Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-01-01

Il IS branded itself into his
nu~nees that
II re who asccnds 10 mountain
tops shall find
Their loftiest peaks most wrapped
in clouds of snow;
He who surpasses or subdues man
kind,
Must look down on the hate or
those below
And l may repeat this action
with every new star that appears in
the armament Of human achieve
ment, until l win for myself great
name as the destroyer Of the rep
utations of men. But, mark me.
sooner or later the people about me
will discover that while am snuff
ing out the dim candles of light
held by the few heroic souls Of my
day. / am increasing the darkness
OF the world; that though I-dras
down from the heights men whom
the world delights to honor, and
send them back to the depths from
which they sprung broken in spirit
and bitter at heart, /. the great
destroyer and Pathfinder, an
breathing upon no rough slab Of
marble and making it awake in.o a
statue OF feauty, am creating a.
death]ess Gem of literature paint
ing NJ i;.2mcrtal picture, singing NJ
plelodjonS song, seeing no infinite
vision q I; millennium whose dawn
shall degenerate the world, and TO-
mulating no new creed whose prin-
ciples shall link men arm in arm,
heart to heart, and send them with
Sladness and joy up, up and higher
still until they stand in perfected
beauty before the throne of God.
No man who spends all of his time
in destroying the works of other
men can make himself immortal
or his life sublime: and from this
truth | CLEAN another one, the full
knowledge of which shall set us
free from wicked envy: A race
whose members are envious Wor-
ships no heroes, venerates no great
men; has no cheers for the living
no tears for the dead CARLYLE
tells us that society is founded on
hero worship. 1t follows that if our
race has no men whom it worships
rather than hates, it has no society
and We are little less than wander
ing band Of savages, bound together
by few ties, striving for no common
end.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is not
enough that individuals in our
race strive TO become heroic and
great. The genius of racial growth
lays upon us, in addition TO this. one
duty supreme. ] believe Nathaniel
Hawthorne has expressed that duty
better than any other writer know.
Said he: Great men need to be lift
ed upon the shoulders OF the whole
world in order TO conceive their
great deeds. * There must be
an atmosphere of greatness round
about them. There cannot be a. he
no unless in an heroic world"
Such hero worship as that, Mr..
President, will fill our great men
with enthusiasm and hope; and. to
quote an eminent Jewish author,
Philosophy becomes poetry, and
science imagination in the enthusi-
asm of genius
AS great a curse as was the
slavery OF the body. there has come
down 10 US as an heritage from the
bitter past slavery ten thousand
times more pernicious than was the
bondage which our fathers saw. 1t
Is the slavery of race hatred, which
binds a man hand and foot, and
will, in the final analysis, east him
into outer darkness. The man who
permits himself to hate another be-
cause of race binds a milestone
about his own neck denies SOUL
growth TO himself My soul, Mr..
President. was not intended as an
abode OF hate. but rather as an I'M
finished temple into which I can
put, day by day, stones OF service,
usefulness and love against that
day when, the ear,hly house of this
tabernacle shall be dissolved, the
structure of my soul completed. and
a blessed immortality take up its
abode therein. And in this pres