The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-11-08
Letters From The PEOPLE


could get money TO spend in his
"hole"
Myers has gone and that particu-
lar evil place closed for time but
| are there no others, now mere boys,
who will take Myers place unless we
do something effective. unless we per-
sistently. habitually and intelligently
use our money, our time and our
| brains TO prevent the growth and de-
velopnlent of. those mere boys into
dangerous men like Myers!
/ What has this 70 do with citizens
organization, you ask. This is the
vital, fundamental work for such an
organization and If we fail to do 1t
we are partly and greatly responsible
for every evil that exists here in fu-
ture.
| have a photograph Of boy in my
desk where / am now writing and
when I look at it and see the pride
and hope in this boys eyes and then
think and remember him as he was ia
our city about a year ago--a dirty,
hopeless tramp at eighteen. with the
brand or the convict upon him, COM
ing to ME in rags because ] gave him
n little human sympathy, because sat
upon q dirty blanket in his cell and
talked to him and then took him out
without other bond than "his word OF
honor" to come to see me at my Office.
when / remember that he came. when
remember how the community in a
sense turned it's back upon him, when
remember the pitiful hurt in his
dog-like eyes when busy, thought
less man refused him work with the
brutal remark: We have enough dam
med convicts here now" when / re-
member how could get no help from
his father, himself drunkard, when
remember when 1t seemed he must
drift back to the old ways and there
was no way out for him and God AL
mighty pointed out a way through the
discipline Of the United States Army,
when l remember these things, men
women and children Of my city, do
lyou wonder that long to pour out
my heart to my people, to my city, to
my friends and that I now cry out for
the wonderful help, the wonderful aid
of your time. your money, your splen-
did brains and exhaustless sympathy?
This is the hour for great awaken
ing, the hour to bury petty differences
OF opinion as to methods and means,
the hour to sacrifice individual priyi-
Ieges for the common good, the hour
for extremists and liberalists to meet
on a common plane without bitter
ness but with the determination that
each man or woman will make sac
rifice of privilege, If not OF principle,
in order that the community at large
be permanently bettered in things
that count most for real prosperity
and happiness.
There are other things such an or
ganization can do now. For example,
the banks of the city can and believe
they will, aid us in breaking up the
traffic in liquors by refusing to handle
liquor drafts to.well known "blind
tigers" One Of them has already vol
unfairly stopped handling such drafts.
The railroads of the city, the express
company, can betof great assistance
and I believe will be If the matter is
properly presented to them.
Such things as citizens organiza-
ton can handle much more effectively
than city authorities who are burden
sG with SO Inany phases 0s the work.
No matter how vigilant the city ad-
ministration, however determined.
persistent and effective in the 'execu-
tion of laws, there is always an i'm
mense work for the citizens at large.
, Without such cooperation permanent
results are impossible anywhere.
I apologize most huInbly for this
long communication, but I couldn't
} stop. very truly
G. CULLEN SULLIVAN.