The Penn's Grove record., 1913-02-28
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In rex,co And The United States

1ll0 r0VOiuClOn Ill MeAicO hdo "ouo
the Balkan war news less prominent.
Why does an armed instruction and
the murder of Francesca Madero, who
was elected president less than two
years ago, happen IN a country where
civilization is presumed to have existed
previous to that in the United States!
1t is because Mexicans ale Ignorant,
Three.fourths of them can neither read
nor write. 1t is because they have not
had their impetuous natures tempered
with the spirit of evangelical religion.
Historians declare that it WAS the
the preaching of John Wesley and
George Whitfield in England, that
prevented a bloody revolution i'll Great
Britain like happened in France one
hundred and twenty years ago. The
piety inculcated and the self-denying
practices taught by Wesley and Whit
field removed the envy from the poorer
classes for the luxIries and positions
enjoyed by the wealthy and more learn
ed classes.
Mexico needs more public schools
and more missionaries who will teach
the common people that they must be
governed by reason. 1t is difficult 10
reason with ignorant passion,
The United States is about to enter
upon a revolution, II Of the greatest
in its history, 10y a change i'll admins
tration. 1t is being done with less
prejudice and passion than it has been
for d hundred years. The victorious
| Democrats are less eXultant III the
triumph of victory and the defeated
Republicans are less Respondent than
ever in tbs history of a living citizen.
In view of the revolution in Mexico
and that in the United States no more
appropriate political classic is worth
recalling than that given March 4, 1901
in
JEFFERSON'S INAUGRAL ADDRESS
o"During the contest 0f opinion thru
which we have passed, the animation of
discussion and eXertiOnS has sometimes
worn an aspect which might impose on
strangers unused to think freely and to
write what they think; but this bring
now decided 10y the voice of the nation,
announced according to the rules OF The
contitulion, all will, of course, arrange
themselves under the will of the law,
and unite in common efforts for the
common good. All, too, will bear in
mind this sacred principle, that though
the will of HE majority is in all Cases TO
prevail, that will, to lie rigItful, must
be reasonable; that the minority pos
sess their equal rights, which equal laws
must protect, and 10 Violate which
would be oppression. Let us, then, fell
low citizens, unite with II heart and
mind. Let us restore to social inter
cou; Sc that harmony and affection with,
out which liberty and even life itself
ale but dreary things. Aud let us re-
fleet that having banished from Oul
land that religious intolerance under
which mankind so long Dled and suffer-
ed, we have yet gained little ii we
countenance a political intolerance as
despotie, as wicked, and capable of as
bitter and bloody prosecutions.
"During the throes and commissions
of the ancient world, during the ago.
niZing spasms OF infuriated men, seek
ing thru blood and slaughter his long.
lost liberty, it was not wonderful that
the agitation of the pillows should leach
even this distant and peaceful shore:
that this should be more felt and feared
by some and less 10y others; that this
should divide opinions as to measure;
of safety. But every difference of opin.
ion is not a difference OF principle. We
have called 10y different names brethren
of the same principle. We are all re-
publicans-We are tederailSts.
"If there he any among us who
would wish to dissolve this Union OF tC
change its republican form, let them
stand undlsturbed as monuments of the
safety with which error of opinion may
be tolerated where reason is left free tt
combat it. know, indeed, that some
honest men fear that a republican gov
eminent cannot he strong; that tins
govern nent is not strong enough. But
would the honest patriot, i'll the flu!
Tide OF successful experiment, abandon
a government which has SO al kept US
free and finn, OH The lheOretlc and vi
sionary fear that this government, the
worlds Oest hope, may 10y possibility
want energy 10 preserve itself? l trust
not. l believe it is the only ore where
every man, at the Call of the laws.
would fly to the standard of the law
and would meet invasioKs of the pub
nc order as his W personal concern.
Sometimes it is said that man cannot
be trusted with tie government of him.
self. Can he, then, be trusted with the
government of others. Or have we
found angels i'll the forms of kings tC
govern him? Let his DRY answer this
question:"