The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-09-07


4 parsic j. .-~us=d aud maintained BY
every man trying to take care ST him
s.if aud let the devil tax. care 1T hii
ueiShtsor. Tlo end If II Is Llat III. sisvi
takes care Of tho whole establishment
No man live;h 20 himself. aud TAO mar
dieih Ia himself We cannot isolate ofii
life from the communal life without al
the same time destroying both " hal
an exhibition the I4nic has given us Cd
men and institutions! What griu
PROCESSION Of towards and poltroons
where strength and dignity werc proudly
boas,sd.
How lgsauy eowzrSls- - hos hrart= are al a.
As stair OF saai. wear yesf uF-oa their Chine
The beard o: HercaI-s and trowning Mars-
Who. inward s..srcA'd. have liNers white q;
milk.
These are the mighty men AMI inssi,
tus;oas who call themselves the buiwarE'
of human society. who have taken - th'
woods and taken their money with them
And they have left the people 10 starve
4 bank in Eew York locks mp S3.ooo.S
in this E,ur of sz,rest need and issues bill
of credit as though IA pauper.
The man or the institution that locks
up money at this time is guilty OF nur'
der. II i useless To say: THE money II
mine. "" the right to do what please
with my own" It's lie. And the devi
never told 10 mortal IL bigger lie.
Have Won the right To lock up youi
money when by that act You shut dowr
factori =, clos, mill doors, stop n thou
sand wheels of commerce and throw
hun0 reds of thousands of men and WON
e.: ont of wu-I;: Have You the right
from insane fear and selfshness t.
throng the streets of our cities witt
gaunt, blear eyed, hungry wretches. driv'
en- 1y starvation and suffering to crime
and violence? Have you the right tc
take the bread from the mouths OF
hungry women and children to save few
dividends you are afraid may be lost In
a shrinkage of values? Your money Is
not your own. 1t Is d trust. The com
munity created its value. The hearts
blood Of the community is in it. If you
withdraw it from the community, you
are a traitor. You have betrayed sol
emn trust to the race-to the God OF the
race. Your money is worth nothing
without the life of the community back
of it. To destroy the life of the com
munity is the surest way at last to de
stroy the power of your money. Let
me say again no man has the right t.
do what he pleases with what he may
possess He only has the right to de-
what he ought to do.
THE MEANEST INFIDELITY.
Third-It is reign of doubt.
A savage world is a world of doubt.
As civilization advances, doubt re
treats.
Faith in man is the imperial stamp up
ON the coin of civilized society.
Doubt effaces the image Of faith.
We descend from trade to barter. Ono,
more we are savages.
The tailor and the barber is all WI
have left between us and the NAKED
animalism of the children of the forest.
To donbt God is mean enough.
To doubt man is to add crime to inf
deity. We may be lost in speculation
about God and the mysteries of the uni
verse. To some minds doubt of Coz
may have here a plausible excuse. Blu
for man to doubt his brother is to de
scend at one step to the primitive savage
and that without excuse. Why shoult
lose faith in my fellow man?
The longer we study that question tn
more absurd becomes a condition o
panic. A few men prove false to thei
word. but they are the exception to tn
i rule.
In the vast volume of days trad
the number of men who betray trus
are but drop in the ocean of human in
tegrity.
The world is not run on a cash basis
It never was. 1t never can be. TIL
world is run on faith. 1t is the basi
fundamental of civilized society. VIII
doubt when there is not one betrayal Q
trust to million obligations fulfilled?
Why should we doubt our friends an
neighbors? Our lives are bound up il
theirs. Would it be worth while to liv
ourselves if in seeking to save self W
should destroy them and carry the stat
of their blood with US and upon us? Ar
we not all brethren? Is it desirable t
live apart if we could? If all men ar
false, are not we of the same material?
self a villain.
} Why should we as nation lose faith
Of what are we afraid?
} Can we doubt God? Has he not show
US that we are chosen people? Has h
not loved us and blessed and guided U
through the years to be the richest an
J mightiest nation of the earth2 In ever
: trial he has led us to victory. He watcl
ed over the ships that sailed unknow
l seas and gave this continent to human
ity. He planted the love of freedol
5 in the hearts of our ancestors an
S gave us a nation with liberty as its CO
t nerstone. In our struggle with the mott
er- cOuntl Y for freedom did he not Or,
tract the war over long years anu ARA
the civilized world against England III
. til we won? Has he not led US throua
6 long crises of internal strife and civ
y war on and up to greater and bett.
: things? Is not the hand of God mantle
:. in the building of the nation in i
growth and development and in its I
flex influences upon the fate of the o
pressed millions of other chimes? CT
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- our fathers with the divine miracles
\ our history before him?
BULwARKS OF THE NATION.
-. The bu1warss of nation are not 90
- and silver, but manhood and woma
hood. Have we not the sterling men al
. women whose hands and heads al
a hearts make true greatness? Have tn
e ever failed the nation? Are they not
e many heroes and heroines today amo
62,OOO,O 900 of our people as ever befol
- Are there not as many brave heal
~ ready for the sternest work of life? A
= we not rich in noble boys and girls gro
ing into nobier manhood and woma
hood? Why should we fear?
If we cannot doubt God and man. C
:. we doubt nature?
~ True. Russia in her frozen north a
: China In flood and pestilence and crow
\ ed millions have sometimes cried