The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-08

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By KEN. Il. K rEEi.E.

Written FOR Tar DrsocE.rl
Il Is sin Ia speak i'll this age 81
words unless one has something 80 say.
Surely men never talked So much aaG
said 50 little. Tie truth i. We think
50 little and say So much. mat the :ew
thoughts we have are lost III a laby-
| rinth .ot words. Nothing 20 surely
measures a generation az it, speech
by thy words thou shalt he justified .
and by thy words thou shalt be con-
demned' 'As q man thinkcth in his
heart so is he" and From The album
dance of the heart the mouth speak
eth" So we see the hghtness Of our
speech indicates the povertv OF our
character. This Is why we are blown
about by every wind Of doctrine. We
have fed on chaf until We have become
like it, we have given our sap 10 leaves
until we are nothing but leaves
Our want Of thought shows itself
again. in our sensational methods. We
seek to hide our shame by painting our
bide. We endeavor to make up in
form what we lack IN truth. We take
buster for knowledge and noise for
progress.
do not mean by what have said,
Or shall say, wholesale condemnation
of our literature or generation, but only
a part Of both, herein described. Lit
erature was never stronger and the
world never better than now, but vice
versa also. Nor am l an enemy to
every sensationalist, but only to him
who lives without purpose, except to
glorify himself. BY all means make a
sensation, if thereby you can benefit
the pot but boil something in it, make
a racket if you must, but make some
thing else, if you please
To be sure, the man whose character
we wish to portray is unreal, but his
character is sad reality. Indeed, the
unreal reality is the meaning of our
subject.
Let me say, then, in the first place,
rious parsonage, but what for and why,
/ defy the world to answer. Every
body has seen him and he is in every
body's mouth, yet nobody knows him.
He lives to himself and for himself and
yet succeeds in interesting all in him
self. He is not wicked in what he has
DONE but rather in what he has not
DONE He always has move on him
but never moves anything; eternally
acting he is never active. He burns
with zeal but never makes anybody
zealous,-always blazing he never sets
anything afire.
Our brothers second characteristic Is
that he shines in borrowed light, but
don't he shine though , He cOmpasees
sea and land to get his light but he
gets it, He don't say where it comes
from, but my soul, don't it come He
pours it upon you as freely as if it were
his own, perhaps more so. He has as
much mouth as funnel and more free
dom and like funnel he gives as he
receives. He blazes like flame, but
is as cold as wedge He is as bright
as a dollar, but as dead as door-nail.
He appears like velvet, but is az hard
as a flint He seems very near, but
you can never get at him. He is YER
liable will-o-the-wisp, ever leading you
on to winding-nowhere
Then in the third place our fellow
citizen is monstrous variable, he neWs,
quarters, halls, or juls according to
circumstances. He is anything you
want and yet nothing you would have.
He is all things to all men that he
might by all means save himself. He
is either a demagogue or a gold bug,
neither or both. He is sucker. a
parasite, a sycophant and all the other
''cuss' words in all the other languages.
Once more and lastly our fellow
countryman is censorious. He makes
faces al everything and frowns at every