The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-11-21
The Hopes OF Southern Youth.

From an Address By the Hon Wilidm u. Moore
~ Memphis 10 The southern Youth.
| May | b. pIrdoned when suggest that my
BIRTH lace l~AlahamaL my accumulated years
and my long business experience. each and all
| justify me in kindly saying a few words TO the
| present gener alton OF young American voters.
especially of those in the southern States. ]
do not presume TO speak to those Of my
age.
Your commendablc love and loyalty TO your
ancestors have her etoiore been strong enough
to lead youaway from the POLITICAL leaninss OF
your own enlightened better judgments and
dumped you into the pool> OF sodden provincial
party prejudices.
You have hesitated TO break away from their
| political teachings: and this Is creditable TO the
promptings Of your sentimental nature. But
"a you have looked around and about yoi @ IN.
not have failed 10 observe that the mighty cur
rents OF modern progress were rapidly drifting
the nation irresistibly away from the narrow
and isolated stage-coacI and ox-cart methods
of ante-beilum days.
You have been taught and educated in tho
theory that the United States were a con-
fedcracy: whereas. by the arbitrament of war
the highest and last court 81 nations the
political entity known as the United States is
now a nation.
% q tnlDSS nave passed aWaV, DenOI0 all
things have become new. and. better than all,
you are now a proud citizen. not merely OF
some little provincial locality. unknown
abroad, but higher still, al important integer
OF this great United states. b efore whom every
nation Of the earth stands. now uncovered. hat
in hand. ready to do respectful obeiSance.
No intelligent and thouGhtful young Southern
man can have failed 10 notice that the political
policies urged and persisted in by the now dis
carded leaders Of the so-called Democracy Of the
Southern States. have been. ever since the great
war. continuously. in their effects. obstructive
and reactionary.
They have generally insisted upon prose-
cutting those political theories taught by John
c. Calhoun. embodied in the general idea that
"a part is greater than the whole" while the
overwhelming majority of the American people
earnestly rejecting these political heresies--
have accepted and are now vigorously acting
uyon the opposite and common-sense view that
our nation of forty-five States is now infinitely
greater and grandcr than any one OF its parts.
These are suggestions worthy 10 enlist at
least the careful study and consideration Of
every ambitious and studious young man in the
Southern tier OF States-especially of every one
who may in the future desire 10 become Presi-
dent OF tho United States. And why should
not our Southern young men so asp.re?
No matter how lightly he may now heed
these warnings. their thou ghfful consid ration
can do him no possible future harm. If he has
ambition that covers his whole country he
must strive TO become a part and parcel OF Il and
not be satisfied to lag suprrfuous a. a mere
sullen. unwilling and pouting appendaRe upon
the ragged edge OF the proud American pro-
cess ion as It marches on IN mighty phalanx to
grandeur and to national glory.
lie cannot hope for success II he chains him.
self to some rotten and d~ecayinG political car
cass that will forever act rs an offensive brake
upon his nobleSt Efforts. lie cannot pull an
eflete and obsolete political corpse.
Then rather let him seek out that party which
has inscribed upon its banners. in flaming let
tiers. the words. Justice. Progress. Unity and
the Stars and stripes
MEMPHIS, Tenn Nov.s.