The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-09
Experience Teaches That Democracy
 Is Best For Everybody And That
 Privilege Is Bad For The People

Emery and Daniel Davenport who represent the National Association of Manufacturers Washington Both of these men are intellectually gifted They have excep endowment but their correspondence shows them all but blind to the significance of certain phenomena which wildly appear in the world of industry politics
 As to what has happened, they are keen enough. As to the MEANING of what has happened they have no vision.
 Davenport discusses certain bills, pending when the letter written before the Connecticut Legislature He thinks these backed tby the fears and iey for among the members of the Legislature He discusses the law, and believes evidently, that the world will to very bad end if strikes not permitted to be stopped by injunctions
 Mr. Emery perceives that there is demand for the recall of judges He doesn't at all understand the onale of the demand. He does see that labor erest stronger in Congress than it has been but he regards this passing circumstance
 Both gentlemen view the world with the blissfu hu- of the comfortable and the well fed. They as of the meaning of the world grasshoppers are of the ebular hypothesis, and they repeat the fact of the past meaning of the events that transpire about them.
 That the society they know is tottering to it's fall dust and the constituent assembly had repealed every privilege in France before the nobesse realized that the
 These are tedere days For this we are indebted to the revolutions of yesterday. The world changes the many privileges to be swept to the ash heap.
 Messrs Emery and Davenport learned in the law. they not learned enough know that all original law comes God, the people They understand the judge made privilege made and conventionazed law well
 
 me the people of nation may and do wipe out in day whole codes of such law.
 want? On the scrap heap It is part of yesterday Its place is to be taken by image of maimed la borer. pleading court for help. 1t will be exhibit with the other instruments of torture vict ship like the Success.
 Workrnen compensation peoples statute draft ed by the foknot often times through the agency of very reluctant legislators fearing, Mr. Davenport has suggested, for 'sther votes"
 What is the yoteg It is the command of the collec tvity What is the celectivity9 It is the people And what are the peoples They are the sovereign
 What do legislators do then, when they act in fear o1 the votesq They the will of the sovereign. THEY MIND THE BOSS. This is precisely what MT. Emery and MT Davenport do They serve their employers well they that their bread and butter may moi
 Very many strange things will happen while Messrs Davenport and Emery live, if they reap expectancy of life.
 But never will it happen that democracy shall thrive and the world be worse for it.
 From the dawn of time have fought against tyranny. Tn blood and sweat has every great populal
 There were always Davenports and Ernerys and they always feared that the world would all to pieces time the people gained right. But just denoc racy has thrived has the world better in morals and in material we'll being.
 There is freedom in thought, in religion and il business than there used to be- There is more to eat drink and than there used to be. Democracy il f se @ pays viii me ne more tnef
 How do we know it9 Because it has always been so The meanest conditions in the world under DESPOT 1SMS The freest conditions in the world are unde DEMOCRACY. The more democracy, the more freedom
 The law of the world came from Rome. The letter and philosophy of the world from Athens Athen the most splendid democracy of it's time Rome wa the most magnificent democracy of It's age.
 sBut Rome the ancient, ded and the glories of Ath more says Emery and says Davenport.
 But Babylon is gone, and Nineveh is gone, the rean left nothing behind them but the pyramids and ores- But not from them legacies such Athen and Rome bequeathed.
 rick Henry. :. It is the lamp of experience
 Age old experience proves that democracy is best