The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-02-15

(Savoyard, in Columbia State.)
Whenever or wherever revo-
luton, violent or tranquil, has
a task to do for the common
veal of a people, the man to
work it appears when the hour
comes. Hence Alfred the Great.
William the Silent, Oliver
Cromwell, George Washington,
Napoleon Bonaparte, Abraham
Lincoln, Otto Won Bismarck.
Old things pass away. The
new order prevails. Progress
viii not be denied. Reaction.
however glorious and devoted,
as in the case of the Stuarts
and the Bourbons, goes down in
defeat.
AS legal proposition there
is no sort of doubt that the
British parliament had the right
to tax the 13 American colonies
to pay the cost of the Seven
Years war, that was waged in
our hemisphere in their behalf.
But the proposal was in defiance
of British sntiment--"no tax
alton without representation"
and we had the successful re-
bellion that Washington led.
Again, there is no room to
doubt that American slavery
was as firmly entrenched in the
constitution of the United
States as any of those things
the Hon. Bailey says are there
now, but time came when the
constitution was at war with
the public conscience, and the
constitution had to go when
Abraham Lincoln appeared and
headed the revolution of 1861.
And some of those things the
Hon. Bailey talks about will
have to go-indeed, a few of
them have already gone.
In the February number of
The Worlds Work Woodrow
Wilson has a paper on the new
evangel that explains his posi-
tion precisely. He tells us that
Alexander Hamilton was a very
sat man, and so he was. Set
,rs,H at work with a pen, ink and
pssitr, and as a political contro-
versialist the English-speaking
peoples have not produced his
match. Here is what Wilson
says about him:
"A great man, but, in my
judgment, not a great Ameri-
can. He did not think in terms
of American life. Hamilton be-
lieved that the only people who
could understand government,
and therefore the only people
who were qualified to conduct
it, were the men who had the
biggest financial stake ir the
commercial and industrial! en-
terprises of the country"
We all know that during the
campaign for the Baltimore
nomination a certain newspaper
in New York, chief of the "yal.
lers," stupidity or knavishly, or
rather, stupidity and knavishly
denounced Wilson as a "Hamil.
tonian," because in his writings
he had recognized and ac.
knowledeged the transcendant
capacity of Alexander Hamil
ton, while repudiating all his
doctrines of political philosophy
Mr.. Wilson deplored the fact
that nobody denies, that the
idea of Hamilton has prevailed
in our governmental politics
for many years, and that des
pite the career and the ideas O1
Abraham Lincoln, who was. a!
far removed from the aristocrar
as the east is from the west, OF
Lazarus from Dives. But the
Republican party ceased to be
a Lincolnite long ago and be
came serVilely Hamiltonian
which idea is this: That tn,
masses need the guardianship
of men of affairs And th'
following from Mr.. Wilson chal
lenges the thought and the pa
triotism of every honest man
For, indeed, if you stop t
think about it, nothing could b,
a further departure from origi
nal Americanism, from faith il
the ability of a confident, re
sourceful and independent peo
pie than the discouraging doc
trine that somebody has got t,
provide prosperity for the res
of US. And yet that is exactl,
the doctrine on which the gov
ernment of the United State