The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-14
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rafting sermon In Baltimore last
| Sunday morning in which lie struck
very pessimistls note. saying, as we
see by the papers:
| "The republic of the United States
has been a failure and is mot gov
| eminent by, for and of the people, but
n government of money bags and poll
| teal machines We should have de-
| liverer from these evils and the only
man able to hold this position is
| Theodore, the Lion Hunter. One thing
is certain and that Is that the people
of this country must rise up and assert
1 their rights or we must have some man
| who will take the lead and deliver US
How would our friend Teddy do?"
That has familiar sound, Jeffries
Davis, of Arkansaw, could not have
done better with the same material.
although he would probably have in
sisted that the way out of the woods
does not lie by oyster Bay, but rather
by that tract Of land he tried to save
for the oppressed country down in the
swamp region of his native State. Bar
ring the vulgarity and ignorance of
the Arkansan, there would be little
choice between the Moses of Brother
Wharton and the great leader of the
rednecks and bill-billics of the Ozark
uplft.
We all know that this country is in
bad way; but we see no reason why
we should give it up entirely by sur
rendering 1t into the hands of the most
| IRRESPONSIBLE and lawless man who has
ever held authority in all its one hun
dred and thrty-four years of fairly
good achievement. Particularly, should
we feel the least bit doubtful about
giving its fortunes over again into the
of seven years, cost the country more
4 than the four years of the greatest
war in modern times. We have thought
/ that we are making substantial prog
lress. Notwithstanding the many dis
advantages under which we have been
laboring, and within the memory or
J the present generation we have grown
into one of the World Powers, at least
I
made upon the other nations.
The Republic of the United States is
: not what 1t was once. to be sure. II
{ has grown in some respects almost be-
u yond recognition; but 1t is republic
- Istill, at least in name, and far more
: of a republic than it would ever be
- again should it be entrusted to the
- care of Brother Wharton's find. lie
~ would make it "a government by, fol
~ and of the people" he being the peo-
~ pie" Besides what utter nonsense, ant
- worse than nonsense when Spoken
- from the pulpit, is the statement tina
- "the republic OF the United States ma
been failure and is not government
by, for and of the people" Who elect
2Presidents and Governors and member
of Congress and members of the lesls
latures If it is not the people? AT tn
last Presidential election, 14SSS,44
by the money bags and political ma
chimes? Were the 7.6SS,925 votes cas-
for Brother Wharton's Moses in 100
= controlled by the money bags an
political, machines? 1t was reporte
). that Mr.. Hartman raised s25O,ooO
helm him along in New York state; blu
L., of course, Hartman was a poor ma
and wholly out of touch with politics
machines of any sort, and simply COZ
III, tributing out of his meagre store IN
- faithful effort to save thesRepublic.
90 We shall not abandon all hope of tt
"a Republic so long as the religious e
ne Establishments of tho country show sue
growth as they have had during u
last ten years The last report on tn
" subject shows that there are ls6
'at lirious denominations in the Unit
ut states. With 212.23o local organization
eS and S2,936,445 members in good al
81 regular standing. A very large pr
eo norton of this vast number has e
OF right Of suffrage and the others oug
u to he good workers for the cause
the Republic. With anything IKE
valiant a force Lot would have be
able to save Sodom without turning !
:, hand. and may we not gather coura
-. from the religious citizenship OF l
- country, or so much Of 1t as has
i, been upset by foolish preaching
-, our efforts to save the Republi
Al, Moreover, If the Republic has been
NJ failure, as alleged by Brother VIVA
+e, ton. why should we try TO make ms
at tiers worse by placing what is lett
he the hands OF the Moses who has
,ut ready come very near putting us
is OF business?
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. BUSINESS MEN AND LEGlsLATlo
The last General Assembly wrote !
40 the statutes OF the Commonwea
nearly six hundred additional pages
IND local and general legislation. NO II
~ ~ can say which Of the new enactme
ces win be most beneficial but 1t is sate
yer assert tina, what is known as the y
check law" will rank as one OF
ON, hest. This law makes 1T larcenous