The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-06-25
ABOUT MONEY.
1t Always Has Been Creation of Law
and Will he to the End of Time-A
Plan for Paper Money Made Legal
Tender by the Government.

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tions in the pathway to the advance
ment of civilization and humanity pro-
ceed from the ignorant and selfish.
1t has taken all the past to make up
thl present. We should be mindful OF
the past, that we may avoid the mis-
takes of those who have gone before
us; careful Of the present, that we may
attain the highest standard of truth and
excellence; and solicitous of the future,
that what We achieve may be legacy
rich with fruit for those who come after
US.
Every calling in life can be reduced
to an exact science. Even war, styled
1.-The science Of barbarism,n has been
demonstrated in the present century
by Germany's peerless commander
Won Moltka to be great science. He
was the perfect masterin detail, not only
of everything touching war, but before
he issued single order to mobilize his
grand army in the Franco-Prussian
war, he knew through his engineers
every knoll in the topography of
France over which his army had to
pa >. Every battalion in that vast
army Of two millions ofmen was moved
with unerring precision. Before its
march fortress after fortress fell, not by
slaughter, but by maneuvers. Even
the Great Metz, with 10000 French
soldiers, surrendered Internationally,
almost without firing a gun. On and
on moved this mighty host until Paris,
the proud capital Of Imperial France,
lay PROSTATE at the feet of the great
commander. 1t was reserved for the
godlike Won Moltke, in the nineteenth
century, to demonstrate that war is
not butchery, but is great science.
Government is a still greater science
than war. The victories Of peace are
as much more glorious than the vic
tories of war as the prosperity and
happiness of people are more joyous
than their desolation and death. The
statesman is as much superior to the
military commander as the blessings of
civil government are superior to the
rigors Of military rule.
The people who put their public
affairs into the hands of untutored
barbarians, who never fail for self and
place to sell out God and country, may
with certainty expect the most dire
calamities to befall them.
The law of congeniality is the law
of attraction. Attraction is the law
through which the communicating
power is made.
In the earliest age of mankind the
clean made themselves as congenial as
possible to the first cause, and, imbibing
truth from that perfect intelligence,
evolved principles and founded sys-
TENS of government. Minas Of Crete,
Theseus, Lycurgus, Solon, Socrates,
Plato and Aristotle were the foremost
pioneers in this great work. Their
teachings have survived the shocks and
wrecks of time and change and have
come down through the ages to us, and
will live to the last syllable of time.
The principles taught and the systems
of government founded by these god
like minds, and the principles and
systems that have flowed from them as
mankind travelled down the ages, were
we'll understood by the trainers of our
system of governments. They gathered
together what they conceived to be the
best and best suited to the times and
their condition and formulated and
embodied them into written constitu-
ton, which is the basis of our govern
ment and which is the greatest written
instrument of government eXtant.
Shall we rest content with what our
progenitors did century ago and de-
clare to the world that We are de-
generate people? Never! We have
learned more in the last fifty years
than mankind learned in all the cen.
tures that preceded ours. Inventions
have been so numerous and improve
nents so vast in that time the whole
material world is being bound around
with telegraphic wires and all civiliza,
tions are brought in contact and con-
fict one with the other to such a degree
that the lower must yield to the higher
order. Let the unceasing cry be on,
push, push on, and never falter. Let
our glorious country be ever in the lead
for the betterment of mankind.
It has been said and repeated by way
of reproach "an Independent is worse
than Radical.n Such twaddle may
have its effect on the timid; but ii
merits and meets the scoru and con,
tempt of the clean, loyal, able and
brave everywhere. What would the
world be if there had beer no indepen.
dents, no Radicals? Independents, tc
blaze out new lines OF thought and
Radicals to tear up by the roots old
systems and inaugurate new ones
Mankind everywhere would be cursed
with efete systems of government
with stagration and death.
During the first tnree-quarters of 6
century OF the life Of oUr government
great constitutional questions were
always up for solution. They were
theoretical and Of no practical utility
Our times are eminently practical. w
have great economic questions now
pressing for solution-land, transporta
ton and finance-the last in all age
has been and is now Of the creates
importance and magnitude.
| After = calm survey ofthe faId Will