Show A RELIO or OF FEUDALISM E every very institution every scheme of legislation every concerted action of humanity has its origin L in the conception of a single individual so it always has been just so will it always be b so long as there is 18 a tendency on the part of mankind to imitate or follow the dictates of a leader the feudal chieftains owed their success to their capabilities of impressing their personalities upon their thedr subjects thuy they would for ages cl have been able to maintain thier prestige but for the education and enlightenment lighten ment of the race with the more general diffusion of intelligence int ali the uselessness of feudal armies and the doing of homage became wore leoro and more apparent the necessities of lords deemed no to longer ger to exist higher plains of socialism began to dann dawn upon tile the vision of humanity men began to see more clearly and to respect ress hect more fully the rights 0 of their fellow men there are several causes to which this diffusion diff ution of intelligence may be attributed some of them lrein being the crusades which resulted in th alie e renaissance in art and the diffusion of the mental acquisitions of the ancient world our ancestors of western europe Kuro this in turn set men to thinking the result was the fill fall of feudalism f and the growth of the stated kostem one great forward bep ep in political evolution some me men n still characterized by that L kirit of selfish ile cs succeeded intrigues it in affecting through legislation such conditions as existed during feudal feudalism isra they rhey would compel their less fortunate brethren to buy only front from theme themselves elves to dispose of their products in ill certain markets s tu to select nien men to represent them who all the while were tightening the political meshes into which tile tha people had bad fallen the history of the world is complete with tile the struggle c s of men contending for freedom or for power every varl age 0 lias has hil its heroes and its tyrants its S solons s and dracos draco each with bi his following one struggling for universal m 13 subjugation the other for the political emancipation of his fellow men one trying a to circumscribe more and moie the other to extend coextend commercial and social privileges keeping 0 all within uni uniform forin bounds in the united states stales the land upon which toiling za millions of europe look with reverence has wa waged 1 cd from its infancy such a struggle 0 durin during the progress n of tile alie civil war the n greatest opportunity of modern times occurred for the shylocks Shy locks to tap the nerves ot of the nation and sap their vitality during the next half century true no walls of solid masonry were built to retain the citizens of our country for such would have a nt at the same litre kept out the cheaper labor of the old world but die the foundations of a greater iniquity were laid upon the pretext of liquidating an enormous war debt a war tariff was enacted the people during C the exciting times following the war var were wont want to follow a leader as a hock flock ite shepherd once inside the fold the freedom of the broad seas and in the open doors of other nations are denied it is tile hie duty of every american citizen to look candidly upon this subject and then decide whether lie he belongs to that class of catiz citizens ns who are struggling st rug gling for the universal rights of men or is laboring to build tin nu the few upon the ruins produced by the destruction of many A democratic congress C battered down this feudalistic wall in in the fact aab of a powerful foe entrenched behind it aided by bv traitors in the ranks of the attacking party in some lines it was decreed to raise raie the lie un christgau embargo and permit the free commerce of america to 0 spread lier ber white wings w ings upon every sea the new tariff lias has only been wen in operation about three but the gradual decline of commerce under cie INIc mckinley Kinley I 1 hill ill liar has be been en checked and 0 good times are arc beginning to smile again upon the people when we ire have complete ta tariff riff reform our pw pro q erity will be assured |