Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1921-12-10
PEOPLE MUST EASE
GROWING PAINS Of.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY

Chicago, Dec. 10-The diseases
and growing pains of democracy
must be dealt with as such and the
American people are called upon to
lead the way in carrying forward de-
mocracy to a condition of permanent
and sturdy health, DR.. Nicholas Muir
ray Butler, president of Columbia
University, N. Y, told the members
of the Illinois Bar Association here
tonight.
"This cannot be DONE" DR.. Butler
continued, unless the American
people are prepared to rise above
the smallness, the selfishness that
are now so much in evidence. To re-
turn to autocracies or to conscious
oligarchies would be quite impossi-
BILE.
Ignorance of economic history
and economic laws is particularly
widespread. One wonders what the
schools and colleges have been doing
for the last half century that men
and women are left in such igno-
rance of the fact and the laws. Sen
ators and Representatives in Con-
gress vote with fierce joy to impose
in time of peace, very high taxes on
wealth without appearing to realize
by thus diminishing the amount of
productive capital they are depriv-
ing the farmer of his market, the
wage-worker of his employment, the
transportation system of its freight
and the businessman of his trade. 1g-
rorance, the old enemy of human
wellbeing, is still powerful and ac-
tive.
There are ominous signs all round
about us. The American form of
government is in danger whenever
a group of men endeavor to operate
it in the interest of a section or
class.
"a labor party or farmers par
ty is as undemocratic and as un-Am-
erican as a millionaires' party, or a
skip-owners' party would be. The
American farmer, the American
worker, the American manu-
facturer, the American business man,
Is paying heavily today, five years
afterwards, for the un-American and
un-patriotic act that was forced by
threat upon the statute book of the
United States, known as the Adam
son Law. This law established
privileged class among us and there
by increased the cost of living for
every man, woman and child includ-
ing members of the privileged class
itself
THE use of the power of the state
to enforce some particular rule of
conduct, which those to whom it ap-
peals describe as moral, may easily
deer only in form and not in fact
from the long since abandoned use
of the power of the state to enforce
conformity in religious belief and
worship.
Private morals and private con-
duet are matters for the conscience
of the individual and not for regula-
ton by some majority which, at
bes., can only be temporary.
owe need quickly to strengthen
the foundations of representative
government and thereby rebuild pub
lie confidence in it. This can only be
done by attracting to the political
service of the State men and women
of the highest type of intelligence
and character, who have no personol
or group ends to serve.
$50 completely has established
knowledge vanished that today
public speaker may not cite even the
Bible or Shakespeare with any assur-
ance that his allusion will be under
stood, to say nothing of the great
orat:ons and dramas and poems and
historic events of Greece and Rome.
So long as this knowledge was gen.
eral among persons called educated
it served as a binding and unifying
force, both intellectual and moral.
Popular teachers are now laying
down as a principle that there are no
principles, but that each individual
each group, each generation must
follow its own instincts. Such teach
ing reduces man with all his history
to the level of an animal"
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