The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-03
NEW DEMOCRACY
 AT THE SEMINARY

Hartford Mar 3-s"The New De- mocracy'' was the subject treated by Principal F. GrITeth-Jones in the fifth of the series of Carew lectures delivered at Hartford Theological seminary "Wednesday afternoon at i o'clock. He dealt first with the gen erai term Democracy. and then very clearly showed Englaud's posi- ton as a present day democracy.
 As to democracy in general he said that it is 9 government, a social order, that is being taken for granted as good, that it will be maintained by common consent, that it is op- posed to Iawlessness and is a foe to anarchy. He enlarged upon Lin coins definition, saying. first, it is formed by the people as q whole, making common laws which al. obey. Second, it is by the people. All are citizens. It was in 1892 that England first started franchise, then in Cnly a limited way, but from then on she has been increasing the rights of Suffrage.
 MT. Grifeth- Jones pc.~1ed out that the government is for the people. To this there are two sides. One is the conception that the government exists for a, collection of individuals, givine personal rights and liberty to the in- dividuaIs. This was the ideal of the Victorian era. The other conception is that the government exists for so- ciety, for the general good of the people, but the rights of the individ- uals are restricted
 Which is the Setter of the two is still a question. In the Victorian era it was a free man in a free state, freedom and equality, but at. present the trend is toward the other em- phasis, that of society.
 The modern assumption is that de- mocracy is the ideal form of govern ment. Have we a right to assume that? And if so, why? At first sight when it is considered that the ave rage citizen knows nothing about lawmaking, and that public opinion is often a collection blind to the truth it looks unsound. In an aristocracy. those rule who are educated for the sole purpose of Iawmaking. But the power of democracy is in good lead ership.
 He made four divisions of leaders i First. the crowd compeuer, one who can impose his own will and domi- nate the minds of his subjects, giving g as examples, Napoleon and Crom- i we'll Second, is the crowd exponent 1 who reads the common mind, as l Gladstone and LIoyd-George. He said 1 that Roosevelt had a splendid com l binaion of both these qualities i Third, the crowd representative, who
 expresses the clear purpose of hi! l people, as Washington and Lincoln
 Fourth, the crowd delegate, who i after the crowd has shaped it's owl 1 policy, is sent to carry just what had 1 been framed by his people.
 Mir. Griffeth-Jones pictured Britain 1 today as representing the collective 1 type of democracy With the reform
 of 1892 came an advance in wealth education, literature, and the press | and has continued until women hay, recently received franchise. The frs 1 result was the rise of the middI ] class, and then soon came the cap | italists. which meant business fo i business ends. The employer idenH
 fled his Iaborer with the machin 1 which he controlled. This, of course l led to labor unions and in turn tn I capitalists began to unite. The Iogi II cal outcome of this was great trusts, | Of course the working man cam, to consider his employer as his enc
 my, shown by the fact that ever! i possible kind of trade and industr.
 has it's labor union, even those doins government work. Now there is l difference in aim of the capitalist The Victorian age aimed at giving i sufficient wage for q decent life, art
 this was the maximum aim. Bu 1 modern democracy has revoltet against this and all class distinction il | tending to be wiped out.