The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-03-16


honor and Justice ana r1snteonsness.
,.-;T, rari yor 10 account for il III sinev-
s,abf. 1 Thank God our supreme court
rs annuIlesi at least a part OF that IN
s.,rors l,ii,. Talk about the heosheri--
-. az. the heather when it comes TO
question like that.
What are we cherishing today. We
cherish schools in some places. know.
7, New Yor'- we cherish our saloon as
the ar.t,ie Of eur eye. They are the hsnes-
sonnet institutions we have. We turn
neonle away from the church doors, but
~ always have room for them at the
sal.,nS every day in the year. and Sun
Law tao We arr not much on public
hatbs and establishments for the people
like that. but we have got whisky enough
20 f,ost the navy. As city we are MT
much ON a circulating library, though
we have 2.oo0.0 900 people. but we have
rot BEER. As YOU walk along the streets
Won won't see many signs that read,
This way To the library or the gymna-
siurn." bat BEER. beer. ice cool beer;
beer on draft; St Louis beer; Ailwau-
Iee beer. Staten island bcer-beer, bier'
We have got BIER. We are mighty
neonle when ii comes 10 beer. We are
the people who can furnish the world.
We once sent men 10 congress-magnifi-
cent men. You have n beer keg IN the
senate now, bat there is infinite har-
mony in it, 1t is poem IN politics
When you have SO much beer, il ought
10 be represented at Washington.
What is the matter with Mr.. Murphy?
You have SO many industries and 50
much at stase-why, of course you
should have a maa to represent You in
the senate chamber Mt Washington. We
cherish our saloons instead of truth and
light and life. If man wants TO make
progress in politics. he first keeps one
saloon, then buys another, and after he
has got half q dozen and runs two or
three dives he is ready then for the judi
ciary or higher hoaors. If a nation is TO
endure, it won't endure by that process.
Thank God, the whole nation is not as
mean as New York. The only salvation
of the nation is that you have got Amer
lean manhood enough back in the rural
districts to hold your great. steaning,
filthy, .!evilish city by the throat and
say, IF you dare. | VIII strangle your
That is why we have today a nation that
is solid and on which we can depend.
Fourth-If nation is to endure in the
future, her walls and bulwarlss must be
righteousncss-that is, her defense. This
defense really is magnificent men, right
eous men. Thank God for righteous men!
Ono righteous man is bulwark for a
nation. What was Henry Ward Beecher
to this nation as man? He did not go
into the war or fight your battles in that
sense, but lie was "a man of power-a
man who could incarnate the nation,
and stand in England, III London, when
bowling, cursing mob out of work
kicked out of their factories because of
your civil war-were clamoring for his
blood, and yet by his inherent power,
born of righteous mother, standing in
the integrity of his God and pleading for
righteousness in nations, he Gained the
surging crowd and held England in his
hand at bay while you fought your own
battles and settled your own questions.
A man Of righteousness! Why, God
said to Sodom, ''If you will find for me
so many righteous men, l will spare you"
They are bulwarks against even the
wrath Of God himself Thank God for
a few righteous men who are bulwarks
in this city today! What can one man,
as DR.. Parkhurst, do when he says he
will stand? I thank God for just few
men who are willing to stand and let the
world howl and curse and hiss. 1t
will get tired by and by, and then above
the din and roar of curses and Misses
will emerge the new city, with it's new
life, in peace and righteousness and clean
streets and homes, and possible life to
your men of commerce. Righteous men
are the only real bulwarks of people.
When I say righteous men, do not
mean women will have nothing to do with
it. George Washington, being born, must
have had a mother. That is an incon-
trovertiblo proposition. Righteous moth
erhood, patriotic motherhood, was the
real foundation of this mans greatness.
1t was the mother that George Wash
ington had that gave to him character,
that stamped him with power and made
him the matchless man he was in the
history of his country and the world.
In estimating the life of nation you
must understand that righteous mother
hood is the power that forms and fash
ions righteous manhood and makes 1t
possible thus to have your bulwarks of
nations. The power that made Carthage
put up such wonderful war was that
her women came down to the walls and
cut their hair and wove it into bow
strings. And what made it SO hard to
conquer the south in the last war was
that after the first two years Of the war,
when your proclamation of emancipa-
ton had struck deathblow at the
home life of the south, every woman in
the south, from its length and breadth,
was against the Union and against its
triumph, and the south fought for 10
long months after she would have fought
If it had not been thsS her women said.
1.-The home and the home life have been
attacked"
That is why it took the great army of
Grant to come down in that last cam
paigr. That is why that ragged army
fell back go sullenly over the dead at
Appomattox, because the mothers Of the
south sent their 16 and 1S-year-old BOYS
into battle and said: go, die for your
country, and do not come back home
with wound in your back. would
rather see you dead" If you have
mothers who believe in your nation and
Its power and its fag-and every south
ern woman today believes in the Tag of
the old nation, of the new nation reborn
again-if you have such mothers, then
your nation is in that sense secure.
Righteous men viii be the result.
GLORIOUS FUTURE FOR AMERICA.
believe the outlook is bright. Aneri-
ca viii be the strong nation Of the world.
Inc church is making progress. Twenty
million church members In America TO- |
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