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

stop debauchery and murder by the process of jus
tice rather than give legal sanction and continu
| it for money consideration. A political partisan
who has no independence OF thought but whose will
| is in the permission OF party boss must ia tn
VERY nature of things be hypocrite and that 10
the want OF sense to make him a manly man, an,
strange to say it is largely from this class we ge
our Office holders.
Deceit and fraud secures the party nomination
and party worshipers endorse the crime by thei
votes the wicked rule and the people moan 1t re
quires no great amount Of gray matter to under
stand that the moral sense of the people is no high
er than the political sense that govern it.
Americans are afflicted with tho ''big head" ant
the sooner they learn the fact the better. In the
first place we are not the most enlightened people
on earth, and in the second place we have re
ligon neither believe practice and the ptoO
OF the two foregoing statements are have the
most rotten politics and the most mnuOpolistie
ridden nation on earth. The church members vott
for and with the cOrruponsts that have turned thu
Sabbath to the beer garden, that robs the home
Of it's supports and drives the child into the factory
to toll for bread.
Even so has the Golden rule been made to read
edo him or he will do yOu.v Such has been tho
rapid strides Of cOmmercalism that the masses fee
it's Dghting hand touch all parts of our social anC
religious life. The good old days, white as snow,
rejecting the milk of human kindness have melted
and blended with the fearless night The loyal
sons Of God few who still sing the songs of Zior
amid the wreckage Of other days.
/ Hope pillOwed on love OF Country, sees hand O
redemption holding the sword OF justice for future
generations. Us old men fought over battles, ther
sat down to quarrel over the past wrapped in mem
Ory red robe, became lost to the present and fu
ture of our country; and while we dreamed the vic
ious politician appealed to oar hatred and preju
dces and voted us for their glory.
| Now other people from foreign lands have be-
come our law makers, and we have the sweA
shop for wives, the factory for our children and
the old man on the Dght watch as a reward for Oul
party idOatry and sectional bigOtry.
The Blue and the Gray aad their day.
Tlsd. Their sun Jun. vent 9iaIo down sni q Glory
That knows not how to tcl their STORY
The oS Latch s1ss string =, ks kissed Sy the wina
Haa Anal
Memory panses at the dSs Loves tea ims the eye
The hope Of the country lies In clean politics anG
the question tG will our old men set the good ex
ample by coming out Of the blind past and stand II
the open door Of magnificent future and vote iol
honest men regardless Of party boss and rebuke
rotten party machine methods. The Independent
manly man leaves the impression Of his individual
ity on his surroundings and demonstrates the di
vinity Of truth. The noble, liberty loving, honest
man has ever been the gnide post on the highways
Of Gods dispenGatOns. The progress 0f the ages
owes nothing to the coward. The world needs
brave men aa it has always needed them to push
forward the truth. The wealth seeker, glory hunt
Ter, the place Of power locker and Office maniac have
always been heles In the sewage Of Intellectual
progress.
Heroism is the book in whiCh is written the
names of those that dared to obey God and speak
and follow the truth. Patriotism, is the book in
which justice, honor and truth stands iOr states
manRhip and but few the names written therein.
Yes 4tis true yOU wore the gray, wore the blue.
We did our best, ever loyal and true. Now let il
be- NORTH south, east nor west and all for Christ
and Adams race.
Truth gnttering shieAd the sword fright
Wield 4 and al corruption snltei
blue and Gray, oEe and an Be brave 1Oday,
The truly civilized man ig the minute hand repre-.
senting the completed time on the dial OF scient6C
moral evolution. No grander man lives than he
who masters himself. To be full proprietor Of yORr
own soul and heed ito divine intuitOns 10 to be
Christ like. To have thinker and be afraid to use
it, is TO live on the rim Of hell with occasional
glimpse Of heaven. TO be 9 free man Ii free
3Ountry costs rivers Of blood and tears and blind IL
that man and dead s that soul that can mot appre-
cate this blessing as the rich ruitage from ont Of
ell the struggling past. To be An Independent
manly man ia TO walk the earth baptized In truth,
sun.crOVned ID love.
single thing TO moral coward other than pity and
contempt righteousness the ripened fruit from
the tree Of love planted by the rivers Of sruth. And
the fool knOweth not from whence IL Cometh or
whittier It gOeth.