The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09
aAND you. ,,Y FELLOW CITIZENS,


q "AND You. My FELLOW CITIZENS.
Is How did II happen that Ecles Nelso,
got lost after the Fair in Knoxville OF
Z Friday of all days In the week ant
3 In the centuries of years? Why didn'
+ his father hold him by the hand In.
4 stead of sending him up by himsel1
',,,g to the stage with instructions to weer
at the psychological moment so tina,
~. his lost and undone condition could a,
& once excite the sympathy of both
II speaker and audience, giving to the
j dreary platitudes an unusual human
h interest? Was this. toog all cut and
4 dried? Isn't there some way by which
these incidents can be controlled so
] that the plain people can think for
I themselves how little they are hearing
I about the old moralties that the
/ the very fabric of our government
/ But as we were about to say
! Mr.. Chairman and you, My Fellow
Citizens: This is a great country. It
X reaches from ocean to ocean and from
I, the river unto the ends of the earth.
i We have passed through many
troublous times. Once in the history
of this great Republic, now the envy
of the world and the admiration of all
who can fool the people long enough
to copper their SURFACES, a dread ap-
peal was made to arms to settle some
OF the isues that were left a little
frazzled when the makers Of the Nation
Z were in doubt about what they should
do. and on many of these historic fields.
North and South, brave men who wore
the blue and equally brave men who
Wore the gray proved their devotion
to their high conception OF patriotic
duty by making that last supreme
sacrifice which established forever
their claim to Immortality in the VAL
halla of Nations. Tears and love for
the blue; love and tears for the gray
There are also straight men and
crooked men in this country. We arc
for the straight man, when he is
straight, and. by the same. token, we
are against the crooked man when he
is crooked. Peradventure. there be
bad men in the land, we are against
bad men, everlastingly against bad
men. whether they live North or South
whether they follow the Republican
flag CT the Democratic flag. Then, we
. are for the weak man when he is
oppressed by the strong man, unless
the strong man has right on his side,
in which case, OF course, we are against
the weak man. If. however, the weak
man is in the right, we are with the
4 weak man until "the last day in the
morning.; for in this country we must
take care of the weak man even IL
in doing so we must, ex necesitate rel,
occasionally run counter to the strong
and powerful whSsss friendship we in
vite but whose power we defy to in
terfere with US in our determination
to make the world better and all the |
people that dwell therein. We are for
the corporations, when they are man
aged honestly; but we are against the |
corporations, when they are not con-
Quoted as they should be. We are also.
and for the came reason, for the poor
man and then, again, we are against
the poor man, We are for the honest
. poor man; out we are just as much
AGAINST the dishonest rich man we
are for the straight politician and we
are set fast against the crooked poll
tician. We. are. moreover, Very strong
IN our support of common sense In the
administration of our public affairs.
= We believe in dealing with the indi-
-Sidnal when we can get at the inAivid-
nal; but when we can't get at the indi-
sNidlal we believe in dealing with the
corporation. We are for the women;
but at the same time we are for the
men We are for everybody and
everything, but only when everybody
and everything are exactly as they
should be; that is to say when they
are on all fours. so to speal., with the
Told moralities. The Books of the
Sasfbie eontstning the rules laid down
Tor the Mosaic Dispensation are good
enough for us in dealing with the con-
sditions OF the present dag, clipped a
.little here and there OF course. toemake
them fit in with our ideas of sanitation
and diet 70 suit modern conditions;
but generally we are for the old moral
titles, and woe be 10 those who are
not for these old moraiities which con-
,rolled the makers of the Old Nation
alism, and which are good enough for
This day and this generation and for
an days and an generations as long az
the sun in his dilrnal course shan run.
and Longer. too. II it shall he al all lI
necessary TO work it all out exactly as
IT should be. Here We stand. by the
memories Of the past when We all aid 1!
our duty, as God gave us The sight
.sosssee our duty, and here we shaIlsl.
stand ~ being distinctly understood I,
that we hold TO tho doctrine that AMI
the thieves should be locked up in the
penn emit that IT is the duty OF
men and women to multiply and re-