Is This a White Man’s Government?
Again, consider the 4th of July speech
which President Wilson made in Philadel
phia this year. He said—
“ But there is a limit to that which has laid
upon us more than any other nation in the
world.
We set up this nation and we propose to set it
up on the rights of man. We did not name any.
differences between one race and another; we did
not set up any barriers against any particular race
or people, but opened our gates to the world, and
THE JEFFER£ON!Ai\
said, all men who wish to be free come to us and
they will be welcome. We said this independence
is not merely for us—a selfish thing for our own
private use—but for everybody to whom we can
find the means of extending it.
Now we cannot with that oath taken in our
youth; we cannot, with that great idea set before
us when we were a young people and practically
only a scant three million, take upon ourselves,
now that we are a hundred million, any other
conception of duty than what we entertained at
that time.” . - - < - -
Now. that kind of talk is'mere school-house
gibberish.
In what respect did our ancestors differ
from other colonists who swarmed out of the
original hive, and flew away to seek a new
home ?
Every Greek colony that settled on the
shores of the Mediterranean, before Hengist
and Horsa landed in savage Britain, estab
lished a liberty-loving, self-ruling democracy.
Every human swarm thrown out by the
great hive of the North, and settled in a
newly discovered region, practised the simp
lest democracy and Home Ru»?.
