The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, August 12, 1910, Image 8
KEN%Y COUNTY WEEKLY. FRANK KKACI AN, Kditor. *t the poatofflc* *t McDoi mm s&ccad-clasa mail iDMt'tar. Advertising Rataa: 11.00 par lack jjDt ooath. Reduction on etaadln® ■BKtpexta by apeolal agreement. 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. B. B. CARMICHAEL & SONS, MCDONOUGH, GA. Funeral Directors and fimbalmers. Day Phone No. 51 Night Phone No. 52 All e*tll6 answered promptly dey or All embalming carefully done and to best methods Oar stock of inet-al and wood caskets »**i robes are unequalled. 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