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The Golden Age
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Governor Tolk Again
The recent Atlanta speech of Governor Joseph
W. Folk, of Missouri, was a shining galaxy of prov
erbs —and each proverb not only
The Stalwart sparkled with beauty but shone
Reformer with that splendor of Truth which
Will Write incarnated, makes men and na-
Again For tions.
The Golden Age. It was worthy of the great
Christian stateman that he has
proven himself to be —well worthy of the nation’s
President that he may soon become.
We are delighted to annuounce to our readers
who have been so charmed with Governor Folk’s
letters on “Waking the Public Conscience,” which
were concluded in our last issue, that the great
American has promised The Golden Age another
series of articles. The date of their beginning has
not been fixed, but they may be expected before
many weeks. No other paper in America will carry
these articles. Tell your friends.
We heartily congratulate our readers, while our
readers, will, in turn, congratulate themselves and
The Golden Age.
We Don ’t Like the Change.
We confess to a feeling of resentment over the
press announcement that Prof. O. A. Thaxton has
resigned the Presidency of Norman Insti-
From tute to enter the jewelry business at
“Jewels’ Moultrie. Nothing wrong with the jewelry
to business, you understand. It is mighty
Jewelry, pretty and eminently proper. And noth
ing wrong with the place, of course.
Moultrie is one of our “pet” towms —a veritable
metropolis in the land of “princes” and pines.
But the thought that bothers us is this: Thaxton is
one of the real educators of the South. He is a
self-made scholar. He was a “medalsome” leader
at Mercer. He has his Master’s degree from Co
lumbia University. He was a successful college
professor before going to the presidency of Nor
man Institute, one of the best equipped fitting
schools in all the land. For three highly successful
years he has been engaged there in polishing the
“Jewels of humanity,” and, somehow, it don’t seem
just right for a young man of such brilliant gifts
and rare culture to go from JEWELS to Jewelry!
Maybe it is his health—then we will try to be
content. But we hope his health will grow so robust
and his soul so restless that he will feel compelled to
leave jewelry and go back to “JEWELS.”
Meantime we congratulate Moultrie on the ac
quisition of “Thaxton: Gentleman, Scholar and Jew
eler.”
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The Golden Age for June 30, 1910.
That expression don’t “sound pretty” at all. But
it sounds better than the horrible fact that starts
the sound.
Lincoln Talking about how difficult it is to al-
Loathed ways tell the truth, some wag has said:
A Lie. “If you don’t believe it is a hard mat
ter to always tell the truth, suppose you
TRY.” But speaking seriously, isn’t it awful to
think of the many people who, in their practice of
deceiving others, seem almost to believe that they
are deceiving God himself? They forget that God
sees even the motives, the very “thoughts and in
tents of the heart,” and that the day is coming
when “every secret thing shall be made known and
every hidden thing shall be revealed.”
And men and women seem to forget that there is
often a lie in a look no less than in a spoken or
written word.
Orison Swett Marden, the golden hearted founder
and editor of that great inspirational magazine,
SUCCESS and author of such vital books as “Push
ing to the Front,” “Success” and “Architects of
Fate,” utters some powerful truths on “The Plight
of the Liar.” Read about a dozen times before
you think of, and pass to —your neighbor:
“No man can be really strong when in the wrong.
Everything within rebukes him; everything tells him
of his cowardice. Truth is man’s normal state, de
ception is a cultivated, abnormal thing. There is no
substitute for the right. Cunning cannot take its
place, nor can education. A person may have great
“THE GOLDEN AGE is simply GREAT. It
is rich with the fragrance of Apple blossoms
and luscious with the fruit of June. Broughton’s
sermons uplift me; Upshaw’s editorials stir me.
Joe Folk’s great articles splice out my back
bone; “Piney Woods Sketches” make me
laugh and forget my troubles, while The House
hold and Voices of Youth, your thrilling stories
and life-like illustrated articles —all give me an
intellectual, moral and spiritual tonic. There
is nothing else like it. God speed the day
when THE GOLDEN AGE will enter, inspire
and bless a hundred thousand homes.
“J. R. NUTT.”
Ackerman, Miss.
ability and a college education, but if he does not
ring true, if there is any evidence of counterfeit
about him he never gets our confidence, our order,
our business or our patronage.
“There is always a question mark in our minds
when we have dealings with a man who is not per
fectly honest. We are not sure of him. On the
other hand, a person may lack education, culture,
Uncle Sam ”a Gentleman. ”
Our patriotism is rising—or deepening, whichever
you want to call it —maybe both. With all of Uncle
Sam’s faults, we love him still —but
Wdn’t Sell we are anxious to see him pruned of
Any More his faults, so we can love him better.
“Blockade” In these columns we have been tell-
In Dry ing him some of his most glaring
Territory. faults during the last year or two;
other editors and many other free
Americans have been doing the same thing, and
“Uncle Sam” is beginning to hear and heed.
He has decided what we have known and said all
the time —that for a great and powerful giant (the
Government) to run rough-shod over a brave little
boy, who is trying to be decent (a prohibition State
or community), is a shame and a disgrace—a posi
tive travesty on national manhood. And so the good
news comes that no more captured “blockade” liquor
is to be sold at auction or otherwise in “dry” terri-
"YOU AKE A LIAR”
Nutt Grolvs Enthusiastic.
even refinement, but if he has an honest heart, if he
rings true every time, we believe in him; we trust
him.
“No man can look honest and long give the im
pression of honesty when he is an habitual scoundrel.
It is only a question of time when something Will
happen to tear off his mask and reveal the real mam
*******
“It does not matter how he tries to cover up his
rottenness by appearances of respectability, his
clothes, his money; he can not long continue to
cheat the heart. What he says about himself con
tradicts what we feel.
“A perfectly truthful man regards his honor first;
his interest comes later. Truth is everything to
him. Justice must be done, no matter if it goes
against his own interest.
“Man is constructed along the lines of truth, and
he can not violate his nature without showing it
by the loss of the best thing in him. The liar’s de
ception destroys his self-respect, and with it goes his
confidence; and what can a man accomplish who
can not respect himself or believe in himself?
“This was what made Lincoln such a giant; he
always stood for truth and justice. He believed what
he said, and he knew that the very structure of the
universe was backing him.
“He would never take a case unless he believed
that his side was in the right. He knew that the
advocate on the other side would always be placed
at a disadvantage by trying to make others believe
what he did not believe himself; that he would be
weak at best, no matter how great an orator he
might be. Lincoln knew there was something back
ing him that was greater than oratory, mightier than
words, and which multiplied his natural ability a
thousandfold.
“Right speaks with the force of law. The world
listens when truth speaks through a man like Lin
coln, who was entrenched in principle, backed by
the right. Not all of the mighty force which made
him a giant among his fellows was generated in his
own brain. There was a power back of him loaned
from justice, from right, which made him invincible;
a power which all men forfeit the moment they for
sake truth, principle.
“When a man feels that he is buttressed by the
right, entrenched in truth, he does not feel weak,
although the whole world may be against him. He
feels the everlasting arm about him, because he
knows that nothing can stand against principle;
nothing can be so mighty as the right.”
Os course, you thought most of your neighbor while
reading the foregoing terrific arraignment. But be
fore you lay it down, go stand before the glass and
see a man or woman looking straight through you
saying: “Thcu art the man!” God save us all from
the withering indictment of motive, word and deed:
“You are a liar” —an indictment framed and hung on
the walls of time and eternity!
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tory.
Good! Now, let the “old gentleman” whom holy
patriotism hath taught us to revere go a step further
—two steps further —and stop selling internal (in
fernal) revenue license in “dry” territory —yea, and
quit allowing liquor shipped into a community where
the people, in sovereign decency, have shut the
devilish stuff out by their sacred laws —and, then,
and not till then, will our “Uncle Sam” become a
full-fledged gentleman. The President is doing finely.
Come on, Mr. Taft —come on!
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