The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-24
"Raking Up Their Records

''Raking Up Their Records"
Editor Morning News: The following
extract from an editorial in your Sunday
issue is so much to the point. I wish to
elaborate the idea for the benefit of those
who do a little thinking now and then
Original thinkers are few, and when a
man dares to give expressions to his
thoughts, especially, If they happen to
differ with the generally accepted, re-
tailed, echoed, everyday thoughts, he is
called odd crank, a dreamer, or fool.
Nonsense, many times is sense beyond
the conception and analysis Of the super
fetal thinker. You say: whats the use
of raking up the record of public man to
show what opinions he held on the silver
question, or the federal interference ques-
ton, or the tariff or other questions a
dozen or fifteen years ago? The matter
for consideration is, what is a public
mans opinions on current issues now, and
is he honest in entertaining them? No
body but cheerful idiot expects a pub
lie man to stick to one view of a public
question throughout his whole life. The
man who does that is not always the hon
est man. There are men who take pride
in saying they never change their opin-
ions They are simply mossbacks."
lou are GIulu6nlly COIIeCl NO OllG WIN
makes any pretentions to real thought,
to reading, investigation, and research, is
such a fool as to say they never change.
Some few political men of the past made
such pretenions, but they were laughed
at for their very inconsistencies were so
plain that they made themselves ridicu-
lous. AS Hon. VIM. C. Dawson said many
years ago: Men must change their po-
ltical views with changed times, changed
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but they should see to it, that they changed
wisely and we'll"
Nothing in life is stable, and above all
things thought is the most unstable. Man
is the only thing in nature who dies i'm
perfect. Animals have nothing to learn,
while man learns daily, even to the hour
Of death And when the soul leaps it's
house of flesh, it only scars to higher
regions of thought and development. The
bird in the nest when it's wings are grown
leaves it forever, and as flight is swlfter
than footsteps, so the unreleased soul
takes on greater and higher thoughts.
Earth has lost all of its charms, and the
associations Of earth are severed until
souls meet souls again in some new world,
Of which we can only guess At a solution
If a man is wiser to-day than he was
Yesterday does it not stand to reason that
he will be wiser tomorrow than to-day,
if he butts thinks, reasons, investigates
and observes? Thought Is ever growing,
ever developing, ever lifting man out OF
himself to higher manhood. When God
said: Let us make man. he SAID lei US
make a thinker like ourselves, for man
means a thinker, and woman help
thinker Man was lifted above the plane
of instinct, the mere animal, and gives a
soul which means reason and thought, for
that is the connecting link between GOD
and man, and prayer is the expression Of
that relationship. for man is a praying
animal, so to speak.
When one who changes his education, or
in other words, his religious faith, he is
many times called an apostate heretlc'
inidel, traitor, etc. The same of any po-
litical creed or faiths, as If there is any
such a thing as infallibility in this world,
or ever was. All history so declares there
is not, the Bible not excepted Man, with
his many organizations, assumptions and
dictations may claim 1t, but 1t IS only
claim and nothing else.
That man is very much of fool who
does not change his clothing with the
seasons, and still more Of fool who does
not adjust himself to his associations, sur
roundings, change of times, education ex-
perience and observation. We learn only
great lessons in the school of experience
and observation and as necessity is the
mother of invention so necessity and
want create new policies, new laws, and
new rules. Governments grow like indi-
viduals and as they grow new wants grow
with them. People make governments,
and not governments people, and what
thinking people want they will generally
have. People lose their liberties not so
much by actual oppression as they do by
Indifference. All laws are experimental
at best, and when they are thought harm
full they are repealed.
We hear a good deal about boilers.
party fealty, ETC.. as II man has so far
surrendered his right to think and vote
crack the party lash over him. Party
leaders are a kind OF a necessary nui-
sance, as men will have leaders. All or
ganizatlons are, in themselves, tyranni-
cal; give man power and he claims mas
tership Immediately. r. NJ. o.