Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-08-02

sympathy would stand as evidence Of moral insan-
ity
American institutions have reached stage ei
economic strain forced on them by state Of moral
prOstratiOn, traceable to the want Of proper re.
gard for law and order.
Class privileges, by which some are immune to
law have sOwn the seeds Of caste and at the last the
very rich and the very poor are marshaling their
forces into hostile camps and mutterings Of dsCon.
tent is heard on every hand Law is openly defed
by employer and emplOye and the militia is being
looked to for final action.
On every hand corruption stares one in the face
and the painful fact is this corruption emanates not
from the lower classes but from high Oficias-sen-
atOrs, congressman, legislaturemen and judges.
Among them are men Of seventy.one years Of age,
it is that the pale face OF youth and the gray hairs
of age have fallen victims of mammOn; they fear not
God, neither consider the works Of hand; on they
rush down the frenzied street Of cupidity. They
have no compassion; on their brow is the brand Of
treason; in their dead souls is the laughter OF de-
Wis., and strange to say, when halted in their de.
auchery by the demands Of justice, they ask sym.
pathy from the society they have robbed. Could
the devil ask more than to let them aloDei
Doubtless there are many cases where sympathy
shOald be shown, especially petty OHenses. Trace.
able to environment OF this class am not speaking
but on the other hand Of those who betray public
trust.
race from barbarism to civilization when We con.
template tyranny exercised and baneiu results and
the millions that have perished in war and in dun
geOns and expiring the breast Of famine, and all
to satisfy the brutal nature Of priests and kings We
are forced 60 see that the governments Of the ma
tions dead and living have been and still are more
brutal than humane, and that the ruling classes
have used power for them own glory regardless Of
the rights Of the tOiling millions.
The setting up Of this government on the fOunda,
tion of equal rights was formal protest against the
tyranny Of the old world A new chapter was writ
ten in the book Of Political Economy. Mankind
had reached the heights overlooking the clouds and
the storms that swept his ancestors into the rivers
OF blood; they saw burrows plOughed by greed il
desOlate fields; at their feet was the laughter o.
devils in the banquet halls Of tyrants, while the IN
fed millions robbed Of their substance wandered
over the earth in ignorance and slavery, and theJ
called halt, and turning out the truth from thc
battlements Of reason, that God was NO respeCtel
persons that all men were the children Of the same
mother, from whose womb nature designed should
issue forth sons born unto equal rights, to life lib
erty and the pursuit Of happiness; on the nimbl'
wings Of free speech and free press the prOclama
tion ran around the world, from the islands Of th,
sec to the remote ends Of the earth. And Americl
rose up out Of the dead past as lighthouse on th'
deep to throw across the ocean Of dead thought th
star Of Bethlehem that in the iatherhOOd Of God th
truth that equal rights'' was the connecting linl
between God and the brotherhood Of man.
When we contemplate the possibilities for gOol
opened up for the civilization Of under our con
stitutiOnal guarantee and declaration OF independ
ence feel that nothing short Of the nexOrabe Lev
Of justice should be meted out to our legslatuTemen
congressman and senators that take bribes to sci
the liberties Of the people, for it is infinitely bette
that traitors should perish on the gaoWs than tha
nation should be turned with its back to the ligh
and plunged into revolution, and equal rights b
swallowed up in barbaric night.
One thousand persons have been arrested in Con
stantinople ton suspicion Of having thrown