Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-02-14
We are Now Living in The
Millennium Says a Re-
cent Writer.
But He Wrote Before the North Gar
olina General Assembly Con-
Vened and the Railroad
Rate Reduction and
Antitrust Bills
We're A-BOrnin.

A recent writer in 1.-THE Millennium
Dawn'' series tells us that we are now
living in the millennium. The signs.
however, are not particularly conspic-
uous. True, we do now and then see
the lion lying down with the lamb, bu,
the lamb is always inside of the lion.
A Western congressman who had
kept his seat for nearly a whole session
and had never opened his mouth ex-
cept to say s'aye'' OF mo" on the pend
ing question, determined that such a
record would not please his constitu-
ents, and so decided thai he must make
a speech. AS he was entirely unac-
customed to public speaking, and had
nothing to say he found himself con
siderably embarrassed. But that speech
must be made; and SO, screwing his
courage to the sticking point, he arose
and thus addressed the chair: "Mr.
Speaker: The generality of mankind
in gineral are disposed to impose upon
the-er-the-a-the generality of man
kind in gineral."
sDavy Crockett, the famous backwoods
hunter, was sitting. next to the mem
Der, and, pulling him by the the coat
tail, said: "You set down; you went in
the same hole you came out Of"
And yet that embarrassed speaker
had unconsciously given awkward ut
GRANGE to a great truth He had set
forth the bottom fact upon which the
government rests. The most philo-
sophical of all our American states
men has told us that the object of our
of individuality, and thus he recognizes
the truth Of this congressman's con-
fused statement.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, in his very
entertaining poem, Latter Day Glory
gives us to understand that the mil
will be here
lawyers take what they would
give,
And doctors give what they would
take"
Another recent writer holds hat it
will come when everybody pays for
what he gets, and gets what he pays
for If this last proposition be inter
preted in its widest sense, it certainly
comes very near the core of the matter.
If everybody respected the rights of
everybody else, and always acted ac-
cordingly, the golden age" would
surely be here. What we now call
government would be out of COM
mission, for, in the highest and best
sense, every man would be a law into
Under such ideal conditions it is a
curious question, "How many people
would be thrown out of employment"
J~ailers, sherifs, constables, policemen,
judges, lawyers detectives, l~ocksmiths,
would vanish from the face of the
earth. Courts, legislatures, congress
would all adjourn sine die. The tax
gatherers would be abolished. A vast
proportion of what we now call sneces-
sary evils would be heard of no more.
No "Thaw case'' would ever again
deluge the land with it's manifold pollu-
tons. We might all give ourselves an
everlasting respite from writing, talk
ing, reading-even Neutrality-suspicious.
railroad rebates freight and passen-
ger rate reduction, antitrust bills with
"teeth,'' or the impugning of the views,
and votes of the members of
our General Assembly just because
they don't dance to the music of certain
journalistic ~ criticism.
No, the signs of h times don't sig
Nifty that we are nov enjoying the mil
lenium.
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