The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-14

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raiment on the body there is VIDE
sween of varied efforts. No single class
of workmen is to be credited with
whole result, and it would be the preJu-
dices of economic rashness, the bias OF
a half-trained mind to tell one class
that it was the victim of a host OF rob-
bers. The ideal business organization
is expressed by st. Paul in these words:
For the body is not one member, but
many, IL the foot shall say because
l am not the hand 1 am not the body,
is it therefore not the body?" This is
the soundest economy Because the
merchant cannot be the banker shall he
pull out of the social body? Because
the farmer cannot be the manufacturer
shall he dissolve his union with the
world of industry? Because the preacher
cannot own a railroad shall he proceed
to fight the railroad? The world can
not be perfected by the farmer alone,
or the preacher alone, or the lawyer
alone If all were farmers then all
would suffer; if all were bankers then
all would starve; if all were preachers
iniquity would abound; and if all were
lawyers justice would die. Yet such
many an innocent man. THE man with
a hoe is a hero, but so is the man with
+ the>pen The college man should preach
a gospel of safe economy, until every
man should come to feel that he is a
part of sublime whole, and find his
inspiration in the single thought that
he moves forward a commodity from
the region of the worthless into the high
spheres of incalculable value. Such ali
mt m
boys whistle, a new melody in the sub
dued hum at the washtub. a new vigor
in the step of the clerk, kindle holier
smile on the face of the weaver, bring
a steadier confidence into the heart of
the banker, and put gladder sympathy
into the bosom of the capitalist 1t is
not the mission of the educated man to
teach men how to live without work.
but how to be happy and contented In
work. He is the hater of men and the
wrecker of society who goes about to
make men feel that they are the VIC
tins of social conspiracy and are slaves
of individual tyranny. God has forever
ordained that falsehood and hatred can
not conserve life, or produce perfection.
These things He has committed to tho
hallowed keeping of truth. and he alone
, only the truth, and appeals only to love.
Voltaire taught France to hate, and
today the old nation staggers under the
! passions of its own bosom. John Knox
taught Scotland to love, and today the
| old north land stands forever fixed upon
its rocks. while a spirit of gladness fills
the people. He who studies that he may
make people hate, has formed his allie
frso xxy.t tor Ia air1a hut hn
! who studies that he may make men love
! has entered into holy allegiance with
| God.
The educated man should represent and
| inculcate a sound idea of liberty. Wh~n
Madam Roland assembled the scaffold III
| Place de la Concorde, her eyes fell upon
/ the goddess of liberty, and she exclaimed
80 Liberty, what crimes are committed
/ in thy name!" Insanity is at it's worst
when virtue is made vice and truth
/ turned into falseheod 1t is not an
easy thing to be a freeman. No man
| is free because the Constitution says he
| is. He is free because his inner con-
seriousness says he is right, and all his
powers are under the restraint of truth.
Thus it is that all Americans are not
! free, though the Constitution says they
are. That Constitution can really mean
no more than that all Americans shall
have the right to become free. But
freedom, real, genuine freedom, is limi-
tation. There is a law of liberty, and
only he who obeys it can be free. On
every public building in France is in
scribed the words, Liberty, Equality
Fraternity" They wear the gilded raj
ment of liberty, and bow theeir knee in
blind serfdom. The royal head of France
is the unSafeSt head in the nation
France has taught that to be a French
man is the sole ground of right to do
as one pleases. This is the freedom
/ OF insanity
The right to do a thing was fixed by
/ God in the constitution of things to rest
upon The power to do it. No article in
the constitution can give a quack the
right to practice medicine, or a hod-
carrier the right to practice law, or an
lgnoramus the right to be a legislator.
That man alone has the right to act
who has the wisdom to do right action
We are all free to make ourselves free:
but liberty can never be reality be-
yond that which one gets for himself.
The ability to buy printing plant does
not give one the right to edit a paper.
and give out doctrines that are false,
and to sit in judgment upon all lines
or political, religious and commercial
action. 1t will be a long time before
Americans learn that free speech belongs
only to him who has something to say
1t will be a long time before Americans
Will be free enough to keep silent Yet
1t is one of the noblest rights of free
dom to say nothing when one has notl-
ing to say.
| The rawlings of ra3hness under the pre-
! tense OF free speech is degrading the
hottest things that constitute our national
existence. The recent sad tragedy of this
nation should be a warning against reck-
less speech. 1t was a tremendous price
TO pay for lesson in virtue. but there
come times when the deSperations of
moral rashness will learn virtue only at
the highest cost. The educated man
should carry in his bosom a reverence
Tor nigh things and disseminate it among
the low and the reckless. till an Ameri-
can ruler will be secure against all forms
OF anarchy and ruffianism l enter my
solemn protest against calling the Presi-
dent OF these United States by the famil-
l.