The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-06-26
New Series-Yol. XVI. No 4a.

destruction that would go from one
end Of this country to the other, were
it not for the law of the land, for the
law of which binds US together as
citizens, which binds US together as
brethren, and which binds US as q
people OF State and binds US togeth-
| er a people Of nation.
Our people, my friends, I am glad
60 say, are a peace-loving and law,
abiding people. I am not a pessia5ss
myself, and I believe that the people
s are better today than they have ever
| been in the history Of this country.
because they are imbued With the
love of justice, and God has implant-
ed in their hearts and minds lessons
of truth and justice 20 tn eir fellow
men and to this we owe it, to ourselves
Our people that are gathered
around about US and to the State and
glad to know that throughout the
| length and breadth &C this country
that our people look to law and look
to order, and I feel satisfied. or I feel
more than satisfied u the fact that in
South Carolina today the people are
a law-abiding and peace. Living peo,
pc.
Here is erected a temple of justice.
a temple Of law, and representing IA
I do, and as your servant, aay friends,
law and order in South Carolina, it
was my bounden duty to be present
here and to say to you these things and
others that will say. Temple Of JUS
cice-temple Of truth--tenpie Of law
-ab, my friends, beautiful truth,
white winged truth, is to show it's
}hand here and love Of It's purity, in
all Of it's grandeur, in all Of its si1n-
plicity as, truth between citizens, truth
between litigants, truth and justice
among all of the people. Here it is,
my friends, that the law which is ems
acted by you, by the people, because
| in this republican form Of government
of ours you are the people, you are
| the lawmakers and it is the laws
that you, through your representa-.
tives, make that is to be carried out
land enforced by him who sits upon
the bench as he holds your court from
term to term. He who hold justice
with an even hand. He has to admin
lister justice with an even hand and
Ito know every one-to the rich and.
to the poor-to the great and to the
smalNthat every one, be he rich or
poor. is entitled to in this liberty-lov-
ling country Of ours. Justice; my
frineds, that which is due-that one
owes to the other, these I say, well
krown to these brothers Of the Mys-.
tic Tie, who are here before me today.
Justice knows no man, knows nothing
but the truth, knows nothing but that
which is right and which is proper
and which is just and which is true.
In every land, as I said, my friends,
law has been established and in this
twentieth century and in this good
year of 1907 we, as peace loving,
Ilaw-abiding people, come to do honor
to this occasion, to give encourages
men to. those who have SO we'll
ihujlded this house and to tell them,
by our very presence here, that we
Iare a law-abiding people, that we are
la law-loving people and that we love
Justice and truth, and that it is our
desire and the desire Of every one,
that for all time to come this ,beautl-
full temple may dispense justice and.
NAV dispense truth and may dispense
llisht to all the people who shall come
within its walls.
I desire to congratulate you-I de-
| sire to congratulate the peole Of Sum-
ter county and I desire to corgratu-
late the people Of South Carolina UPS
| IN what you have done here in erect
ing this 100000 structure, and it is
but an earnest, my friends, of what
YOU are doing and to carry on the
great purposes Of law and of order
tnat have prevailed in this country.
You have set the pace for court house
building, IN order that others may see
the good work that you have done,
that they may come here and so
within these walls and go back 70
their homes and build likewise. Tbs
erection of this very building shows
to my mind what progressive peo-
pie. what a liberty-loving people you
have in Sumter county. Go into any
Of the counties of the State and you
will find many court houses. many