The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-11-11
THE rDEAL-THE REAL.

GAtidtto iiOu hIs Diydu SptcCu d
LawrencebuIg, Ind.
Il have had people ask me why
democrats seem to be SO intensely il
earnest about their democracy. hav,
had men say, Why. with some demo
Gratis, democracy is sort of religion.
My reply is that with every democrat
who knows what democracy means II
is religion, and when you hear 6
good democratic speech it is so much
like sermon that you can hardly tel
the difference between them. And
why? Because good sermon is built
upon the ten commandments, the
sermon on the mount, and the eleventh
com nandment: Thou shalt love thy
ne1ghhor as myself. And good dem
ocratic speech is built upon the doc
trlne of human brotherhood. equal
rights, and seIfgovernment. When
20 get down to bedrock you find that
lows of mankind is the basis of both,
AMI democracy can never die while
t ltTa is In democracy love of man
kind. Democracy does not 60 as far,
sometimes, as we would like to have
lit go, but, my friends. we must not
expect that we will have everything
as we would like it. ASK a mother, as
she holds IN her arms her baby boy,
what her desire is. and she will tell
yon that she desires that his heart Will
be SO pure that it could be laid upon
pillow and not leave a stain; that
his ambition will be- so holy that he
could whisper it in an angels ear
and that his life will be SO clean that
his mother. his sister, his wife, his
child, could read record of his every
thought and act without blush. That
is the ideal that every mother has for ,
her child
But ask her If she is going to require
that perfection in him, and from her
heart she VIII tell you no; she will
s y that IS nsr desire. but that size
will make him as good as she can;
tn It she will follow his footsteps with |
q daily prayer; that her blessing will |
rest upon him wherever he goes
the world and that she
will hope, hore, yes, hope that when
he dies the world will be better that
be has lived. That is about all she
ian say to you. And SO, my friends,
It you ask me if my platform has all
hat I want in it, say, no. You ask
ne if my candidate stands for all l
would like to have him stand for, |,
answer no. But shall throw away
he good he promises because l can not
get all that | want? By what means
IAN | secure more than can secure
through the election of Parker and .
Jaws? There is no other way by
which l can bring to my country at O
his time more of good than will be Q
Tought through their election. Re- +
ormers must be patient. 1t is slow r
ork, this work of reaching humanity; h
Y 10 u SlOW WOIh' ICthCAIOOi thus /
nst about the time they reported y
rom the Philippine islands that the +
'ilipinos had divided into squads and a
nat these separate squads had hidden q
. the woods and formed maIuading ..
ands-just before that time l lead in
n encyclopedia ia that about thousand !,
I1sx
le same thing. A thousand years h
go! We have made progress but
,ere is much ahead of us yet. It is
,ly TWO or three hundred years ago b
lat we were burning witches; only e
W short decades since we were perse- q
'ting people for conscienc, sake. We ~
g doing better now, but we are u
It far from the goal. If they tell you tt