Woodruff County news., 1902-03-27


 kept his heart in touch with the throbbing masses. His heart has always been with the ring and not with the people. lie says my scrip proposition is the most damnable proposition ever sought to be perpetrated on an intelligent people. Why does he howl so? Because the number ing of scrip touches his pocket book. The he-ringster is presl- dent of the Bank of Augusta and the biggest stockholder in it. Is there any wonder that he oppos- es it? None. That much for my opposition.
 Mankind is toiling for a death less name. Various are the schemes devised and the plans pursued to gain this world. sought end-to rear a monument that shall not perish, but grow broader and higher with the roll of eternal ages. This is the nucleus of all human endeayor. l Ali ifs alter are sacrificed the smile and tear, the swell of de light, the reyenging throb, the sweets of duty, the joys of life and the hopes of heaven. Dream ing of this, the poor man forgets his grief and only seeks toplease his own circle through icicles of oppression, and tyrany hangs from his brow and freezes his heart. From the earliest dawn of civilization mankind has been plodding upward and onward. The race began with it's hiero- glyphics and today has the Ian guages; began with the pine torch and tallow candle and today has the briIliancy of the electric light: began with the OK and mule and today has the steamships that blow through ten thousand streams, railroads that go from continent to continent, automo- piles and electric cars. We can see the realization of what Lord Tennyson prophesied in Locks ley Hall Il dipped into the flu ture as far as human eyes could see, saw a vision of the world and all the wonder that would be, saw the heavens filled with com merce, argosies of magic sails, pilots in that purple twilight dropping down with costly balls till the wardrum throb no longer and the battle-1iag's unfurled in the parliament of man the feder- ation of the world" {" You, who read the papers, know thatSantos Dumont has practically brought this prophecy to pass. The race began with the ten command ments and today has her codes of law innumerable. Progress is the wabchword all along the line. We see the divine right o1 kings fade away and individual sovereignty grow beautiful ano 'strong in the glorious sunlight o- God $ creation. Out of the Wreclzs of kingdoms and empires is born a flower more beautiful than the rose; sweeter than the enslaved soul, than all the wealth of christendom; it is nation O. free men-Americans. The his tory of our nation has not beer written upon the hard and crue hearts of kings, but upon the brow of every free and loyal citi zen of our land. And, fellow AIUlACI1Ss 1 WOulu ldUllOl DS CII humble citizen living in a log-hu1 built with my own hands, out il the painless wood, with a agrape vine growing OCT my door anC the grapes growing purple in the autumn sum-" 1 would rather live there and know that the stars and stripes, old glory, is floating as proudly over my home as over the White House. 1 would rath CT live there than be millionaire and live in luxury and ease 1T courts of Europe and be subjec' to some potentate whose milk o- hnman kindness soured on the vine. And so l would ten thous and times. 'Tis glorious privi lege to be Americans. The founders of our nation laid the corner stone of our freedom deer and secure. They anchored oul liberty in the eternal cradle ot