The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-09-17
nouncedly tory in this worldwide

negro does not figure and is not more
or less determining factor in our
political policies and problems and the
Tribune and its kind continue to do
all they can to make those policies
and problems more vexing and dis
turbing.
Under our state laws the negro
registers and votes and if the few can
do so the many could do likewise If
they would put themselves in posses
sion of the same qualifications.
In this respect how is the north diff
ferent from the south?
Negroes, so far as We are aware,
hold no government pos.tions up there
which are obtained 1t The ballot box.
We know of no negro governor of
any northern state: no lieutenant gov
ernor; none have been sent to the
United States senate nor to the lower
house of congress; none have he'd
cabinet positions, nor have been domi-
nant figures in any Of their state legis-
iatures.
They are given the inestimable
privilege of electing south defamers
to office-that is all.
Now as to our illiberal sentiments
which If Cox is elected would be so
ruinous to the liberal sentiments of
the country.
Note the difference in liberality and
humanity between the official orders
of Lee when he contemplated an In
vasion of Pennsylvania and Grant
when he invaded Virginia and Sher.
man in his march through Georgia and
especially when he reached Columbia,
s. c. The official orders are of record
and the tone Of liberality is altogether
with Lee.
Then after the conflict it might do
the Tribune well to ponder the differ.
ence in the public utterances of the
leaders of thought in the North and
in the south.
Win we be pardoned for making a
few quotations.
Here is an extract from a speech
by the vice president of the Confeder.
acy:
Patience requires of those afflict.
ed to bear and to suffer with fort.
ltude whatever ills may befall them
Next to this the great duty we owe to
ourselves is the exercise of liberal
spirit Of forbearance among our.
selves.
Man by nature is ever prone To
scan closely the errors and defects of
MS feilowman, ever ready to rave
at the mote in his brothers eye with.
out considering the beam in his own.
Il could enjoin no greater duty up
on my countrymen now, north and
south, than the exercise Of that de.
gree Of forbearance which would en-
able them to conquer their prejudices.
One of the highest exhibitions of the
moral sublime the world ever witness
ed was that of Daniel Webster when,
in an open barouche in the streets of
Boston. he proclaimed in substances
to vast assembly of his constituents
unwilling hearers-that they have
conquered an uncongenial cline; they
have conquered the winds and cur
rents Of the ocean; they have con-
quered most of the elements of ma
ture; but they must yet learn to con-
quer their prejudices.'
Governments according to our
ideals should look to the good of the
whole and not a part only. The great
est good for the greatest number is
favorite dogma with some. Some so
defended our old system. But you
know this was never my doctrine.
The greatest good to all, without de-
triment or injury to any is the true
rule. Those governments only are
founded upon great principles of rea-
son and justice, which look to the
greatest attainable advancement, i'm
provement and progress, physically,
intellectually and morally, of all class
es and conditions within their right
full jurisdiction.
"The most vexed questions Of the
age are social problems, the question
relating to the proper status of the
different elements of society toward
each other, looking to the best inter,
ests of all, than any other light. The
pecuniary aspect of it, the considera-
ton of labor and capital in a politi-
cal-economic view sink into insight
ficance with this.
Great new living questions are
before US. Let it never be said OF US
IN thic dow NOT vet DaSS0d. or our