The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-06-03
JOHN CARR'S VIEWS
He Says His Say Before the Crowd
Assembled.
An Essay Which Shows That the Boy
Is a Thinker.
HIS POETRY LACKS SOME POLISH
An Essay, However, That Is Full of Sense
and Wit, and Shows That There
Is Metal in the Boy.

Life is a puzzle. Our friends actions,
our comrades actions, and even our own
actions often confound us. Would that
wecould understand one another! Would
that we could understand ourselves! Is
not every human being a living book
from which we may derive instruction if
we know how to apply ourselves to this
kind of study? What object of creation
demands more acute observation, more
study, than a human being, than your
red-nose neighbor perhaps? These liv-
ing books may be found in great abun.
dance and in every place, and there is no
necessity in an embarrassing outlay in
the purchase Of a library, they furnish a
variety and far greater ource Of fun and
amusement than we usually find in liter
airy works. Patrick Henry, the Demoth-
enese Of America, was noted for his dis
like to the study Of books; but he read
men with aVidity. Man, too, frequently
Judges enormously the character of his
fellow men. What startling revelations
are often disclosed to us. The tanner
boy whom We branded as green and un-
intelligent becomes Our president, our
ruler. We wonder that the fame of
genius did not attract our observation.
How many of our ancient proverbs hit
the mark, they are as the essence of truth.
Notice a mans companions, trace out a
mans blood, watch a mans manners and
n,1ofonn rI,nrr ,Lo L. I'll. ~ L..
likes. Size him up. Who are to day our
most educated men, and who hold the
highest place Of intelligence and society ?
They are those who have read and studied
the lives of our by gone heroes and pro-
fitted by their experience. Who has not
been inspired by the lives of the world. re.
nowned men, Napoleon, Caesar, Washing. |
ton, Lee, Blaine, Gladstone and Bismarck, |
While even in our W midst there are
men whom the rod of empire might have
swayed, or walked to ecstacy the living |
Tyre. Why are there to-day no Websters,
no Hamiltons, no Henrys and no Shakes
peare? Is it because they cannot be
produced? No. 1t is because our peo-
pie care nothing for this class of men,
nor do they encourage those who do. In.
stead of a Webster they prefer some fiery
politician, who can by his barney con-
troll the ballot box and, exhibit
Four and twenty black men placed in a line,
Ana when the polls were open and the coOns
began to sing,
wasn't that Il daisy way to put Old Grover in
Or some shrewd business man, by whose
actions it should be stamped upon the
face of his silver dollar instead of "In
God we trust" 'In this l trust" and in
stead of a Shakespeare some low and
timber acrobat, who can get off a Joke
and skin the cat. How strikingly is hu
man nature represented in the fact that
our people in general will rarely attend
an educating and %elevating lecture, while
at the sight Of a clown and hundreds of
our citizens will come with their families,
children hungry and babies crying, ten
or twenty miles to throw away their
whole months income and the men to
spend a night in the calaboOse. Napo
leon B%Onaparte used to say that magma
ton ruled the world. At this time when
the papers teemed with innumerable cases
of wonderful deeds wrought by zuackers
and sOrceress, our lunatic asylums were
overlooking with the victims of the hor-
rible delusiOns Of the day when our
country is overwhelmed with crime and
outrage, how diligent are the masses to
keep posted on every point, but when I
some reformer tries to elevate humanity ;
to a higher and nObler standpoint, with
what poor and hard earned success does
he meet. When the name of Carlysle w.
Harris becomes famous only for the muir.
der of his wife, and the righteous ;ndig.
nation of the mothers of a city aroused
against that which is low and DEGRADING
is 1t not time for man to call a halt, and
ask himself what is man, does he not !
often become mad? What has put many ,
OF our men into office and nOtoriety , 1t ,
Is by winning over the lower class by ,
gifts, and they supporting him. This is 7
only IN practice in the nineteenth !
century, but in the annals of oor colonial ,
days does history relate TO us many cases :
OF bribery and fraud. ~Politeness, though :
a necessity to civilization, speaks nothing =
for the character of the man, for many of :
our criminals and murdcrers are only :
noted for their dress and manners WHY !.
has Paris risen to be the city she to-day 6
1t is because OF her banners fashions -,
and artistic tastes, while as to the char !
acter and principle they are even keener ;
and shrewder than a full blooded Yankee :
Polite as a Frenchman has become pro. :
Opening a gate, giving a pard
a chew of tobacco, a girl a stick of chew.
ing gum, refusing IN "a polite manner TO
pay your debts, driving a borrowed horse q
to death, treating them on a credit, con- Il
stitute a certain kind of politeness. There b
is a difference between fat men and lean '
Tho IL