The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-07-05

Britain, unyleldlng loyalty TO prl-
vate honor and personal duty was
the ruling sentiment of their rug
ged and ruthless natures. d lty-
devotion to right for rights sake
unalterable fidelity to fixed rule of
responsibility and obliga4ion-these
have been the natural religion of
the Anglican race, and their unfal-
tering practice has given to Eng
land its purest and proudest
triumphs in secular and in sacred
life.
Not once nor twice in her brlefislani sto'y,
The path OF duty has been the way of glory.
Nelson expressed it all, amid the
reverb.rating thunder of Trafalgar's
guns, when 3 said to his men:
England expects every man to do
his lty," and for himself: CIVIC
tory or Westminster Abbey" The
long list of those whose virtues anu
achievements have entitled them to
sleep in that great Pantheon of
Britain's noblest dead, lie there
today by reason of their obedience
to that law of duty which their
race has prescribed as the highest
canon Of individual and national
growth.
In peace and war, in business and
pleasure, in religion and politics.
the distinguishing virtue and indis.
pensable attribute of public and
private morality, to which every
Anglo Saxon renders unqualified
homage and reno xn, are those of
loyalty to trust and devotion to
duty.
Transmitted to this Western
World, these same traits of personal
obligation, private honor, individual
responsibility and inalienable duty
are necessary and vital part of our
social and political Inheritance
Strike down the sense of direct
moral obligation, obliterate the
salutary restraints of private and
personal honor; and you eliminate
the most valuable and vigorous
factor in the manhood, independence
and potential greatness of Amer
can society.
1t should be a source of never
failing pride and satisfaction to us
to ref oct that, of all the inhabitants
of this Union of states, those who
have heretofore most nearly pre-
served in their purity and practiced
in their integrity the true and un-
detiled laws of political, social and
individual morality and duty, we're
the citizens of that vanished
time and fast-vanishing race
the sons of the Old South. In the
simple and sedate atmosphere of
those olden days, public virtue and
private integrity, business trust and
personal honor, were inseparable;
individual manhood and political
courage were convertible term; So
cial purity and decorus regard for
the pious convictions and sacred
teachings of religion were accounted
the attributes of true gentility, and
a uniform courtesy, candor, fidelity
and valor were the indispensable re-
quirements of social recognition and
public distinction. To those who
vaunt the superior excellencies and
practical advantages of the new
South, with its increasing wealth
and rapid conversion to the ideas of
corporate control and combined in.
dustry, it would be both prudent
and profitable to study the charac'
teristics of that older civiliz alton
whose soft aud tender charm, fad
ing with the receding years, is yet
"like the sound of distant music,
mournful though pleasing to the
soul" 1t was an age of gentle
manners, but unyielding courage;
an era of ceremonious intercourse,
but of unbroken promises and in
violable faith, Under the inf uence
of more modern conceptions Of CO
operative enterprise and incorpor.
ated industry those pristine virtues
of personal responsibility and
heroic devotion to duty are fast
becoming unknown quantities in
the social, business and political
relations of our people.
AS they today exist and are be