The Greeley tribune., 1912-02-29

tie mission in a poor part OF the
city, and what do you suppose that
man was telling those poor peOpIe3
1t must have sounded like heres9
down there in New FORK when he
was telling those poor people that
the rich and the poor are children
of the same God and that they
must stand together and fight for
better things. When | read that
speech l knew what was the mat
ter with Frederick Townsend Mart
in. | ! new he had taken hold OF
this doc trine of brotherhood and
that it made new man out OF
him. and you know that there is
a gro wing group in this country,
you 2Sill find members OF 1t every
where. They are not confined 10
any locality, neither latitude or
longitude defines their place of resi-
dence, they are members of parties
that have found that the highest
satisfaction is not to be gathered
from the counting of money or the
estimation of wealth or in society;
they have found that there is a
higher satisfaction that is only to
be secured by the consciousness of
unselfsh service rendered to their
fellow men. and they yearn for
these higher influences. And to TINS
group | look for large service in the
work that lies before us. 1t is an =
important fact in the dethroning OF
Mammon and the enthroning of
man. In fact, | believe that the
greatest single factor in the world
wide revolution that is now sweep
ing around the globe, the largest
single factor is this moral awaken
| ing.
| am now prepared to present the
| third proposition. | have told you
| that the world was growing in in
| telligence and that as man becomes
more and more intelligent he more
and more insists upon his right to
| supremacy over matter l have
| told you that the world is making
progress morally and that as man
grows i'll morals he hates plutocracy
with deadlier hatred. Now let me
tell you what you might suspect by
this time, namely, that with this
larger Intelligence there is better
understanding of the science of
government; there was a larger
aith in the principles of popular
government and not strange too il
with a growing understanding OF
| their difference there was not a
clearer recognition OF the rights of
man.
| am now prepared to say that
the worlds growth in the applica-
ton of the principles of popular
government is as marked as the
worlds growth in intelligence and
in morals, and the more nearly the
government becomes Il peoples gov
ernment the more surely does man
insist upon putting human rights
above what are called political
rights.
; a century ago Thomas Jefferson
said there were naturally two par
S ties in every country and he said
4 that wherever speech was free
= these two parties would manifest
| them selves, and these two natural
| parties to be found in every country
/ he described as the aristoaratic
: party and would draw to themselves
| those who did not believe in the
people, and who did not trust them.
and a democratic party that would
as naturally draw to themselves
those who did believe in the people
and would trust them. But do not
be frightened for the use of the
, word democratic when Thomas JEFF
, ierson used ii had no reference to
I our democratic party. When he
, used this word the party that is
new called democratic was called
the republican party. You may be
surprised to know that we we're
thus handicapped in name. Gap
plause.) AT that time l do not
know that there was democratic
party anywhere in the world, and l
am sure that there was no party
whose followers called it an aristo-
cratic party. Jefferson used these
terms to describe the spirit that
animates the party. What Jefferson.
said was true, there was then and
is now in every country party that
is in spirit democratic and how can
you tell it? Because everywhere it
is trying to get the government
nearer to the people and every
where there is party aristOcratic
that is trying to obstruct every
step toward popular government.
Now this is the condition as Jeffer-
son saw it and it is the condition as
it exists today. Jefferson with the
wisdom that put him in class by
himself as statesman drew the
only line that can be drawn every
where and always through society.
Their is just one prominent line
that is visible everywhere and
that is the line that separates the
man who is at heart democrat
| - olIi titc man WIo 10 az Hetll ali
aristocrat. You will never understand
government, aye you could hardly
understand anything else till you
understand this fundamental divis-
ion among men.
If ] want to find out whether
man is an aristocrat or not | do not
ask him, for he would not admit it
If he was. / have to find out in
some other way and | have way.
am going TO tell you how. | have
tried this plan SO often that l will
guarantee that you won't make any
mistake with it. If | want to find
out if a man is an aristocrat l take
him off to one side by himself, tell
him, the story of and Dives