The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-23
KELTON

are having some real March weather
now. The land is too wet to plow to-
day, but | guess some of the farmers |
are plowing.
I have not learned whether the |
freight trains are idle or not, but if |
the promised strike is carried out it |
will be a tenfOld greater calamity to |
our country than the closing of all |
the seas to the United States. There |
are plenty of men in this country who |
have not had GOOD nights sleep in |
several months, fearing that our coun- |
try will not be dragged into the great |
war unless it was when the United |
States severed relations with Ger
many or when she decided to arm mer-
chant vessels to defend themselves. I |
guess those patriots are getting rest |
less on the delay of some German
submarine sinking one of our vessels, |
but / say be patient your anxiety
may be eased one day soon. Dear
readers, did you ever see or hear of |
so many international lawyers as we
have now. They are on the highways
and on the corner of the streets more
numerous than the Pharisees were
1900 hundred years ago in Jerusalem
and that country preaching law and |
righteousness. They even had hon
est men deceived such men as st. |
Paul and others, for Paul was a law
yer and thought he knew the law and |
1T took God to smite him blind before |
he could see right and I say that some |
of the big lawyers will never have |
their eyes opened until thev wake up |
in hell because God does not do as |
he did in those days and there are
some men as honest as Paul was
thinking they are doing God service, |
but the most of them are after money
or fame and they never will be salts |
fled. Look at Alexander the Great.
when he had ovcrrun or conquered the |
whole world, sat down and went be-
cause there was no other world to
subdue. and that is the way of the
money and fame-seekers. One of the
greatest sins, if there is one above
another is deception Let us take sa-
cred history. Way back in the BEGIN
ming Jacob deceived his good old faith
er and got Esau's birthright. and what
was the result? Tt brought on him
sorrow and grief, for his own sons
consplred together and sold one of his
sons, Joseph, one of their own broth
ers, to an Egyptian band. Friends,
you who don't read the Bible much,
get your Bible and read the whole
story. for it is one of the most beauti-
full stories in the whole Bible. 7
might 90 on through the Bible to the
days of Christ and point out the de-
ception practiced Ananias and his
wife, Judas with kiss, etc. I might
write pages of this great sin. Lock
at it today, practiced horse trading,
farmers, merchants, doctors, lawyers,
all of us more or less included IF YOU
do not know what you are buying.
Watch those $1.4S, csc and Csc mer-
chants or else you will be licked and
all other occupations of men are about
the same. / used to peddle little
and how hard it was to keep from tell
ing lies and | guess / told some, for
you never know one to run down what
he had to SELL
Back to the war: State, national
and international politics and men are
generally about the same on an aver
age. / have always understood the
teachings of government to be free
speech, ballot and free press, but do
we have them? No, unless they are
In line with certain politicians. What
will become of those - or 13 poor
United States senator's that did not
see and think as the rest of them?
lheN are rated as unpatriotic and as
the big dailies put them, traitors DO
you call that liberty? If the Demo
Gratis expect to remain in power they
had better show courtesies to the Pro-
gressives, for they hold the balance of
power and Senator LaFollette is one
of their leaders. Professor Smith last
fall said in speech at Union to the
u. d. C.'s if the Democratic party did
not measure up or carry out the prn-
ciples of the party that Wilson would
be the last president we would have.
wise phophccy. We need not 90
into national politics to prove what
few or certain set of men will rule
or ruin AS Ben Tilman of South
Carolina said when he was governor.
We all know how a few men tried to
block everything he tried to do. even
when corporation lease had expired
they abused him because he wanted
the mining territory free to all, too
bad to think Of but it was men who
wanted to rule or ruin. Now YOU hear
great international men cry aloud free
dom of the seas in time of the great
est of wars and at the same time have
got all neutrals cut off from them,
selling anything to their enemies with
the pretence if they capture all YES
sells they will pay for them. Do they
pay full value for the goods and if so
suppose they capture cargo
of cotton on its way to Germany, and
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