Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-04-04
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IN FTER hundred years Of familiar
K ~MM@ ity with the various races that
E %HNGA have come to our shores, there
WGA ERHSGl IN still exist q wonderful degree Oi
gHSZE ignorance concerning the one
a-Rf thing commonly called The Moral
syM4W Sense, which seems to be the puz-
zIe, when we come to analyze with view to un-
derstand the various races Of people. Prejudice
warps the Judgment, and what is desired is often
substituted for the fact. Yol can set it down as
fact that money getter s in sense controlled by
the moral sense, neither is place seeking pol
itician. The universal rule is that political job
implies crooked work supplemented by impudence.
The moral sense of q nation rises no higher than
the moral influence OF the law that governs it,.
The different nationalities coming to shore re-
feet the influence of the laws under which they
were born and raised. "ShOw us the laws Of ma
ton and we will tell you the degree Of civilization
the nation at ained," is the language Of all his
torians. Nothing is so plain in the history OF ma.
tOns as the fact that the laws OF the nation stand
as an everlasting monument for the student Of
coming generations to read and learn it's rise, de-
cay and fall.
and to their existence all other factors are subor-
dinate. They are as follows: Laws made in the
intefest OF all without discrimination, and second
ly, their enforcement without Discrimination Here
in lies the whole secret Of national snccess and
national perpetuity. In national life this truth
should never be overlooked or forgotten: That in
our Republic the party in power is the government
practically, because the party has the power to
force the laws made AMI those it makes. The
great curse now affecting the nation is due to the
non enforcement of laws Law, is rule OF action
and if there is no action then there is practically
law. AS an ak will not cut unless it be put in
motion, neither will the law prohibit unless the Of
ficer puts 1t in motion 1t is nonsense to say the
law will enforce itself. / do not apprehend any
one will take issue with the foregoing conclusion
We understand there can be no real definite un-
dersanding respecting the nature limit, character,
power or form Of right and wrong when viewed
from metaphysical or educational training and
we understand also that all this class OF right and
wrong was left by our forefathers subject to one
law, o.wit: zone mans right ends where another
mans right begins," hence in the religious realm
OF thought all life occupies one common level of
equal rights. On the of life there is room for
every SAIL On the intellectual ocean there is room
for every thought; on the ocean of commerce there
is room for every ship freghted with the labor Of
man. On every shore there are mouths to be fed
and backs to be clothed, and whether amidst the
snow crowned mountains or down where the sun.
lit plains blossom with plenty or out on the wild
waves Of the angry deep, everywhere there is room
for the genius OF man. There can be controversy
about right and wrong where common sense exist
ANY man with q little bit Of sense knows when he
has been wronged. A and B, two men, violate the
law; both are guilty alike; both guilty Of theft.
goes to the penitenGary. is poor man. B
takes an appeal and is acquitted How much sense
does any man need to know that is criminal at
large. Again. When rich men escape the penalty
of the law by the non-eniOrcement Of the law, and
when the poor man is made to feel the penalty Of
the law by it's enforcement how much sense must
the public at large have not to know that this dis
elimination between the rich and poor is the cross
on which justice is crucifed and the cemetery in
which lie buried the nations dead. Stand on the
summit OF the magnificent civilization Of to-day and
look back across the iretiul past over rivers Of
blood and tears flowing from the palace Of the king
down through the streets to the novels Of the poor
See the riots and mobs surging along the street.
See the flames leap from house to house. See fy-
inR iavelins, pixies and spears; hear the clash Oi
swords, hear the shouts Of the charging hcst.3
Look until all lie hushed in death and turn and read