The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1890-07-31

| visit. The good woman goes within
and with an air Of relief and disgust,
/ declares that she WAS bored 10 death
| and hopes that those visitors may
never come around again. The child
sits, listens and says nothing, but
what are its thoughts? Mother is
the very essence Of perfection, she
has done nothing wrong, therefore
Fdcception is not wrong and also
here l. being laid the false t0unda-
ton OF a false csaracter-a life Of
| deception. Il life worse than failure.
IN TIE COMMERCIAL WORLD.
Here we see the dangerous and ter
rible fruits of the thoughtlcss pro-
misses of the home life and the sup
posed to be harmless and necessary
! batteries and amenities of social life.
! The boy becomes q man, is careless
Of his promises in business matters
and thinks it necessary TO deal in
tiattcry and deception TO succeed
with men. So he drifts out into life
| and is sooner or later placed in the
worlds catalogue As doubled faced
and unreliable man. There is large
class Of this kind of men, but differ
ing in the degree of deception. One
man, "A, is VIGOROUSLY known to be
unreliable. He goes to B and asks
for loan of one hundred dollars.
b says that he is sorry that he is un-
| able to accommodate him but has
not the money, while at the same
time he has one thousand dollars in
| his pocket, now 3 is known to the
world as an honest man, meets all
his obligations, but he tells lie and
does it because he is facing a liar.
Both of these men are poisoned with
deception, it is a difference in de.
gree and not in kind. If A had of
fered to give B a mortgage THAT
| biighting curse of the commercial
World) then Is would have used no
deception but would gladly furnish
the money; and here we can see the
philosophy of the mortgage. If
! truth were in men-if the corner
| stone to character was not missing
the mortgage would yet be unborn.
You trust man in a business trans
action, he fails 20 keep his word,
| you attempt to force him to do so by
the law, he jumps behind the BOOM
proof bankruptcy act and homestead
law and laughs at justice. Hence
when the existence of the corner
stone of truth is doubted in a char
actcr, we turn to the mortgage as an
engine force him to act the truth.
Oh what sad commentary on char
acter. morality and christianity is
the mortgage Indebtedness of this
! world.
IN THE POLITICAL ARENA.
Here we see the same early int1u-
! ences resulting III the same diseas-
ed character, bearing alike calami-
tOus fruit. How often do we see
men who have been hOnored ana
! trusted by their people and exalted
to high positions deal in trickery
and chicanerE to accomplish pur-
/ pose, how often do we see them be-
tray the trust and confidence Of the
people for selfish purposes, how Of
/ ten do we hear them stand on the
hustings and attempt to deceive the
/ people with false statements and
! demagOgery. Such men are unsafe
and dangerous. The foundation of
their character is the quick sands of
deception and the mire IF treachery.
The whole foundation is bad and
the cornerstone of truth is not there.
There is a large class of so-calle d
politicians who are not so bad in ac-
tiOns as the above class, but yet who
are tainted with the same poison of
deception to greater or less de-
gree. One wishes to be candidate
for an office. He takes occasion and
finds frequent opportunities to say
that he has been requested and urged
by many of his friends to allow his
name to be used,-that he had not
thought about the matter himself,
but that his friends insisted so that
he would try to arrange his business
ST. that he could accept, while at
that very time no man had ever re-
quested him to run for the Office and
probably no one, or atleast very
few, thought him fit or competent
for it. The basic clement of truth
is wanting in both Of these charac-
tiers, and under the same circum.
stances the latter is capable of acting
as disgracefully as the former. II
is fortunate that our country is not
governed entirely by such, else il
had gor e to ruin long ago. Thank:
Oh high that there are few of Cod:
noblemcR in political life though
almost as scarce as black pigeons
who are incorruptible, who stand III
and battle tor the right. Theil
characters are based on the corner
stone of truth and they stand to-da.
as the anchors to our national safety
And so we might continue through
) every phase of human life and a
every turn we are met with tn.