Show it WITNESS FITNESS THE TEST THE ROCK BOTTOM PRINCIPLE OF THE democratic DEMOCRAT IC PARTY our C merit at present vaen uses III rower power to decrease tile alio rree dorn or the tha rit ell to tile unfit aided injured fitness should be tho the solo test sail said mr cleveland in speaking of public office anil and where freedom is to cant fitness must bo the test in everything and the we uie u ie of government must be only to allow the test to bo be mado made A government plainly commits a gros wrong when it interferes against bitnes and in behalf of unfitness unfit nets unless this is true and unless its linth ti nth is self evident nothing can all bo be established as true in political economy and in the science of political government in the affens of a tree free people jhc thc lit question of biln fitness is raised and ami deter ter mined incessantly every transaction of business every exchange of any kind whether of I 1 labor abor or its product volver involve it and before any such exchange i pos possible it must bo be determined in ill some way either by free bargain or by corn culston against one of the partie t to the bargain 11 idov machof makind of ought ito I 1 to rive give you for a certain amount of ot f 3 our kind of work is the bottom ques tion with a free people and it is only the question In estion of fitness stated in an all other way it is how much of my I 1 inic ought I 1 to civo you in exchange fur for a certain amount of 3 our time anil and thus stated it carries its own an all awer with it in another question lu estion what have you done 1 tu 0 lit fit ai to make inako my f your litno so EO valtia ble to tile me that I 1 shouble give ou on this tah quantity of the products of my illy time in trade the answer is illel 0 is what I 1 have produced or earned I 1 offer it in ex exchange chare tor for bo much of what 3 on oil have pro produced lucela or earned in co ili in production tho question is what wh it are 3 on oil fit to do in retain for such a debaie of our joint product or for so much money a day in wages its as it equivalent wherever there is free bargain barga iii aidi and I 1 3 bargain is f ice there is no free doni dom everything every thin tiling grai raises sesaiA aal turns on the question of lit fitness ness justice demand that the highest fitness should receive the highest and this is only possible under fic edom edoin let us its imagine at a system under which a confession of unfitness would woul I be flum cien chent t to secure for the confessedly unfit privileges and advantages superior to tile rest and at the expense of the ical C could 1141 wo we hua imagine ino a 1 government inure unjust in theory or more oppose 1 in i practice to all the laws of nature al and civill civilization cioll in ili stich a government the unfit donld apply to the lawmakers saying we 0 are arc not fit to 0 o acure secure tho advantages we asli unless you yon compel others to help ng n cut but with such compulsion in our favor anil against those who are more fit that than we for independence we solemnly prom ie i e that we will help those who are even less lass fit thanie are J such stich a government overn ment must we use its force to decie deci ase oase the freedom and to lessen the independence in depew lence of the fit fur for the lie br benefit beneat tit 0 of f t alio it 0 con f es aed ay unfit and site such i a government wo we have now in ill ant america erica every claim made for help under the oin of law forcing others tj giver givert it is bied on oil confessed unfitness and it ft is a plea that superior bu fill bitnes e bohld bo by force of law subjected to this confessed W we e ire aro tin unfit tit to survive on oil an indo independent pendent basia nays ay a combination ol of capitalists we cannot get along at all unless americans who are more fit tor for than wo arc by liw I iw compelled to aid us its it if wo we do not act have the ille ill privilege of ibis compulsion over kutheis through laws based pa aad for mojir benefit wo we will have to close up ill null ami quit this is the argument and tit tho insor cr is clo chobo so up and quit if yon are not fit to kerp keep open aud and going elie quicker the better and if you are so unfit that the rest must support you go ty to the poorhouse chivil alia h is the only privilege a just government can call concede to unfitness tit at the cx perio of fitness the bottom principle vrin ciple ot of the democratic parly pany liaa always been this that fitness is tho sole testas test as tar far askov as gov aimin nt is lu iu any and a all I 1 its relations with the individual the gov ei owes no help to alie unlit unfit lecause government is ih compulsion and to restrict tho the liberties of those who alio at aio 0 I 1 fit it for freedom and ili independence dependence to give pm gieges lieges to those who aro are not fit ii to create anarchy anai chy to destroy the only oil list which government can securely rest tho foundation ut or fitness alio maintenance of the test of fitness in all the alio relations between man mail antl and man mail the unfit I 1 be by the trea frea action of tile he fits fit to deprive them thein of f flee fice action to male the contribution foi linfitt lobs s is destroy freedom und and to make justice impossibly impossible no government can call long on agn a babic babia st louis republic |