The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-13
DEMOCRACY AND PROGRESS.
BY d. NJ. HALL.

BY d. NJ. HALL.
All the political parties are claiming to
De progressive, or at least their sponsors.
he professional statesmen are. In this
country we KAYE ninety two millions in
nabitans, each of which, without any
other qualification than his American
is equally entitled, according
to the Declaration of Independence. to
life, liberty and the unvexed right to be
happy. Consequently in no need OF the
Of political quackS -
THE TRANQUILITY OF HOMES.
Without government, a country is sure
to fall into a state of barbasism A coun-
try is itself however, but an aggregation
of homes, and government has no func-
ton it can righttuly exercise except that
which is necessary to the security and
o! these homes, and to give
equality and general couven-
fence to their inmates. ANYTHING in the
nature of business privilege should no
more have the consideration of govern
ment than healthy human organism
should be iuoCulated with death-dealing
germs.
WHY IS The DEMOCRATIC PARTY
DOUBTED
The chief reason, perhaps, is found in
the fact that too many of its leaders have
been men who stood for nothing that
could by any possibility mean democ-
racy. One OF these leaders in a recent
address before an audience Of college
IN New York, with gleeful iudit-
ference, SAID 1t is hard in these times
to tell from a man 5 speeches whether he
is a Democrat or Republican.
What a graccess, dreary, almost viii
famous confession Think OF all the ruin
of all the itightful increase of poverty,
vice and crime; all the preventable sick
ness, wretchednesS and untimely deaths
that have occurred under and directly
uaCeabe to Republican policies, and yet
We are LEFT to conclude that this pro
grcssve" leader knows no democracy
but that which is SO shabby it cannot be
distinguished from Repubcanism
But lose faith in democracy and what
Is left foi the masses but the Contempla-
ton of ruined lives and the great waste
of human endeayor, turned TO wealth and
piled mountain high for the privileged
few, and what, but to 60 out into the
,r.,t son,lass dasart If ,Eli.i.d l,nnrt,,.
mites and be swallowed up in siCkenins
despair
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In the beginning of our government,
Wi'Cn went mo efeCi M 1893, the ADMIN
IS,r1uoh was III inc 'ld''uS OF me FedefdI
parry WG'ch IePreS"lt'd me drlStocfacy
mat had Deeh T@hNp'H'ed 10 inns coun-
r}' ana "hlGn .td Cphuo'iea the con
NeaIion ana ao'n.'t'ed tnG Iofmduon OF
4 constitution Whlch Si'eclal privilege. was
ihiehcnGu almost beyond me possibly
y %'lei'u ~
NA'u'"'N'' SuNu ul"''I advantage Oh
government loN'e!ed ana GGVeIoped tne
iu"H' Pio'iou,iItu' "IH-WoIIu dtiStoCrauc
tendencies ms party pursued a p0Iicy
so extravaganza so corrupt and so undem'
oct3uc 'hd' III 1900 a',e[ being III power
Twelve years; inc people rose IN Their
iiilSiI' ana e'eCted llohla' JEFFERSON 10
me IeS,aehCY' ana lIie 9iscfeuiteu RED
eral party as me KePuOIlcan historian,
cooper, says, 'FdSSed out OF power IN
Cioul OF intrigue ana Ill vain grasp at
Inc leSh-poS.
THE COMING OF JGFFERsoNGAN
DEMnCHACY.
With the advent Of Jefferson came the
pronunciation of democracy the ultimate
DnrDOSf. of which was "Foual riohts to
all: special privileges to none" and for
which he and his followers contended
until tariff spoation was SO restricted
that IN 1916 an epoch Of so-called Free
Trade, was ushered in and its benignant
sway continued until the simeon of mad
reform swept everything into chaos in
1861.
The story Of the triumph of democracy
is told in the administration of Jefferson
who inauguraed a system of economy,
fairness and equality that prevailed for
sixty years. These sixty years in spite of
constitutional priv eye and misrepresen-
tatian, grew at length, under a low tariff
policy, made possible by the wisdom and
teachings of Jefferson, into an era of such
freedom. advancement, glory and happy
as has been known to no 9th
err nation in modern times.
during the fiflies the long battle of
Hamitonianism seemed to be vitality
won Free Trade proClivities were ev.
erywhere welcomed and seemed to por.
tend not merely a still lower tariff. but
the abrogatiOn OF every vestige of priv
llege IN the shape OF infamous tariff exac.
tons.
THE GOLDEN AGE.