Show THE TWO IDEAS Democracy seeks to improve the government govern-ment by improving the condition of the people Republicanism seeks to improve the people by first improving the government govern-ment Both theories are right but the former is fundamentally the better one Republicanism leans to a strong central government It spells nation with a big NIt N-It fancies that whatever is done by the government is most probably the proper thing to be done for the united wisdom of a number is better than the wisdom of individuals in-dividuals It has a distrust of popular government and seeks to abridge as much as possible the privileges of the individuaL in-dividual It has strong aristocratic and monarchial tendencies and favors tho rule of a privileged class in i place of that by the whole people Matters Mat-ters of public policy or necessity determine for this party what the government mayor may-or may not do Democracy leans to the strict autonomy of the states and the absolute independence of the citizen within tho sphere of his own I action if it does not trespass upon the same rights and liberties of others The government 0t govern-ment can not be permitted to do things that would be regarded as reprehensible or criminal crim-inal if they were the work of individuals sf and no alleged necessity or the needs of public policy can ever justify the government govern-ment in overstepping its rightful constitutional consti-tutional limits The government is as likely to make mistakes as individuals are and requires as constant watching Democracy follows the theorem of individ ual equality up to its last corollary and places all confidence in the people The claims of a moneyed aristocracy are denied and disallowed Liberty fraternity and equality no special favors or privileges privi-leges to any one protection and equal rights to all The government exists for the people and its usefulness ends when it ceases to servo them They made tho government gov-ernment for certain express purposes and nothing short of revolution can rightfully right-fully swerve the government from the course marked out for it Every attempted innovation must be tested by the criterion of first prInciplesliberty and equality and if it does not conform to these it must be rejected no matter what the expediency urged in its behalf These are differences reaching to the foundation of the political structure of the two great parties of this country The actual ac-tual differences in practical politics spring from these underlying opposing ideas In one government exists chiefly for the welfare wel-fare of the individual in the other the i individual in-dividual exists chiefly for the welfare of the nation the former is the Democratic the latter the Republican idea |