Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-01-23
SUNNY SOUTH IS
COLD AND DAMP
ON DIXIE FLYER, near Birming-

cold. A foot of snow at Jackson, Miss
issippi, and sleet all over Alabama,
makes this the Coolest snap" the
South ever had. I am glad that in
thirty-six hours I will be in Fl. Meyer,
Florida, where it "never gets too cold
or too hot" but is just right all the
time Mind you, l was there IN
the summer.
/ notice in this mornings Nashville
Tennesseean that the South does not
think much of Senator Reeds sneer-
ing at Our lords Sermon on the
Mount , and says:
Senator Reed of Missouri has
lately delivered himself of a studied
Illumination against the League Of
Nations and the height and depth of
his intellect, his sense of propriety
and his idea of an argument are fully
displayed by his sarcastic reference
Ito the Sermon on the Mount as the
constitution of the proposed league.
"In this land of ours there will DC
many a father and mother who will
fail to catch the sarcasm in this ref
erence, as they gaze on a crippled son
or on a vacant chair at the family
hearth-stone. And many al American
soldier who has faced death in a for
| eign land, and has seen his friends
and comrades perish beside him,in
their efforts to subdue brute force
and insure peace for the generations
that are to follow them, will be unable
to see the joke in having one article
of that federation to read blessed
are the peacemakers."
"The Senator from Missouri must
be endowed with some peculiar gif5 of
isolation to be able to be so ignorant
of the national conscience of his cum
try.
"Whatever may be a mans religious
convictions, whatever may be his
beliefs, his disbeliefs or unbeliefs,
that man is blind if he does not know
that the doctrines of Jesus Christ are
practically the basis of every popular
principal that has been suggested for
the government of the League of Nat
ions.
at is true we speak of Justice, which
is eminently proper, but justice is
itself a principal that has been fer
tilted and developed in the soil of
Christianity. 1t is justice in soma
parts of Africa to steal. 1t was
justice among the Americans to tor
ture. Trial by combat and the duel
were at times the quintessence of JUS
tice among our own ancestors, and
this form of Justice was considered
by them so pure and lofty that it was
reserved for the benefit of the INTEL
igent and well bred.
"We are prone to speak of our high
ideals as a product of u learning
and refinment, and this is in a meas
ure correct, but learning and refin-
ment did not breed these ideals in Ger
many, nor in Rome nor in Greece.
at is neither our purpose or province
to discuss theology, but when we re-
cognize the rapid growth of applied
| Christianity we are noting one of the
most powerful and vital forces in the
modern life and thought of America.
at requires only a slight retrospect
to indicte this to the thoughtful man
or woman, when the golden rule of
s~tatecraft was to eight the devil with
frd." Imagine the acclaim that
Wilson would have received in this
country or in Europe if he had de-
clared for this shibboleth, or if ne
had declared that the great sun
ction of a government was to ''speah
softly and carry a big stick"
"These doctrines our people have out
grown and discarded. They heve re-
pudiated them so utterly that they
have been willing to spend their blood
and treasure to eradicate them from
the world.
SIN a day that tested mems reasons
we saw some of our greatest inteilec-
tuals, leaders in universities, disciples
of cold reason, caught like flies n a
web of treason spun by cunning prop
agandists. And the simple teachings
and prayers we learned at our mo-
theirs knee suddenly shed their leg
endary mists and famed up as the
vital forces in a mass of wreckagG.
They formed the universally acce-p-
ted platform on which civilization was
to stand amid broken presidents and
failing forecasts and battle for ex-
i~stence, and where the preacher, the
priest and the rabbi were to serve as
blood brothers knowing no sect or
creed.
"The Sermon on the Mount will not
be the constitution of the League OF
Nations. Its doctrines are too lofty
to be Incorporated bodily into a poll
teal league of mankind, in our pre-
sent state of advancement. But in so
far as it shall serve as a basis for that
constitution it will insure its purpose
and perpetuity. And whatever may
be Incorporated into the rules of that
federation that shall deny or abridge
the doctrines of this sermon can only
be justified on the grounds of imper-
ative expediency, and accepted by ran
kind as a token that the road of prog
ress still stretches befor our feet,
and that there are higher attainments
that we may yet achieve"
The high price of cotton has brou~
ght great prosperity to the South
which is becoming more and more
progressive from year to year; and as
more and varied crops are planted,
with the help of those who farm, tour