The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-11

| ends by honorable means. the Nunc
| Dimittis is ever the sweetest canticle
! OF all"
"I.nw."
To merely. attack the course OF ac-
ton pursued BY an Individual. or by
a collection of individuals from tho
basis OF mere difference Of opinion is
practice indulegd in that those who
view such attacks. either as listeners
or readers, pay attention only to the
| position or TO the vehemence of the
"reformer." either in concordance
or discordance with their desires. ac-
cepting or rejecting his conclusions as
own assumptions.
The sole legitimate basis for the at
tack on any position assumed or course
of action followed is the ability to go
beyond perndventure demonstrate that
particular course OF action or position
not merely as in opposition to courses
or action or positions assumed by
others as correct, but ii is necessary
that there shall be shown to exist
| actual Invasion OF right and such UNI
der conditions which make these in
dubitable by their transgression of the
rules formulated by some authority
| from whose precepts there can be no
escape without the commission of an
| obvious defeasance of some automatic
| truth.
Equally. the only legitimate course
| in the determination as to whether
a
! tack liz that of carefully determining
whether there has been definitely
tablished the defeasance of such am
automatic truth.
H. therefore. courses OF action. as
positions assumed are to be attacked,
he who wishes to bring the matter to
| its ultimate conclusion should demon
| strate the impeccable character of his
authority and should then distinctly
exhibit the points at which the courses
OF action or the positions assumed
defease or invaiidets some essential
truth as proclaimed by the unimpeach-
able authority.
This done. no matter how unwelcome
the demonstration. no matter how
strenuously it attacks and thoroughly
demolishes popular conceptions or per
sonal desire OF observers. controversy
| is impossible.
| In examining the position OF the
| Progressive party and its affiliated or
! Plantations. the so-calied Progressive
| Democrats and Progressive Republi
cans is the principal teaching which
| defines that position, RS exhibited both
! by Colonel Roosevelt and President
| Wilson, as we'll as being shown by
the platforms. adopted By their respec-
I tive parties. is that which again for
| mulates the doctrine of THE voice of
the people is the voice of God" and
assumes that the voice Of the ma
] Such Dostulate is extremely attrac-
! tive. in that il distinctly sets for that
! law. and therefore that BY mere enact
ment the majority may sucure what
ever II desires and yet act in a strictly
/ Yet. that there remains in the minds
/ OF some OF the leaders distinct and
/ forcible recognition Of the fallacy OF
! such AN assumption is shown by the
/ fact that public policy" the 'necessi-
ties of the nation" and other such
! pleas for the extenuation of courses of
action resultant upon the position are
constantly made use OF.
Practically the question as TO wheth
! er progressive doctrines are right or
(
I line of what is law" for from end
! TO end. side TO side and bottom 10 top:
the progressive edifiCe is constructed
! OF material which has but one element.
I viz. the assertion that law is the fiat
of the majority and Is therefore right.
Two authorities as To law are
/ recognized: human fiat and the law OF
! God.
4 Human fat in its. application as an
| forms of application from that of the
/ tribal chief TO that OF the autocratic
! teas from that OF the convocation of
/ members of the tribe to that of the
! autocracy. and each OF these Is subject
TO vast variations in limitation and in
extension; but in and under each and
all these forms of law giving there
! have been such infractionS of right that
| there existed portions of the ruled to
whom existence was burdensome.
The confederation of the United
States directly resulted from such 4
condition, and was indeed brought
about for the distinct purpose of es-
! tablishing form OF government I'M
der which law could under no con-
dition become source of suffering to
any individual. human or Incorporated.
Themselves sufferers from forms of
enactment formulated by fiat the fore
fathers of this republic, as the result
of long and mature consideration.
| accepted as the sole and sufficient basis
for all laws that which was regarded
as the bill OF rights and upon which
All future enactments were TO he
found, and with which. in order to be-
come law no enactment could by
one iota disagree
II was predicated by the forefathcrs
that in that the bill of rights set forth
the rights of each individual as against
any and every majority. even that of
all save one individual against that
individual that this article WAS the
legitimate basis upon which n republic
might be builded. and right. under all
conditions. maintained.
Succinctly stated. the bill of rights
is formulated in recognition of the
hand OF Almighty God, the being
thus created receives certain powers
and that The white human being has.
rs the gift Of creative power. sole
right TO the use of that body. it's pow
ers and their Increment. and must he
in each and all Of these protected by
al other human beings. and that the
invasion OF individual. human. inher-
ent. indcfeasible right by one iota con
stitutes the most criminal of all acts
Against this position there gradual
interest national necessity" gov
ernmental control" and are innumer
able multitude of postulates, which.
viewed calmly and logically, exhibit
merely Il substitution of the fiat and
the force OF number against the few
for that former cause of SUFFERING ''tbe
king and his ministers against a por-
ent time the United States have less
claim to be regarded az a repubIic
than has the monarchy of Great