The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-28

type of citizenship. In the country,
moreover, the conditions are fortu-
nately such as TO allow a closer touch
between man and man than, too, often,
we find to be the case in the city. Men
feel more wildly the underlying sense
of brotherhood, of community of in
terest.
After all, we are one people with
the same fundamental characteristics
whether we live in the country or in
the city, or In the East or in the West,
in the North or in the South. Each
of us. unless he is contented to be a
cumberer on the earth's surface, must
strive to do his life work with his
whole heart. Each must remember
that while he will be noxious to every
one unless he first does his duty by
himself, he must also strive ever to do
his duty by his fellows.
THE business duties, the home
duties, the duties to ones family come
first. The couple who bring up plenty
of healthy children, who leave behind
them many sons and daughters fitted
In their turn to be good citizens
such a couple emphatically deserves
well of the state.
Duty to Ones Fellows.
But duty to ones self and ones
family, does not exclude duty to ones
LClSnUOI. EdCn Ol US, TlCH OF poor,
can help his neighbor at times; and
to do this he must be brought into
touch with him; into sympathy with
him. An effort is to be welcomed that
brings people closer together, so as
to secure better understanding
among those whose walks of life are
in ordinary circumstances far apart.
The prerequisite to doing good work
in the field of philanthropy, in the
field of zffr ~
ones fellows for the common good, is
that it shall be undertaken in a spirit
of broad sanity, no less than of broad
and loving charity.
1.-THE other day I picked up a little
book called, The Simple Life written
by an Alsatian, Charles Wagner, and
he preached such wholesome, sound
doctrine that l wish it could be used
as tract throughout our country To
him the whole problem of our COM
pick, somewhat feverish modern life
can be solved only by getting men and
women to lead better lives. He sees
that the permanence of liberty and
Democracy depends upon a majority
of the people being steadfast in that
good plain morality, which, as a ma
tional attribute. comes only as a re-
suit of the slow and painful labor of
centuries, and which can be souan-
dered in a generation by the thought
less and vicious.
Superiority of the Moral.
"He breaches the doctrine of the su-
periority of the moral to the material
He does not undervalue the material,
but he insists, as we of this nation
should always insist, upon the infinite
| superiority of the moral and the sor-
| did destruction which comes upon
| either the nation or the individual if
1t or he becomes absorbed only in the
desire to get wealth. The true line OF
cleavage lies between the good citi-
| zen and the bad citizen, and the line
OF cleavage may, and often does, run
| at right angles to that which divides
the. rich and the y9&maxa1Fhe signs OF
virtue lie in mans capacity to care
| for what is outside himself.
| The man who gives himself up tc
the service. of his appetites, the man
| who the more goods he has the more
he wants, has surrendered himself to
| destruction. The man who lives simp-
| ly and justly and honorably, whether
| rich or poor, Is good citizen. Those
| who dream only of idleness and pleas
ure, who hate others and fail to rec
ognize the duty of each man to his
| brother, these, be they rich or poor.
are the enemies of the state. The mis-
use of property is one manifestation
of the same evil spirit which under
changed circumstances denies the
right of property because this right is
in the hands of others"