Show FREE DISCUSSION Preservation of to the au llnellsnlllC Indiridnn1 IndclCndcncc Must He Extended son flealm of ReaSOU The tended below was dcliv TllC5P Bpch presented member of a debating ctib youflg city a short time ago Con 4Vint the this youth of the speaker the ujdcring merit to deserve f cient of sufficicnt jjress is u4 rl 1iation GcflhlenlnIt I has fallen L1ics and officer of this lot flS the welcome I glcet tL 1nY words 01 wecome gt da to 0fThr interested with us in the = 115 friendS rough the medium nco Fpe1d of 11elige1CO Ve will hear a discussion oi discussion wh1h we owe the greater toni ht as to varriOrS or our statesmen our wurH the EJt the dCIslon of the Judges whateVer the same beefit will be we arc for the purpose of a lri1uized 15 111 Iuch the public asa 1itiflg questlO as-a should bo interest wel as the of Place to renew be out d it Wi11 not of dlscuSSIOIl t history TlJn of early insti By what we jL u Ib was confined to the = mtad h Itions 11a ni objctS and the naming of JlsIJerttlOn level0P1t0flt o of myths tell tlil1 to the or giants of gods tales of herOiS1l I n z nti deiniOil that had coin11IeS ages nlie Throu gh all the COli m 111 iirt opcned his eyes l ed Sllce this world we find no jgized Up01 tel1re of discussion until l jJi l 01 V 511 tliO id exjte1iee 1et there he light and Y UIn the sea Athens arose Inn I > 2 r rji state wherein discussion ex he cJ U ever be looked upon ash Ftcd i Ot t liberty of thought DisK Dis-K uLn 1 J e m ilh j ever been a plant of extreme ftrev a liable J to sudden death when not tfnieimsuch 1 soil and with such sur indin as are propitious to its growth it appeared like I a flOwer in the in Greece L ert of despotism Slowly but surely fjk root m the minds of the people of Arils until it aroused dormant forces jjrclthP mental vision and prompted gl em to make demands for recognition in lie affairs of government Their demands Ij J to the establishment of a republic Wng upon the voice of the people L cJ upon the intelligence of the people t i remained the leading government of auiit time lr1tling not alone in power jtin t thought embodying conceptions of Joseph science and art that are Dilated V modern nations As long as the people retained the jutatal vigor that characterized them pLur I dominant1was assured AVith its Is came the lens l of individual and na jinl independence and the glory of dent history the republic of Athens prepay before Philip and Alexander i The sanT4 cause that led to the Rein plics Re-in Greece prompted the establish atofa representative government in Lsie That cause was the demand of people for liberty The same cause Id to its downfall by permitting slavery Least and the admission of surround Ibarbaric tribes to the rights of Roman iMcnshipthe lone of political discussions discussion-s lowered The Romans at first Generous enough to leaven the mass and pp up the Republic by constant war pa rae weeded out the government 1 into the hands of the ignorant ands and-s without the desire or ability for Jgorernment I is a dying fire starts to life gives a fit i fc I glare and sinks back leaving the IJ3 darker than before so the spiiit Marty although prostrate at the feet despotism roused up and struck at her ftavernttoxyh a Brutus only to sink PJCK with tfc loss of her best blood Free IiicnssTM makes red with the blood of sons of liberty the history of Europe pn Julius Cresar to Cromwell and from iwell to the Commune but like the against whom Hercules fought it ered strength with each fall until its nt i animated a nation in America and ttv found her true home government for the people and rthe people with no existing notion toke to-ke example from we have brought suc isilv to a point the question that has ted the world from the Athenian re Lto the American revolution and pen by the outcome that the powers perrment can be safely entrusted to 1 eiiifrence of a free people At a z a there seems nothing to do butte but-te bonds that bind a people to asa a-sa e and establish a government fzy > a their franchise The history if cs proves differently The de pths mental powers of the Athe l caused them to laugh at Demosthe Fho thought to reanimate a decay Rration by holding up the beauties of JKy and the cowardice of bowing be Feoppression The Greek republic fell pan liberty died with Tiberius Grac chr8 ckmAn Au effort at the premature establishing establish-ing of a representative government may I M Ken in the fate of the French repub liJ of latter part of the last century IS the beginning of the present The frncli l nc 1 thought to spring at one bound Ijy r little less than a despotism into the Iul IJ glare of f the sun of liberty Every IHsiiRo of kingcraft was swept away re FJulamsm waR carried to a m ridiculous extreme The new powers i of the people provel but a white lonwl elePhant and the re pUblic was replaced by a despotism be e Wlch 1 the government of Louis ap lars r liberal The fate > aIlSof those a republics proves that Wer tthe IS necessary which has its source e people T1nt power the sustain force f ef f all liberal government is dis SSion j is i lS th intellectual ctnal stream that flowed 0 e uns of tIle through the Kberiylovinj pst gaining and t power n each ui 1itha5 natIOn added its thoughts te irnag growii to a flood from wliich ILSt 1and tflOlCrn nth times slake our intellectual de Ol1nlent renewed vigor take UP the tr of human thought and lib Witn O le thQ 1t d lhUSfiouon the part of the ugb own aq a hundred Brutuses struck would 313ffany despots their removal loexist itis flothing liberty continues to Or you and keepin me and every man dom of di cl ate rights and the free Lood II SSIOI1 that have cost so much retain the e would have our government e e must lcS I ud PO3ition it On o < < holds and undefi led l Vo the to Plenty unabridged of German hberty thatis the > hope and 11 ld of lhfR Sl ia Awtfiq and the bitter bgbest ho and Spain f it js our the for her to opp remain the refuge 111 OUr intellsse4 of land intell every > we have Ly mvhicll old liberties Ual development the power Ihlh rhes aid Wc were won and by In for may add forth econt000 Hew ones Our hope nn extension of he uance of progress is in the tearhes the realm of reason until it off tbe degrfJoplc of u11 nations to cast o search fmg custom which blnqs no f ts i1cb is my urther than OUr fathers did ICW of discussion ationall n t Ied by 1 Ibertj may be won and main a hberty of nation Ot serfs individual tlmotmrlit leil sent tJlokU ht and action by an in lln oJ In tlIinking I t tht forr lng people I recognize oat t of de Which has the kWll1ch brought man darkmess tel l1ss of endoaor past ages wh n ne l was itI Se 1 t or Statement used tp sqpPfesB a i Hen Were an innovation t particularly if estab cUs upon tdC0mPlete lIow CUS1O0 Even we of today will if e freedom in ron m thought that it doe B f Our eXIsts and it is my belief hope for its mitigation 1 lies in the growth of the intelligence of the people If we continue to progress it must be hand in hand for he who narrows nar-rows his feelings down to self is an enemy to mankind There is a force within every true man that bids him labor for his fellowman With this spirit filling the breasts of the peopls we shall be free without it our government will sink to a despotism society to a recognition of a divine to rule the right individual to a serf without a right other than those granted by the lord of the land This little debating and literary society has labored under adverse circumstances to develop a taste for learning for reason and for the free discussion of all subjects While thanking you for your presence this evening we ask your aid in strengthening strength-ening what we deem the source of so much goodour debating club |