The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-10-30

and obedience by all to law and the
representatives who express the will
of the people.
Should Tuesday defeat your plans
and purposes, your line of action is
clear" Work for majority next
time" Recognize the absurdity Of
force. Killing a man does not make
him agree with you. TO knock him
down is very poor argument, and Il
frightful commentary on your own
narrowncss. Why narroWness? Be-
cause the man whe expects all Others
to agree with him displays total ig-
norance and misconception of what a
popular government is. In running
so vast a machine as ours opinions
must differ as to what is best to be
done; they always will differ and
change more or less; and it is well that
they should, because the nation that
lives grows, and growth causes change,
and change causes new measures and
a constant rcalgnmcnt of political
opinion.
| You and | and a thousand besides
must climb up to higher plane OF
politics. Then when we are high
enough to look over our ncighbors'
fences, to our aSt0nishment we may
find that he feels just as patriotic as we
do; and he probably is, from his point
of view. If you live in valley You
do not get the view Of yourself that is
visible from the towering mass above:
If you dwell on the hillside the valley
below is what you see. Yet both hill
and valley are there, and both are
parts Of the eternal truth Of nature.
So the man who differs from you in
politics is not necessarily wrong, or at
any rate he is not necessarily I'M
patriotic.
No one walk of life absorbs all OF
patriotism, A banker, Robert Nor
ris. was our greatest and most long
suffering friend in the dark days of
the Revolution, and the contributions
from the ranks Of farmers and me-
chanlcs are Su plentiful that an enum-
Grafton is out of place here. We are
not hampcred with class that can
pose as a fountaln-head of love to
country: ours is a democracy Of pa
trots, every class furnishing its quota,
the "secd-time and harvest" Of self
forgetting men never failing hitherto
We tread a land wherein even the in
telligent wanderer from other shores
may, il his heart be true, take his
stand with those whose past genera
tions have been given to our service.
~
A larger and more noble future is
only possible by a wider recognition of
the inexarablc character Of the law of
mutual dependence. Every portion
of the country is part Of all the coun-
try. Whatever distrust of the poor
or suspicion of the rich may exist is
not because such feelings are right,
but because we have not fully under
stood our intcr-relation. Sectional
ism" is IA chimera Of the brain. 1t
speaks of a portion cut Off from the
rest, which is impossible in COM
plete and living body. The blood of
national life that courses in the most
remote corner Of Texas is the same
that reaches the piney woods of Maine.
We have a union as complete, as real,
as exists in the column Of mercury in
a thermometer. Designing men may
endcavor to excite belief that there
is Il real difference of local interests
and views. One of the eXpedients Of
party to acquire influence, within par
ticular districts, is to Inisreprescnt
the aims and opinions of other dis
tricts" George Washington, in his
Farewell Addrcss'). Quit you like
men, well-balanced men! Believe fully
in the side you espousc, but also be-
lievc with all your heart In the free
dom of opinion and the good inten-
tions, at least, of your opponents,
Liberty and Union, now and for
ever, one and inseparablc"