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CHANGES NECESSARY
Some pleasure is felt in repro
ducing portions of the address de
livered by S. S. Gregory the retir
ing president of the American Bar
Association. His remarks were
along the lyies so often taken by
men who are accused of undue ra
dicalism. They are not sentiments
which meet the requirements of
Fourtn of July orations, but they
ars remarks founded upon a com
mon sense investigation of matter
of fact. It is one of the eldest say- j
ings that times change and we
change with them—and yet no
thing is more evident that this is
not always the case, for nine
tenths of the troubles of this
world arise from the mis-adjust
ments to man's institutions to
man s present needs.
The conservative tendency which
is more or less inherent from
causes which need not be entered
into, but are understauable and
very easily ascertained necessarily,
involves the permanency of insti
tutions ilong after they have ful
filled their usefullness. Accord
ingly wc thus see the antagonistic
forces arising in society, the one
endeavoring to effect adjustment,
and necessarily the forces that
makes for progress, the other that
which insists upon things remain
ing r.s they r.re resisting the pro
per adjustment of institutions to
the needs of the times and the ene
mies of progress and the elements
of reaction.
This positive and negative force
is net confined to political institu
tions alone. It is observable in all
human creations whether morality,
law, government, industrial insti
tutions or religions. The struggle
grows the keener tnd fiercie: as the
need for adjustment increases, un
til at last revolution achieves the
needed overthrow where adjust
ment was denied. In a few words
this explains not the reason for,
but the process of evolution in so
ciety, and it is mere than
interesting to observe how clearly
present day politics not alone in
the United States but over the en
tire world endorse this plain view.
Instinctively the need tor great
reforms is felt by some whoso na
ture one might be inclined to re
gard as conservative, while on the
other hand reforms will never
satisfy those who take for their
guiding principle the necessity of
a complete change.
The writer yields to no man in
his admiration for the splendid
heroes of the American revolution,
but it is nothing but the drearist
tragedy that their real achieve
ments are so little understood, and
so absurdly explained by those
whose duty it is to teach them. It
is a manifest injustice to ihe
young of any country to pepetu
ally din into their ears that the
real ends sought for were some
imaginary ideas which are incap
able of realization, and that senti
ment outpourings concerning liber
ty are uttered which no human
mind rightly can grasp.
The heroes of the American re
volution differed in no respect from
the v.liage Hamdens who with
dnunoes breast the pett/ tyrants
of the fields withstood, in pther
lands. What they sought was a
mntcrnl independence for them
selves, and their greatness consists
in 'he fact that they partook in
the ceremonious birth of a new na
tion, a new country, a new contin
ent, a new worl 1. They fought to
ailj trt their institutions to tne cry
ing needs of the colonists, and in
doing so they founded the Amer
nan nation. They wer= revolution
ists. hut the beat, the gravest and
the wisest foresaw clearly Hint tin.
Institutions which they then estab
lished would become sooner or
later out of tune with the > eeds
of the country as it progressed
That fact is not taught in the
schools. It is kept back and is to
| be found only in the Works of
i those who pored ov^r neglected
i manuscript materials of American
history. Yet that the g^eat men of
that time roresaw that changes
would have to be made sooner or
later in the things they made find
the work they accomplished—that,
they realized that they had not ac
complished the alpha and omega
of freedom and independence there
today is ample testimony, just as it
is one of the greatest proofs of the
real greatness of these men that
they realized it. They were not
men who declared that what was
good enough for the earlier colo
nists was good enough for them.
Had they been such the United
States today would be the frag
ment portion of an empire in de
cay. The ent re forces of reaction
are directed at the present time to
maintain tilings as they are. 1 noy
refuse to permit institutions *.o ad
just themselves to the necessities
of the hour. They make an idol of
a human document and declare that
it is the furthermos* possible achie
vement. But no man or set of men
can set the finishing touches'•fo hu
man progress, and as long as one
man sufiers by the oppression of nis
fellow man, as long as real suffering,
real miseries accompany human in
stitutions it will Im rightly held
that those are capable pf improve
ment. When patient merit lias to
endure sufferings at the hands of the
unworthy, when those who produce
the wealth of a nation arc still for
ced to bear all its cumbersome in
convenieuticies, and when injustices
thrive before the dogs obeyed in of
fice, there is still win k for reform
and even revolution.
I Society, we must hold who place
firm hopes in the 3ense of right
within our foljow-men. makes ever
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towards the betterment of all things.
If we deny that, we deny that pro
gress is the rule, if we may use the
expression, and reaction is not the
exception.. Yet it will have to be
allowed that persecution can offec
) lively retard progress, and the
{ force of a perverted opinion stifle
tho expression of truth. It fls un
mistakably true as Mills said
"the ductum that truth (1. e. pro
gress) always triumphs over per
secution is op.o of those pleasant
falsehoods which mon repeat one
after another until they pass into
commonplaces, but which all exper
ience refutes. History teems with
instances of truth, put down by
persecution.”
And moreover that dictum which
Mills refers to is one of those vici
ous dictums which emascu
lates effort, qy impelling to
a deception wherein we be
gin to perceive that no effort
is required op our, part to accqmp
lis'r. the needed reforms. Xs Mil ip
states "the real .advantage which
truth has consists in this that
when an opinion is true it may be
extinguished once, twice, or many
times, but in the course .qf ages
there will generally be found per
sons to re-discover it, untill some
ono of its re-appearances falls on a
time when from favorable circum
stances it escapes persecution un
till it has made such a head as to
withstand all subsequent attempts
tq suppress it, ‘“and then too it
should be added it will have often
enough, barnacled itself with so
much error and reaction, that its
acceptance is no longer interalable
to the powers that be.
it is the very danger that all the
time assails progress and truth and
right that calls for the necessity
qf lighting to maintain them, of
working tprith all the powers avail
able to maintain them, for ^ey can
be suppressed, is not only possible
but often enough even probable.
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The elements of reaction are so
often identified with the antagon
ism to justice, to independence, to
human Ireedom, that they are also
identified with real powers interest
ed in the prolongation of a system
which has done well by them.
Their efforts are opposed to the
same instinctive efforts of man to
adjust his institutions to the needs
of the time, are the fo?s of all
change, and would destroy by fair
means or by foul all oppostion.
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