The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-09-20

lished successful" families.
remember speaking at school not
long ago where | understood that al
NEST all the young men were the sons
OF very rich people, and | told them |
looked upon them with a great deal of
pity, because, said: Most of you
fellows are doomed to obscurity. You
will not do anything. You will never
try to do anything, and with all the
great tasks of the country waiting to
be done, probably you are the very
men who will decline to do them.
Some man who has been up against
it, some man who has come out of the
crowd, somebody who has had the
whip of necessity laid on his back, will
emerge out of the crowd will show
that he understands the crowd, under
stands the interests of the nation,
united and not separated, and will
stand up and lead u.s."
If may speak of my own expert
ence, l have found audiences made
up of the common people" quicker to
take a point, quicker to understand
an argument, quicker to discern ten
dency and to comprehend a principle,
than many college class that have
lectured to-not because the college
class lacked the intelligence, but be-
cause college boys are not in contact
with the realities of life, while com.
mon citizens are in contact with the
actual life of day by day; you do not
have to explain to them what touches
them to the quick.
The only way that government is
Kept pure is by keeping these chan.
nels open, SO that nobody may deem
himself so humble as not to constitute
a part of the body polite, SO that
there will constantly be coming new
blood into the veins of the BODY no.
little; so that no man is So obscure
that he may not break the crust of any
class he may belong to, may not
spring up to higher levels and be
counted among the leaders of the
state. Anything that depresses, any.
thing that makes the organization
greater than the man, anything that
DOCKS, discourages, dismays the hum.
Bile man, is against all the principles
Of progress. When | see alliances
formed, as they are now being formed
by successful men of business with
successful organizers of politics. I
know that something has been done
that checks the vitality and progress
Of society. Such an alliance, made at
the top, is an alliance made to de.
press the levels, to hold them where
they are, if not to sink them. and.
therefore, it is the constant business
OF good politics to break up such part.
nerships, to re-establish and re-open
the connections between the great body
of the people and the offices of govern. |
ment.
Today, when our government has so |
far passed into the hands of special !
today, when the doctrine is
implicitly avowed that only select
classes have the equipment necessary
for carrying on government: today.
when so many conscientious citizens.
smitten with the scene of social wrong
and suffering, have fallen victims TO
he fallacy that benevolent govern. ,
nent can be meted out to the people
}y kind-hearted trustees Of prosperity
md guardians of the welfare Of duti-
nj amrloyes-todav. supremacy. does
fe'o3yes this nation TO remember
10 d PEOPLE shall be saved by the
over tAat sleeps fin it's own deep
"som or iT none: shall be renewed
p hope. in conscience. in STRENGTH by
'aters yelling up from its own sweet ]
orennial, spring Not from above;
ct by patronage OF its aristocrats. t
he flower does not bear the root but
he root the flower. Everything that
looms in beauty in the air Of heaven
raws its fairness, its vigor, from its
pots. Nothing living can blossom
Ito fruitage unless through nourish. S
lg stalks deep-pIanted in the common S
'il, The rose is merely the evidence
the vitality of the root; and the real
'urce of its beauty, the very blush I
lat it wears upon it's tender cheek, a
'mes from those silent sources of
fe that lie hidden in the chemistry s
the soil. Up from that soil, up from