Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1912-09-12
WONDERFUL DREAM.

"eS WOaeA Oho y Iah q ohObItAR
ton, ] take it for granted that
he is OF good sound mind, | want
to thank him. II | can only get
one mans latent faculties arous-
ed enough to do his own thinking
| feel like | an doubly repaid for
all my trouble.
What is an education OF the
mind? 1t is the power of concen
tration.o the thinking faculties.
You no doubt have seen these
sun glasses that have the power
OF concentrating the heat rays of
the sun. you can place it over 3
piece OF paper and it produces
enough heat to burn a hole in the
paper. Now il you have enough
control over your mind to concen
trate the thought rays of your
mind and place it over any pro-
position it will burn q hole in it,
80 to speak. The most of US
have the glass Of the thought rays
turned the wrong way and this
scatters our thoughts so badly
that there is no sense to any Of
our thoughts. honestly believe
there are more suckers" in La.
Fsyette County to the square
inch than any county ia the State
Now | want it distinctly UNDER
stood that am no "runt" in this
line myself, consider that | am
. very good leader of this crowd.
| am doing my best to learn to
think for myself. Thinking is
going from something we know
TO something we don't know. be.
cause one fact is true proves that
another fact is true. Take math.
emstics, every school boy
knows what 10 feet IN a straight
line is, every boy knows what 10
feet square is, this means 100
square feet, every boy knows
what a cube Of 10 feet is, it has
8 faces to it and contains 1000
cubic feet. We can see all these
figures very plainly in. the minds
eye, but go just one step further
and what do we have? We have
the fourth power. Now here we
have two steps Of good sound
logic that cannot be disputed by
anyone and proves beyond any
doubt that the fourth power gives
Us something, but what is it? Go
ask the wise men of the East, 90
ask the chancellors of our univer
sites, go ask the governors OF our
States, so ask the greatest and
deepest thinkers OF the age and
the answer comes back al dom,
know. II gives US infinity, some
thing beyond the finite conception
u is shows how our mind is wall
ed up. 1t matters not which way
it starts it bumps up against the
wall. These little books that are
used by the students are nothing
but sign boards to the city OF
thought or the mountain OF
thought. like about $50 miles
of being to the mountain yet. II
matters not how much you study
and learn in this world, if you can
learn enough to absolutely con.
vince you that you are a fool, you
have just gotten to the first sign
board. There are so many peo-
pie that live and die that never do
learn that they are fools.
Do you know the more laws we
have the less liberties the people
nave. Every time q law is pass
ed by the Legislature of our State
it ties US down a little closer and
gives US less liberties. Now |
taught school for about 10 years
and | never had bu. one rule and
it consisted of but two words, 30
q child Of 5years old learned all
my rules the first day, the rule is
this "Do Right" is about all the
law the average citizen knows
anyway and if he would obey this
one law strictly we would not
need many more laws in our
State. Any citizen of any INTEL
ligence at all knows it is wrong
to kill, steal, rape, encroach upon
the tights Of his neighbor and
clear on through the whole cats-
logue of crime. Do right and we
need no laws, do right and we
have an honest country, do right
and attend to our own business
closely and We have a prosperous
country. Do right, this should
be our ''motto."
Don't you think it 10 good
policy for each individual to live
within dis means every year and
not go deeper in debt. Now upon
the same hypothesis OF reasoning
would it not be good policy for
the nation, states, counties and cor
porations to live within their
means every year. The issuance
of bonds emina.ed from the
brains of the Wall Street finan.
ciers. They had millions of doll
lars lying there idle, 80 they adj
opted this scheme to get good Sc
curity and interest on their money
Now we "suckers" down South
just fall over one another to do
their bidding. So by our rash
acts We are now encircled in the
arms of these money sharks as
their slaves. The issuance of
bonds has become a perfect craze
and is sweeping all over this
Southland. Instead of our law.
makers being our servants as
they should be, we are the ser.
wants to them and their laws and
TO the money power. Now in re-
Il