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The Commoner.
VOLUME 7, NUMBER 1
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Federal and State Ownership
'WrltlUK l tlio San Anlonlo (Tuxub)
ixv6nn, lion. IC. ti. Senior sayHj
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"Mr, Jlryini'H Into doclaralion In iiih
Hpcocli al. Now York in favor of fortoral
ownoi'Mlilp of Lriink Hmoh of railway
and H(aU) ownorHlilp of branch Hiioh
has buun Konorally (llHciiHtscri by I ho
promi aH though II woro an original
proportion in thin country conooivod
by Mr. Mryan aH tlio rcHtill. of IIh Irav
oIh In foreign IiukIh.
"Tlio I'at'l Is that it is merely a re
vival of vlewH which woro broadly en
tertained and dlHCtiHHod when railroad
building wiiB in Il infancy in thin
country. Thoro were many men of
high Htandlug in national couucIIh who
regarded nillroiuls in the kuiiio light
a public roada and advocated the
adoption of the sumo policy with re
Hpect to each. One of these was .John
G. Calhoun, whose tltlo to the name
of statesman Is now generally con
ceded, even by those who have been
wont to revile him. In 18155 he advo
cated tho construction by Georgia and
South Carolina Jointly, of a system
of railway designed to give them
transportation Independence. These
states received from tho federal treas
ury, as their share of surplus revenues
which had accumulated there, about
$:i,fiOO,000 and Mr. Calhoun advised
that It should be appropriated as stat
ed, concluding with these words:
"'To malco this great fund avail
able for so Important an object, the
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They donU help the Bowels and Liver In
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Instead of increased, as it must be with all
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Cascarets act like exercise.
If carried in your vest pocket, (or carried
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Because these Ills begin in the Bowels,
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legislatures of the states Interested
ought to move forthwith. J hope
Georgia will take tho load. The act
Ion of no other states could have half
tho Influence.'
"In Texas, Governor E. M. Pease,
vigorously advocated the construction
.of railroads by tno state, and one oi
the first proposals by Governor Hogg
which started the fight that culmin
ated In tho bitter campaign of 1892
was that tho accumulation of tho per
manent school fund should be loaned
to tho state for the construction of a
state railroad from Red Kiver to the
gulf.
"These Incidents are not recalled
in support of Mr. Bryan's policy, to
which tlio writer is far from being
committed, but to rebut the conten
tion that he is an iconoclast. Tho
truth is that he is singularly attached
to precedent, and most of the things
ho advocates for this country have
received tho sanction of long appro
val and adoption in Europe. It does
not follow, by any means, that what
may bo good for England, or Franco,
or Germany would be cood for Amer
ica, but it is nonsense not to use
a harsher word to attempt to dis
credit a public man as a dangerous
radical and an enemy of private prop
erty for tlio advocacy of policies
which have the cordial support of
such rulers as the emperor of Ger
many and tho King of the Belgians.
It Is unfortunately true that we have
too many writers in this country who
lenow nothing about tho institutions
of this or any other land, but judge
It to bo tho acme of smartness to rail
at ovory public man who ventures
to propose any change, and whose
solo claim to a hearing is that they
protend apostleshln for thinus that
are. They might justly be called the
swashbucklers of tho present. The
nog mat wallows In the mud and dis
dains to move an inch for the com
fort of tho shade is their truest pro
totype. "The discussion of state ownership
as an economic problem Is coining,
and those will render best service in
the negative who furnish tho best
economic reasons against It. To scoff
at Air. Bryan is no reply to a Bis
marckian policy. Indeed, tho strong
est objection that tho intelligent mind
can find to state ownership is not that
it spells radicalism, but that it Is to
day so closoly interwoven with the
Institutions of monarchism, that it
has, apparently, become one of its
strongest props."
LINCOLN'S FAMOUS PHRASE
In his world-famous "Gettysburg
speech" Lincoln declared that the
men whose monument they woro then
dedicating had died in order that
"government of the people, by the peo
ple and for tho people should not per
ish from tho earth."
Like lightning the phrase electrified
tho nation, and from that day to this
it has remained tho most celebrated
saying in the most celebrated speech
of modern times.
But fame always has to pay a big
price for itself, and repeatedly since
Lincoln's brief, but immortal, address
JE5 l i!llvere(1f ifc h been InSlmited
that the martyred president was a
Plagiarist, having taken from another"
the most striking phrase in his speech
oTtheltfact.UinS an' owledgSS
To these intimations have come tho
counter claims that Uncoils c
brated phraso was strictly oricinS
MoniT'i aml Umt t0 oln &
coinecf it nP ftnd gl0ry of havinS
About the fact that the phrase in
dispute ws in existence lo!,g before
Lincoln spoko it at Gettysburg thero
is no room for doubt.
Five centuries and a half before
tho day of the martyr president there
lived in old England one of the stanch
est democrats that tho nice has ever
produced. The name of that old dem
ocrat was John Wickliffo, the celebrat
ed theologian.
Now, in tho preface to Wickliffe's
translation of the Scriptures 1324
may bo found these words: "This
Bible is for the government of the
people, by the people and for the
people," which is identical, word for
word, with the famous expression
from Lincoln.
In tho vear 1SC0. at a nublic meet
ing held at Olten, Switzerland, a
speaker named Selling, in the course
of his address, used this language:
"All the governments of Switzerland
must acknowledge that they are sim
ply from the people, by the people and
for tho people."
In an address before the Anti-Slavery
Society of New England, Theo
dore Parker, the celebrated Unitarian
divine, on May 29, 1850, used these
words: "Democracy is a government
of all the people, by all the people,
and, of course, for all the people."
To go a great deal further back than
we have yet gone, we find a Greek
demagogue, of tho age of Pericles,
Cleon by name, saying, about the year
420 B. C: "Men of Athens, I ani in
favor of the democracy that shall be
democratic, that shall give us the
rule which shall be of the people, by
the people and for the neonle ."
The similarity between all these
phrases is perfect, and it goes without
saying that Mr. Lincoln could not,
therefore, have originated the famous
expression as found in his Gettysburg
oration.
It does not by any means follow,
however, that Lincoln was a conscious
plagiarist. Mr. Lincoln had an in
quiring mind, and knew a great many
things, but no man can know every
thing; and it is more than likely that
ho had never heard of the phrase un
til his own mind- had conceived it.
But even if it was proven that Lin
coln had appropriated the phrase, as
charged, the fact would militate in
no serious way against his fame.
The greatest of the Germans, the
immortal Goethe, declared one day
to an intimate friend that if every
thing in his works that he had got
from others should be stricken out
he would not have a dozen pages left
r T,hG PtQBt of the Sroat the
fields of literature, philosophy and elo
quence have pillaged right and left
and that, too, without stopping to
make any acknowledgment of the
things appropriated.
If the martyr president appropriated
the ce ebrated phrase in question
without going to the trouble of men
tioning the person who was kind
enough to have helped him to it, he
only did what tho majority of the
kings of thought had dono before him-,
--rhomas B. Gregory, in New York
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