The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-11-04

" hatii W is. North Carolina Philosopher
Talks bout.

Especial Cor. STATE CH oNICLF
4 1t ha- been long time since chatted
for Your readers, but iaye been noticing
+ the CHRoNicI.Ecloaely and breathing anens
every time | saw il standing up for The
right. Nr DIXON startled a great many
people by saying he couldn't bc both a
4 politician ana good Christian. think
/ you wrote we'll on his expression. W are
bound to have public leader, or servants,
lAuichever they perhaps they are
servants before election and leaders after
elcctlOnj. 1t viii not do to assume that
none can Do what society absolutely de
mand-, without easing to be Of that char
/ actcr that is the best qualification for
everything that ought To be done. In all
! proper work, public or private, man can
/ be good II he'll try, provided that work is
/ the work to which duty calls him. The
/ great trouble is that the devil is allowed
| too much control ana leadership III public
affairs. skill in horse racing or samplIng
/ Kentucky whlakcy is not good test OF
craftsmanship. Bad men-men who drink
and swear and gramble and talk obscenely
and waste their time and the people,
/ money in elegant dissipation and fashion
4 able folly must be- regarded rs too much
! III arrears to be able to square accounts
/ BY a few stump speeches OF semi occasional
! fifth rate efforts in the bodies 10 which
i tItN ittt ~tiiI To SIIpNttN e. the IjtD)lt III
| tercats Mind what | tell you, i change
is coming, Party cries from polluted lips
! have lost much Of their power But | was
! going to say that the editor of political
! paper must find it hard to be good Chris
! tian If he makes it his first object to
| please all his readers, he IS sure not to
! succeed in being Il good man. He can no
more afford TO put in hi, paper what every
| body wants him to put III, than he can
! afford to utter III Il pure parlor all the
! language that the foul mOuthed utter III
/ the circles Of folly and the haunts Of inlqu
| lty. 1t is even true that he cannot afford
To put in his paper what a great many
| editors that profess to be good do put IN
! their papers Think Of it. Why, you may
| find papers run or edited by Christian
men that for money help the turflnen TO
| keep up the gambling Of the racetrack;
help strolling play-wrishts to feed the
baser tastes OF the people; help the wor-
| shippers of seductive and sensational pleas
ure to decoy the easily tempted Of both
| sexes from the affairs of the church to the
corrupting dance; help the liquor sellers
to ruin homes and lives; help the lottery
| swindlers to fool and ROB the weak minded
| and dupe the poor Wrctches who are led
to try to get money in that bad way. But
some people want all such things to be
done by their papers, and 50 many editors
are more controlled by love Of money than
| by true principle
/ Well Well : Well The idea of a sane
man posing at the same instant as Chris
| tian, as a drummer for grog, and as the
/ hired agent of Il miserable lottery. But
/ who will say that there are not some good
men who are editing even political papers!
| They whose columns are devoted to right,
! though in defiance Of pelf or party. They
| whose advertisements are not dictated by
the men of the grog shop or the gamblers
Of the lottery. They who are willing, aye,
resolved, to be consistent and true or
/ perish. Who are they
But there are many other people besides
politicians and editors that are apt to find
it necessary to be very careful and always
careful if they are to be good.
Did you ever have much to do with
mules Did YOU ever drive a balky horse
/ Have YOU ever tended a farm hat was
rocky or coultered and ploughed new
! ground Have you spent hot seasons III
a mosquito region? Have you tried to
drive nails with bad hammer or to kin
die fires on 4 cold, wet day out of green
or sobby wood Did it ever fall to your
lot TO deal with mischieyous cattle and
hogs when they seemed possessed of al
| most human wisdom and to be fully bent
on destroying your little crop, Have You
i lived where there We're neighbOrS that
| We're always borrowing, or always making
| trouble about the dogs and the chickens
| and the stock and the children or always
| saying or doing something to make you
| feel bad. or to provoke you to anger Have
| YOU ever been bound to transact business
| with selfish and unreasonable men, or
| women! Have you ever been compelled
| to spend much time with those whose chief
| talent and delight seemed to be to make
| themselves disagreeabie! Have You ever
| had men to slander you, or to give you IN
| Jury in return for kindness, or to cheat
| you in a trade, % pretend 10 be friend
| " and at the same time crltlcise and
SANDER you? Have you ever had to bear
| the Whims of a poor victim of hyStera or
hypochondra Have you ever had tooth
ache neuralg gia, sick headache, rheuma-
| tism, dyspepsia? Have you ever failed
| time after time in your most cherished
| plans and efforts? Have you ever been
sorely disappointed in things or persons
when you had given reins to expectation
| Alas This old world is full Of trials.
! Still it has many-aye, great multltudes,
Of those who bear any or all of these things
with martyr heroism. And may not al!
that will, bear them too? Who cannot
| Hard, is it If it were not hard, it would
not be noble. If there We're no trials,
there could be no triumphs. God has or
| dained that those who faithfully try and
always trust shall never fail.
HERE AND THERE.