Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-11-19

ernments are the crime incubatOrs of the nation
and out OF these incubatOrs your anarchist to
assassinate presidents. To produce criminals only
to execute them does not argue high state OF civil
lizatiOn. Our nation to day is in state Of CONNER
cia Generalization. The mad, insane scramble for
the dollar seems fast absorbing the moral sense Of
the peoples the hand Of greed has cutched the white
throat virtue; the voice from Calvary falls de I'd
ears; honor is under gross suspicion; charity
winked at and justice looking for a friendly face
while on rushes the maddened thrOng seeking pleas
ure on the ruin of wOmanhOOd, manhood childhood
"a debauched home and country. Monopoly, COM
bines, trusts and mergers iasten themselves the
body pOitic and the vicious welcome them to their
party because of their large corruption fund and
plead their cause. Party idOlaters the tools Of
mOnOpOlists MOnOpOlists buys them on election day
and shoots them down on strike day. While this is
sad picture, it s sad tits true for dead fools can't
reform and live fools won't. After all is said the
fact remains that the few rules the many. The man
Of vicious habits simply represents way station on
q deserted road that the man Of clean life has
passed. The fool in politics lie the msnhOle On>the
street OF progress, there to catch the slOp A
preacher working candidates for money is a scab
undertaken. Take all these dlsagreeable elements
and bunch them and roll them up and press them
down, and there is not sufficient substance 10 them
all to make one manly man. What we need most
now is better city government. As 1t is now q man
of good character can't get Office. bad character
good character must break the party yoke and stand
for men and measures. An independent vote is the
hope Of the country, and as q few brave, honest
statesmen at the head Of the nation keeps
in perpetuity, likewise must few brave, honest
men come TO the rescue Of our municipal govern.
ment ard drive anarchy and misrue from our cities.
Reason holds the torch, while justice OveFtakes the
thief and periurer. Patriotism demands the en-
fOrcement Of the law. Justice knows no distinction
between q thief in prison and one out Of prison.
Whether in Office out of Office, it ls mercy that
asks restitution. When We see the man that dis.
covered the world was round forced by the vicious
in power to reCant; when We see the man that dis.
covered new world die in poverty; when We see
the fires Of persecution burn the noble and true;
when we look over the past red with the blood Of
martyrs TO truth; when we hear the bugle call TO
arms nation In war, in which half million per-
ished, and three hundred thousand crippled sol.
diers returned and million of widows and orphans
to tell the stOry-We are forced to exclaim, o. Lib
eTty what hast thou cost the wOrdi And yet in the
face of all this sell their citizenship in the land
OF the free, and led to the ballot box like cattle
and voted for price. Such is American politics.
Hath America where Christianity family CLEANS
And bells on free school still rings
Inherent by blood dearly bought,
To keep the thieves from eorFuptng the ballot bOx7