tion be once afloat in the bloody sea of Imperialism, what protection for their vested rights to fifty-six thousand millions of the national wealth have the 125,000 who hold thirty-three thousand millions and the million and a half who own twenty-three thousand millions?

A millionaire magnate, protesting against Imperialism, quotes Webster. (Reads from a letter:)

Justice is the greatest interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together wherever her temple stands, and so long as it is duly honored there is a foundation for social security, general happiness, and the improvement and progress of our race. And whoever labors on this edifice with usefulness and distinction, whoever clears its foundations, strengthens its pillars, adorns its entablatures, or contributes to raise its august dome still higher in the skies, connects himself, in name and fame and character, with that which is and must be as durable as the fame of human society.

One quotes Madison: "Perhaps, too, there may be a certain degree of danger that a succession of artful and ambitious rulers may, by gradual and well-timed advances, finally erect an independent government on the subversion of liberty. Should this danger exist at all, it is prudent to guard against it, especially when the precaution can do no injury."

Another quotes Whately: "We find in the case of political affairs that the most servile submission to privileged classes and the grossest abuses of power by these have been the precursors of the wildest ebullitions of popular fury— of the overthrow indiscriminately of ancient institutions, good and bad-and of the most turbulent democracy, generally proportioned in its extravagance and violence to the previous oppression and previous degradation. And,

long delayed, this law, which had been grossly violated, struck back 'most serpent-like'; and the awful tragedy in which that lesson was veiled spared not any order in its progress. Justice, treading ruthlessly in its slippery, bloody shambles, cried aloud, saying, Why callest thou me murderer, and not rather the wrath of God, burning after the steps of the oppressor and cleansing the earth when it is wet with blood? And strange indeed it must seem if the working of Providence is not kept steadfastly in view, that while the sun of liberty was thus eclipsed; while the presiding demons of that storm of havoc from day to day 'nursed the dreadful appetite of death'; while the swinish commune sat at their banquet of blood, the multitude, with a fixed and determined will and in a strange but steadfast handwriting, traced upon the walls of Paris the true watchwords of human progress, Liberté, Fraternité, Egalitê. It is the misunderstanding or misapplication of these terms which has constituted, through the courses of time, the original sin of all governments.”—Justice and Jurisprudence.

"The principle of equality by due process of law is founded upon the doctrine that 'Man is by nature a political being.' The principles of equality before the law, by due process of law, occupy great historical places in the arena of the world's history. They cannot be interpreted by mere legal fiction generated by partisan passion. Their sap is not derived from the scholastic tree of technical jurisprudence. In their political and con

stitutional interpretation these venerable provisions touch the life of humanity. Their historical, Christian significance means 'the unity of the human in the divine Fatherhood.' The noble lineage of these legal phrases is to be traced through all those proverbs and axioms of freedom and liberty which represent the coined wisdom and humanity of past ages. In whatever language they are written, by whatever tongue they are spoken, their true interpretation and mission is: Justice against violence; Law against anarchy;' 'Freedom against oppression.'"-Justice and Jurisprudence.

"Some Paracelsus of heathendom, 'covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages' and older far than jurisprudence, who had witnessed the mighty formations of the ages, and had come, in these latter days, to testify to the process of blood, through which the crude, coarse principle of inequality had been finally transmitted into that of pure equality in America, just as the mighty Meynour, conjured up by Bulwer in that marvel of creative genius, Zanoni, had watched the gradual change of gross metals into gold, the pearl, the diamond, and the ruby by the fire of the lamp of the Rosicrucians; some political seer, some Solon, familiar with all the precedents, principles, and charlatanry of despotism, would smile an icy smile when told by explanatory, excusatory, but selfaccusatory Jurisprudence, I have relaxed a little from a vigorous construction, a rigid enforcement of the constitutional, organic law, in order to accommodate its strict

equality of right to the weakness of our humanity."Justice and Jurisprudence.

"These gross approaches to inequality are the short cuts, the by-roads, over which the loathsome phantom, Despotism, always makes stealthy advances upon the territory of freedom."-Justice and Jurisprudence.

"Is it a task too Herculean for the intellectual backwardness of the enlightened aristocracy of America to apprehend the truth, that upon the divine side of this principle stand the Christian martyrs, the articles of Magna Charta, the Declaration of Independence, Washington, Sumner, Seward, Lincoln, those advance couriers of Equality, those agitators of the slavery question, the authors of civil rights, and an innumerable array of bright and shining lights? That by its human side stand Herod of Jewry, the Middle Ages of serfdo, feudalism, slavery, the original compromise between the North and South embodied in the Constitution which acknowledged slavery, the Fugitive-Slave Law, and the slavery events which preceded secession and armed rebellion in America, the dark shadows of the spirit of the piratical Malay, the assassinating Thug, Booth, Czardom, Nihilism, the socialism of Chicago."-Justice and Jurisprudence.

"From prehistoric ages downward this divine principle has erected temples to the unknown Providence. which worked by universal, inevitable law which altereth not; the law of a wise Providence, the unvaryingness of

whose rules of action is the same in the workings of nature as in the administration of governments—a law, the moral and political equilibrium of which can no more be disturbed with political impunity than a cyclone resulting from a disturbance of the atmospheric equilibrium can be controlled by the hand of man. It was this great law working in their hearts which piloted the Pilgrim Fathers to America. For the preservation of its primitive sacredness the organic union of the American state was first formed. To the holy covenant for this 'rule of right' the hand of Washington afterward set the crimson seal at Yorktown; for its overthrow Sumter's bombardment challenged the nation to civil war. After a career of matchless greatness, Grant, the intrepid hero, enthroned at Appomattox the natural justice of this immortal principle. The highest insignia of General Grant's glory as a Christian, warrior, statesman, and citizen are in the grandeur of the precedent, that illustration of the American principle of equality which this great conqueror of the New World afforded those of the Old-an example second to that of Washington alone, who, having also surrendered his sword to the state whose life it had saved, sat down at the foot of Peace and extended everywhere her olive branches."-Justice and Jurisprudence.

"Despotic power would clap her hands for joy at the eclipse of the star of liberty, and would view with delight the spectacle of the moping owls, whom its brightness had