The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-02-18
THE LESSON OF PAIN.
REV. THOMAS DIXON ON Ii4e eAlIA-
ciEs or iNoERsolusM.

Americas Course with Chni-Ths Rus
Sian Famine-ChArasfer the -RAssit ef
Struggles Joy L. Evolvsd frsn Sorrow.
NEW YORK. Feb. lA--Many have been
turned away from Association hall Of
late unable 10 obtain seatsa at tho Sunday
services. TIE interest continues 10 grow
in the series On .sThe Mistakes OF Colo.
mel IngersoIl" Rev. Thomas Dixon. Jr.,
preceded the sermon this morning by
the following remarks on soms OF our
recent English critics:
We have recently heen treated b some
extraordinary examples Of EngHsh preju-
dice in the treatment OF America and
American institutions BY. D certain GLASS
Of alleged thinkers In England
The chief characteristics Of these cxih
cisms have been falsehood. mAlignity
and stupidity. We have asked IN. aEnaze-
ment how England could produce such
prolific crop. Of fools In one season.
How on earth some men who have eyes
and ears and have passed tho period Of
mental infancy could so deiude them.
selves has been to Us profound mys-
terry There is only one explanation
possible. 1t is that the dominant classes
of England, who are largely In the pub
lie eye at this time, are beginning to feel
a resistless reflex influence Of democratic
ideas from America that threatens to
destroy some traditional ahsurdities Of
the English System Men Of this stripe
are so blinded by their fears, and hatred
of American ideas, that they fall into
hysterical lying about everything in
America. The destiny Of the English
speaking race, Is a coramon one. The
day is swiftly, coming when this race
will be one in spirit and In institutions,
in spite of the international liars on both
sides of the Atlantic. They had as wen
take due notice Of this fact now.
AN ENGLISH FREAK.
One Of these recent critics signs the
name Of Edward Wakefield to mass OF
stupidity in The Contemporary Review.
which bears the lurid title, THE. Brand
of Cain in the Great Republic" he de-
clares that the American takes 10 blood
as duck to water: that any man holds
himself in readiness to shoot another
from whom he thinks himself in. danger
of blow, or with whom he has even
had high words. He grayely illustrates
his statements by relating that while
travelling In the south he left the car at
a station to get lunch and asked two
passengers to keep his seat for him
Hear him:
when returned to tho car Ifound
tall, gaunt man, in . broad slouch
hat, apparently about to take. my, seat,
but yet not actually taking 1t. A glance
at my acquaintances opposite showed
me why he hesitated. Each OF them
was holding cup Of coffee to bis mouth
with his left hand, while his right
grasped a revolver covering the intruder.
Time being short, they were drinking
their coffee while they kept the. Brit
isher's seat The tall stranger politely
retired on my appearing. The, others
put their revolvers In their hip pockets
without any remark. and we resumed
our journey"
A better title to this article would
have been, "a Brand New Idiot from
the British Museum"
In The Fortnightly Review for Jan
uary, one William Roberts, grayely in.
forms the world that mob law in Amer
ica dominates even without q mild re-
monstrance. The animus Of this fellow
stupid malignity is easily seen in the
following sentence: i"To my English
readers would say, pause Q little. and
make sure that these American ipstitu.
tions you now SO ,ardently admire are
really worthy Of your admiration. Be.
ieve me, it is not q bad thing to lire in
a country where the law is administered
without fear or favor, where judges are
men of honor and without reproach. and
their decisions upright. c.Whereas in
America it is popularly said and largely
believed, that every judge5 has his
price,"
Could stupidity, and malignity, reach
absurder heights? Whatever may b
said of the police magistracy before
whom passes the slum populstion of the
cities, have yet to see the citizen Of
this republic who does not believe in the
honor and integrity Of the men who ad
minister the real, judicial functions Of
the state.
INTERNATIONAL LYING.
In the recent controversy with Chilli 9
certain class Of people in England have
filed the press with the most brutal and
contemptble comments upon Americar
nationality. No epithet has seemed tot
vile for them to hurl; no falsehood tot
absurd for utterance. Their whole treat
ment of the subject has been from the
beginning to the end a succession of bold
lies and vile insinuationa There Is M
longer any doubt that the rnling classes
whose authority rests on traditions and
abuses, have shifted the breezss from ths
coming battlefield of the age, wher
classes viii go down before the triurn
phant charge Of the manhood Of tht
massesl Well, let them look to it. IL
the meantime we might calmly ask ths
| English mossback what is the use to liz
about it?
ENGLISH DUDES.
It is good season to remember tina
AlucTiNdu a1dluOOA ~mChA1o 6OAASth
It is q good time to remind society q
this fact again. The effort OF societ.
swells to ape the decaying so, called aris
tocracy Of Europe should be- met witt
the emphatic contempt OF every mar
| who claims an ounce Of Amerizp man
hood. The so called leaders of Ameri
can society. who roll in the dirt before |
title stuck to some attenuated specimen
of the missing link masquerading as
man, merit the contempt they receiv'
from the object Of their worship. ant
the scorn Of a free manhood and woman
hood.
The American girl who marries q for
eign snob is q fool OF such unfathomabl
stupidity as'to deserve little pity whel
she is kicked and abused BY the brut
she calls '.My lord" Ths mother VIII
sells her own virgin daughter TO th
ncentious embraces OF titled De