan spirit,
my sole object being an honest APP
peal to the calmer, better judgment
and innate patriotism of the reader.
So many of our good citizens to
the manor born, chafing under well
nigh intolerable conditions, in
search of the cause and it's remedy.
overlooking the important fact that
a large majority of our grievances
may be traced to our own ineXcusa-
BILE neglect of an eXacting public
duty which demands that a share of
our time and talent shall be. devot-
ed TO public affairs, are inclined to
90 off in all sorts of projects and
experiments. History affords so
many sad examples of this same ia
tai error that ii is both painful and
alarming to see good men, whose
loyalty to their country can't be
questioned, mistaking the evils OF
which they complain as due to some
inherent defect of our system and
seeking redress upon the same
treacherous grounds underneath
which volcanoes moulder-'flying
to evils they know not of, rather
than endure those we have" In
veering from the rocks of Scylla
they are being drawn into the whirl-
pool OF Charybides.
For thousands of years the bold
est of our interviewing race have
borne aloft the banner of individual
ism. Its progress as it CROPPED its
way through the benighted ages is
marked by the blood and bones of
countless martyrs, but its advance
has been steady, substantial and
sure. These dauntless, unconquera-
BILE spirits. after gathering from the
ages, profiting by the bad examples
and preserving the good, at last be-
queathed the sublime work of polit-
ical evolution to the patriots of our
times, who, after more than thirty
years of prayerful and arduous la
Dor, devised system of Representa-
tive Democracy; not perfect, to be
sure. since nothing human can be
perfect, but the freest, justest, wis