The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-06-14
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congress being necessitated in appoint
ing q committee TO investigate which OF
our great leaders in that house takes the
most sugar in his coffee.
What think you, men of honor, of him
who occupying a high place OF honor
and trust, subscribing and paying to a
pretended campaign fund the small little
sum Of 100000.
Our judgment Is that he is a corrup-
| zionist both in the making aud expend.
ing and an influence more deadly TO the
spirit and genius of q free republican
government than all the coal region
strikes, the Homestead riots, the outra-
geous tillibusteriRg of weak congress or
the senseless march OF an idiotic Coxey.
| 1t corrupts the very fountain of liberty
and sends its poison rushing through
every vein and artery of freedom. 1t Is
said that every man has his price. This
| is too sweeping. 1t is not true.
| = 1t is left TO the meanest man God sl-
| lowed TO live TO sell himself or his party
| for dollars and cents. 1t matters not
whether the reward be the gold of Wall
street, the English Roschilds or silver
| from the rich veins of the west.
speak now, as | understand, 10 men
who from social and religious standing
in church aid state, educational advant-
age, and heads and hearts trained In the
christian homes of our land qualify them
10 be leaders OF men. The alumni of
| Trinity college; men whose duty IL Is to
| lead not TO follow, think not to be
thought for; dare TO do and standing on
| the watChtower of the times point out
the true way.
In the hearing of the pure-minded
young men about TO take respite from
this exalted place, with much new fur
nishing for head and heart, | wish TO
say that man, whether there be much
or little of him, is too sacred a being 10
be sold or bought. What will YOU give
me-" is so far below the dignity of hon.
est manhood as TO fire the indignation of
a great government and merit Danish
ment from the land of the free and the
home of the brave.
| Why may not man have CONNER
cial value fixed upon himself; Because
he Is not his own; he Is his Country's,
his God's-not only his soul but his
| manhood.
Since representative government, as
| ours, has left so much TO the option of
the legislator that 1t has never settled the
paramount question that the. candidate
| who is to act and speak for US, Is one of
morals, fitness and qualification. Shall
he act as the party's agent or as an indi.
|
determined policy and suffer no man to
unloose his hands Shall he wait for
petitions before he performs the obliga.
tons imposed by his oath of office or
| shall he wait to see in what direction
| popular current will run
Thus we see that there is much need of
| value in our leaders besides brains and
money.
The moral, ethical quality in men has
ever been the distinguishment of great
ness. The secret power of Columbus
was his patient, pure character. The
great splendor of the character of Mar
Tin Luther was his downright integrity.
Here | stand. | can do no more. God
help me-" Oh, how many sons and
daughters of Adam since that day, with
these words upon their lips and on their
hearts, have taken courage and stood.
Many of you have wondered as once
did, why it was that Socrates should be
more widely known than any other
Greek.
He was no NEUROLOGICAL founder Of q
great state as Thoecus and Numa were
he gave no laws as LYcurgus and Solon
did; he was no great general as was
Miltiades; he was no wondrous conser-
vator of the Gods by pillared temples and
chilled statutarY as was Phideas. Yet
he was greater and more widely known
than all of these. Why? do you ask.
Because he was pure and and true and
good Grand in his manhood, simple in
his life and heroic in his deeds. He was
in office only once in bis life, and that
for only one day, and as TO how he filled
that office all students of history know.
There we have the practical value.
This is simply the general usefulness OF
a thing or individual. 1t is not so related
to future possibilities as TO prevent pra-
ticablities. For instance, it may be
possible 10 reach ultimately TO the high.
est ideal, but at the same lime 1t might
not be practicable.
Theoretical men may be men of genius,
but of no practical value.
There may be places requiring just
such men, but it is not speaking any
thing against them 10 say that they are
not valuable.
Who will assure the church that there
will be no more wildernesses TO cross, no
thorns TO be nailed on the door at Wurms;
no more Huugenot trials or Roman
inquisitiOns !
Or who shall assure the state that
there will be no more Balaklava's Bran
dYwines, plains of Abraham or a down
trodden Poland or a subiugated South.
Then II no satisfactory answer can be
given you, then you must seek 10 dis.
cover IN your leaders at least the sem
blance of William of Orange, a Wash
ington, Jefferson, a Clay, a Vance.
Gentlemen of the Alumni, how man v
Of you are absolutely free men; A 70
you tied, bound hand and foot 10 a man /,
to a set Of men, Or 10 many
Woe oetide nation when we become
one man power; when Ohio belongs 20
Sherman, Kentucky TO Carlisle. New
|, York 10 Hill ; when the speaker is the
house and the senate Is servile and the
executive assumes 10 be the law making
power Of the nation, How opportune
were Patrick Henry and Cromwell, how
useful Bismark What respon sibility
Gladstone What opportunity for
Americas good was 1892 TO 1896
; That very man may spring 10 his post
| need only 10 point you 10 our present
!, environments. Trust, combines, rings,
monopolies, tariff barons, money kings