The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-06-29

faithfulness to duty.
There is at this time no one poll
tical issue separating the people on
the right and left into party lines,
which are "a source Of lasting dan
ger to the state. Speaking as a
philosopher, and in a historic spirit,
the entire current stock III trade, of
parties, of all our parties, makes up
the sum of what call
'mighty small politics. ZAP
plause-)
| have in my own day seen the re-
public survive an irrepressible con
tiict sown i'll the blood and marrow
of a social order; have seen the
federal Union not too strongly put
together, in the first place, come
out of Il great war of sections
stronger than when he went into
it; its faith renewed, its credit reha-
bilitated; and its flag flying in tri-
umph and honor over sixty millions
of God fearing women and men thor
oughlY homogeneous and reconci!ed
(Applause.)
| have seen the constitution of the
United States Outlast not merely the
strain of a reconstructory ordeal OF d
presidential impeachment, and dis
puted question of an electoral vote
and congressional deadlock, and al
extra constitutional tribunal, and
yet stand as firm us the rock against
the assault of all its enemies, set
ting itself with puritanical hexi.
bility to the needs of the
country and the times. Gap
plause.)
And finally l saw the gigantic
fabric of the federal government
transferred from the hands of those
that had held it for a quarter of {
century and over into the hands Of
others without SO much as protes
or bloody nose, and although the
outgoing and incoming were so clost
together that single blanke
might cover both contestants fo
this majesterial office. Gap
plauSe.)
A man who has seen all thest
things, and who has borne his part il
the awful responsibilities presented
day after day upon all men, livine
with each night terror from th'
very thought of the morrow, is no
gong to lose d great deal of sleel
about what is going on now in Wash
ington, unlest he wants an office ant
wants it bad. (Laughter.)
The whole war, the whole philoso
ply, the whole moral lesson of &;
hundred years of constitutional gov
ernment in America may be sum
med up in a single sentence. the his
tory of the old Federal party, Of tn
old Whig party, Of our Democratic
party, of the Republican party, i
that when any political society il
this country thinks that it has tn
world in a sling pubic opinion get
reared upon its hind legs and kick
out of power. (Applause.)
The real danger before us, a dan
ger to the great as well as to tn
lowly danger having its sources il
human nature, and peculiarly fos
tered by our peculiar structure is
, moral danger and springs directl
, from the relation of money to tn
J moral nature of the people.
We have no great aristocratic t
, ties or patents of nobility, and th
money standard naturally become
the simplest and readiest of all stand
! ards.
: Put money in thy purse, seems t
= have become a national motto. Thi
/ would not be so bad if it limited il
, self to commercial affairs, but "
t find it everywhere, from the te
) Thousand dollars a year people to til
r one hundred thousand dollars yea
| people living in the United State
Truly the trade mark is over US al
1 | read some doggeral verses tn;
e went the rounds of the newspapel
E when | was a boy, and although
D have not seen them in print fro
c that day to this, they made such a
) impression upon me that ! can still r
4 call few of them, that seemed
a have some application then, ho
/ much greater their relevancy nov
/ They ratified off somehow in tn
e way:
J Gas with cautious step we tread our W;
e through
h This Intricate world as other folks do,
: May we each at the end of his journey
able to view
t The benevolent face of dollar or two.
. The gospel is preached for dollar or two,
Salvation is reached for dollar or two,
q And you may sometimes find yourself sht
h of dollar or two
It and so on. Laughter.)
IS How true it was, and it is, and he
h ready we are to forgive the sins
' the rich, and to forget how they G
Is their money, and to stick our fe
beneath their mahogany, and to G
II of their food and to drink of the
le wine. hat a struggle it is ever
10 where for money, nothing but none
Il money, money.
When old Agazzi was offered
e thousand dollars night to lectu
d for forty lectures he turned aw
y from his temptor saying, 'Wh
1t time have | got to waste in mone
1e making People thought him CT
a. zy. / would to God | had an Aga
is or two in every community throug