The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-09-07
CAUSE OF THE PANIC.
REV. THOMAS olxoN's ANALYSIS OF
The BUSINESS DEPRESSION.

ne eSSAs-oc
II. Open. Bi- FAN work on the Imnedi-
ate Cause Of the Hard Times and shsw.
the Absursiity of the ssar--faith Ia the
Nation
NEW YORK, Sept 3.-Rev. Thomas
Dixon returned to has pulpit in Associa-
ton hall today after Spending his vacs-
ton hunting and fishing GA the eastern
shor. Of Virginia He opens the fall
WORK with "A series Of morning sermons
/ through Se;tatuber on The Panic--Its
/ Cans. and Cure" He discussed this
morning its immediate Causes" giving
maIy points 10 show the utter absurdity
/ of the present scare. The text chosen
/ was from Matthew XIV, %. And was
/ afraid ard went and hid thy talent"
/ 1t is IL I.;tlble sight-a strong man
+ stricken with fear! The husky breath,
/ the tottcring knees and weak cry place
/ man, the ling, in sorry plight before
/ the animals that must look on with
/ smile Fear is an ignoble passion.
| 1t never lifts up. 1t always degrades.
/ To see il w.ole community, whole ma
| ton. quai;c with pusillanimous fear in
| the hour Of national pro perity is sight
| as much more ignohle as the nation is
/ greater than the man.
/ But the i.uominy Of 4 panic is the
! smaller part of its disgrace. 1t IS the
! hour in which the brute asserts itself.
Man at once returns to the original herd
| principle He becomes an animal pure
and simple.
| a great tleater building was packed
one night with people. A fool raised the
cry of fire 1t was false alarm. There
was no fire. There was no danger of
| fire. There was not even the smell of
fire about the building.
But panic ensued. That is to say,
rational men and women Suddenly went
mad with animal fear. Strong men
knocked weak women down and tram
pied them to death. Shrieks, groans
and curses, like the growl and snarl and
howl of a cage of enraged apes, rent the
air Great broad shouldered brutes
leaped upon the heads and shoulders of
the surging mob and crawled and
fought their way to the pavement. One
wretch drew his knife and cut his way
through the struggling mass of men,
women and children. Hell reigned su-
preme.
Panic had reduced all to the level of
the brute, and with his superior intel
ligence man outdid the brute. for TO his
claws he added the use of steel.
A sorry spectacle for humanity! And
yet this is precisely the case in our panic
in the business world. That scene in
the theater is just as sane, just as hui
name, rs the scene in the worlds ex-
change in the hour of a money panic.
A hundred such theater panics are as
nothing in their results as compared with
one week of commercial ruin. Let a
Christian nation understand it!
A panic is q relapse to bar5arism. 1t
is more. 1t is q relapse to the forrest ele-
ments of bdrbdric life.
COWARDICE.
First-It is the yielding to cowardice.
Man was created king.
Man is savage in proportion to the do.
miniOn of fear over him.
The savage fears everything and ev.
erybOdy. His condition is one of pure
agnOsticism.
He does not know. He does not know
anything. Hence he fears everything.
Some people are proud of agnosticism
They spell it with big Aand bow down
and worship at it's altar. We are JUS
now afflicted commercially with pure
agnosticism. Let our agnostic friends
take note. The simple trouble with ev
cry man is, he says he don't knoW. 1t i
case of Il don't hnouc" What is tn,
matter lie don't know. What he i
afraid of he don't know. If pure agnos
, ticism ruled the world, we would be il
hell already.
1t is the hour of the coward.
No coward can inherit the kingdom
2 either the kingdom of heaven or earth.
| The children of Israel went over to sp,
/ out the promised land. They brough
, back marvellous reports of its beauty
They said it flowed with milk and honey
They described its luscious fruits an
r bore back on their shoulders marvelou
: specimens from its vineyards. But tn
spies declared that the land was inhabit
"a ed by giants! They were fond Of grape
L. and milk and honey, but if there was &C
i ing to be fight they preferred onion
and garlic plain. And they cried for or
II ions. They said they were grasshopper
It compared to the men who owned thes
- magnificent vineyards. And they were
Ie They were afraid. They were stricke
with panic. And the only use Go
!" could find of them was to use their bone
to fertilize the soil of the wilderness
while he raised up a new generation {
men who knew not fear.
Banks boast of their strength-the
boast of their high use to the commun
no ty-and yet in this hour of a riotous nee
- they have been the first to sneak undo
w cover. With pusillanimous whine of Sc
4 preservation, they have been among tt
al first to crawl into their vaults and to
their patrons and creators to look o,
for themselves.
FARMER AND HIS CORN.
On the eastern shore of Virginia the
stands today one Of the few beautiful o.
homesteads of the past. Its fences a
~, in repair. It's beautiful lawn, shade
by magnificent trees, is in perfect orde
1t bears still the name given by
u, founder. It's broad acres remain inta
he in the hands of the same family TODD
it that held it in the past century. IT
=, neighbors are proud of its name al
=. beauty, and they love to tell the story
VI its founder. They say he was man
noted character in his day. On a &C
tain year there was great famine in t
Il whole country. Corn sold at So and
-, bushel and was difficult to get at tn
oe price. The great barns of this far
re- groa1ed beneath the burden of an unus
Oh ally large crop from the previous year
,Iv What did the owner of these gre
-, barns and broad acres do in this crisis
LII the people9 Did he put his men to wor
as- dig vaults, hide his grain and then sta,
ut the gate with sad smile and sw'
of by heaven and earth that he didn't hi
he nubbin? No! He placed lis men
;+h the doors of his barns with this instr
ton: st rich man comes to buy