Pocahontas star herald., 1925-04-16

with England that prccipitated the
American Revolution: that was guard
ed and protected by Jefferson and Mad
ison and by them woven into our Con-
sttutiOn that waged the fight against
the alien and sedition laws and drove
them out of our statutes: that defeated .
the obnoxious United States bank prop
/ ositiOn under the leadership of Andrew |
Jackson that characterized the very
warp and WOOf Of the many enactmcnts /
brought aboutCnder the administration
of that great scholar, statesman. and ]
patriot, Woodrow Wilson; enactments .
that We're bitterly contested by those .
OF today who would establish a govern
ment Of class and wealth with auto .
cratic power, and who in 1920 openly |
denounced and condemned virtually |
every act Of that administration, and |
who, when clothed with the power to |
10 it, were too cOwardly to attempt the |
repeal or serious modification of a
single one of these many enactments.
From the very hour tha. King John |
Welded the Magma Charta to this good |
hour the way of democracy has been n
hard one. 1t was the realization of
this truth no doubt, that caused that
great irish statesman, Curran, to ex-
claim, Eternal vigilance is the price of
lDerty, and that exclamation is lust
as timely today as it was on the day it
was uttered in 1908; and the way of
democracy holds no promise of a future
easier than the past. 1t is one eternal
fight, and an eternal fight only, that
VIII preserve to the great body of the
American people the precious heri-
tages that have been gained for them
by Franklin, Washington. jefferson and
Madison; by Jackson and Lincoln-for
Lincoln was extremely democratic
and by Cleveland and Wilson: heri-
tages now intrusted to our keeping and
of which we must make account TO the
future.
From 1903 to 1909-during the Fifty
ninth, SiXtieth. and Sixty-frst Con
gresses-it did seem that American
government by class and wealth and
IautOcratic power had reached it's zenith
and had expended its force: and the
results of the general election of 1910
seemed to Justify such an assumption.
The general elections of 1910 1912,
1911 and 1916 seemed to give verify TO
that assumption: but the elections of
1918 disclosed n desertion from the
cause of democracy so great as to i'm
bue the Republican Party with I'M
usual inspiration to recaDture the
Government in 1920 for the precise
forces from which it had completely
freed itself only eight years before.
AS Its hope grew, just in that proper
ton its sense of decency diminished
its determination knew no restraint
the more Infamous the defamation of
democracy the more famous became the
ldefamer every slander that envy could
invent and every hatred that malice
could inspire were hurled against MS.
Utterly false charges of graft and cor
fuptlon, of high crimes and misdemean-
ors were waited throughout the land
on every breeze, and the general cleo
tions of 1920 fully and completely re-
stored to power the precise forces
against which democracy has fought
since the days of King John.
With the differences of the two theor-
les of government clearly in mind. who
could not take the roll calls and the
title of the bills voted on In the Con
crosses for the past 60 years and with
ont further information identify and
classify the respective advocates of
these theOries-as Republicans or
Democrats, If You please-and scarce
ly make an error? 1t is true that some
votes are recorded on the great institu-
tional reforms in purely domestic af-
fairs in the early part of the Wilson
administration that might confuse, but
that results only from the fact that
many Republicans realized that if they
did not vote for the Democratic pro-
gram in numerous particulars they
would be granted an unrequested leave
of absence from the next Congress by
Ian outraged constituency And while
there Is as much difference today be-
tween the policies of the Democrats
and the Republicans as there was be-
tween the policies of Jefferson and
Hamilton, yet sometimes | feel that
we should take ourselves to judgment
and each determine for himself wheth-
or or not he is doing his utmost i'm the
cause of democracy and to- the end that
present and future generations of
American citizens may be made secure
IN the liberty and the eyen-handed jus
flee that is theirs Of right. This If is
Iour duty TO do, that the great principles
Of human rights and privileges so well
delineated and defined by jefferson
and youchsafed us by constitutional
embodiment shall pass to the next and
succeeding generations without impair
imeut; and we, as Democrats. should
bp filed with and actuatcd by the
spirit Of the democracy that character
lied the devotion of Jefferson and Mad
ison IN the great cause Of humanity.
Harding Coolidge Administration
What happened when the Govern
lWeut fell into the hands of the Repub-
lican Party on March 1, 1921? [ ven
ture the assertion that every American
,citi2en entertained a sincere hope Of
the new a7muisfrat.on's worthwhile
.HH tH II would fully uaasua M
- Oh. HHI li expectations taaG laF
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