The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-06-09

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ity OF Te0~EsGs u1A AASy a@AaAhy al
gued that Ii would better the quality
of Ticker and cheaper the price The
main guys didn't talk that way pub
licIy. but they told the rank and nis
and the rank and file reioiced great
ly thereat Result: A Ticker poliu- |
cal machine. Men went 10 Congress
who had never even dreamed higher |
than a berth as County Commission
er. And there were others Parties
were almost lost sight or In the |
great scramble for the pie-counter |
via the white ribbon route. The good
ministers and church leaders general |
ly were trodden under foot by the
new regime OF politicians who car
ried & copy Of the Bible in one hand
and waved a white flag with the 9TH
err In some cases the man who car
ried the Bible and the white flag had
commodious quart bottle IN his in
side coat pocket. though there were
exceptions.
Prohibition won, or they say II did.
But religion and temperance can
man-made After God made the
earth and the people TO populate 1T,
He virtually made free agents or us
all. He set good and evil before US.
II we choose good, the reward is
everlasting happiness; if We choose
evil, the penalty is everlasting pun
| ishment The Creator could make
| Jealous Christians out or every hu-
man being on earth in a moment.
He could blot out any iniQuity in
moment. But He has not yet done
go. And I must be able to see deep
er before I am ready to believe that
an all-wise Providence selected Ben
Tillman, JOsephus Daniels, +. NJ.
Simmons, and Bob Glenn to lead the
people out of the wilderness OF sin.
Indeed, the proposition is so absurd
that I wonder that the followers of
the gang-some of them, at least
did not discover the tragic comedy
that they were playing. But | re-
membered the words Of the late Mr..
Barnum-"The American people love
to be humbugged, and then I I'M
derstood.
I know we'll that intemperance is
a dangerous thing and all that.
Preachers and teachers should warn
the people, parents should strive to
educate their children against intern
perance, and the evils likely to fol-
low. But the knowledge of how to
distill and brew intoXicants has ever
been in this world and man, mere
man, no matter how good nor how
wise, cannot strive against such
things, except through prayer, by ex-
ample, ETC. Men can build a great
dam across a creek and cause the
water to collect above the dam fol-
a time But the water will finally
seek an outlet by pouring over the
dam or through a ditch dug around
the end of the dam. Men may change
the channel Of an ordinary stream by
digging a new and deeper ditch, but
the water will flow somewhere, some
how God can abate the raging Of
the mighty ocean, and He can re-
move mountains in the tWinkling OF
an eye. But [ feel sure that He has
not yet selected a committee of pol
iticians of the calibre of Ben Till
man, F. NJ. Simmons, Josephus Dan.
iels, and Bob Glenn to inaugurate
and carry out a great moral reform
In the fourth chapter Of Saint Luke
we read an account Of how the devil
led Jesus Christ up into a higf
mountain and showed Him all the
kingdoms Of the world. The devi
said unto Christ: IF thou there
fore wilt worship me, all shall be
Thine" Then it was that Chris
said: Get thee behind me, Satan:
for it is written, Thou shalt worship
the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt
thou serve"
The big four-Daniels, Simmons
Glenn and Tillman-the leaders Of
red-shirt politics and deceptive
moral reform, may yet attempt
something like that when theil
slippery cause grows more desperate
for they have exhausted the contents
of the legitimate political catalogue
And who is this Josephus Daniel!
the avowed, and, to some extent
the accepted leader Of the North Car.
DINA Democracy? After living be
side him for a number of years,
had about concluded that he wal
merely a puff of wind from some an.
tiquated sewer-pipe, and had, BY
some queer process Of evolution
gradually assumed the shape an6
proportions Of man. But I learned
on good authority later that Daniels
ty. Josephus is a great friend, or
rather, great f1atterer, Of the Con.
federate soldiers of the State
Now, who is this great Josephus
He Is the son of a man designated
and known as an eastern NORTH
: Carolina Buffalo" He was EN-.
, ployed by the Yankees to pilot
/ gun boats up and down the waters OF
eastern North Carolina, and while
doing this duty was shot from am.
bush by some Confederate soldiers
just below Washington He was
wounded and was carried to New
Bern and there died in a Federal
hospital. He left widow and sew
era1 small children, one. of whom was
> Josephus.
After the close of the war this poor
widow met with many friends who
, had been Union men, and knew that
her husband lost his life in defense