SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1923.
THE MICHICAN DAILY
PAGZ SEVEN
DEMOCRACY this inane talk, and to -prove my es- were quite serious and unaffected. But interpretation-of course is that k de-
(Continued from Page Two) sential imbecility. But one copy would they either infitnitely overestimated termines the relative degree to which
maintain that the mud-smeared men, he sufficient, for all are more or less their own ability, or were pathetical- Mr. Gilberg and Mr. O'Brien may par-
who twist their tobacco-stained mus- literal translations of one another, ly unaware of the colossality of theicite in the government.
1 (iIndeedrthefvalidity of such affor-
taches, and who dig our sewers, are ith that of the United States per- task to which they set themselves, Indeed, the validity of such a for-
equally capable-or even capshI e-o has abeing the archetype. It may when they undertook to correct an an- mna is a prerequisite to the exist-
exercising the same rights of govern- further be anticipated that these pa- omaly which God perhaps overlooked d
ment as those men who comprehend triots would insist upon reading cer- when He created the earth: the dis- becoming too ohvious.
Hume, we expose ourselves to impolite tain passages aloud I venture to quote tressing fact that individualis are not Recall the presidential election of
whisperings as to our sanity. For, the selections beforehand: mutually equal. I sincerely believe the autumn of 1920. Unless one was
does a normal six-year old child "We h'old these truths to be self that it is quite futile for congressmen, a Socialist, or a Prohibitionist, or of
know what is best for his own wel- evident, that all men are created or deputies, or members of. parlia- some other species of uplifters, one
fare? how to govern himself? Is a equal.....The people of the common- ment, even to attempt to annul by of- voted either for Mr. Cox or for Mr.
man, physically adult, but mentally a wealth have the sole and exclusive ticial legislation any of the older laws Harding. Merely for the sake of es-
moron, anymore competent to judge? right of governing themselves..... -say, those which have existed since chewing the voluminous, let us make
Does the six-year old child know what and forever hereafter shall exercise the end of the pliocene period. the vulnerable supposition that all
is best for his parents? Does the and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, these voters were sincere. Then are
adult imbecile know what is best fori and( right which i not, or may not Individuals are not mutually equal. erning themsselves? Perhaps you will
his fellow-men? Would any leislat hereafter be, by them expressly dele- If they are, what is all this business arnithat ey re ethat only
or think of permitting a normal four ;aed to the United States of Americra 01 education about? It must then be thoe who ted fre not; that only
teen-year old boy. just out of gram- ' Congress assembled. So much st of insanity to try to nake o hover .ar
a t)'t o insnityto ty to' dak inn th e governing. Are they?
nar-school, to vote? These are ques-! from the Constitution of Massachus- perssn better than another, if it is in-
tions startlingly close beneath one' ,etts. This from France: "Les ho- mutably true that all instividuals'are Both Mr. Harding and Mr. Cox, be
nose. msi naissent et deieurentt ibres et equal to one another. They must then ing human beings, essentially possess-
ut tsere it losy i- sticipatedl 11t eg:ux en droits. Les distinctions so- e rile to be equated so one anotser d distinctive personalities. They
smse of those wse save a property ciales n tpevent etr sfondees tiesur like the qsantities its a nmatt atit were individuals. By that I mean that
developed sense of patriotism will go l' utilite cosiune." s Again: Los utioi: that is, Isaac Gilberg=Pat- the sintl prcesses of hese two per-
crninng to the shelves of their librar- hombres naven iguales..... But rik O'Brien in sthe same manner as sons were not precisely similar; that
ise, ts find copies of declarations of thie hypothesis of democracy has been x-y. Or, assuming x and y to refer to t sey would react differently to the
national independence and dtesiocratic repeated often enough. the same personagess as formerly, to aIs etit es ryosne of the multitude of
eonstitutions-those of the 'sitett It is improiishle that those gentle- siiake the ftornisla general, - x=ky;r h
States, of France, of China, and per- min who coss a ics".. these various con- whrc. k is a constant to be deteri- voters possessed idividual differences
haps a dozen other nations--to bear, stittions- aspired to be sods. On the ei tr1cm the etperinents of the psy- S si'-itiusthe presilentia
witness against these tenets, to quiet ether hand, the (hiances are that they chlogists and the physiologists. The ehiaites tcrss eact thetpr. In oth-
er words, no tw o persons if given the
-- - ispresidential, or any other duties,
i aould perform those duties in pre-
cisel the srie manner. The most
f haS1 then that onoecan do is to vote for
Heart of the Season ale of sismeone who is somewhat like one's
self; to give one's consent that some-
one else may govern. To maintain
that one can govern through another
is as absurd as to say that two per-
psins i-c identical
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The question is not whether the
people have a right to govern them-
selves; it is the problem of whether
or not they can govern themselves.
And they are confronted by the fact,
discomforting though it may be, that
they are politically unequal to one
another. They cannot help it. Antl
there iM no use to become maudlin
about the matter. Government by the
people is empirically impossible. This
current rot about rights to govern-
ment may as well be left unsaid, fom
right and possession are not always
an intimate couple.
I presume that before this monster
is finally backed off the edge of the
cliff, it will pu up a valiant defense,
and make much hideous noise about
"government by principles". But It
merits only its inevitable reduction ad
absurdum. This conception that gov-
ernment officials are the puppets, of
the people who elect them, or if you
wish, of these "great principles", Is
"delicate hunor; ans this incessant
talk about "disinterestedness" forces
a smile.
The whole thing is admirably
adapted to oratory, to flattery of. the
sob, and to rhetorical flourishes. For
e-sample, the following from Dr. Nicb-
slas Murray tuter, Presitent of Cot-
umbia: 'False democracy shouts,
Every man down to the level of the
i-eragc . True demiocracy cries, All
men tip to their fullest capacity for
service and achievement.'
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olliar'hies of the United State,
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