Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-09-12

to the estimate of the New York dis
trict attorney, cost the county Of Kings
q million dollars; and the end is not
yet. It costs lots Of money to try any
rich man; and when he Is tried the
chances are that he finally goes free.
-E. T. O., in Newberry Observer.
SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT
" Latter 10 Cheap and Vulgar, Former
Must Fail Its Highest Mission. <,
Last Sunday Vice President Mar
shall preached q sermon on the last
day Of the Southern Methodist camp
near Washington, writes J. c.
a., In Philadelphia Ledger. He did
not choose any particular text. but he
said good many things about the re-
lation Of true religion to good gov
ernment, and hammered some OF the
idiocies and shortcomings Of the pres
emit day into truly helpless condition
Men are not made good by legisle-
tion. Conscience cannot be purified
and established by statutory enact
mert. The state cannot take the place
OF the family. The old-fashicned
American home was the Inspiration Of
the great system Of government which
has come down to this generation q
little frayed at the edges because Of
the departures that have been made
In the living and thinking and pray
ing Of the people. There were doubt
less many wicked people In ''the good
old days"-pharisees, hypocrites, the
idle, the vicious, the criminal appear
to be from everlasting to everlasting
but there was at least an enviable re-
gard for appearances. a modesty OF
demeanor which made the women
more attractive and q shamefacedness
In the prevailing wickedness Of typical
periods which gave the men the APP
pearance, at least Of being respect
able; and these virtues, even II not In
frequently assumed, impressed them
selves upon the common lie and found
their Interpretation In the better forms
OF legislation provided for the public
care. A noted writer ssta, 200 years
ago: when modesty ceases to be the
chief ornament Of one sex, and integ-
rity Of the other, society L. upon o
wrong basis, and we shall be ever after
without rules to guide our Judgment
in what Is really becoming and orna-
mental" Seneca, We are told,
Thought modesty too great check to
vice, that he prescribes to US the prac-
tice Of 1t in secret, and advises US to
raise 1t in ourselves and upon imag-
mary occasions, when such as are real
do not offer themselves; for this is the
meaning of his precept that when we
are by ourselves, and In our greatest
solitude, we should fancy that Cato
stands before US and sees everything
we do. In short, II you Danish Mod
esty out Of the world she carries away
with her half the virtue that Is In it.
In his discourse, the vice president
laid the turkey trot. the tango and the
slit skirt to the charge Of the mothers
of the country. because. speaking OF
them as a class. they do not bestow
that care upon the training and con-
duct of their daughters which would
best At them for the place they should
hold in the social sphere upon the pu-
rity of which the strength and fitness
of government depend. That has al
ways been the way. In the beginning,
''the woman beguiled me and I did
eat" and It win be the same old ex-
cuse when the end comes It Ii true
that the vice president said that ut 10
high time for American fathers ana
mothers to have opinions on reh-
gion;" but he did not dwell particular
ly on the very trifiing character OF
many, If not most, American fatners.
Why should there be an inequality OF
moral measurement in fixing the stat
ues of men and women? There was
something graceful and lovely In the
old dances; there is nothing beautiful
or elevating In the tango and turkey
trot. There was special charm when
"Meh Lady, dancing. "her feet be-
meath her petticoat like the little mice,
stole in and out, as II they feared
the light of day.; there is nothing In
the slit skirt which the vice president
/ preached against, except vulgar dis
play. This sort Of thing the mothers
might correct IL they were not so often
themselves given to the adoption OF
the least beautiful of the latest fash
ions, the wearing Of clothes which be-
come neither their years nor their
build. -
One of the most impressive of the
passages in the Scriptures Is the
charge of David to his SON Solomon:
"I 90 the way Of all the earth; be
thou strong, therefore, and show thy
self a man; and keep the charge Of the
Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, to
keep his statutes and his command
ments, and his Judgments, and his tes-
timonials." And 1t is recorded that
/ when Bath-sheba, Solomon's mother,
went to him, "the King rose up to
meet her, and bowed himself unto her.
and sat down on his throne, and caus-
ed a seat to be set for the Kings
mother; and she sat on his right
hand"
There is a great lesson In that for all
mankind. Every mother in this land
is entitled to the same sort Of consid-
Grafton Solomon showed to his moth
er; but the vice president thinks that
the turkey-trotting, tango-dancing,
slit-skirt wearing woman does mol
make the most impressive mother
u Good government is good society; Il
the latter is cheap and vulgar the for
! mer must fail In its highest mission
the cultivation Of that spirit Of right
i. eousness which exalteth a nation.