Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-10-30

E N&-r p\iE& to the VAN attempt OF man to comman
wa X VyE respect through the eye rather tha
MSAlrAtSg through reason When we conten
44ssA ~FEs plate on the wasted efforts Of the pas
EEHY W. to compel by force what could hav
p4 NsG|' been so much more economically don
by appeal TO the common sense Of justice and human
principles in general we forced to take into consdera
ton twospoten factors in the makeup Of each age
Frst want Of intellectual ability on the part Of til
ruling class comprehend the natural order of things an
supply them to the wants of the masses This fact W
think is self-evident
Second: the ruling class saw that the masses wer
the alert ter excitement and as the nature Of tn
excitement corresponded exactly to the nature Of thei
mental makeup, matter Of fact brutality and not hu
many filled the requirement Of their barbarc nature, ant
as the leaders wanted always to lead they headed th
procession in the wild chase over fertile fields and desc
lated homes
is cold fact standing boldly the front on the his
tory of all ages past that the masses of mankind have
never proven their ability to govern themselves
And, in the second place, leaders are only leaders ii
Tor matter Of history the so-caIIed leaders never
went beyond the popular camor Genuine leaders have
lost their lives trying to lead the masses
is thus we find why rulers we're made towards anc
suborned their intelligence and mixed their personality
with the vulgar and ignorant throng and plunged head Ions
into the dark Of brutality and swept out to the ocear
Of historic shame and ignominous disgrace.
We do not cite the foregoing apology for the pas
history OF manly means. We simply do SO in order
we trust to introduce fact to-w that the history Of al
nations shows that the moral and humane sense of the
masses rise higher than the ruling power Just laws
enforced render security that which is Justly acquired
and smulant encourage rigorous activity and
causes all the joints of industry to artcuate in harmony
The non-enforcemen Of good laws has the same influence
bad laws enforced for the simple reason that Bad the
opposite of Good and in the absence Of Good, Bad re-
mains In other words FIRST Barbarianism; second Civ
lizaton so in the absence Of Civilization Barbarism re-
mains.
If have at least fair Civilization our Laws only
stand before the bar Of future history and plead our
We Of this generation cannot plead our cause to
the unborn in the type of civilization we create and
maintain for the will of the tested speak with authority af
ter the testator is dead.
The intellectual historic thermometer Of each age leaves
hands pointing the highest point on the dial Of pro-
gress. few great may shine on down the avenue
Of time and enrich the pages Of history but the ignorant
masses will float down the vulgar channel into oblivion
Oh. the untold millions that beat the prison bars with
bloody hands the banks Of the night Of the past Where
they? Proane history but the echo Of their wanc
CRY. Inauguration touched by pity points out their stag
geng steps under the load Of brutal luxury war and sav
cry and notes their myhrca outlines in hierogyphc lore
in monumental weakness fall head long and mingIe their
pathetic story with the dust Of temples and thrones.
OF all the governments that had being in ages past
none command respect so much as the Ahenians With
his people to admire and less to condem
han any other which history affords Athens had De-
nocracy is society governing itself without secondary
means
4 But the government at Athens grew and expansion
caused her to fall with her own weight The Athenans
Hid not understand and did not have the principal Of
Representation and tor the want Of it. become unyeldy
hnd perished.
was not till the year Of 1776 that the principal Of
Representation attached to Democracy When the
American Republic was born First-Democracy. The
light Of the people to themselves BY Representa-
ion" (Amercan.)
We thought proper call the readers attention to the
act that while the city Of Athens was the seal Of earniur
H the same time the Athenians promulgated the best form
f government known to the wisdom Of the ancient world
Ind that American having added an Improvement now
nresents the wisdom Of the past and present in con.
ructnG government Of the people. for the people and
y the people.
The thas eat out the life Of all governments dead