Show rum fi mu oun OCR roli roLin f I 1 CS mr james parton is ia delivering ills big lecture on our oar scandalous dalous political to borgo audiences inthe in tho Easta east aad od liia ilia performance is ia well of by tho the pipers tho the bumming tip dp of bir strictures itric tures may inay ho be thus given I 1 II 11 a come to bo be fixed in the nature of things that each generation of progressive gres sive sivo people t brill have to face one ODO great daeger and one ruva difficult and trying frying took leak since the iho beginning of our existence as m a nation in ia the stomp stamp act days of 1765 four generations of men have lived anil to each was avii gued i its duly that duty in ia each case casa resulted from tho the growth and development of I 1 tho the nation and ana tuch such a daty 1 reffes upon the arese prese present M t generation or of men wo we have not become bec ioLue badRo e have bave only grown big what the be unit fint generation achieved was well in john adams adama toast independence forever I 1 upon gacond devolved the ho difficult problem of uniting theto thebo states under a con sti lation aul teta establishing bli ali tog A lorm form of government upon alio llio third was imposed tho awful fl kad and 0 loody work of slavery wo we are ace the iho fourth four ll it has hai lallon to our lot to throttle publio thieve thi oye and nd polities from tho ho gutter antl nd tho the grogshop rii Thi isBill swill noL boone the ibe lecturer assures us without aitho at a I 1 andl jousts struggled struggle 1 wo must male a re reli aion littion of it wo we de detor forthe tho solution of the enigma or of tho the universe this loiter latter is rot cot clear but it bug bag geth getan a remark ortho or tiro blows an n in th lh human mind to abase power self I 1 islin ces is a controlling inabinet of our oar ra ceita exercise iii directed in tho be int creLA of the whole human family but lc n narrowed Darro woJ down to merely iier pe peronail ional ronal ends coda tho correct rule then is ii to delegate dole galo as little ittle power as po aible to tho the governing dam to carry out in practice proc tico jeffersons ott oft quoted opinion that is ia tho the best government which gowns governs tho the least dr john ran con ws says now how amail of la ill that louisa lomia hutti en cn duie dui alo TI ci park that lidge or laws can ca ajao or of cure macaulay Mc uly tells us in his hia history ol of england that tho currency of III n reign calunod more moie loe to tho the people peo iilo and wei ivo ive of more injustice and strife than all ill the perfidy of jeffreys and the ba siness an anil a of the kings itoiz writing in an era ot of the tha most profligate and de basiul despotism exclaims it one ODO in ill what exactly consists OD tie its greatest greate grea bt good of all al what should be the ond coil of all of govern moot ho he will flad cod that it is ia reduced to the two principal objects li liberty belty arid j 7 lb c fly all indi des is u to much rower power salo bigom I 1 in the ilia commonweal equall TOO 80 liberty cannot with I 1 and this is is confirmed by the valier ot of nomia science dr swill 0 atthe the baab e tb t a perfect r fly faid y au aud of per perfect rf cot equality is u tho the 16 simple limpo facret bitlick mom effect bally the iho highest degree of prosperity to all al cles tho the political bantlin abich tho the writers of the list century i so EO aspired after ha 1 been be BC cured curea to us ua by tho the son odne s of our in and still a great public task remains reu ains to bo be performed wo we have hare to throttle public thieves thi oves end rescue our polities from the gustr aud and the grog gro it if this thia can a only bo be dono done by a long sad and pi pas innate tt bt ruggle it if we ire are to malio make a religion of political reform wo we had better give up the effort at once because american nature is ig not so 60 con eti as to enter cater upon such a era cra fade eado with ith the iho devotion do that mr Par tona language lao guage calls calla for but tho the task is in ia brath am a waitr ca one we have overcome tyranny and the power of it government is il in our onu own hands lianda the evils that now ar flet society are not but so BO olal cial the wises or of labor the reciprocal of et employer sod and employed domestic domeet dome lie ic interchange tied aad foreign commerce an equitable lia dis trib tr il nilion ution of the akaras ol of in Justry a stimulus Etim ulus a to production and a lilting tl reteia for all classes clas iee bro are some fame of the questions ions upon which tho the hap happiness and prosperity of all main maia ly hinge binge and which must bo be correctly before wo we can deliva the ho full eleft I 1 from our uI mirable political institutions but all the there thee e vital questions must be vigorously atily excluded from the dimaid of politics they are purely bohuil in ia their nature and can only be d by tho the people to entrust bentru t I 1 leir ada ad to shalta mid and niti oual legislatures is u to give giro politicians subjects to over of which I 1 they hey are profoundly ignorant bud aud billeb statutory law can only complicate sal aill dl barb without ever producing a happy 11 when rheatha tha Lin caLire colan spinners cra found foiled their earnings weri were insufficient to support their fa miles or of resorting to antl a scriba of windy resolutions a number of them adopted a practical remedy 6 31 gave their money a greater power by the retail trades laau an from their midst oar country now u is IQ in art an condition real keal property perty is shrinking in value the entire community is in tied up with mortgage mori gig i of our factories and nd work SLOPS bro are te very every city is H crowded with idle idl workmen ull are rut put upp apy short abort commons and trado trade us a consequence is cc completely mille ea atta any politician isn aid d us in this hi eltre extremity mity nos no three r ee I 1 in a if all our publio men L have a V a the tha iowa of the laws that reg regul ulato tta trade and ind industry indo elry ostry tho the remedy liei with ourselves wo must blunt the couii anarchy that noar no by introducing order bad a effort our workingmen must and act upon the that identity of inter in ter tal cat must be for our pres tnt exit antagonism that all classes mutt pull together gother lo instead of pulling in opposite directions bitoy must feather farther lern learn that ia uni verall plenty p I 1 only the hap Lap and penty of all const and that tho the policy now par send by their trade societies ol of ie ro in ia orber to occure i be tin an orn era or of high bricis esthe r alio CHUM cause of me t 0 of our present troubles wo we lavo not DO paco to expound a whole system of oil economy cco DOmy but enough has beem said to allow that bit the tak ta k of rescuing rc cuing the control 0 of out publio public affairs from the gutter rua DJ alii t grog shul will not tic dedication of high balvo and nd tho the of religious devotion wo we bavo but bat to run mn tho the line between social and political quast questions ions I 1 and aej BP p ply tho the rules of common sense anbo fo the mirlen tent of the former orni or it is n not dot llo t of 0 public thi evold that the tha nation but the iosco practice pra clicc we follow of an 01 attla as possible from rom the feu fear that thal somebody way may get rich out oat of our labor |