The Greeley tribune., 1912-02-29

make q mistake. l learned II oy
talking to aristocrats and hndihg
out their point of view. and because
Of this difference they look upon SO
ciety from opposite standpoints.
the democrat believes society Is
built from the bottom. What ID
the aristocrat's idea! That society
is suspended from the top. tLausn-
ter.) The democrat says: legisiate
Tor all the people and their pros
perity will find it's way up through
oll the success that comes upon
the masses.
What does the aristocrat say?
He says legislate for the well-to-do
and then be patient and wait while
their prosperity looks through on
the poor people. haughter.) That
is the distinction that is to be found
in every country in the world.
Now | will go step farther and
say what Jefferson could not say ex-
cept on faith. He would have sald
it on faith for his faith was sublime
and we have had a century OF MS
tory since and l can now say from
experience of hundred years what
he never said except on falth, ana
that is this: That we not only nave
these two parties in every country
a democratic party trying 10 prihs
the government nearer to the peo-
pie and an aristocratic party trying
TO obstruct every effort toward
popular government but in every
country of the world without ex-
ception the democratic party. that
is, the party that is democratic in
spirit, trying to bring the govern
ment nearer the people, and the
aristocratic party that is drawing
the government away from the peo-
ple all the world over l am not
an emotional man. l used to be. ]
am conservative man in state
ment, so conservative that when |
want to make any statement on any
question | am careful to leave
margin so that If anybody disputes
what | say l can prove more than
have said, and l have made a very |
conservative statement on the sub
ject of the explanation of democ-
racy If time permitted l could |
bring an Illustration from every ma
ton on earth and show that with
out exception those nations had
been witnessing democratic tri-
umphs, but l am going to take only
five illustrations and am going to
take them from the past six years.
l am not going to go beyond your
memories. l want you to be able
to confirm what | say with your
recollection.
Five illustrations. The first Rus
sia. After infinite suffering and
sacrifice Russia secured a Douma
not what she deserved or desired
but it was the beginning. The car
found the Douma was too radical
SO he dissolved it and dissolved 1t
again. disfranchised more than nine
million voters, yet when the third
DOuma met the first thing it did
was to refuse to write the word
autocrat after the name of the car.
and the first important act of legis-
lation provided there should be
schools enough in Russia for all the
children of Rusiia. And this Douma
sounded the death knell OF despot-
ism when it provided for compul-
sory education of every child In
Russia. That is what Russia has
done within six years.
Then within six years Persia has
secured a constitution.
Within six years Turkey has Sc
cured constitution and a repre-
sentative body ard rha. hcs been
going on in China? Within six
,years-it is only six years ago last
fall when the dowager empress of
emma called her wise men about
her and asked them how long 1t
would take to establish constitu-
tional government. And they told
he'd it would take ten or fifteen
years. She replied, it must be done
in aess than that, she would not live
that long, and she sent representa-
tives throughout the world to
gather information, and when they
returned a constitution was prepar-
ed and promulgated and senate
established and government prom
Used that in 1915 should work and !
establish constitution and that F!
would be completed by the creation
of a representative body, and when
the senate met a few months ago
the first thing 1t did was to tell the
government the people would not
wait until the year 1915, that the
representative body had to be Great
ed Immediately. and the govern
ment to prevent an uprising agreed
to cut the time in two and create
the representative body in 1913.
But the government did not go fast
enough. for the people. 80 few
months ago We began to hear that
lnere was DANGER OF an uprising
In China. II there is any place on
the earth where we did not expect
an uprising 1t was in China. Yet a
little later We find that the rebel
lion or revolution had actually
commenced and then day after day
We read of thousands of Orientals
who we're fleeing for their lives. and
then came the dispatch that four
teen states out of eighteen had
created governments on the plan ol
a republic. and then we heard thai
they had called q constitutions
convention to frame a constitution
for a republic, and then we foun<
that that convention had elected I
president, and then we read thu
correspondence that the presiden
of the republic demanded that tn
Manchus who had been in authorit,