Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1917-12-29
THE GLORY OF THE AMERICAN RE-
PUBLIC
The Science of Government
The Hope and Dependence of the Human
Race
Copyright 1917
By ORLANDO BELKNAP POND
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CHAPTER VI.
The Tribal Form of Government

and which IN a measure Supplanted the
family form and which was for long time
sustained, was, most likely, what we now
call the tribal 1t, in fact, was develop
ment of higher and stronger form than
that of the simple family government. 1t
did not eliminate the family, but consisted
of union Of families The family remained
the same and exercised it's own individual
rights That is, such rights that it did not
necessarily transfer to, and that were not
taken. by, the tribal head for the greater
and better protection Of the united families.
It held the family in tact, but created
stronger body and higher position in the
world, and larger sphere of governmental
application The most powerful and infu-
entail family head would without doubt
take this newly created position.
Families. also, grew in the course of time
by natural increase into tribes. This OF
course occurred in the event that the fam
lily remained during long period free from
incursions either for hostile intentions, or
for peaceable settlements, in the undis
turbed occupancy of their own possessions.
There were certainly two points of adj
vantage gained in the progress Of man by
the development Of the family form into
that of the tribal government, vet without
destroying the family mode of life.
The distinction, perhaps more than any
other that marked the difference between
the family and the tribal form OF govern
ment was first, that while the family right
extended only to. and over the possessions
actually occupied, the tribal rights en-
braced the possessions of all the families
within certain territorial limits which it
established And second, that it concen-
trated certain indispensable powers hereto
fore possessed and exercised by the family
o1oo 4ho
much better situation for the defense of it's
possessions and the chastisement Of it's enc
mics For the family possessions were now
the tribal possessions, and the enemy Of the
family wa now the enemy of the tribe. The
tribe however formed became in the pro-
gress of time, through marriage and inter-
MARRIAGE one blood and one people; and
were one in language one in thought, and
one in it's determined purpose, and in it's
undertakings.
It may be interesting to know that, more
especially during the period of tribal
premacy. there developed and was estab
lished the pagan priesthood which after
wards and in course Of time became an i'm
portant class in all the ancient pagan ma
TONS This priesthood was largely respon-
sible for the introduction of many forms of
practice that overwhelmed the world in
system of worship that has required many
centuries Of the active efforts Of more
civilized people to check, but which has
not yet been entirely eradicated from the
human mind. and still eXerts a great and
profound influence upon the affairs Of man.
kind
But to return to the subject matter:
There was developed FROM and out of, the
right of possession by occupancy, the right
of the ownership Of all lands held by the
tribe within the limits of it's territorial do
main. Hence the theory of paramount own
ership in the government, which is still adj
hered to by mankind
The tribes as natural consequence in
creased in size and in numbers and eventu-
ally grew into larger and more compact
bodies which constituted the most ancient
cities and were the petty nations and king
doms of the period. The marauding expe-
ditions already noticed did not cease, but,