Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-07-19

ny MM8M and moral deDaucheTy.
NW The crime q sgraitr has pene
SBAHXl-s trated all departments Of the gov
~ bsltN eminent until the dollar is exalted
6WH ~ over and above man. The mailed
S1-L=S1E hand Of monopoly thrOttles the
III W minister and Sunday school and de-
lies public censure-
Corruption first began it's work in cities by brib
ing aldermen. The seed thus cast was soon waited
to village and hamlet. While many supposeit be
gan with the egsstuse it from the cities these
briDe-takng legslaturemen came. Monopoly sim
ply sent them 70 the Legislature, where they
could be Of greater service to them.
Monopolists began first to pay campaign expen
ses, butater on found OUT that this class Of bribe
takers was 90 dishonest that they declined assist
in their election, declaring it was cheaper to buy
them after election
This ''graftv business mas reached all the avenues
OF civil and religious lie until the nation has har
vest Of crime.
When we contemplate the possibilities in store
for the human race under our Eorm Of government,
then try to marshal words into sentence that would
fully expose and condemn the moral rottenness OF
man or set of men that would deliberately, iOr few
dollars, sell the civil, moral and religious rights
aud even bis country We 0nffof the eeEins II the
brain and expose the poverty OF the English Ian
guage
An the noble impulses Of the soul, all that flows
from the fountain Of love- all the divinity there is in
man; yes, all are swept away by the storm Of
'grait," while the brain staggers and reels dazed
by the outrage, exclaimIng: "Imps Of Helll"
II by any system an intelligent man finds himself
deprived Of a legal right to do that which by nature
and the law OF God he has right to do it would
seem in harmony with justice that the man would
seek to learn the cause and the possible remedy,
and having found it would at once strive to regain
his liberty to exercise the right.
To speak Of 'graft' is but to speak Of a result
growing out Of a combination Of causes, for the rea
SON that the crime itself is a result OF some force
operating to gain some advantage not contemplated
or known By any rule Of common justice. Therefore,
whatever the selfish motives that inspire it, the
cause may be as numerous as the nature OF the IN
dertakings that seek the point Of advantage.
The diversified relation Of causes often clouds and
0bscures the real or dominant cause and hence it is
that we have dozen or more Of reform parties,
each claiming to have the 'OnIy solutionp
TO my mind fundamental fact in government is
one by which facts Of lesser character can be util
lied to serve in perpetuating the benefits derived
JrOm it.
If the reader will call to mind the principle on
which this republic was founded, be will at once
see that our iOreiathers slid this government into
the divine groove by recognizing the fact that every
child born bad the same right Of every other child
born into the world, thus reaffrming the divine pro
clamatiOn that God is no respecter Of PERSONS .
and declared that all men are created equa;" that
they endowed by their Creator with certain in
alienable rights; that among these are lile liberty
and the pursuit Of happiness; that to secure these
rights governments are instituted among men de-
irving their Just power from the consent Of the gov
erned"
The reader must see that every citizen Of the re-
public had G0d-given right-an inalienable right
to life, liberty and happiness
Now, what did our iOreiathers say vas necessary
to secure and protect these rights
Listen. Governments are instituted among men
deriving their inst power from the consent Of the
governed
Here you have set forth the fundamental princi-
pies Of this republic
Nov, the question arises, is this government
being administered by the consent Of the governedi
Il 30, yOu have no kick coming aDd il not, pray
what is the secret Of your troublei