The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-01-09
BY Webster.

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and natural born right II human beings IS the right to make their
Parents, philosopher, aud roformcr. are cycra,tnel, out of
their great love and high moral zeal, committing the worst crime n
the category against the children, rrownups and nations Of this
world, to-witi trying 60 keep. rs from making mistake, Imi we
must stub our own toc, kind folks, burn our own finger, and bump
When the Creator made man lie put in him the capacity for go.
ing o. the devil il be closo And il You take away that m'stmabl'
privilege You do us great wrong,
For nobody can b" very good unless also be- is free and amr To- be
Freedom is essentially freedom to do wrong freedom to do only
Here i, the beauty aud normalty of democracy. The people
mu,on.hcnd, for ofrcc6aidcrs. ' and Inn, come To self tn"wicdgc.
For W. learn what We are only by what We do. Just doing what
. ,' sSaS else tells US is never to lear" anything it is to ;. forever
The voice OF the people is the voice Of God, because only by
aucring It's voice can the people grow and II Is growth and not pet.
lection that is the will Of God.
Socialism may be grand aud ideal, or some other theory may be-
the hesl possible thing, but what a nation wants Is not an ideal gov
crnmcnti It wants It's own government, a government just ~ bad, ~
Aud that is what democracy means. II is the sclfcNprc,,sion Of
the people, by which is made possible the growth of the people
There never was greater nonsense than the idea that such aud
such a nation is not tit for self governmcnt yet. they must be owned,
directed aud bosscd by some other nation until they are capable OF
Quit the contrary. There is no school of democracy like de.
mocrscy. Let the country, whatever it i, go ahead and make It's
own bundcrsj then, aud then only, will it realize that it Isl hundcr.
The best king is the worst king The wiscst and kiudcst patcrual-
If tc people want to ccc, the three talors Of Toolcy Street MS
triumyirac kings, let them. That the quickest way 10 prove that
one of the new Gilbert aud sullivan republics that sprong up,
upon the collapse of kascrsm in Germany, chose a president who
was a member Of old CLOTHES, a vice president who wa, a. cafe jugglcr,
and as a minister of cd,uco''" a woman who could hardly read and
write. And this was a better choice than it they had elected q SolJn,
a Justinian and a ConiuciuS for in the drst place the people would
MOI like those wise men, In i've second place they could not under
stand them, aud in the third place they would not have 0beycd them.
The reason why the peoples of Russia, Germany aud other conn,
tries of Europe where mtOcracy has been oyerthrowu have plunged
into Iolshcysm and violence is that they have been for ages cursed
with patcmHl governments, with rulers that made their mistakes for
them. They have never been allowed 10 govern themselves before aud
hence know nothing about it, aud become the slaves Of the first loud
mouthcd crank that comes along.
And the way 10 cure this anarchy is not to set up some autocraey
or guardianship over them until they IRE capable of self govern
mrnt goodness knows they We had enough leading by the NOSE.
The way is 10 give them democracy-thHt Is, 10 let them alone pre-
venting violence as much as possible, keeping them from aNsassimt-
ing ncRhhor states, making them pay their debts and br decent ms
much as may be, hut allowing them Ia make their own mistakes