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Paternal Government Is Despotic

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 29, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 22.

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Paternal Government Is Despotic

In resenting the suggestion that the government established by the United States in Porto Rico, is imperial, the Independent says that “those who utter it forget the existence and qualities of the American people. The government of Porto Rico is paternal rather than imperial.” But who does not know that the imperial government of Rome, of which this, so far, is a perfect likeness, was the most paternal government that ever was seen on the earth; and, therefore, the most despotic—which is only to say that any paternal government, among nations, is only despotic.