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KEN%Y COUNTY WEEKLY.
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JleDonough, Gr.., Aug. 12, *l9lO
SRTFFIN HERALDS ATTACK.
Elsewhere in our columns we
copy the Grifin Herald’s editorial
attack on Judge E. J. Reagan’s
official conduct.
This paper has contained a num
ber of very fine editorials, whose
fairness and high moral tone are
not at all in keeping with this un
fair and uncalled for attack. Par
tisanship seems to have blinded
them to every sense of justice in
this particular matter.
We also give Judge Reagan’s
»eply.
For reasons all our readers ful
ly understand, we have no lengthy
comment to make, but we are
sure that the people can form a
correct judgment on the matter
better, probably, without any
word from u$ when it is not need
ed.
OUR COUNTY NOT FOR SALE.
We regret that even the rumor
has gotten abroad that there is a
purch;iseable element of some
sue among the voters of our
county.
Further we the more regret
that it is even rumored that an
eifort is now being planned to use
whiskey and money in Henry
county to influence the result in
tbv Democratic Primary to be held
cm the 23d instant.
We do not know what truth
th'Te is in either rumor. But each
is*persistent, and so deserves some
attention from those who believe
in purity* in politics and decency
m elections.
As to the former rumor that we
have a purchaseable political cle
ment, we can begin by admitting
liKit we doubtless have some such
individuals. Every county has
more or less.
Have we a large number of
such individuals? We do net
know, but we doubt it. If we
have—using the supposition for
the purposes of argument, but not
admitting it—where did we get
than?
While our population is con
stantly and steadily growing, all
will aeknoweldge that there has
been no such influx of hosts into
our borders* sufficient to change
the character of our voting popu
lation.
1 hen —if we have such men in
our midst —they have been pro
duced within our own borders.
Have our old and middle-aged
voters, veterans of many hard
fought battles of conscience for
right, deserted the old standard
of righteousness and banded
themseves with the bearers of
the boodle banner?
I hink you that those men who
played with the long lines of fire
Faming into their faces from
northern rifles, and then in recon
struction found fiercer fires not to
be played with but extinguished
by a moral heroism higher than
the most daring valor of battle —
think you that they have exhaust
ed their manhood in these just
and holy deeds, and now sell all
tne honor they bled so freely to
save' and transmit.
The thought is abhorrent and
will not be entertained.
Nor can we believe that those
oi younger years, but who have
for a score or more o: years been
voting for men on their merits,
have now suddenly overturned
habit and sold out.
And those of tender years,
who had long anxiously anticipated
the day when they could cast their
first ballots, —splendid sons of no
ble sires, with a heritage of man
hood and honor and glory supe
rior to that of any other people in
history, —the very hope and high
purpose written upon thfeir bro\ys
are sufficient evidence to acquit
them of such insinuations.
Where then are they to be
found and who can point them
out?
We know not. We only know
that, if we have them, the corrupt
politicians do know them and who
they are, and will debauch them if
possible.
“They love darkness rather
than light, because their deed* are
evil.”
So you need not expect to see
tTieir serpent in the day time,
but under the cover of the night
they would work their wiles of
wickedness.
Vain have been even the strug
gles of recent years which resulted
in our excellent registration law
and eliminated the corrupt negro
vote, if we a number of
corrupt white voters ’left as can
wield the balance of power.
Then would we deserve the
criticism of the world: “You
saved yourselves from the negro,
but could not save yourselves
from yourselves.”
We wish here merely to sound
the warning, and we are sure that
the good men, the pure men, will
be on the watch and not permit
any such practices, whether they
are contemplated dr not.
Rule 12 made by the Executive
Committee meets this case, as
follows:
“No person at the approaching
primary shall be declared the nom
inee of the party for any of the
offices named if it is made to ap
pear that he has used money, or
otheh thing of value, to employ
workers at the polls or in advance
of the primary; or that he engaged
in buying votes to procure his
nomination.
“This provision shall apply even
where such improper use of
money or other thing of value or
buying of votes is done by the
friends of such candidate, with his
knowledge.”
Editorial in The Cirillin Duly Hornld.
MEN OF PRINCIPLE NEEDED.
In founding this republic, our
fathers established five institutions
that seemed necessary to the de
velopment of a high order of man
hood. Since the common people
were to be rulers it was plainly
necessary to educate the multi
tude.
No inventor commits his inven
tion into the hands of an ignorant
man, and our fathers feared to
trust those powerful political tools;
the ballot and free speech, into
the hands of ignorant and un
trained men. So they established
the free school.
They founded the free press;
believing that the citizen should
be made acquainted with all that
goes on in God’s great world. The
result is the intelligent unity of a
hundred million people and the
breaking down of all sectional
differences.
They also established liberty
and political equality. Not that
all men are equal in strength of
body or quality of intellect or
power of personality, but that
each man has an equal right to
justice and self-development. The
grass, the lily and the oak are hot
equal in station, and, perhaps, net
equal in usefulness, but are equal
in their right to claim from soil
and rain and sun, what they need
for growth and sustenance.
Our fathers emphasized the fam
| ily, recognizing that all subsequent
! relationships are made or marred
lin the family circle. They looked
| upon this home as a miniature re
| public and they looked to earnest
| mothers for the sturdy and honest
citizenship of the future.
They decreed that the. Lord’s
day should be a training day for
i the soul and conscience that men
| might grow fine and strong, and
1 that great and true convictions
might be well developed. For the
measure of power of a republic is
not in its resources and wealth,
; but in the quality of manhood
| produced.
| We have today many problems
before us as there always will be
great problems before a growing
and progressive nation; but our
greatest need is a Christian citizen
ship. We need men who live and
'act the principles of Jesus Christ
in our high offices, in places of
responsibility, in the great marts
of business.
That it will be so, it is not an
idealist’s dream, but will be a real
ization of the future to which pre
sent indications point.
In a despotism where one fam
ily rules, the task of educating the
rulers .is simple. It means the
teaching of the members pf a sin
gle family. In a monarchy it
means the . education of a few
thousand of the upper classes. In
a republic the great peril is moral
ignorance among millions, many
of them newly come to our ghores.
We have established our public
schools for the training of the in
tellect, but in a great many in
stances, have eliminated morals
and spiritual knowledge from the
class room. Five or six hours
every week are given to mathe
matics for years, because we must
count money, and weigh sugar
and salt, compute coal and meas
ure land. Years for the study of
mathematics; not one minute,
scarcely, for the training of a
child’s morals and character.
The president of the National
Educational association affirmed
in his annual address not long
since, that were ten millions
of young people under 17 years of
age that never cross the threshold
of a church, Catholic, Protestant,
or Hebrew.
We teach children that two and
two make four, but not that it is
wrong to falsify accounts. We
tqach thorn that fire burns, in sci
ence, but not that the boy who
tries to satisfy his desire for “pleas
ure with sin, is like one who eats
red-hot coals. Look at the jails
filled with boys whom we allow
to grow up like vandals. Look at
the moral insensibility among our
rich men and legislators, to whom
truth and justice should be sacred.
We breed our own dangers
through neglect. We spend vast
energy in the discussion of the
tariff, on pig-iron, as if with it the
republic would survive or perish;
but we neglect the souls of men.
I We spend hundreds of millions
digging mud out of rivers, while
the mouths of our children spout
mud, and the tenement houses
ooze disease and crime. Surelv
there was never a time in the his
tory of the republic when the in
fluence and work of the church
was needed more than it is today.
We have well known examples of
hove gladly people flock to the
standard of any man who shows
himself a sturdy, uncompromising
Christian citizen.
And on the other hand we see
that a man who is not a Christian,
j though he may be exalted to a
high place, is soon weighed and
found wanting.
Our fathers laid well the foun
dations, but their work cannot be
j perfected without the fidelity of
I the sons. We have a marvelous
heritage; we reap what we did not
| sow. But God forbid that we
should prove faithless to the prin
ciples of our fathers. So iet us
call the roll of convictions which ;
lie deep-rooted in true citizenship;
| and the first truth that meets .us
! is that a man must be a citizen of
! the kingdom of God before he can
’be a true citizen of a Christian
' nation.
May God bless our land, and
righteousness ever be her strength
as it was at her birth. Grievous
' sins lie at our doors, and there,
are blots on our banner, but let us
go forward in the hope that God j
will raise up for us a more glori- i
ous citizenship that-shall do his
will.
God has marked us for a great- '
er destiny. May we never fail
Him.
And on all that the life of this
land may mean for humanity, let
us pray God’s blessings for our
future.
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MCDONOUGH, GA.
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