The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1893-12-27


with the rapture of its beauty and har-
mony, it were worth twice $500, ,OOO,O 900.
Scarcely a day passes in our history
but that the cable brings us the news OF
divorce suit or separation between an
American girl who married titled brute
under the impression she was getting
into society" When will they learn
they are getting out of society and john
inga contemplate little mob, the founda-
ton Of whose class is the brute part of
mans nature?
The last news we have from the old
world is that the daughter of man
who rose from the ranks of the poor to
be many times millionaire and married
a title has sued for divorce from her
prince" This prince, we are informed.
is young debauchee, whom no decent
man could allow to enter his home be-
cause of his disreputable habits, and who
boasted that he would yet take the inde-
pendence out of his American wife.
Well, the American girl who marries a
titled brute deserves no better than She
gets. And yet, the pity of it!
BUT ONE GOOD TITLE.
Let our girls and boys know there is
but one title to nobility-the nobility OF
a great nature The man who separates
himself from his fellow men by class or
CLIQUE wall is by its limitations so
much smaller a man. The man who be-
lieves the sun rises and sets for 400 peo-
pie and aspires to be one of them has
only 400 people, and very small people
at that. in the world in which he lives
and reduces himself to stray poodle
whining at the gate and hoping for adj
mission in the dim by and by, when
Ward McAlEster or some other great
butler shall smile. This exposition will
teach us here most important lesson.
This triumphant expression of lifeby
the common people is the sure prophecy
of the day soon to dawn when they will
rule supreme over the whole social order.
The same reasons make this a certain
ty which made the absence of society
in attendance and management a for
cone conclusion.
First-The vulgar rab5le. called the
common people, seem to navea practical
monopoly Of patriotism. S:!ch a f,:ir
was first supreme expression of ma
sional CONSCIOUSNESS Society" has no
national consciousness. Society takes
no note of any of the vulgar affairs OF
this dirty earth that originate and haze
their being outside their set. The
smaller tie '.set" the more perfect it Is
considered.
There is TO room in {. set for Il nation.
and national consciousness among slci,
people is as unreasonable {; demand as ~
suppose them capable of thought.
Vacuity is the ideal aimed at in their
mental development.
PATRIOTISM OF GREAT MINDS.
The love of country is large thought.
It cannot dwell in small quarters. Nor
can it live in vacuum. 1t presupposes
company. 1t presupposes something of
the humar-something of human broth
erhood and fellowship upon the largest
lines.
To love ones country means OF neces-
sity to love the people who make it love
able. Society" by its very cardinal
principle is forbidden under penalty of
deepest damnation from loving large
numbers IF people or from even taking
note mentally of their existence.
Besides society" is forbidden to love
anything. For love is an emotion.
Worse, it is passion. And emotions
and passions are extremely vulgar! Vio-
lent emotion, indeed any movement of
the soul one degree removed from vacu-
ity. is therefore strictly forbidden.
Hence the only love society does not
forbid is the love of a poodle.
Not only is it impossible for society
to love country because the country con-
tains millions of common people and be-
cause love is vulgar passion. but now
it IS made still further impossible because
the love of country really means the love
of humanity-and this is too large a
thought even for the great buffers of
society who write its guides to con-
slider.
True patriotism is to love ones coun-
try not as against the world-it is to
love ones country because it is a part of
Gods world, which he has given to man.
Every true patriot has heart as big as
the world. He loves his fellow man as
man, and is as ready to fight mans bat
ties in other climes ard beneath other
skies. as beneath his own flag or his own
soil. Such world embracing emotions
are entirely impossible in a vacuum.
THE vAPID SOCIETY INTELLECT.
Hence any great function which has
as its basal principle the national con-
sciousness is utterly foreign to the genius
Of society Society does not even
deign to adjust its single barreled eye
glass to see what It is all about. ''Soci-
ETY." simply plays with the poodle and
drinks tea until it is over. Moreover,