Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-06-11
DISSERTATIONS.
IrlLten for Nc Messenger by Col j. S. Felter sprng

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Goodness is the child Of patience.
Unpaid efforts breed discomfort and disconten
leads to crime.
Glass legislation is the monumental crime OF al
governments.
If you can make men rich by law, can't you keel
u, poor by lawi
province of civil government is to prOhibi
\ Cd which is uncivil.
true patriotism never did, indeed never can, lv'
in the brain of a miser.
Glass legislation in America is an heir apparent
being bastard Prince of monopoly.
Ignorance is the chain that binds the producer
Of wealth to the chariOts Of monopoly.
A political fool is poor man always greatly con
cerned in and voting for the rich mans business.
That community wherein crime HOurshes most i
where the spOils of Office have the greatest division
It is said cit is an ill wind that blows no maj
gOOd;' if you don't believe it, behold how the vege
tartan smiles
\ Brains and money, has, does and will ever rul
the world either to perpetuate the liberties OF maj
or destroy the Government.
Society is sort Of hyppOdrome where dishOnO
cupidlty drives for the prize, and the impOverishe
multitude cheer the performance.
1902. All manner of slavery in this age is tracea
BILE to ignorance in some form, for ignorance vii
In all the ages past a very few men have bee
willing to do the thinking for the Masses and the
STILL like dOgfenne exist under the hOof of travel
The kind of politics that teaches that for the Gov
ernment to uphold the rich, and the rich will TAX
care Of the poor, is fine scheme for hawks, bu
hard on the doves.
When Justice is ignored and the voice of pity i
stifed, and virtue becomes an article Of commerce
then it is that conscience is made to attend th
funeral Of the soul.
The suggestion that "the masses have not indie
pendence enough to do their own thinking" is
good One provided proof of the existence of th
"thinker'' can be produced.
Science discovers truth through the known fac
that truth will it every other truth; and lie
made manifest by its inability to fit another lie
however ingenius its author.
Some reform movements after they have made ul
their committees reminds us that there are to-
many Generals and COlOnels for the number of pri
vates-they seem to be class conscious.
Liberty, Freedom and ''Free Trade" depends o.
the word 'free for an advertisement for scraps ei
OvSr after trusts combines mOnOpOlies and merg
erS get through working for tbe "dear people"
Theiaborer and the capitalist we're never friends
for greed recognizes law. Cupidity sheds NJ
tears of sympathy, being heartless and sOuless;
hrives best when pale faced want makes its sacTiRc
for bread
Ignorance and superstition are twins, born OF tn
same parents, who lived along the dark horizon tina
hung over the chaotic period when confusion peO
pied the earth and sky with evil spirits and warpe
the brain of the infant world.
Poverty often leads to drunkenness, but drunk
enness is the highway to poverty: want opens tn
door and want closes it, leaving behind a cemeter
through which the ghosts Of the damned night
howl their anathema to the unhumanity of man.
A private soldier is very private: he retires il
private to the Soldiers home, draws private pen
sion and is privately buried while the General get
big pay and big pension and his widow draw
five thousand per year, dresses in silks and travel
in Europe: thus do things private make publ
things, and things public.
Our republic has the ballot box for the Ark O
the Covenant, and here we must meet God and ma
and build for the future or else take up the marC
and hasten back to barbaric night where lost liber
ty sinks into Oblivion and hope drops into tn
ocean OF dead thought, and the bowling winds sWee
over and over the ashes Of dead republic.
A lie is the evidence Of weakness, and is ful
bloOded child OF theft; lives in a clOuded brain
struts in ignorance; weeds on the waste matter Q
civilization and is often found in high places clad
the robes Of pety; it fOurishes best during the pc
litical campaign. The politician is its daddy, tn
party devOtee its AGENT the fool its vctim VOlene
its fruit, and hell It's reward.
Monopoly, combines, mergers and trusts are al
children Of cupidity born of the harlet Of greed
sChooled in violence. They laugh at the tear o.
the cheek Of unpaid labor they defy all law; the
fear not God neither consider the rights Of man
nPartisan spirits their foundation political idOla
ters their means to end, and the continual ignC
rance Of the masses their hope Of perpetuity.