| Show CAUSE AND EFFECT communicated ID the wise dispensation of the eternal ruler and creator of our universe all things are created an to some others thus cold and heat water and fire poi ons and their antidotes one class of animals feeds on and destroys another and weare all the time destroying that we may per oure elvea it is the same way with the mental faculties of persons one set or body of men try ing to inculcate their ideas and opinions on others and if they cannot graft them on by reason some times trying force and that the earne maker in his wisdom made them dissimilar there is no doubt that the democratic party is just aa patriotic as the republican party and vice 1 versa they are both trying to build up one of the greatest nations that ver existed but their views iu doing this are not the same the aim and purpose are alike but the means are not alike so it is with the different churches they all aim at the mental advancement and eternal salvation of the human family but the means to attain that object are not alike and remember that every man has the to his own ideas on those subjects for two reasons first because he is the responsible party to account for himself and it is his own balva tiou that is at baake and he is as likely to be right as you are and 2nd god made him as he is and plant cd those ideas that are so contrary to the dogmas that you would force on him wo are like a man with suddenly acquired wealth today to day we have more than wo can manage and we do not feel as if our clothes fit us we travel by eleam we ascend in saloons ba loons we send intelligence and news by wire we are fed clothed and housed as our forefathers one hundred years ago in their wildest dreams had no conception of scientifically we have advanced with gigantic et rides but economics and politics have not kept pace with the inventions and discoveries of the age thus we find ourselves unable to understand our financial policy and become involved in difficulty although we are wealthier than any nation that we have any record of we ought to put our inventive genius into making a more thorough financial system than we can copy from the fossil kingdoms of europe upon our politics and laws we want to engraft some of the american ideas suited to the scientific advance ment of the age we ought not to quote laws and regulations to govern us in thia advanced age from the feudal tyrant kings who beheaded be headed men for not thinking alike and barned women at tho stake from sheer superstition of their necromantic power let us not borrow thears of the fifteenth century to govern tho advanced american of the nineteenth cen tury let us try and put bome of the inventive faculties of progressive americana into force as we have broken up all the fossilized ideas of travel transportation manu fac turea etc and planted a far better and more advanced system but why can wo not do the same by our social political and economic con f editions dit ions and within the united beatea have the best moral social political financial and economic system for the government of a people that has eo rapidly grun from a mere handful to bo the roost powerfuL and richest nali onon the globe and the laws that suited thia nation one hundred years ago are like the old stage coach out of date you cannot hold the gigantic elephant of america in check with be same acing that you would usa to guide a shetland pony and as long aa we copy our lawa from feudal europe so long we shall labor under tho same disadvantages and bo subject to the bame ills 13 they are if we make our laws like those of russia se have nihilism if we make them like those of germany we shall have socialists if like those of france we have communist mu if like those of england we shall have labor riots and strikes and secret labor societies the cause and effect if those things take place in republican america the cause is in patterning our laws after the tyrannical feudal system of europe let us have republican laws for a republican country |
