The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-21
NOT As MTTLE RLT SO MUCH

NOT AS LITTLE, BUT so MUCH
 The demand of thc time is to give. It is a high demand. and the duty it creates rests on every .one. Give money, give service, give tmo, give energy, give thought-giyc anything we have Co help win the war;
 For most of us the pancipa. busi- ness in life is to receive not Co give, to reap where those preceding us have sown the seed. We live iu freedom under the government others have created. We acquire knowledge in the schools they established We worship the Almighty God according to the dictates of conscience in the churches they built. In the phiIoso- phics they founded our minds are ou- lichcd. In the Gtcratures they have given we take delight. Their art and their music is our intellectual and emotional joy and inspiration. The comforts We have, the opportunities that offer for intimate intercourse and association in which distance is anuihHatcd and time is not. u2 .hc products of thought and labor which before our time have achieved the conquest Of nature. We are residuary Iegatccs of all high purpose, noble thought. genius. se.f-sacr.dce, outhu- siasm. hcro-loviug and progressive world tor that have gone before.
 The fruit Of all this past endca.or is che realization of am existence with am infinitely expanding horizon; and the motif of that existence is human freedom. The fundamental eNprcs- sion of human freedom is in govern ment. In che original and primal ex- ample of governmcnt-thc family there were two predominant purposes, guidance and protection. These could not be served without authority and obedience to authority. Through a.l the developed complexities of ccu,u- rics. government serves the same fun damental purposes today that ], did when the race was in its swadj.iug clothes.
 Government is useta. Co w.r.tnr as it protects the weak from oapr.-- sion by the strong and as t afo"ds guidance of superior wisdom for the development of individual life and the enhancement. collectively. of human welfare and human happiness. Gov ornmeut based upon Che collective conscience. upon the collective in.eIi- gcuce. upon che collective coucep, of usticc-govcnmeu, that rests upon the consent of the goycncd-has proved in the experience ot mn that ;, performs these functions infinitely better than any other That form O.. government responds Co the primal instinct of men to be- free The roots of it are deep down in che hear. of an humanity The highest attainment of modern civilization The ambition to establish it. to maintain it, Go live by f,. to prosper by it, and SO far as may be Co bring through its bencGccucc peace and justice to all mankind is universal That government is de- mocracy. and democracy is the hearts desire of the modern world.
 On this continent, fortune, finding expression in the spirit, the deter imitation and the wisdom of free men. has advanced the ideals of democratic government Co realization Of of the dreams of prophets and tho hope of altruits who, in past centuries, have stood upon the heights and over and beyond the murk of tyranny, of sIav- cry and unrestricted greed and ambi- tion have glimpscd the promised land.