Life — January 19, 1911 — page 35: what you’re looking at

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American Devotion to Slavery James Bryce is perfectly well aware that the founders of this republic dis- trusted the people. He made the fact conspicuous when first he gave “ The American Commonwealth” to the world, and he is still harping upon it in the new and revised edition, still insisting that the Constitution of the United States must be interpreted in ht of that dislike of liberty which was so characteristic of the men who threw off the British yoke. What James Bryce fails altogether to see is that this dislike of liberty was not pe- culiar to the members of the glorious convention that sat at Philadelphia in the year 1787. It has survived among their descendants. I distrust the American people because I am an American, and the American people dislike liberty because they resemble one another, If Americans want to be free, let them go abroad where there are free countries. My personal freference is for the system of things we have in this republic, because I was brought up in Philadelphia. Oi course, we Americans go to ex- tremes at times in our eagerness to avoid liberty, and I do not minimize the fact for the sake of proving that British freedom is a bad thing. I am naturally a little narrow, being an American myself, as I said, and there- fore, inaccessible to ideas. But it does not necessarily follow that I would be more efficient or more agreeable if I dwelt in a land where there is some freedom, like France. Look at Ire- land. She enjoys no more liberty than the United States, and I am glad of it, because the Irish are in consequence as agreeable a$ ourselves. The mo- ment a land has won its freedom, its people begin to be disagreeable. The _THE ORIENT COOK'S Tours de Lure to Egypt, the Holy Land, Turkey. Grreee, ete. 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A na- tion not peculiarly adapted by tradi- tion and temperament to the revised statutes of the United States would sicken and die under them. They would hurt even the Russians. That is, because they want to be free and we do not. If this were a free coun- try all Americans would be perfectly (Continued on page 184) . comicbooks.com