Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1913-10-10
The Danger That Threatens The
Democratic Party And The
Country.
From the Frederick Citizen,

that it is the price that we must pay tC
preserve our constitutional representative
form of government.
Our forefathers said and intended the
government of this nation to be govern
ment of law and not of men.
They had suffered so much in the mother
country, and too much from government
of men. They were under king and his
favorites so largely that they suffered from
the caprice of men, from the selfish ambi-
ton. and from the greed and corruption
incident to a government by men. From
all this our forefathers intended this ma
ton to be free. To this end they estab-
lished Constitution with limitations at
every point to guard and protect the peo-
pie from the oppression of men in power.
They established system of govern
mental institutions. that their forefathers
in England had worked out in an expert
ence of thousand years, all of which had
been well tried and had proved themselves
to be good in the preservation of the liberty
and the rights of the people.
Under this system this nation has estab-
lished and developed for over one hundred
years. and has exhibited growth and a
history that lis the wonder and the admit
ration of all of the civilized world" and it
is not probable that its like will ever again
be witnessed.
There is, however, a possibility that this
nation and the people can and will be a
greater nation and people in the future
than it has been in the past if it is wise
and law-abiding. Will it be wise and
law-abiding as it has been in the pastH
1t all depends upon the answer that the
people of this country shall make in their
faith and works to this momentous ques-
ton.
The bane of all nations, and especially
the three great republics, has been the
spirit of innovation that, like fever, has
seized upon the people of those republics.
The Romans. the Greeks, and the Jews,
were all destroyed by the spirit of inno-
walton. The Jews were blessed with
great and an honest republic. but the de-
sire for a change grew upon them, and
they insisted upon a king, and, as they
were fOretOld. they got king, and they
got kings, and then what they got from
the kings was an oppression that the world
has rarely seen until they were finally de-
strOyed as a nation.
The Greeks departed from the laws of
Scion. under which they had lived for years,
because Scion left his country after the
people had promised him that they would
not change the laws until he returned, and
he never returned, because he knew the
dangers of innovation.
While they were true to the laws of So
Ion they were prosperous and free. but
after years the desire for innovation seized
them. and they changed the laws, and
liberty took her flight from Greece, and
never lighted on those sunny shores since
that evil day. How wise and patriotic
Scion was, and he will live forever in the
memory of the human race.
The Romans were not happy until they
had changed all their institutions and it
was followed by an Imperialism, and that
great nation il0undered on in the slavery
Of its people in an unequaled corruption
and an oppression of the people, and there
only remains of il the scattered wrecks of
its domain.
Shall we profit by these examples of great t
peoples and nations of the past, or shall
we like them be captivated by the desire
for change, and thus drive the proud bird
of liberty from these shores never to return
again.
| There is abroad in our country to-day
the wild desire for change. A change from
what we have tried and proved to some
thing that we have not tried and proved.
Suppose there is tendency to change
The public tendency to change may be
all right and il may be all wrong. So let
us be sure that the public tendency to
change is all right before we venture on
change. Let us hold on to a government
which is upheld by well-tried government
tai Institutions and not rush on to gov
eminent by the ballot bOx-a government
by votes and one that can be changed
when and as often as popular clamOr may
demand Let us try government officials
by law, and not by clamor and public
vote.
The only way that any nation or people
can be governed is by law. People cannot
never will govern themselves except by
law.
That is why the Constitution of the
United States. which was adopted by our
forefathers, has so many limitations as to
what the people could do and what they
must do, and how they were to do all
that they had to do. 1t was a government
of law and not government Of men.
The great danger that now threatens
this nation is in the adoption of the initia-
tive and referendum and recall
The Democratic party Of this State stands
out clearly against it. and the Republican
party and the Roosevelt party stand for it,
If this country is saved from this change.
it will he due to the Democratic party.
which has always stood for law and order
Two Sisters Die within A Week.
Mrs. Mary Candy Berry died at her home
| in Prince GeOrpe's countv Md Sentember
IS, 1913, aged ~ years. and was buried
at Addisons Chapel, in that county, Sep
tember 2S. Surviving her are one son,
LOwndes Berry, and two daughters, Eliza
beth and May Berry.
Mrs. Eliza Candy Jackson died at her
home, 1926 Massachusetts Avenue. north
west, Washington. D. C., October 2, 1918.
in her 18th year. and was buried at Rock
Creek cemetery October A. Surviving her
are two sons. VIM. Baden and B. LOwndes