Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-07-10

or dynamic power hidden in the thing that anmates its
being.
Out Of the web Of mystery slowly climbing to-
wards the light Maa begins learn that things knowa
Bile are more to be sorht after than trying to solve the
riddle Of the universe.
Man can improve and grow in knowledge BY applying
his reason to forces round about him. not by trying to
verse the laws Of nature but BY utilizing them.
Man has tried, BY man-made laws to repeal the law Of
nature, but has always failed and always will.
There are six thousand languages in the world and
thousand and seven religions and yet the Ethiopian has
not changed his skin he leopard his spots. The globe
still swings in lofty pride the still arches the sky in
magnificent equppage the rains fall and old mother earth
feeds her children today she fed them when the FIAT Of
creation first broke over the chaotic world.
The human family will progress Just fast It learns
the economic rights Of each other in the economy Of
ture. and no faster
All great men and great born; they not
made BY colleges the inherent powers Of greatness
in the element Of their psychological creation. Crcum-
stances call out Of man what is him. it did in Robert
Is. Lee and u. S. Grant, or Shakespeare. or
ToIstoi or George Eliot
How true the saying many called but few are
chosen" Selection is Of the womb Of nature here the
touch Of the key of mystery made, and in
genius comes forth and rises and shoots the intel
lectual sky in unique meteoric splendor
You need not quarrel with because she found
her genius in the home Of the poor and not in the palace
Of the rich Nature and the she speaks
but one language to ALL and has but religion for all;
humanity her religion and authority her language, and
when her children shall discover their brotherhood in
obedience and apply their knowledge for the mutual ben
eft Of one and ALL then seshness will gradually disappear
the spiritual man will appear and the barbarian exchanged
for the humanitarian good works will be the worlds
creed and better race will possess the eartk.'
Governments operated in violation Of natural law are
the that oppress the people most Man needs
room to develop the possibilities in him to exchange
the product Of his hand and brain without paying penalty
to government; room to live the earth and off the
earth without landlord room equal to every other
and no more room stand the democratic oor OF the
universe with an equal say and
To put a burden on my back and promise heaven
hereafter if ! bear it, won't do; want the cash
Jesus said, the Iaborer is worthy Of his hire Let
nav as We 90 let Us be honest let us be natural and
women Let us put our ear to the earth and catch the
echo from the powers Of the air that oup around the
throne Of the invisible and learn the harmonious relations
Of all parts Of the whole learn place among and
6II it. according the Of talent given In the
store-room of there abundance for all abundance
for the man Of one talent as well for the OF ten
talents there is room for all Abnormal sel6shness IS
the dividing wedge special privileges made
law that violates the natural law and eevaes crime to
the dignity Of legal responsibility whereby the favored
few rob the unfavored many.
| Political doatry is monumental crime against the
natural rights Of men, Political party independece the
freeman badge Of intellectual emancipation. We need
craftsmanship modelled after a Jefferson and Lincoln.
] We need religion Tree from commerciaism we need
brave strong men to speak the truth; need more
moral sense in politics Our wants are many. but we
would take courage if we could secure equal rights under
the law for all men, with special privileges to none.
/ There never was. neither can be- perfect rule Of
moral conduct established BY law Every age brings into
existence environments peculiar to itself The boundary
line that describes the horizon Of civilization is defined
| BY law. Within the Of human progress as crea-
ttre governed by human made law man must contend
with the burden Of selhshness imposed upon him BY the
partisan insanity of the Legislature that made the law.
few men tower over their surroundings as the oak towers
above the hazel BUSH but they the exception for The
rule is that the q mankind rise higher on the
plane Of moral conduct than the law that regulates and
governs their physical and economic wants
Where there is no law there is no standard 81 moral
conduct and il should Be plain 70 all men that govern
ment whatever its standard 81 morality that enforces its
laws On the poor subject and leaves its rich subject
immune 10 the law plants the seed Of treason anarchy
and revolutions in her soil. and having sown ID he
wind must sooner or later. reap whrwind.
Whatever be the partisan feeling or prejudice or re
ligous bias Of the reader matters but little compared
the nexcrabe onward sweep 81 truth il its leveing and
and defining power 10 perpeuate Of overthrow nations
We have legislatures that make laws and WV have ouI
Judges that unmake the law until today NE are ruled bs
iudge-mads law. and the trouble ID that Dur Judges are
Worshippers Of the golden CALI
Surely there will Be something doing before long. and
our hope is IN the spirit oE individual manly Independence
boomed on the patriotism ha inspired our oreaihers u
set UP government o the people, By e people and loG