The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-06-29

second hand applicants; the brains
.of the cougtTy. the genias of the
couulry are no longer engaged in
works Of patriotic devotion, on
works o. humble piety, but they are
engaged n building, IL construction,
in mouey-making.
\ young fellow with head on
his shoulders and heart in his bo
som, turns away from the honorable
rewards of public life, and that
which hest assures and he SAYS to
himself. | cannot afford to go 10
congress for five thousand dollars ii
year when ! can make i've aud TWEEN
iy thousand in an office which il
would cost me nothing 10 get aud
nothing to keep aud where | am
master of ms fortune aud can do as
| have Il mind to,-and when ! ha, e
got enough, if ] have mind 10,
will buy ME seat III the United
States senate. (Laughter.) Sensi-
bic fellow, too, (laughter) bnt at this
rate how long shall it be before We
have crushed beneath this hard me-
tallic load all the good emotional
sentiment aud large hearted honora-
bic national feeling? 1t is certain
that We cannot carry the influence
Of 1T with us when we 90 to heaven,
and when We are required by our
Master TO give an account of om
stewardship how shall it be with us
if we point to our boarded millions
and say, "There. dear Lord, you can
have it ALL" (Laughter.)
Believe me there is great happi-
ness to be got in this world, and
there are days of happiness that we
can get by coming one kind:thought,
more than can be extracted by a
million of money (Applause.)
| do not mean to argue that the
poorest are the happiest, but no
more are the richest. The ennui
of the one and the dollar of the 9th
er have passed into a proverb, by
the greatest parodox that the peo,
pie who are collectively and relative
ly the poorest in Europe ar the hap
piest in the world. | mean the peo,
pie of Switzerland. A people with
an ideal Jeffersonian democracy
The governments frugal and simple
the officials are paid barely THEN
subsistence, the president of the
Swiss Republic receiving, | believe
less than thousand year, and "a.
the elections are annual there are
no motives or opportunities for cor.
ruption. Indeed the elections are
held on Sunday and in the churches
The greatest Of modern Swiss states
men, man who had been many
times president of the republic, and
a man in whose honor a noble bronze
statue stands in the great square il
his native capitol, died few years
ago in a dingy little apartment il
the city of Berne, and after his deatl
it was found that in order to obtai1
the needful medicine and comfort
in his last illness, he had to pawn {
:. ..,eryi"e af silver presented to him by
| the government of the United States
! This service was given to him by th'
United States as mark of esteem
| for his work in our behalf at tn,
Geneva Conference. There was f;
| proud, brave, poor man, one wht
would scorn to beg as he would scorl
to steal, and who went confidentl,
to his God, without so much as /;
franc to pay his ferry across th'
| stream.
Now the Swiss peasant in hi
chalet by the mountain side will
nothing 70 sweeten life, not so mucl
as flower, is the hapiest and proud
est man on the face of the globe
and Switzerland more than any 9th
er country vindicates the lines o
goldsmith,
dimes from Goldsmith not sent us by re
porterl
When the foreign foe in 70 gath
cred on the frontier, and the peopl
then warned off the warning FrencI
and Germans from Swiss soil, the
were as rugged then as they are now
And their loyalty has become his
torical. for the Swiss were wild
awake when the world was putin
on its jack boots, and the centurie
Just beginning her teens. | stan
reverently uncovered in the presenc
of those grave, proud, poor mour
taineers, and have sometime
thought should | ever become a
exile from my own country, it is tb
one spot where | might be able t
find something of happiness an
comfort.
But enough of this. Let US com
back to our own time and countr
and putting these things togetht
let us see what light they throw upo
the present and the future, with th
future, with regard to the none
standard, so / would that the NOR,
, standaFd-so low--wise men ma
then ask whether there is no hope ;
all for US, or not. Being somethiu
of an optimist | think there is, bt
if there is it must come from be
ter development of the nation;
chara cter and nearer approach {
the ideals embraced by our nation
system. | have always believed
moral forces, and organized ide;
: and shall never surrender that b
, lief to the claim that there is mo-
bad than good in human nature. Il
deed | am something of a Methodi
in the conceit that we are steadi
> going on from grace to grace t
wards perfection. although we ma
not obtain its :beatlfice. its perfectt
state, yet at least in the twentie1
century We will be nearer that mi
lenium promised by divine prophec
| believe we are on the ascendiI
and not the descending scale of II
tional progress, and that there a
= many signs of prosperity before u
We are the most happily situated
any people on earth, We are maste
v of the greatest continent, we a
f the professors of the greatest Chr
# tan government yet devised by Il
+ wit of man, system towards whi
- are steadily trandipp al tho patio