The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-07-27

you and I, as honest men, pay for all
| the gifts which undeserved are ours?
| There is but one way. By using them
with wisdom and with love, and by
adding our part to the comon store
and passing increased legacy down to
the races which shall be.
Therefore, as Red Men we also
teach charity.
/ By charity We do not mean the
scornful finger which from its plenty
losses out the golden coins to hag-
gard hands which cringe and beg.
That charity we count but little less
than crime IT hurts the heart it
helps. No, the charity We teach is
not the mere giving of aims, but aims
made sweet by accompanying love.
The charity we teach is bounded
only by mans deeds, and not by his
deserts. We know that although each,
by virtue being born a man, has equal
right to all the legacies of the dead,
and to the resources of the world,
which surely God has made for all,
| yet all have not equal powers to- make
| good their claim. We know that man
| is made and does not make himself.
: Each power he has, of body's
strength and health, or cunning mind
and brain, his very disposition, his
temperament, whether it tend to vir-
| the or TO crime were neither made
nor chosen by himself, but given him
! by that which gave him life unasked.
! No man can make for himself sim
gle quality, a single power. H can
but develop the potentialities latent
in him at his birth. We know, that
while some like Caesars are in pur
pie born. others have in managers lair,
" lille some are given qualities which
will grow a Washington of them, in
others veins there beats a tainted
blood that shall cast them at last III
madhouse or in prison cells.
We know, that while some are born
with wills so strong the high lifted
sword cannot break or bend their high
resolves, in others wills are weak and
tumultuous passions cry SO loud that
.conscience's voice is drowned in tenn
ptation's sweet, alluring hour
Therefore, Red Mems charity Is as
large as humanity and holds the
world in its embracing arms. The
charity it teaches enquiries not what
the man has done. but what he needs
Our charity strives to overcome
wrong not with wrong nor even JUS
tice, but with love It makes the
good light evils dark with its own
sweet star Yet this charity is no
impulsive, uuerring thing, despising
law None holds the justice in high
er reverence than the Red Man, none
respects the law more when the law
Is respectable. Our charity endorses
law and the enforcement OF law, but |
it demands a law SO just and wise, an |
enforcement of the law so sane and |
yet so merciiul, that not only will |
society be protected but even the |
laW-breaker Will be made a better and |
q ltdpptcI Hldll we nate ana deSplSe /
with e}Fry drop Of our indignant t
blood the conception of law as pun I
ishmcnt We would scourge revenge
from the hall of justice as the money |
changers were scourged from the
temples of the Lord. The state which
strikes in vengeance IS worse than
the criminal it fortunes He sins in
hot blood but the state in cold blood
and deliberate cruelty The right OF
se1i-protection IS right Of states
and individuals, but he who would
punish usurps tie rights of God.
one principle and one only informs
all just law, aud this Is the benefit Of
There IS but one test for
our acts whether we act singly as in
dividuals, or collectively at the state.
and that IS tic common good.
Hence on Red Mems banners YOU
find the words. Friendship and Char
it's.
But we place Freedom first