Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-09-05

AHl W-TU some reform movements spTang up
like Jonah's gourd, and likewise perished, still,
whatever was the Of their origin, it was best
to have them threshed out, and the cha blown with
the wind and il grain OF truth were found 1t sim,
ply Joined itself to the where it belonged later
on.
There never was time since mankind struggled
toward the light when reason justified any one in
authority for Furnishing man for the expression of
an honest thought voiced in clean language-never.
1t was always blind force standing in the castle
that shut the door in the lace OF the child of prog
ress that made revolution necessity.
Revolution is word distasteful to the average
American mind. There is an awful meaning at.
tached to the word that out of the dreadful
past full of horror and destruction both of life and
property that causes the mind to shrink from it
pestilence.
But be this true, nevertheless the fact remains
that revolution must come either peacefully or by
force.
Peaceful revolution is the wisest and best-in6
ntely so. "Peacefully il we can hut iorciby if we
must" has sounded along all ages, and lie still
heard on the streets of our great cities.
To my mind nature at no time has ever made as
bountiful arrangement to satisfy the wants OF hn-
manity as she has made in America.
To talk about revolution by force sounds like
planning trip to the In the first place, it Is
brimful OF ignorance. Now, said it was ign
rance and pass on to prove the assertion true IN
America Here in America the government is so
formed that the people can be in command il the
people make an intelligent Of their rights, and
any other use OF their rights s destructive to their
rights. Why, now we have multiplied thousands
complaining OF monopoly Outrages, and the rich
being immune TO the law. Is it not TACT that those
who complain are the very fellows that vote to con
tinue in power the oHiciae who rob them Of their
rightsi II this be not ignorance, it must take on
the elements Of treason; for be it understood that
man who sells his vote and afterwards talks about
revolution simply talks to cover up the sale.
There are hundred ways one can sell bis vote
without taking the ready cash. True, men follow
leaders, and true it is that the ignorant masses sell
their rights to the cunning GLASS; and it is also true
the ignorant class control the intelligent
class; and therefore the logic Of the situation is that
nothing but q peaceful revolution, brought about
through the education Of the ignorant masses, can
possibly restore to those ignorant the rights
Of which they have been despOiled.
Do not the leaders Of the various reforms know
thisf and il so Why do they exert themselves to
0OIO themselves stp1EuCet A16VO Uu0y q AcauoACuAp
that furnishes revenue to them that they fear they
will lOsef and il so, are they not misleading their
followers for the reason that they are trying to
throw out Of CfRce those that are holding down tne
Office for the same reason they are holding down
their oficesi
How then, could a revolution BY force be pOssi,
BILE while the discOntented reuain separated BY dc
signing leaders ii separate party actiOnf This fact
il we'll nnderstcod BY the cunning class; and, more
hover monopoists controlling both old parties have
directed legislation iD most Of the states to
make it impossible for reform parties to get place
on the official ballot.
we see, therefore, the only possible way to right
our wrongs must come through intelligent citizen
ship.
When pnhc sentiment shall crystalize into the
practical truth that man who sells his vote has no
political rghia the publIoi bound to respect then,
VA nnk ffli thar rar there IA a0Ifd foundation an