The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-31
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ducing portions of the address de- ing president of the American Bar Association. His remarks were along the lines so often taken by men who are accused of undue ra- diealism. They are not sentiments w.licl: meet the requirements of Fourth of July orations, but they ara remarks founded upon com mon sense investigation of matter of fact. It is one of the eldest say ings that times change and we change with them-and yet mo- thing i5 more evident that this, is not always the case, for nine tenths of the troubles of this world arise from the mis-adjust- ment3 to mans institutions to mans present needs.
 Tbe conservative tendency which is more or less inherent from causes which need not be entered into, but are understandable and very easily ascertained necessarily involves the permanency of insti- tutioEs Llong after they have full filled their usefulness. Accord ingly we thus sec the antagonistic forces arising in Gociety, the one and necessarily the forces that mCkes for progress, the other that which insists upon things remain ing Gs they gre resisting the pro per adjustment of institutions to the needs of the times and the enc mics of progress and the elements of reaction.
 This positive and negative force IS net confined to political institu- tions alone. It is observable in all human creations whether morality, law, government, industrial insti- tutions or religions. The struggle grows the kccneT and fieTcie: as the need for adjustment increases, un- til at last revolution achieves the needed overthrow where adjust ment was denied. In a few words this explains not the reason for, but the process of evolution in so- ciety, and it is more than interesting to observe how clearly present day politics not alone in tho United States but over the en- tire world endorse this plain view.
 Instinctively the need tor great reforms is felt by some whose na-- ture one might be inclined to re- gard as conservative, while on the other hand reforms will never satisfy those who take for their guiding principle the necessity of a complete change.
 The writer yields to no man in his admiration for the splendid heroes of the American revolution, but it is nothing but the drearist tragedy that their real achieve ments are so little understood, and so absurdly explained b. those whose duty it is to teach them. It is a manifest injustice to the young of any country to pepetu- ally din into their ears that the real ends sought for were some imaginary ideas which are incap- able of realization, and that Senti- ment outpourings concerning liber- ht,n, m miod rightly can grasp.
 The heroes of the American re- volution differed in no respect from the Village Hamdens who with t,aun,t t;ss breast the pett:' tyrants ot the fields withstood. in other lands. What they sough: was selves, and their greatness consists in he fact tha: they partook in the ceremonioua birth of new na- lion, new country, new contin ent, new worll They fought to adj igt their institutions to the cry ill., needs of the coloniGts. and in Goag so they foundef the Amer jean nation. They werz revolution ists. but the best. the sravest and 1he SiSest foresaw clearly that the institutions which they then estab- lished would become sooner or later out of tune with the leeds of the country as it progressed That fact is not taught in the schools. It is kept back and is to