The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-02-22

eIS anu SIdhhs, llhe OthcilO ., WOuit
be forever gone.
But so long. as we follow theil
lead. letting them do our thinking
and voting, they will prey upon the
misfortunes of the people and fee
ter our neglected institutions.
Webster declared; knowledge
is the only fountain of both the love
and principles of human liberty
Barnave says: Republics have but
one evil to dread-that of corrup'
ton" Edmund Burke once said
when bad men combine, good mer
must associate, else they will fall
one by one, an unpitied sacrifice In
contemplate struggle" 1t was
Andrew Jackson who said: 81 never
allow myself to forget that when an
individual enters society, some share
of liberty must be given up to pre-
serve the rest" The stream can't
be pure IL the fountain be corrupt.
An ideal government solely depends
upon an ideal citizenship. 1t can't be
better; it will never be worse.
The most a government can. do is
to protect our lives, liberties, pur-
suits and property, while we, indie
pendently, self-reliantly, work out
our own individual destiny. We
must support it. 1t can't support
us; this is not its function. Indeed,
it would be a degradation, and the
manly thing would be to scorn its
charity II it could. When Webster
was asked what was the paramount
issue of human life. he replied: "In-
dividual responsibility" What vol
How it glows with vital force! Full
ly comprehended and carried out, 1t
would solve all our intricate social
problems. 1t would demonstrate the
economic truth that there is no real
conflict between Capital and Labor;
that being mutually dependent, they
are naturally the best of friends;
that II is remorseless human greed,
not capital or labor, that breeds the
antagonism. 1t would
warn human greed that the sacred
rights of labor are infinitely above
constitutional or statutory law, be-
cause they are inherent and univer-
sal.
1t would show the moneyed inter-
ests that there can be no real pros
perity without the prosperity of la
Dor. Boom labor and you boom the
earth, and he who would starve the
goose that lays the golden egg is
just a plain, common, everyday
fool. 1t would teach us what the
Greeks knew:-that the welfare of
every child in the commonwealth,
however poor or degraded, is a mat
ted Of great moment to every citi-
zen; because an injury to one is a
ike injury to all, and conversely,
the good of one is the good of all.
1t would impress upon labor that the
rights of prosperity, honorably ac-
quired, are inviolable and must be
Lincoln said: Labor
should be united, but not to war up
on property or it's owner. Let not
him who is houseless pull down the
house of another, but let him work
and build one of his own.
No grievance justifies mob law and |
they who take such appeals for re-
dress are sure to pay the cost"
Criminal neglect of public duty, |
with the weight of sover-
eighty, a personal neglect for which
We cannot hold our system of gov
in any way responsible, is
he source of all our political troub-
es. Blind partisan politics, condi-
ion of mind at once unworthy of
md dangerous to a republic. be-
LIQUIDS our sense of duty, and upon
which the demagogue plays as If
lpon a harp, will defeat all efforts at
eforms. Victims of the designing
Who feed and fatten upon our weak
lesses, aping our virtues and pan
lering to our vices, what little
trength left us 'S shrewdly divided
~ appeals to I,r preiudices and
PASSIONS. Thus defeated, the prin-
iples OF representative government
mperiled If not destroyed, the dis
outraged voter resumes his heavN
ask of paving the taxes and self
Import, while the victorious CRATER
Ioneycombs every public depart
nent, and steals billions Of our hard
of which is to rhe last
Iegree penny wise and pound fool
sh. Shall we pull ourselves tOgetl,-
r and do our public duty, proving
ourselves worthy of a system of self
government, or shall we abb ectly lie
own upon our lob?
What a humiiating comment MP
n our standard of citizenship tliose