The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1915-11-13

service and that power Is the sole right
Ladies and gentlemen, again | say, it
that man, our esteemed Senator Jas. K
My friends:
You will permit me to pause just
a moment at the outset to make my
grateful acknowledgement to my gen.
erous and most partial friend for the
words of commendation and praise en-
ployed by him in bringing me to your
attention. Of course you understand
that he has employed the language
of friendship and love, which always
manifests our virtues and minimiZes
our vices. Those are qualities which
we do not, in fact, possess, and which
lend coloring to our careers, which
| am afraid the historian will deny
when he will come to write the history
of the present. But you know I am
glad he said these things about me.
They were unexpected and unlocked
for. 1t makes my heart blossom forth
like a caulifower. | like it because
like friends. I have never known a
man or woman in my life; | care not
what their vocation may be, whether
it takes him to the bowels of the
earth, and takes out therefrom the
coal that turns the wheels of COM
merce-I don't care what his vocation
may be, he has nothing that | prize
so highly as I do his love for friends.
1t is an unexpected pleasure for me
to be permitted this afternoon to look
into the faces of the fair women and
the stalwart men of the good old
County of Hancock, / did not ex-
pect to make a speech when I came
to your delightful village. I have been
an exile from Mississippi for the last
three years, and IsfAlt like tearing
myself away frora shs es iinement at
Washington, and come down her and
make a little trip over the State.
But want to tell you that we are the
creatures Fof environment, and the
most potential influence brought to
beer upon us is environment. q
sometimes think that a man who has
helped direct Congress ought to be
required to spend sixty days of every
year, living among, talking to, break
ing bread with, discussing matters,
with his people. You know you can
live long enough in Washington to
loose the common touch. 1t is the
only city in the world where there is
no mud nor dust. 1t cost more money
to run that little city no larger than
New Orleans, nearly four times than
it does the State of Mississippi. Four
teen millions of dollars a year. A
man can stay there long enough to
forget the ladder by which he climbed
to that place. The people who live
there are not dependent upon the pro-
ducts of the soil directly for their sup
port, but. upon politics. Those things
that make the stuff that we feed
upon and clothes us, doesn't affect a
man living in Washington. So I just
came down here hurriedly. | ought
to- be there now at work on great
matters that we have to deal with.
And in the limited time have to talk
to you, | want to find out just what
you think about me. All the people
have got more sense than any one
man. Issues do not originate in the
brains of a statesman, but they grow
out of the conditions of his people,
and problems are solved by them, not
by the man. Take the story or his
tory of Marcus Aurelius, who, with all
his power and wisdom, was not able
to- effect a single important reform
Issues come from among the people
and the people alone must solve the
problem. It is done with that inf1u-
ence we call "Public Sentiment" Ano
| to speak of sentiment to the average
individual, whose heart and religion
is commerce, is loves labor lost.
1 - fhof ca
ment is stronger than all of the ar
mics, and better than the wealth of al
the<ages NY friend said IN his intro
duetory remarks that "fhese are try
ling times.' I am pursuaded to thinl
THAT probably we will reach turning
lpoint in the history of this republic
i Eternal faithfulness is as much tn
| price of liberty today as it was mor'
than 125 years ago, when it fired th'
| hearts of the colonist with, "G.ve m,
/ liberty or give me death" Don't for
, get that the government derives al
its lust power from you. Things ma,
go wrong for while, but just as 500
as the opportunity presents itself yol
correct them, and il you don't yo
j | are going to pay the penalty. Yo
J are going to be the sufferer. The onl
II light we have to guard US IN the dark
Iness of the future, is that whic
shines out from the expanse of th
tlpast,
STOOD ON PLATFORM
Now / am going to discuss wit
!. you and tell you something about n,
record as your servant IN the Unite
States Senate. You may dispute {
j Ito whether have been always wis
Tor foolish. Possibly some of ye
would not have voted on measures /
! / did. But you can't put your ing'
( On an ssXn that have made, but TIL
ri did it IN the fulfllment Of evel
7 promise that I made as expressed
. your state and national platform
And want to say to you my friend
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