You have to remember that Twain lived and wrote during the Gilded Age
which made the conditions of Oliver Twist look like a country club.
Government power was just an arm of the industrialists then and
frequently turned onto the people. Republican think tanks have made
it clear that a return to that era is their goal. Decrying public
power is just exactly what they want you to do, rather than calling
for the heads of your representatives who wrecked it.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Sep 7, 2005, at 1:31 PM, Wayne Culberson wrote:
> Mark Twain again:
> " The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the
> private
> affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble,
> through
> the rivalry of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official
> recognition, and there is great danger that our people will lose our
> independence of thought and action which is the cause of much of our
> greatness, and sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or
> German who
> expects his government to feed him when hungry, clothe him when
> naked, to
> prescribe when his child may be born and when he may die, and, in
> time, to
> regulate every act of humanity from the cradle to the tomb,
> including the
> manner in which he may seek future admission to paradise."
>
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