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Show : I THE CITIZEN 1 indiv whot At i front Confucius was the father of the Golden Rule, Do unto as you would be done by, which is one of the basic principles present day religion. It is said that the word of a Chinaman An address delivered by Nicholas Murray Butler before the Round Table club at St. Louis, some time ago, is so full of good reasoning that it was placed in the United States Senate record at the request of Hon. Edwin S. Broussard of Louisiana, and we bond. tter than the white mans Some Chinamen say that there was very little trouble in China the white man came to their country with their exploitations, yon nts FREE GOVERNMENT AND PERSONAL LIBERTIES of it. eepi o the oldest we have. Three thousand years before Christ, Chinese empire was a thriving nation with Confucius at the ory is who, fori at! retard HELP about paying the United States came up before Belgian government recently, there were many ready to resign political positions. Some of the Belgian politicians take the that we did not loan their country any money ; we simply gave KS '.When rderK, led oth the question of them. exactly in line with some of the reports that when the were marching through their country, the people took off the handles from the wells in order that the soldiers had to That is arade tl and m .'ices tit; hase drinking water. Thank you, come again, when you need our help. HOLDUP owded jrgotten attorney general is going to Our :en try to collect one twelfth of a Salt Lake county property owners to be used for The people of this county have stood so much that Dgether i ? purposes. is no reason for not home, 1 JR taxing them for everything in sight, int of yt murmur, just go ahead and pay your taxes. Our county commissioners have been fighting tTiis proposed untax but lately they are also in a receptive mood. The tax not amount to much per capita, but oh, just think of the al fat jobs the money will provide. As long as people elect politicians instead of business men to , they canot expect other than what they are receiving. If there was any way to get a corner on the air, you may de- you would be now paying a tax to breath. The proposed tax is to go to an agricultural inspection fund. Why not this county furnish the money for all state funds ? Mr. Taxpayer, how long are you going to stand for this holdup? tax from oc ought in r it PERSONAL RIGHTS m shores til s state an dse t mofel time, ismen n It is said at half of that there are about ns. and ar, make aod years ago a highly educated Chinaman was sent to country to investigate the Christian religion. He spent jr days in San Francisco and said he did not have to go father east. Many he old i i fcoW lots illiam cople H m Jennings Bryan is schools. that d to of people; no clilistians; no plactice what worrying, about the many sudents who leave school without having any professed n, and in Tennessee there is a law teaching evoln- - art I Bh for Th e against lords proved themselves very unchivalrous when Votcc keeP the women out of the House of Lords. le prominent Englishmen cannot see why the women The d lcrc now or why they arc necessary, That11 Ust what the women think about the men. j iere shii ? 5000 scientists and that them in this country are atheists. That is a percentage and one that religious people can boast of proudly pick on the scientist! Statistics show there there were jit 566,201,000 Christians in the world last year as compared l033,538,OOO The great wonder is that if tianity is the only true belief, why there are so many unbe-s- . non-Christia- e 5 ; j ngHsh reproduce it herewith for the benefit of our host of readers: Speaking within these walls just 12 years ago, I asked the question: Why should we change our form of government? and offered an answer. At that time It was my endeavor to give reasons why certain pending proposals for a change in our fundamental law and in our political and social organization should not be accepted by the American people. My then was that we should appeal not change our form of government, but develop it, perfect, and apply its d principles to the solution of new Very much has happened in the intervening years. The ebb and flow of the tide of economic and polti-cunrest has left its mark on the history of every nation. A great war, participated in by substantially the whole world, has shaken civilization to its foundations and has swept away the accumulations of many generations, Currency systems, once thought as stable as the Rock of Gibralter, have been completely wiped out, and the trade of the world has been disrupted and disorganized to an extent that was quite unbelievable 12 years ago. The purchasing power of 300,000,000 of human beings has been either destroyed or so severely limited as to bring distress, suffering, and unemployment to capital and to wage workers alike in lands as distant as Great Britain and Chile, and to deprive the American farmer, the American cotton grower, the American copper miner, and the American manufacturer of that part of his market on which good prices depend. Governments have been altered beyond recognition. In Russia the autocracy of a historic Czar has been displaced for the still more cruel, still more ruthless, and still more destructible autocracy of a small group of fanatics who, for the moment, are clever enough and skillful enough to hold unhappy millions in economic bondThe pomp and glory of the age. proud empires of Austria-Hungarand of Germany have passed into history, and the Hapsburgs and the have gone the way of the Stuarts and Bourbons. Even the forces of nature, as if envious of the destructive powers of man, have shaken great cities and ruined them with fire and flood. In the face of such a picture, which even the savage realism of Gustave Dore could not adequately portray, what is to he said for the faith of a convinced and lifelong liberal and for the principles which have seemed to him a sure guide for humanitys progress. When Lord Morley died a few months ago, Mr. Asquith said in his This means English: the disappearance of the last survivor of the heroic age. Truly, Lord Morley took with him beyond the shadows an almost unexampled service to liberalism and an almost unrivaled consistency in its support of all English speaking liberals of his generation Lard Morley was no doubt the chief. No one had so often and in so many ways, in act as as well as in word, given expression to the spirit of liberalism. Gladstone had grown into liberalism at middle lffe, and Har-cou- rt conwas without the many-side- d and that men with both tacts thought Morley enjoyed for half a century. Morley was a born liberal. This noble figure, so powerful with the pen, so eager in pursuit of truth and so serene in its contemplation, seemed a nature world apart even from that busy waters where he rode the troubled well-teste- pro-blem- s. al y Hoh-enzoller- well-measur- ed ns in a ship whose passengers were the governors of millions of men. I can see him now on a summer night in 1911 as he stood in his place in the i f i House of Lords, at the height of the exciting debate on the Parliament bill whose passage was fo destroy forever the legislative powers of the peers of i nt , England, quietly reading the anounce-meon behalf of the Government if that, necessary, enough new peers would be created to ensure the passage into law of the pending measure. It was a decisive moment in the constitutional history of England, and it was a great moment in the life of a liberal who hated privilege in the government of men and who warred against it with all the powers of his being. Why should it be possible to say that such a man is the last survivor of a heroic age? Where are his associates, his companions, his pupils ? Where are younger torchbearers who are now to run the race and keep the flame alight ? It must sadly be admitted that they are hard to find, and that when found they are without the power and the faith of their elders. After generations of authority and conquest, after making over the world of men and of ideas, it is a sorrowful confession that at the moment liberalism is in eclipse which visible, either as partial or total, over pretty much the whole surface of the earth. this the cast that strangers to its spirit and enemies of its policies are struggling for its name as an instrument with which to weave a garment to cover their nakedness. There are those who by striving to lay hands on the name liberal and to apply it to illiberal and antiliberal doctrines of every sort have already brought it into contempt, so that the followers of the great liberals in the history of English-speakin- g peoples are confused and ashamed. The American spirit has been liberal from the outset. It was not tories but liberals who crowded the deck of the Mayflower and who made their d home upon the stern and coast. It was not tories but liberals who pushed westward along the water courses and over the mountain ranges to the rich lands and prairies of the Mississippi valley to make it one of the gardens and granaries of the world. It was not tories but lib-- ; erals who met in the Continental Congress, in the convention at Philadelphia and on the floor of those earlier Congresses when our nations policies were in the making. It was not tories but liberals who rallied about Abraham Lincoln, and who at every sacrifice saved the Union and made all its people free. It was not tories but liberals who heard the call of anguished liberty from beyond the hosts of seas when the of most militaristic the empires had their swords at her throat. Why, then is the heroic age at an end, and why is liberalism in eclipse.? Many men have many answers. Liberalism as a powerful force and as the name for a political party is certainly not a running power in Great Britain, although those who govern England have adopted man principles and policies that were once characteristic of liberalism in Germany so strong and so full of hope hope in the first half of the nineteenth century disappeared entirely before Liberalism in that centurys close. France is from some points of view strong, but it is often so with mixed so and diluted other elements as fo be almost unrecognizable. In the countries of southern Europe, as in northern countries of that continent, liberalism exists only by fits and starts. Ruling So much is rock-boun- well-train- opinion there is ed either frankly - con- servative and antiliberal, or it is based on that collectivism which liberalisms most active and unrelenting foe. Nothing is more pahtetic than the spectacle of the collectivist endeavoring i. ( i ( i i I I i i i i i s 4 |