Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1912 — Rules Jefferson Lived By [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Rules Jefferson Lived By

The hundred and 6ixty-eighth anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson was celebrated with a big banquet ip Indianapolis April 13. In this connection Jefferson’s ten rules of life, which follow, will be of interest: 1. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend money before you have It 4. Never buy what you do not want because it 1b cheap; it will be dear to you. 5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold. 6. We never repent of having eaten too little. 7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8. How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. 9. Take things away by their smooth handle. 10. When angry, count ten becore you speak; if very angry, a hundred. Here are some of the great principles of government advocated by Mr. Jefferson in his first inaugural address, March 4, 1801: Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state of persuasion, religious of political. Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none. The support of the state governments in all their rights as the most

competent administrations for our domestic eoncerrfs and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies. The preservation of the general government In its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad. A jealous’‘care of the right of election by the people. A mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution, where peaceable remedies are unprovided; Absolute acquiescence decisions of the majority, the vital principles of republics, from which there is no appeal but to force the vital principle and immediate pareilt of despotism. A well disciplined militia, our best reliance and for the first moments of war until regulars may relieve them. The supremacy of the civil over the military authority—economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened. The honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith. The diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason. Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of habeas corpus. Trial by juries Impartially elected. “These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment; they should be the creed of our political faith; the text of civic instruction; the touchstone by which to try the service of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty and safety.”

“The Fourth." “A century and more has passed, and as the foundations of this government are more firmly settled, as the Structure reared by the fathers now spans the continent from ocean to ocean; and has victoriously established Its right to be, political liberty has ceased to be the mere dream of the enthusiast, and has become the everyday fact of the men of thought and action in the world. This was the first ;Btep, and we are here to glory in it, and to boast of those ancestors vhc suffered and toiled and fought tc compllsh If—David J. Bre -r.

Grave of the Author of the Declaration of Independence.