The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-05-19

this narrative of experience to YOU
have come through the fire since !
talked to you last. Whether the metal
is purer than it was, God only knows;
but the fire has been there, the fire
has pc etrated every part of it, and
if l may believe my own thoughts
have less partisan feeling, more i'm
patience of party manoeuvre, more
enthusiasm for the right thing. no
matter whom it hurts, than I ever had
bcsc-e in my life. Ard I have some
thing that it is no doubt dangerous
TO have, but that l can not help haT-
ing. l have a profound intellectual
contempt for men who can not sec
the signs of the times. l have to deal
with some men who know no more OF
modern processes of politics than if
they were living in the 18th century.
and for them 1 have a profound and
comprehensive intellectual contempt.
They are blind. They are hopelessly
blind; and the worst of it is l have to
spend hours of my time talking to
them when l know before I start as
much as after l have flashed that it
is absolutely useless to talk to them.
| am talking in vacuo.
Must Wake Them Up.
"The business of every one Of us,
gentlemen, is to realize that if we are
correspondents of papers who have
not heard of modern times we ought
to send them as many intimations Of
modern movements as they are will
ing to print. There is a smile that
was used by very interesting writer
that has been much in my mind
Like myself, he had often been urged
not to try to change so many things.
I remember when I was president of
a university man said to me Good
heavens, man, why don't you leave
something alone and let it stay the
way it is?' and l said, If you will
guarantee to me that it will stay the
way it is / will let it alone; but if you
knew anything you would know that
if you leave live thing alone it will
not stay where it is. 1t will develop
and will either go in the wrong direc-
ton or decay
81 reminded him of this thing that
the English writer said, that if you
want to keep white post white you
can not let it alone. 1t will get black.
You have to keep doiag something to
it. In that instance you have got to
keep painting it white, and you have
got to paint it white very frequently
in order to keep it white, because
there are forces at work that will
get the better of you. Not only will
it turn black but the forces of moisr
ture and the other forces of nature
will penetrate the white paint and
get at the fibre Of the wood, and de-
cay will set in, and the next time you
try to paint it you will find that there
is nothing but punk to paint
Must Be Speedy.
Then you will remember the red
queen in Alice in Wonderland,' or
Alice Through the Looking Glass
l forget which, it has been so long
since | read them-who' takes Alice
by the hand and they rush along at a
great pace aad then when they stop
Alice looks around and says, But we
are just where we were when we
started Yes said the red queen,
you have to run twice as fast as that
to get anywhere else
THAT is also true, gentlemen, of
the world and of affairs. You have
got to run fast merely to stay where
you are, and in order to get any
where you have got to run twice as
fast as that. That is what people do
MT ,oo1i1o Thaf ic tho mischief of