The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-30
Constitution Must Be Pre-
served, He Says in His
Now Famous Speech
INFRINGE UPON RIGHTS
HIGHEST Form of Democracy
Ever Known to World Is
Tempting the Despots

leading business men of that city.
No speech in recent years has at
,racted such widespread attention
nor been in such demand.
Nor ig that to be wondered. Be
cause not in recent years has any
writer or speaker sounded such a
| clarion call to arms TO preserve the
repubNc from the peaceful dissllu-
don to which 1t Is indutiably drift
a. L,.. l., ,
herewith for the entertainment and
Instruction of readers of The World.
il not alone a masterful argument,
ris a beautiful classic in eloquenoe,
,ypical of the best American style
and fragrant with the perfume of
other. older and. from n political
standpont, better days.
BY SENATOR A. O. STANLEY.
Kentucky.
The mastery of the world passed
with the fall OF the Roman empire
from the shores of the Mediterran-
can to the Baltic, and for n thousand
years and more the arbiters of hu-
man destiny have sprung all from
the loins of a Scandinavian warrior.
whether as Franks or freemen
upon the banks of the Seine. as Sax
ors and Angles amidst the green
hills and dales of old England, or
marauding pirates from the wilds
Of Schleswig and F'riesland, their ac-
tttles in peace and their valor In
I~Var have been dominated and in
spired by one master passion, the
maintenance inviolate of their per-
sonal independence, a jealous and
eternal love of liberty.
In savagery or civilization he has
little known nor long endured the
sway of a tyrant or the presence
Of master. For centuries he had
little to fear from feudal chieftains
whom he served in peace and de-
Tended in war. These naughty
barons surrounded the throne, rival
ing its magnificence and dividing Its
power, presented a barrier between
the ambition of the medieval mon
arch and the threatened liberties OF
his subjects.
And F'eudal System Fell.
By and by the Improvement or
tFsarms having rendered worthless
all defensive armor, the feudal sys-
ten fell, with its panoplied horse
and rider. Alert and cunning cour-
tiers filching the power from the
lpOn the decaying ruins of feudalism
he naughty houses of Bourbon and
Tuior, of Hapsburg and Hohenzol-
lgl
Strange to say. these stupid ty-
flss attributed this unholy incre-
men. OF power not TO gunpowder
but to God English tories made
the monarch the delegate OF
heaven" " Kings" according to that
ecclesiastical pander, Bossuet, ,"are
gods, and share in a manner the d.
vine Independence" Il am the
- state" said the grand monarch, and
the clustering German talks about
NE und Gott." / only am master,
"suprema lex regis voluntas," shouts
the PrusAan Mad Mullah, before set
ting the world on fire.
With this blasphemous assump-
tion Of omnipotence, these odious
despots attempted to hold their sub
lects amenable to them for acts for
which freemen are answerable to
God alone. A sceptered and Hitter
ATE medieval marauder assumed d.
section of every detail of the moral,
spiritual and industrial life of an
tolect and helpless people.
Scarcely any Bounds.
There were, says Herbert Spencer.
scarcely any bounds to governmental
Interference: agriculture, manufac-
lures, trades We're regulated in de-
aiI; religious beliefs and observ-
snees were imposed; and rulers said
ey whom alone furs might be sold,
silver used, books issued. pigeons
kept etc.
The shadow OF the despotisms of
Tudor and Bourbon, OF Hapsburg
and Hohenzollern, fell like a pail
upon the civilized world, hope was
ohshted, industry paralyzed. sacred
temples transformed into chambers
OF horrors, and sweet religion made
rhapsody OF words"
Men fled from an intolerable op-
preston they were unable either TO
u endure or to resist and the eastern
ores of the new continent were
Vutted by colonies OF eXiles scattered
..oin the Florida keys to the mouth
VI me st. Lawrence.
Ihere is a vital and generic dif-
.Ience between the English and the
solunental conception OF the source
ana Character of constitutional gov
Innent. One places limits upon
sehtraliZed power. the other will not
~'erate its existence. Those free In
Nuuons once common to all Teu-
.ohle people, while obliterated by
Ooarbon despotism on the continent,
we're only obscured by the tyranny
English kings The Saxon churl,
asylng lost his liberties, did not
..9lset them. Magma charta, the pc
l'lon Of rights, the bill OF rights,
ne constitution OF the United States
ae the essential Instruments for the
Nabllshment and maintenance OF
inherent and inalienable rights
salch God confers and governments
lyade.
These great charters confer no
Nsiieges; they prevent abuses
Sys Buckle: For 500 years all ad-
saee legislation has been made by
'sealing laws.
Hammered Out Liberty.
yur Anglo Saxon ancestors. says
,S!et Justice Taft, hammered out
,Iter civil liberty by securing from
D.T ssT would-be royal oppressed not
.'nefai declaration of principles
M but distinct and definite
Lnslsh Jurisprudence has not
,,eea'ed, 1t has preserved and re-
I'D local self-government and
cssonal independence. and for 10
,b"sries IL has jealousy guarded
"A against the insidious invasion
power in every shape and form.
as barbarians "the basis OF their
e'S' says Green. was the free