Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-01-23
COTTON VALIDATION PROPOSITION.
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Therefore all property gravitates to
wards the pOssessors Of wealth. Right
here is the genesis of the agitation and
discomfort of productive labor, the
subtle, unseen and unconscious work
ing of the great masses for the en-
lthronement in government OF the prln-
ciple of association. They feel that
only through its power crystalliZed IN
to government, can come more COM
forts and wider intellectual culture
and enlarged moral perceptions.
The Philosophy Of Social Evolution.
The unceasing brooding over wrong
has ever been in the past the tremend-
Gus lever which from age to age has
lifted mankind from one epoch into
another.
"A mighty evolutionary force is now
soliciting mans cooperation In his own
uplifting.
Men are ever slow. No government
has ever yet realized that God Is om-
nipotent in His own universe. l utter
" misread the signs Of the time If the
agitation and freedom Of thought
which has just battered down the great
wall of China and launched 100000
900 people in a republic.
Does this not mean, that man ev-
erywhere is crying out for new tools
and new machinery in harmony with
a more exalted scheme Of life? What
does the agitation for the referendum
and recall in the west mean II not
that? Will this generation lie supine
until we are buried in tumult amid the
wreck Of all we hold dear, or will we
rise up like sensible men enlarging
and rebuilding until all Is safe and
sound?
Must humanity always be born in
to higher circles of existence through
terror, blood and death? If so, twen-
ty centuries Of Christian civilization
are all in vain.
60 into the gray silence of those
far eastern lands and read the lesson
in the dismal wreckage Of once proud
empires. Mighty nations vanishing
like sunset shadows and fruitful fields
given over to graves. For the spider
hath woven her web in the banqueting
hall Of kings, and the owl keepeth her
night in the towers Of Afrasiab.'..
More than a century has passed
since the earthquake shock of revolu-
ton shook France and the old orders
crumbled to ruin.
1.-The kingly line of 1000 years van
ished and the gentlest ruler since st.
Louis was dragged to the guillotine. A
church establishment, venerated by
unnumbered generations, was swept
out Of existence in a single night, and
men proclaimed. There Is no God but
reason
This was the reign Of terror and It
did not pass until 100000 French peo-
ple had been murdered by those Of
their own blood. They rotted in pris-
ons and were drowned by hundreds In
the hulks Of old vessels. They were
brought forth in companies and shot
down. and tens of thousands died on
the guillotine.
Finally, one dread figure, the man
Of destinv,' stood forth and dominated
this seething hell on earth. Napoleon
seized France by the throat and his
own iron hand led her where he would.
Three million Of her sons laid down
their lives in battle at his command.
Finally after 25 years Of slaughter
the dark tragedy was over. Napoleon,
chained like wild beast on an ocean
rock, and France in the dust, under the
armed heel of every nation In Europe.
Gould France have been saved this
abomination Of desolation? Yes. II the
ruling classes had done justice In time.
Every problem in these United
States can be solved by the exercise
of wise patriotism, exact justice and
Christian charity.
ITO say otherwise Is to scoff at the
divine henevolence which rules the
universe"