Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-04-11

power the precise forces against
which democracy has fought since the
days of King John.
With the differences of the two
theories of government clearly in
mind, who could not take the roll calls
and the title of the bills voted on in
the Congresses for the last go years
and without further information iden-
tify and classify the respective advo-
Gates of these theories-as Republi-
cans or Democrats, if you please
and scarcely make an error? 1t is true
that some votes are recorded on the
great institutional reforms in purely
domestic affairs in the early part of
the Wilson administration that might
confuse, but that results only from
the fact that many Republicans real
lied that if they did not vote for the
Democratic program in numerous par
ticulars they would be granted an I'M
requested leave of absence from the
next Congress by an outraged con-
stituency. And while there is as
much difference today between the
policies of the Democrats and the Re-
publicans as there was between the
policies of Jefferson and Hamilton,
yet sometimes I feel that we should
take ourselves to judgment and each
determine for himself whether or not
he is doing his utmost in the cause of
democracy and to the end that pres
ent and future generations of Ameri-
can citizens may be made secure in
the liberty and the even-handed JUS
tice that is theirs of right. This it is
our duty to do, that the great prin-
ciples of human rights and privileges
SO we'll delineated and defined by JEFF
ferson and vouchsafed us by consti-
tutional embodiment shall pass to the
next and succeeding generations with
out impairment; and we, as Demo-
Gratis, should be filled with an actual
ed by the spirit Of the democracy that
characterized the devotion of Jeffer-
son and Madison to the great cause
Of humanity. 3
What happened when the Govern
ment fell into the hands of the Re
publican party on March d, 1921? I
venture the assertion that every A
merican citizen entertained a sincere
hope of the new administrations
worth whileness; that it would fully
measure up to the hopes and expec-
tations that they so generally and
generously entertained of it; hat it
would meet the then great questions
OF government with comprehension
and strict fidelity that it would take
the great American people into it's
confidence, hear their pleas, and do
them the even-handed justice of a
chancellor; that it would set right all
wrong and never wrong any right.
And why should such hope not have
been entertained, when the country
had observed the great preparation
that was made for it, when the So
called "best minds" of America were
comforting day after day, when the
glowing newspaper accounts of the
meetings of the chest minds" made
the tremendous undertakings ahead
OF the new administration look small,
insignificant, and inconsequential in
comparison with the superb states
manship and intellectual power that
was about to seize upon them? In
deed, there was hope, and there was
faith, and there was charity in the
hearts of the world for it; but hope
soon fled, and faith soon failed, and
charity fingered along on false diet
until after November 4, 1924. The
overwhelming majority of the Ameri-
can people are hopeful, faithful, and
thoroughly democratic in their Gus
toms; not only that but they are at
heart Jeffersonian Democrats and
true to the faith that is in them; and
l apprehend that the time is not re-
mote when they will awaken and a
gain assert their right to freedom
from a class-owned and wealth main
tanned autocratic power that knows
not how to resist the avarice of greed
nor the lust of blood-sucking privilege
and monopoly; nor punish the felons
that prey upon the Government.
But what happened? With the adj
vent of the Harding Coolidge admin
istration the Hamiltonian theories of
government were brought into full
force and effect; wealth and class and
the politically potent ruled with a
high hand; taxes were shifted ac-
cordingly; plunderers and their rep
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