The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-23

HIS VIGOROUS PULPIT
REVIEW.
AMERICANIsM NEEDED,

canism.
/. We need it in society. The ef-
fort OF society swells to ape the de-
caying so-called aristocracy of Eu-
cope should be met with the empaat-
ic contempt ofeYery man VINO claims
an ounce of American manhood.
The so.called leaders Of American
society, who baselY roll in the dirt
before a title stack to some attenuat-
ed specimen Of the miseing link mas
querading as man, merit the con-
tempt they receive from the obj ject
of their worship, and the withering
sco-n of free manhood and woman
hood. The American girl who mar |
ries a foreign snob ia fool of such
unfathomable stupidity, as to deserve
little pity when she IS kicked and a.
bused by the brute she calls "My
Lord" The mother who sells her own
virgin daughter to the licentious en-
braces of titled debauchee is mean
er than the procuress who sells for
money the virtue OF another woman's
child A spade is pade. A dis
eased debauchee, is still a diseased
debaachee, though be does wear a
checked suit, an idiotic expression,
single barrelled eyeglass, and at
tenuated title.
2. We need more vigorous A
mericanlsm in our education OF the
youth of the nation. Every effort to
Europearize our public school sys-
ten should be resisted, as we would
resist the assault Of a foreign iroE-
clAd in our harbor. The bulwarks of
this nation are free brains, free boys,
free schools. If our school system
be destroyed, the foundations of the
Republic will surely be shaken. We
have foreign communities now in
some Of our states who not only res
, fuse to conform their methods to the
spirit Of American Institutions, but
with the fury and hatred Of old world
superst- tions and traditions refuse
to allow the use of the Engllsh Ian
guage--the language Of the nation s
that have usurped the total function
+. of public education.
3 We need more vigorus Ameri
canfsm in politics. Europeans have
t been busy for the past few weeks In
Y structing US in the principles Of oivi
y. government. We have received th
l. startling Information, by way OF The
d decaying monarchles Of Europe, tha
n the American constitution is fail
s. ure Thanks for the inform alton
If Some of us have long suspected tha
,. i. was not perfect instrument, bu
=, we prefer to mend it in our own way
le inasmuch as we suspect that with a
it it's faults it is still better than any
n thing yet produced in three tho'
IF sand years of effort across the waite
We have worried along with it 8
Of far and haye attained at least SON
TX degree of prosperity. We have grow
he from mere handful of people, stru'
5e Cling in the wildernesses of the A
X lantic coast line, to continental n
or ton that stretches from sea-to.se
and from eternal winter On the mort
to eternal spring on the south, COL
tanning 64,0O0,O00 of the people.
the meau time we have managed
ID careful saying to accumulate enoue
IF ca; ital to buy one half the know
worlds hemisphere-and ha'
be money enough left to capitalize
"c new nation in the yet unexplore
~ Western wild. The hemisphere '
od could buy lucIudes, By the way,
he ore corner, little fragment of lal
Ii called Italy, with q few appurtens
.es ces in the way of 8 small crown al
m sceptre, palace or two, some int
estiug rains, and a few million d.
lars in local banking houses.
The recent hluster of the ltali
government was most amusi
" piece of cheap impudence. Ihl
,bs for a moment Of little gimlet head
If aristocrst drawing himself up to
md full height over there IN Rome, a
10 in fuzzy laundering forth the ar
III" edict: ':Let the Americans see tc
new that they amend their constitution
be The ridiculous impudence Of it!
DR. man who represen ed an infant :
asC ministration few days old, and
- infant government hardly
cad enough to have fully Inflated
Soc lungs! The greatness of histC
Italy is the heritage Of the rs
The mother of art and letters
ing pay Co her the highest reye ere
Of ciyiiiz alton. But the Italy OF
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