The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-07-22
MR.. ABE VIGODSKI, ESQ.


We are overwhelmed. We are
really submerged. Such an on
slaught, such fusilade, really a bar
rage, we believe that is what they
called it in the world war, we have
not seen or read before, as Mr.. Aoe
Vigodski hurls at us and Tom Watson,
now Senator Watson from the great
state of Georgia, and the reader will
find it all printed in this paper.
Mr.. Abe Vigodski, ESQ.,, is bright
young fellow, we are told, now a law
student at the great law school of
Yale. We do not propose to under
take to answer him in any particular
because we are under the barrage, but
we cannot restrain the temptation to
make few remarks. He is also
graduate of Newberry college, and
they tell us he took all the honorS at
this institution.
The barrage all is brought about by
little editorial we quoted from the
Anderson Daily Mail, head and all,
and the comments we made endorsing
the Mail. 1t attracted Mr.. Abe vi
godski's attention, and he could not
help telling us and the Mail how
greatly surprised he is that we should
endorse anything that Mr.. Watson
might say, and then telling his opin-
ion. of Mr.. Watson. And of US.
May be he will have another ppor
tunity for surprise when we say that
we still have the same opinion we
expressed before, even after reading
his avalanche of words. Permit US to
quote few famous expressions from
this barrage. He is surprised that
we should, applaud perfectly ASSN
inc speech" ''Vitriolic sheet" We
do not recall that we used the word;
Imperial but possibly we did. He
admits that 'word sounds good and
is appropriately used, because, some
how, it fits nicely into demogogical
speech, but as it is used it conveys
no thought and has no meaning :,
Too bad, indeed, that we should so
use a word that fits well, but is dem
agogical and conveys no meaning.
Too bad again. "Demagogic gasco-
nade," 'braying of jackass, y 'why
all this bunk and these chauvinisti"
utterances." Ye shades of Moses anu
: the prophets, what does all this really
mean? It is beyond our ken. 1t
must have been something like this
that caused Pope in his Essaye on
Criticism, we believe it was, to say
something like this: GA little learning
is a dangerous thing" and so on. We
also went to Newberry college long
time ago, but DR.. Holland and Daniel
Arlington failed to teach us any such
language as this, but then that was
in the good old days before we had
become so "imperialist:c," and before
the federal government. was assuming
to do so many things that the franz
ers of the constitution had delegated
to the states, and that in our opinion
properly belonged to the states.
Washington and Tom Jefferson and
the other trainers of the constitution,
and those who fought in that great
revolutionary struggle, fought for the
principle of democracy embodied in
the idea of local sef-government, and
Washington was so bold as to declare
in one of his, addresses tor was it
Tom Jefferson?) maybe his farewell
address, that whenever the govern
ment at Washington undertook to tell
the people when they should plant and
when they should reap, and to direct
everything from the capitol at Wash
ington, that it would be death blow,
or the beginning of the death blow,
to constitutional government, or
something like that.
Our ideas of government are some
what like our ideas of religion, they
are largely inherited, and we get 1rs
from our forbears who fought to es-
tablish free government based upon
the consent of the governed. Mr..
Abe Vigodski, Esq, possibly inherit
ed his elsewhere. We said nothing
about an imperial government, but
we did deplore the tendency toward
a great centralized government at
Washington If Tom Jefferson, who