New Britain herald., 1923-11-17

1 purple to the highest bidder. After ! which came Alaric, the Goth, and
 night. Since when democracy lay | dormant for some fifteen centuries
 We may claim with reason that our 1 nation has had the guidance ot i Providence: we may know that our | form of government must ultimately | prevail upon earth; but what guar anty have we that it shall be main tained here? What proof that some unlineal hand, some barbarism. with out or within, shall not wrench the sceptre of democracy from our grasp? The rule Of princes. the priv ilege Of birth. has come down through the ages; the rule of the people has not vet marked a century and d half. There is no absolute proof. no positive guaranty, but there is hope and high expectation. and the path is not uncharted '"
 
 Reverence is the measure not of others, but of ourselves. What men worship that Will they become. The heroes and holidays 'i pf'Hlt NultH IdsGlndlt lntlI soul reveal what they hold are the realities Of life and mark out a line beyond which they will not retreat hut at which they will stand to over come or die. They who reverence Bunker HiI swili fight there. Your true patriot sees home and hearth stone in tho welfare Of his country 
 The eighteenth century was the era of the development of political right. It was the continuation Of the idea Of the Renaissance. 1t was the putting into practice in govern ment Of the answer to the long pom dered and much discussed question, What is riGht?' Custom was giv- ing way at last 10 reason. Class and caste and place, all the distinctions based on appearance and accident were giving way before reality, Men turned from distinctions which were temporal 10 those which were eter- nal. The sovereignty Of kings and the nobility or peers was swallowed np in the soyereignity and nobility Of nll men. The inequal in quantity be- came equal in quality.
 The successful solution or this problem was the crogning glory Of Il century and a half Of America. It established for all time how mon ought 10 act toward each other in the governmental relation. The rule Of thn people had begun.
 There has been much talk in re- cent years Of the survival of the nt- test and Of efficiency. We are be- ginning 10 hear Of the dryeiopment of the super-man and the claim .bat he has or right dominion over the rest of his interiors on earth. This denies the doctrine Of and holds that government is not based on consent but on com pulsion. lt holds that the weak must serve the strong, which is the law of slavery il applies the law Of the an- nunl world tn mankind and puts science above morals This sounds the cali to the jungle. 1t is not an advance to the morning but re. treat to night. Ii is not the light Of human reason, but the darkness of the wisdom of the serpent.
 The law or progress and ciyiliza- ton is not tho law Of the jungle. lt IS not an earthly law. it is divine law. lt does not mean the survival of ihc fittoH. it means the sacrifice of the tittrst. Any mother uill give her life for her child. Men put the women and children in the ffeboats before they themselves will leave the sinking ship. John Hampden and Nathan Hale did not survive. nor did Lincoln, but Benedict Arnold did. The example above all others takes us back to Jerusalem some nineteen hundred years ago.