The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-13

cesses and products of the highest civ- lilization. He comes out of the glare and glitter, the majesty and magnin- cence of the great city While the eclat and momentum with which ne comes to the far off rural centres is the extreme of his power, 1t only illus trates the fact that he is everywhere herald, bearing tidings of some kind. These tidings are helping either to degenerate or degenerate our society. They incite anarchy. lawlessness, dis honesty, godlessness, drunkennesss de- bauchery, or their opposites. l Every man goes as an emissary or lhell or Heaven. He carries another sample case which exhibits to all sam ples of the things he thinks worth while
 whether good or bad. the things he
 lives by. These draw customers for the Kingdom of darkness or that of light. There is no middle ground | Going as you do. gentlemen, to all types of people under all conditions Tn
 life. what ought you to herald? You are going to preach something, what
 shall you preach? May ask you to
 think of some of the things you VIII
 wish thousand years from now you had
 preachedr And let me begin by urg-
 ing you as you 90, preach faithful cH-
 tsenship. ,9
 [. At regular intervals you are nov
 ing in the midst of elections. You are
 asked all about the various candidates.
 their history, platform. equipment,
 character. Make yourself acquainted
 with public men and be ready to tell
 what you know to be true; for to tell
 what you do not know to be true is as
 had as telling what you know not to be true. These are days of rings, comoi- l nations froAfn~ hnvfpR ana aellfnR
 votes with influence. money, whiskey. pledges and what not. Graft is not
 unknown in official positions and leg.
 islative halls. Find out where these things are and herald 1t all over the land. Stand against rottenness every where. stand for honest ballots and
 clean politics. Urge every man to look
 upon voting as a responsibility that is
 inalienable. rather than privilege
 make the people seek the best men re- gardless of prejudice or party. For public men are the conscience Of
 people.
 .aTeach patriotism: for no people were ever great that were not rooted
 to some spot of earth, and devoted to that above all lands or climes. The
 making of just laws. the impartial ad-
 ministration of them, obeying them.
 
 These are some of the duties we owe to the State.
 Preach sound economies. A man whose life work it is to trade, should know the laws of trade, the principles controlling the production. distribution and consumption of wealth. There has T never been a time when the Southern farmers needed more light than now on this great subject. The present A Al tvrRa act ah them in a determined effort to know the hidden forces with which they are dealing and to master rather than be mastered and crushed by these. The farmer as well as the churchman needs realize the power of combined enort to be constantly reminded that while one might chase a thousand, two can put ten thousand to flight. which is to
 say that the combined power of two ia
 five times as great as that Of each Iworking alone.
 systems of taxation, national and local, direct and indirect. are but little understood When all our people come
 10 realize how much they pay in buy ing the necessaries of life under our tariff laws, and how much of their hard earned money is squandered by incompetent or unworthy national leg
 islators, we will enter upon new era as a nation.
 while the trust principle is the log ical outcome of democracy, we are all aware that conditions in this country are abnormal and oppressive because or abuses practiced by great combina- tions. Many of these trusts are noth- ing less than highway robbers and can
 be dealt with only by vigorous meas
 ures on the part of government, ana
 determined opposition by consumers. | Gambling in stocks and bonds as
 well as cotton futures is demofalizing | There are probably people here today | who have suffered, and suicides are 1 announced every week as result or l this wild mania. l .-The relations of labor and capital are not to be ignored in thinking of l the economic conditions of our times. | Neither organized labor nor combined capital should be censured till they
 overstep legitimate bounds. Much can
 be accomplished by eniightening the | people on the vital issues involved.
 .sThere Is no liver subject here today | than the relations between the people and the common carriers-the rail- roads, telegraphs, telephones ana al- lied interests. It is easier to line up with them against the people or witn | the people against them than to under 1 stand and appreciate their inter-rela- tions and reciprocal responsibilities. You who touch so many lines Of in- l Auence can do much to help on or 10 hinder good feeling in all these diree- tions, and you are not without respon- sibility for the public sentiment you | can generate.
 By all means preach righteousness in business. To do this you must repre- sent a line and a house in which you have the utmost confidence. If you try to induce others to buy from house which you secretly distrust, you degrade your manhood and invite dis aster to yourself. And if you sell an | article you know to be inferior to that | carried by another at the same price | and thus profit by the merchants ig- norance, you become contemplate in vour own eyes. ITO thine own self be true and 1t must follow as the night | inc day thou canst not then be false | to any man. Better that you blow a yoke or | oxen on a red hillside for meager liv- | ing than that you sell your life to any man. Then it is easy enough to be | truthful. You were a man. let us hope before you were a commercial traveller. | You can still be one and prosecute your | husiness to successful issue.
 50 can you teach your clients to De | true also. Their work is not easy. They are to supply what their custom CTS want and to interpret what ana l how much will be wanted in a given | learn.