Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-12-09

N$49Iae letter to The MESSENGER. Ny
XEI 81 delay.is due to the fact fact that /
< &fk8ht4 thought your many readers would
AAH y not notice it and that The
L. OKoLoNA MESSENGER would wave
W triumphant over Mississippi and
Zee editor would come ont on top 10 his political pre-
isrments. We are pleased TO know our hope be-
comes reality Seeing the editor still lives by the
regular appearance Of The MEssENGER In my home;
am persuaded to chance an other letter before you
pass away according to the desires Of those fellows
on the other side Of the gubernatOrial 6ght.
During my stay on earth have noticed that
political criminals seek to defend their act by trying
to prove their opponents as bad as they are. OF
course the logic OF the situation is twoAOld without
even sense enough to recommend it to candid
mind. have noticed that the object was to offset
prejudice with prejudice, bat the trouble with this
line Of defence is it is an an appeal to the gnOrant
and vicious elements while it ignores the hOnarObe
and business part OF society, and usually fails.
Human nature can be trusted always because man
can not rise above nature neither can he fall below
nature. The basic intincG of man survives longest
where the environments cOngenial to their being
No one knows he is honest that has never been
position and it is a fact in nature that all great
achievements individual or otherwise, are the evi-
dence of struggle; for there never was victory
without an effort. WC I snppOse editors have
Their trouble, like other felix's, but have imagin
ed their chief trouble could be traced to their sub
scriptiOn lists. This seems TO be an age OF mad
insane scramble for the almighty dollar. The sys
tenn that promulgates and uphOlds the ssacred
rights Of property" while the sacred right to live
is only secondary thought, has surely debauched
the moral sense OF the masses The prime source
Of ell our social trouble be traced to the worship
OF MamOn. Witness that New York wedding as
proof. There underies individual life aud national
life the principle known as "mOral sense" that con
stitntes the pillar and rock OF all worth. This
moral sense had its birth at the cradle OF want; for
the want element in mans nature, coupled with
knowledge how to obtain the object desired, creates
action 1t requires no Judge to tell man that has
his pocket picked, he has been WrOnged. Justice
holds court u the soul Of every man that labOrs for
his bread. It was Jesus the Christ, that held uI
the innocent child as a model Of heaven, And dc
you not know that the child on the floor playing
with it's toys will rebel against invasiOnf Dan you
not see that the infants brain receiving the first
rays Of life from the Master builder Of worlds rebels
against the invasion OF his wantsi It must there
fore, be manifest as natural result that an ignorant
people will fight for what they want as we'll as the
more enlightened II, then, we take the want ele.
ment in man, nature, as the primary principle IN
derlying the activities Of life, We find the law o
Justice next defining the right Of action and here the
laws Of man copied by Blackstone from the De
vine Law, is defined as &c rule Of action command
ing What is right and what is WrOng with the word
s'rght defined s'as straight line in harmony with
the viii OF God and wrong being the exact opposite
Il occurs to me that where wrong begins all rights
end, and injustice becomes the rule. e has beer
said that iniustice is the mother Of anarchy But
DO not wish TO lose my reader as TO thtl
thing called moral sense, the sense Of right ant
wrong. Few men, indeed, bat know right from
wrong, but the trouble about It ali is, few people
allow themselves to be governed by their sense
right. Education may facilitate justice, but educa
tion Is not en- evidence Of justice bat on the Othe
hand history shows that all the governments dead
perished by the acts Of educated men. And as i
hes been, even 30 now, men Of education, devoid Q
high moral sense, entrusted with power hav
proven a curse. Again, the deplorable condition
shat confront nation is truly alarming for an!
man today Of good moral character, is, for all prac
tlcable purposes shut out Of the hope Of Office, an,
Nhyi Simply because the people are demOralizes
by the debauohing influence Of money Crime, il
high places wihked at, whole cities being robbie,