The Grange: a Study in the Science of Society, Practically Illustrated By ...
The Grange: a Study in the Science of Society, Practically Illustrated By ...
John G Wells
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Therefore we name as the first positive trait of the organization of this peculiar type that it must pro- ceed from the people themselves. It cannot be im- posed by any superior grade or class among them, for they have none. It cannot be dictated by any outside power, without abridging the liberties of those dictated. For a superior power without their boundaries, or for a superior class within those boundaries, to confer republican liberties on a people amounts to little else but a demonstrati...on that then and there organic order of the dictatorial type is sinking into decay. The peo- ple that lack the power or the will to take their liber- ties despite any efforts put forth to withhold them, Digitized by Google^ lOO THE GRANGE. will have little skill to use, or power to retain those liberties when they shall have been conferred. A republic, in order to be genuine, must develope out of the people of whom it is to be composed. Otherwise it cannot be a vital organic growth. A republic which can be manufactured by an outside party, and conferred on a people, will have been made out of dry lumber.
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