The sun., 1916-01-19


principle that States are created with
supreme rights which all individuals
are bound to observe. The one centres
the system Of law and order and JUS
tice upon the inalienable right OF the
Individual. the other centres the sys-
TEN Of law and order and justice upon
the rights Of the state, which subor-
dinates the rights OF the individual,
and that is the fundamental question
which is being fought out upon the
battlefelds of Europe (applausel.
Here in this country we have en-
joyed liberty and order so long that we
have forgotten how they came. our
people assume that they come as the
air comes. to he breathed: they have
assumed that they WILL Of their ma
ture and by their own force. continue
forever. without effort. All. no. Lib.
erty has always been born of struggle.
1t has not come save through sacrifice
and the blood Of martyrs and the de-
votion of mankind. And it is not to he
preserved except by Jealous watchful-
ness and stern determination always
to he free.
That eternal vigilance is the price
Of liberty is such a truism that II has
lost it's meaning. but 1t is an eternal
truth. and the principles of American
liberty to-day stand in need Of a re-
newed devotion on the part Of the
American people. We have forgotten
that In our vast material prosperity.
We have grown 80 rich. We have lived
in ease and comfort and peace SO long,
that We have forgotten to what we
owe those agreeable incidents of life.
We must be prepared to defend our
individual liberty in two ways. We
must lie prepared to do il first by
force Of arms against all external as-
gression tapplausel. God knows I
love peace and | despse all foolish
and wicked wars, but I do not wish
for my country the peace Of slavery
or dishonor or injustice or po;troonery
tgreat applausel. I want to see in
my country the spirit that beat in the
breasts of the men at Concord Bridge,
who were just and God fearing men
but who were ready To- ight for their
liberty \nd II the hundred million
people of America have that spirit and
II is made manifest they won't have
to fight lapplausel
But there IS another way in which
We must ne prepared to defend II, and
this IL necessary to the first: We
must be prepared to defend II within
as against all Indifference and false
doctrine, against all Willingness to
submit Individual Independence To the
control ot practical tyranny. whether
it he Of monarch or majority
tsppLIusel
Now there are certain circumstances
which tend toward weakening the
allegiance OF the American people TO
the funda mental principles upon
which the law Of America Is based.
one of them is that the changes in
conditions have required and are con-
tiuually requiring extensions of gov
ernment, governmental regulation and
control. IN order 10 prevent injustice; {;
and We naturally turn IN the creation
of these new d.d necessary regula-
tious to those governments which
have been most efficient in regulation.
and those are the governments which
sacrifice Individual liberty for the pur-
pose Of regulating the conduct of men;
and 80 the tendency Is away from
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the principles 9i bureaucratic ana
governmental 'ohtTo' over !ndlvidual
ne; dangerous road for free peo-
PIE to travel To attain necessary re-
SUITS ana the danger is mat In at
tanning those results the true pr!nci-
pies or liberty pe lost sight OF lap
plauseI
Another circumstance which we
ought not I" lose s:Eht u Is the fact
that vast number ~ people hav"
come Ia the nited states within very
recent times from those countries OF
Europe wNi'h diiier ;" widely III their
iundaneh'a' conceptions n law ana
personal freedom from ourselves
Ihe M'Iil"ilS o' !n'ih'erahts VINO
nave come from t"e continent or iu-
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