tion will enable a special rich-privilege class to secure whatever powers they wish, especially laws that will please the rich, enlist the rich, and additionally enrich the rich. Such a strong government will override the rights of the states. A political party advocating such doctrines will create a plutocracy. This European tendency must be checked if the monarchial spirit is to be kept out, and I shall organize an opposition which will be known henceforth as the Republican party and we will by that party make masterly efforts to evolve a higher and better system of government than Europe has ever known."

Hamilton-"In establishing a National Bank, it is true we shall use a moneyed class to the end that the nation's new government may be strengthened, but I am not concerned with a class but with a nation. If it is necessary to use a class to accomplish a valid purpose I will do it. My object will always be the supremacy of the nation at the expense of the class within the nation. To me government is a means, never an end. I believe in inspiring the growth of a government that will be the strongest on earth. I am a Federalist, and favor a strong central government, with a corresponding diminishing of the authority of the states. I am not a monarchist when I say the government of England is the best form on earth, but I would use it only as a model, not to copy, but to imitate. It is the only government in the world which unites public strength with individual security. The people will not brook a monarchy, only a republic can be founded in America. But I would unite and cement the states into a union and form a nation."

Jefferson "Your admiration for the English government tends to ward a monarchy and your National Bank will foster a moneyed aristocracy. I hate aristocracy because it means tyranny and oppression and it is in opposition to the principles of liberty and equality. I would found a government on the broad theory of political equality and equal rights of all men. A representative government based on universal suffrage.

"That government is best that governs least.' Therefore, I am a Republican-a Democrat-and favor local self-government and state supremacy, for I believe the people are capable of governing themselves."

Hamilton "I have little faith in the people's ability to govern themselves, therefore I am in favor of a strong central government with concentration of power in the hands of those especially fitted and set apart to govern. Therefore the great danger of the federal government lies with the states. I fear democracy because it may lead, as it has done in all history, to anarchy and ultimate despotism. From the beginning of governments among men in all time down to the beginning of the nineteenth century, I use history and experience from which to draw my conclusions. I challenge any man to point to one republic worthy of the name existing today, this year of our Lord 1789. The crushed and dismembered commonwealths of the past show a republican form of government at once most difficult and most dangerous and our own Confederacy confirm this fact.

"The people are not infallible. "The people can do no wrong,' is as fallacious as "The king can do no wrong.' 'Crucify him! Crucify him!' cried the people when Christ was before Pilot. Vox populi est non vox Dei. The voice of the people is not the voice of God. A wreckless democracy is the most terrible of despotisms. If we incline too much toward democracy we shall shoot into monarchy.

"But with our Senate to check the unstable and passion-vacillating tendency of the House of Representatives, and a strong executive, and by giving the Constitution a liberal construction, we will have a national government with a strong soul and strong organs by which that soul operates. Safety as well as liberty are the true objects of government.'

Jefferson "I fear you cannot establish a democracy, a government of the people by going about it in that way. I believe in the people, I am willing to trust

the people, I am pleased to be called the man of the people. Why can not man be trusted with the government of himself? If he can not, then how can he be trusted with the government of others? Have we found angels in the form of kings to govern us? Let history answer that question.

"I am not an anarchist only in the position that the lowest have equal rights with the highest. I have high estimate of the capacity of the American people for self-government. I have a high opinion of the wisdom and stability of our democracy. I believe we have now established a republic that already is the strongest on earth." (This scene may close here.)

Hamilton "I believe that men are devoted also to their ideals, laws, religion and institutions, the sum total of which make up their civilization. I believe that the individual is strong because of the power of the nation and that the nation is strong because of the devotion of the individual.

"I am a Federalist, a Nationalist, who believes that deeper than his loyalty to his class or his state, is his loyalty to his nation and the national ideals under which he lives.

"I believe in the idea that the nation is something more than the sum of the individual states composing it. It is something more than only the all-of-us. Both past and present conditions show that mankind does regard the state as more than all of us. The nation represents to most of us something more noble than a mere convenience; a nation is greater than the sum of its subjects. One of the duties of every cititzen is the well-being of the state.

"We have this day laid down the principles that will grow into two great political parties in this country. The one will advocate the doctrine of State Rights; a strict construction of the interpretation of the Constitution; will oppose the doctrine of Protection; tend to diminish the powers of the executive department and the powers of the Senate, and at the

same time increase the powers of the House of Representatives.

"The other, the Federal party, will be the National party, and will be strong for the preservation of the Union in order that the states may be protected by it. It will favor a liberal construction of the Constitution with the doctrine of Implied Powers delegated to Congress. It will advocate a protective tariff system and will seek to preserve the dignity of the United States Senate to serve as a check upon the over-hasty tendency of the House of Representatives. It will seek to preserve and maintain a strong central government as the best means of guaranteeing to its subjects the fullest possible freedom and protection.

"And now, Mr. Jefferson, you are a DemorcraticRepublican. I am a National Federalist. You would see to it that the states are protected in their rights. I would see to it that the Union is preserved in order that your states may be protected by it and for such protection they will be loyal to the Union. You are strong for state independence and jealous for the greatest freedom of the people. I am strong for the national Union which will protect and guarantee the greatest freedom.

"You, Mr. Jefferson, are proud of the fact that you are a citizen of Virginia. With equal pride I assert that I am a citizen of New York. But it is with far greater pride that we can say we are citizens of the United States of America, the noblest republic on earth. (A good speaker, well trained in elocution, will be able to give all the above and hold the interest, but a shorter version may easily be arranged.

Scene 3. The Great French Ball. Washington attended and took a part in the dance. All the French appearing were gaily dressed in French costume and all others in Continental costumes.

Scene 4. Stage set for two scenes from the old play, "Rip Van Winkle," in costumes of the period.

ACT IV

THE EVOLUTION OF THE FLAG

Scene 1. The thirteen original States by their representatives are arranged on the stage with reference to the struggle between the Slave and Free States. The Slave States on the right and the Free States on the left.

North Carolina (12), Nov. 21, 1789; Verginia (10), July 26, 1788; South Carolina (8), June 23, 1788; Maryland (7), May 28, 1788; Georgia (4), Jan. 2, 1788; Delaware (1), Dec. 6, 1787.

New York (11), July 26, 1788; New Hampshire (9), June 21, 1788; Massachusetts (6), Feb. 6, 1788; Connecticut (5), Jan. 9, 1788; New Jersey (3), Dec. 18, 1787; Pennsylvania (2), Dec. 12, 1790; Rhode Island (13), May 29, 1790.

Columbia, with flags for the States as they enter the Union stands on a platform near the center, back, near the entrance. Uncle Sam stands L. upper entrance and announces each State, as it asks for admission into the Union.

Uncle Sam "Columbia, Vermont asks admission into the Union."

Columbia "Admit her."

The representative of Vermont enters, kneels to Columbia, who offers her a flag with 14 stars and 14 stripes upon it. Vermont takes it, marches down center of stage and repeats:

"I am the State of Vermont. The Green Mountain State. I am bounded (bound the state). My birthday is March 4, 1791 (date of admission).

Vermont marches round to left and stands just behind New York.

The next State to enter is Kentucky and follows the same routine bounding the State, giving its birth date (admission)