The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-06-28

empty whiskey TASKS, is found hid
den away in a corner of the room, it
takes a generation to live down the
baleful effects. These gay ministerial
birds are still chirping the glad It'd
ings of the New Jerusalem, but pitch
ed, let us hope, on higher and holier
key. There is no pleasure in allud-
ing to these matters, about which
there is no doubt The only apology
necessary is the all important results
flowing from them. Others may stag
ger and fall, and the impression
made, is infnitesimal, when compar-
ed to the evil influences of a stumb-
ling ministry.
Let US hold up the hands of wise,
manly and patriotic legal fraternity.
Their training, necessarily, makes
them leaders who frame, and largely
execute our laws, for veal or woe,
to the masses. Our institutions, our
brilliant past and our lettered glory,
show the ear-marks of the legal pro-
fession at every step Of our ad-
vancement and development. But
the 'shyster" is the wart, excres-
cence, diseased appendix-or what
not-onup the body-politic, which is
a fostering sore to be reckoned with.
No litigation is too shady to escape
his blighting touch, if it brings the
filthy shekels to his pockets Like
Iago, his purse is the fool of his folly,
and like him, the still small voice Of a
clear conscience, never prompts a
high or holy act. The poor Irish
man was doubtless pondering over
some sad experiences with this legal
never as he stood in deep meditation
before monument in a lonely grave
yard. A passing traveller halted and
wished to know the cause of his ap-
parent air of solemn reflection. The
Irishman replied, 'I see written on
this tombstone the words, "A lawyer
and honest man I was just wonder
ing, Degorroh, said he, why they
buried two people in The same grave"
This species of the genus homo is
largely responsible for politics being
the dirtiest of trades and political
promotion little better than "a buck
stering squabble" for office.
He is on one side today and the
other tomorrow, as the tickle winds
impress his acute hearing. Like Victo
Hugo's politicians, h clocks upon a
weather cock as synonymous with a
flag, and is ever ready to espouse any
cause which promotes his selfish am
bition. Do not understand me as
arguing that our public men must
never change their views, under any
conditions, upon the issues Of the day.
Emerson said that a foolish consist
ency is the hobgoblin of small minds
But the change should not be from
selfish or sordid motives. Gladstone
veered, at times, but he did it more
than once, with the certain knoWl-
dege, that it meant, at least, his tenn
pOrary retirement from official life.
Calhoun favored, and then fought, ma
tional banks. Supported a protective
tariff in 1916, and assailed it so saw
agely in 1923 that it finally landed
him upon the rock of Notification.
But no one believes 10 Baldwin
says-that the man was not sincere
who could stand up, alone, in the
United States senate and swear that
he would send a dagger to his heart
before he would endorse a war with
Mexico, ushered in by a lying pream-
BILE.
When the smoke and roar Of battle
had died away, and the wounded
hearts of a sensitive Southern man
hood were bleeding at every pore,
Toombs and Stephens equally enjoy
ed the undying confidence of every
man in Georgia, though one strongly
endorsed, while the other bravely
ahtagonized the war resolutions In
the Secession convention and legis-
lature preceding the deadly conflict.
Fearless and honest in the discharge
of every duty, touching the welfare
OF the State, which they loved with
every fibre of their beings, no Whit
of suspicion or disloyalty ever tainted
their atmosphere or questioned their
motives. We read history to little
advantage, if not convinced that
charlatans and hypocrites usually
reap the harvest of their sowing in
due time
Charles I thought to appease the