Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-07-24
GOLDsBORo N. c.. THURSDAY. JULY p, 1902.

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! the throes of earthquake that cannot
! but destroy our free institutions and
render our Republic prey to COM
munism and anarchy, IN whose wake
/ will follow revolution, sure and
swift, and the utter destruction of
/ every fabric of our constitutional
/ guarantees Of 'life, liberty and the
/ pursuit of happiness
| These are no high-sounding plati-
| tudes nor glitteriug generalities.
| Every man who has studied the eth
les of popular government, who is
familiar with the history the rise
/ and fall of governments, and who
! believes that the Constitution Of our
| Republic was the outcome of Inspl-
ration-that the men who formulated
! it were vouchsafed Wisdom on High
| knows that these are the words of
| sOberness and truth.
There is something-there is some
| thing about this Senate of ours that
appeals very profoundly to our pat
riotism, to our intelligence, to our
| own selves and to our hope of pos
terity-and especially profoundly to
those of us who observe day by day,
the working, the power, the glory
| of the Senate!
To me the greatest man in all the
| world is United States Senator!
Why? Because he is the represent
ative of sovereign State-of States
rights. There is much in that!
Emblazoned upon the mightiest of
all flags save one in history was the
proud and boastful legend: s'The
Senate and the Republic Of Rome"
No greater power had the old Ro-
man Senate than has that legislative
body of our own which is named for
the Senate Of Rome. We go further
and call our splendid white palace
on the high hill overlooking our ma
tional city, the Capitol, even as the
Romans called their house of legisla-
ton. But even as the Senate of Rome
made the way through the Capitol
! our own Senate, two thousand years
after Caesar and after the Christ,
| seems to be standing between our
republic and destruction.
No enlightened man may, close at
hand or far away, under the unfail-
ing light of love Of country, thought
fully study conditions that now ex-
| ist and not realize that the Senate is
! the power standing between US and
the fading Of the republic. And one
misreads the signs of the times un-
| less he sees that this great mass of
four score millions of people are
looking to the Senate for salvation.
The Senate, we all of Us know, is our
| last resort as freemen-as citizens OF
a sovereign State whose rights are
| infringed or liberties menaced by
| legislation of the lower house Of Con-
gress or the usurpation of power by
any official of the government. The
Senate alone remains our delibera-
| tive body. In the Senate is anchored
a free peoples freedom. In the Sen
| ate alone is every sovereign State
equals States rights recognized
and maintained, regardless of popu-
| lation, or metes OF territory, or num-
| erical representation in the lower
House. Net, the idle-minded call
the Senate e'the millionaires' club.''
| What difference does it make il
nearly a fourth Of the Senators are
millionaires, or that dozen of the
eighty and eight bought their seats:
We still have the Senate, the bull.
wark of free speech, against which
the changing, ephemeral, mob-laW
of public clamor and the ambition
of mere politicians, and often ill-di-
rected efforts of the House of Repre-
sentatives beat vainly, where there
lis no limit to debate, where the sover.
eighty of the State is recognized ano
maintained and States rights are
unmenaced and untrameled.
So the convention did well-diG
wisely in standing by the Constitu
tion, that gives the sovereign State
the right, through its General AS
sembly, to choose who shall repre-
sent it in the Senate branch of tht
: Congress of the United States.
81 In everything that could possibly
conduce To the comfort, convenienc,
and pleasure of the hosts of delegates
assembled within her. gates tn,
Greensboro people were most solicit
GUS to ascertain and prompt to pro
. vide, with a cheerfulness that wa
!, unfeigned and courtesy that wa
the manifestation of innate goot
hraedinp and rOval hOsDitalitv.