Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-06-20

PAOSSAUs
The wise good man standing on the heights OF
Gallilee baptized with truth and sun crowned with
love, saw bleeding world in the grip Of ignorance
rushing in chariots Of violence and war down to
rivers Of blood, where oated the Gondola fleghted
with the harlots OF crime and out of his heart came
the words OF truth denouncing them all as thieves
hypocrites, bigots, whOremongers and liars 1t
takes the courage born Of the spirit that dwels on
the sublime heights where associated with the pow
OF the air, souls commune with souls, and leeds
on the spiritual mama to face the gddy, gaping
vulgar vicious, sinful multitude and boldly proclaim
the truth.
l have known men who carried their "fag" on
NE field of battle into the open mouth OF death
KYVthOut wavering to turn coward in the face OF a
dirty ward politician. There is world OF differ
ence between the man that marches under the COM
mand OF the truth supported by the better angels Of
his nature, and the man that is ignorant OF why he
does thing other than he has been told to do it,
The saloon and thief are the wings Of the ward poll
tican and this Boss Buzzard roosts in the gambling
dene OF our cities and is rapidly known by tn con-
trast between the size Of it's stomach and head, and
Just why it should be able to command anything
that has two legs and brains. am at loss to
know unless perhaps the brute instinct is the as
scendent and the question is of the stomach only
1t is bat repetition Of history to say that pro.
gress is slowly climbing the mountain Of civilxa
tion and capturing the outpost Of prejudice, where
ignorance marshals it's hosts, and planting the
standard OF knowledge to bless the children OF men,
Progress is the child Of the immediate present. All
the lessons Of the past Glled with the glamor Of
great deeds burn with every Hame and invites the
young man to move on and ont and NpwaCd to high
er IDEALS where art and invention waits to greet his
victory with songs. Agitation is bat the vibration
OF truth graphing with the nerve center Of our
social, civic and economic life.
Organized capital and organized labor keeps the
consumer stepping lively between these two noun,
tains Of economic environments that threatens to
crush them sooner or later. All the talk about
higher sweeter and nObler civilization is idle talk
while THE mad insane scramble for money holds the
nation In its deadly grip.
The blood Of our young men Of today has mix
ture Of greed and runs faster than it ran in the
veins Of their ancestors. The home sweetness Of
other days has lost the light and color Of their pas
torial sweetness and the young man has sought the
city to gratiiy the vagSry imbided from the novel
and yellow journalism, about fabulous wealth.
Tell young man that the people Of forty years
ago were more honest than are the people now and
you will find him looking ct yOu in that way that
suggests the thought in his mind and II be would
express it he would say, 'tyou have . cute way Of
Dragging on yourself" The glamOr Of wealth and
the breath Of 1onopoly has contaminated the moral
atmosphere leading Our young men from the farm To-
the city to follow the strumpet Of pleasure down to
the gates Of hell.
Ben johnson said no one sympathizes with the
sorrows Of vanity while this is largely true the
sorrow for it all ss IN the fact that the voters legal
ze the crime Of debauchery for it brings
into the treasury regardless Of The demOraizing Of
feet on the home lie and il happens that just in
proportion that good laws are ignored is crime vim
dicated Moreover does this licensing Of crime make
the city an incubator for Matching criminals out Of
its own citizens and also becomes trap to catch
the youth from the country round about
Doubtless it Will be sometime yet to come before
this nation win imbibe enough common sense TO-