The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-05-03
"Not Good Policy"
N the Columbus Herald.

We often hear in our daily walk and
work in contact with men of nearly every
degree the remark, sit is not good pol
icy'' to do this or not to do that.
This precaution, if such it can be call
ed, has permeated the very core of our
existence, both national, state, city and
church, and even our homes. 1t is not
good policy for our nation to offend
some other nation by claiming right
that we should have always enjoyed by
reason of our long and almost defense
less seacoast, the annexation of some
miserable little island as coaling sta
ton.
1t is not good policy for Georgia to
offend Massachusetts, by giving her poor,
crippled veterans home or miserable
pittance to enable them to exc out liv-
ing.
Some policy lover has said:
cit is bad policy, my brethren, for
this church to engage in anything like a
union revival with that church, as it
might offend the members of brother
Jones' church, and they would be sure
to feel sighted
sit is bad policy, my daughter, to not
to speak to Mr.. DeJones; he may be
rather wild and keep late hours and take
little too much wine now and then, but
his prospects are good and his father is
sure to leave him large amount, and he
is devoted to you
Thus it goes on through every raniti-
cation of our lives, in every walk, from
the highest to the lowest. Men stultify
themselves and hardly dare to call their
lives the ir own for the sake of policy.
The very nation cringes in order to
display the grand "policy'' of their
statesmen. The State, by its representa-
tives, is Inundated abroad by the tru-
culent display of policy" The city or
town is kept in the rear end of progress
by the policy of its timorous council
men.
The church, by its desires to use ''pol-
ICY" is in debt to its pastor maybe, its
membership is decreasing, what few 60
to church are cold and indifferent-fash-
ionable christians, they are, thanking
God they are not like other men, but
the policy must be useo.
The mother. And oh, here comesl in
the worst part of the 'policy," for it is
at the very foundation of our lives, the
home. She drills her daughter in it to
catch husband, regardless of the fact,
if she cares to remember it, that the man
who she is fishing for is a beastly drunk
ard. libertine and a scoundrel. So
as he is to be rich it is all right. She
will sacrifice her daughter on the altar
of Mammon to display her ''policy."
Men degrade their manhood every
for policy's sake. They are afraid to
speak the truth on account of it, are
afraid to vote a measure for the public
good by reason of the policy there is i'll
it. 1t is not theirs; combinations are
fJrmed to defeat men and measures for
selfish ends, and when done good policy
does it. If a man dares to do what he
thinks right in opposition to the rule OF
policy he is termed a crank-''he has no
policy" No matter how honest he may
be, policy or want of it, in the &C
copied sense, damns him, and he is con,
sidered dangerous if he is outspoken and
stubborn in his opposition to any rule
laid down in the books of the policy"
class.
Do you think the time will ever come
when measures will be taken by other
rules than those of policy? Do you
raclon the millennium will come first?