| Show WHERE PEOPLE RULE Governor Bern Dern puts much of c good common sense Into his bis put jb lie Ilc addresses In his hi words of c prince ot o w welcome to the be crown Sweden tho governor gave the lh troyal royal visitor a brief understand log Ing of ot the spirIt of ot government In America when he laI said laid I You ar a are aware aware sir lr that thi people of ot tho tire mo United States are t a composIte people gathered gathered iron from many nations Here they are be be- beIng belog Ilog log Ing fused together Jt It Is la conceded by everyone every one that tha tt we get et no better material fOr citizenship than our Swedish im immigrant 1 migrant By their nature and their racial radal characteristics the tharo are aro particularly adapted to out our form of government Your high ness Des Is II familIar with governmental tai tal forms and principles and you you y therefore know that In America the Individual does nit not exist for forthe forthe f the government but the govern govern- government n meat ment exists for the Individual In Iother other words the Important unit Is s the tho Individual not the govern ment Our conception is that ev v cry ery man and woman should have havethe the fullest self sell self and that this will not only 1 1 give lve the greatest pleasure to the ual but also aiso that the general welfare and progress of the world best be advanced by that can system The Swedish people fit tinto Into that system most admirably e Possibly their their belr moat most outstanding characteristic Is their th their r independence nd- nd ence Love of ot liberty Is born In Ithem them and they Instinctively reo re r sent Bent and resist any unreasonable effort to rule over them They Thedo do their own thinking and rebel whenever hene an one attempts to do their thinking for them Amer Ameri- Americans cans cane bave have no rulers ruler but them them- themselves selves and obe obey no laws except pt those made by t themselves It re- re requires requires quires a high degree ot of intelli tence Bence and 1 manhood d In hi a people to make their own rulers and their own laws Jaws That form fonn of ot government is somewhat different from a gov government where a king rules at a tho many kings today have less power than the president of o the United States The old idea Me ot of the divine lne rights of ot kings is II passing and the people are re- re refu re fu fusing to recognize any an any power which v is la not responsible to the people Even In Sweden which continues to have a royal roal family after roy roy- royalty alty has haB disappeared from so BO many man other nations ot of o Europe the form government of-government of government Is liberal and the will v of o the people prevails oo 00 |
