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PniTICU SIDE OF
THE CHRISTIAN UFE
S£RMON BY REV. J. R. OWEN
OF BAPTIST CHVRCH
Paaty Loyalty and Buying and
Selling Votes are a Menace to
Good Government.
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Whether therefore ye eat, or
drink, or whatever ye do, do all to
the glory of God.—I. Cor., 10:31.
Christianity does not disqualify
a man tor good citizenship, but it
increases many times his obliga
tion to his country. Even the min
ister of the gospel owes his vote
and his inflaence to his state. No
good man who possesses the privi
lege of the franchise can stay away
from the ballot box without com
mitting a serious injury to his
state,
I would call attention to a few
dangerous evils that threaten the
security of our governmant
1. Party Loyaltv: What is a po
litical party? Both “democratic”
and “republican” are good words.
They are associated with the no
blest impulses that have ever
stirred a nation. Are the two
great political parsies of today
worthy of their names? Can a
clean man think of his party with
patriotism and pride? Of what are
the political parties composed and
what do they stand for? They are
composed of all classes of men,
from the best to the worst; a man
never gets too mean to be a good
democrat or a good republican.
And they seem to exist fot one pur
pose-each to b^t the other. A
Christian may be loyal to the prin
ciples on which his party was
founded; he may be loyal to the
good men in his party who may
seek office, but I have never been
able to understand how a clean
man can pledge absolute loyalty to
a party, as such, who can wink at
honesty and spend money and
whisky to destroy the self-respect
and integrity of a man just to beat
the other fellow.
2. The buying and selling of
votes: This is a common practice
and is loo^d upon as a virtue.
Indeed this has come to be a test of
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a man’s loyalty to his party, and
the man who can do the most of it
is lauded as a “special politician.”
Let US look at the man who sells
his vote.
In the first place he sells his pa-
^Hotism. His soul is not stirred
by the stars and stripes; he cannot
sing our old patriotic songs.
“Breathes there the man with soul' so dead
Who never to himself hath said
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne’er within him
bum’d,
As home his foot-steps he hath turn’d.
From wandering on a foreign stra&d!”
He sells his moral interest in his
country. In practice he is opposed
to churches, schools, good roads,
good government. He is non-con-
strnctive along all moral lines. On
the other hand he is usually the
first man to support universal legis
lation.
Again he disregards the law he
has been taught to violate. Only
the boy who has been taught obe
dience honors and respects his
father. The man who is allowed
to violate law with impunity soon
comes to disregard and defy the
law.
3. What shall we say of the man
■who buys the vote?
He sins against the individual
whose vote he buys. Many men
who sell out ntight have been, if
left alone, good and desirable citi
zens—others might have been made
so by proper influences. Then the
crime of their debasement and de-
jnoralization hes at the door of the
]^Utician or agent. It is unfair to
take advantage of a man’s poverty
to destroy his honor and self re-
8|)eot and the man who does it is a
great foe of the man against whom
he sins. /
The man who buys votes is an
enemy to true democracy. Ham
ilton has said that every true
democrat and every true republican
earnestly desires the elevation of
the people to a higher plane of .in
tellectual and moral life as well as
their political emancipation. The
man who seeks to debase the i)eo-
ple whose support he courts is a
traitor of no ordinary mien.
The man who buys votes sins
with a high hand against his coun
try. He destroys patriotism and
breeds anarchy. He is the propa
gator of the worst plague that ever
scourged civilization. Woe unto
that man by whom the offense
cometh! It were better for him
that a mill stone were hanged
about his neck and be cast into the
depth of the sea.
It is unnecessary to speak of the
dangerous tendency of this prac-
Every true citizen knows that if
unrestrained this practice must
flood the country with rascals and
debar good men from office. The
man who has the greatest capacity
for gathering funds and controlling
elections, and he alone, would be
eligible to office.
What is to be done? It is not
my purpose to discuss legislation
against such evils. But I want to
call upon every teacher and every
preacher and every good citizen for
a combined effort to counteract
this influence. Let the teacher in
spire her boys with a recital of the
glorious deeds of our fathers; teach
them our patriotic songs, implant
in every child’s heart a love for the
flag, for honesty and the God of
nations, and the day will speedily
come when the dishonest political
party with its scheming partisans
will be relegated to junk heaps of a
forgotten past. Verily this will be
doing things to the glory of God.
JORDAN-WILKES WEDDING
A very pretty home wedding oc
curred at the residence of Prof. and
Mrs. Carl Hoyt Trowbridge on
Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
The bride was Miss Bessie Wilkes,
a recent student of the Institute,
and the groom, Mr. Herman Jor
dan, a well known resident of Bre
vard.
The house was beautifully deco
rated with roses and laurel. The
bay-window in the parlor was
banked with laurel, and against
this a floral altar was similarly
decorated with roses. An aisle of
roses was formed through two
rooms, through which the bride
walked, unattended, to meet the
groom, who stood with the Rev.
Mr. Thompson under a marriage
bell of roses within the altar.
Miss Maud Jacobs played as an
opening piece the beatiful wedding
march from “Lohengrin,” and dur
ing the ceremony the dreamy
strains of ‘‘Traumerei,’ ’closing with
the inspiring march of Mendels
sohn.
The ceremony was short, but im
pressive, after which the guests,
who were personal friends of the
bride and groom, pressed forward
to present congratulations and good
wishes.
Then all adjourned to the porch
where refreshments were served.
The bride, who blushingly de
clared it was the first time she had
ever done such a thing, cut the
bride-cake, which proved to be a
tremendous success, everybody vot
ing it to be the best they had ever
eaten. The • other refreshments
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were equally delicious, and after a
'jolly time the happy couple left on
the 4 p. m. train for Asheville,
Knoxville and dther points of in
terest. They will be away for sev
eral weeks, returning to make their
home in Brevard.
A sprained ankle may as a rule
be cured in from three to four days
by applying Chamberlain’s Lini
ment and observing the directions
with each bottle. For sale by all
dealers.
(lEATEii niesPEiiiTr
IN 6REAT SOUTHEAST
ADDRESS BY PRES. FINLEY
OF SOUTHERN RY.
Better Corn Grown in Southeast
Than in Corn Belt; Pork Can
Be Produced Cheaply.
President Finley, of the Southern
Railway Company, who was one of
the principal speakers at a banquet
given by the Columbus Board of
Trade Wednesday evening. May 29,
spoke on “Co-operation for South
eastern Development.”
He told of the great natural ad
vantages enjoyed by the South
eastern states, quoted statistics
showing the great progress that
has been made in recent years, and
emphasized t]je importance of co
operative work for promoting the
agricultural and industrial devel
opment of the section and for mak
ing its opportunities better 1 uown.
He said, in part:
“We have room in the Southeast
for all of the industrious, enter
prising, and otherwise desirable
people who can be induced to come
among us. We have a hearty wel
come for them and opportunities in
abundance for them to better their
condition. One of the most desir
able ways in which our population
can be increased is by keeping our
young men at home. We are con
stantly losing a certain proportion
of our population to the West and
to the North. In every community
there are men who are always look
ing for the pot of gold at the end
o*E the rainbow. They think that
the great opportunities of life are
to be found in some other locality
than that in which they are living.
“In the United States, owing to
the facts that the first settlements
were along the Atlantic seaboard
and that, until recently, there
were great tracts of public lands
open to settlement in the West, the
idea has been traditional that the
West is the land of opportunity.
Horace Greeley did much io popu
larize this idea by his advice to
go West and grow up with the
country. Conditions have radi
cally changed since Mr. Greeley
gave his advice, and I believe that
if the great editor were alive to
day he would say ‘Go South, young
man, and grow up with th^ coun
try.’ Our opportunities are at
least as favorable as those in any
other part of the United States,
and one of the most important
things we can do is to impress this
fact upon our people. This «vill be
doubly effective, for if we can
bring everybody in the Southeast
to a full realization of our advan
tages and to their enthusiastic ex
ploitation, \ve shall have them
spreading the knowledge through
out the entire country and in for
eign lands. To accomplish this
most effectively we should strive
to make oar' development at home
so marked and so progressive as to
command attention and convince
the restless spirits among us that it
is to their best interest to stay here,
and we should see to it that the
facts as to our progress and oppor
tunities are made known. Local
organizations and local newspapers
can be most helpful in this. In
many cases effective personal work
may be possible. If a Southea^rn
farmer has an idea that he can im
prove his/ condition by moving to
the so-called ‘corn belt’ to grow
corn, he should have the knowledge
impress^ upon him that the record
corn crops of the world have not
been grovm in the ‘corn belt,’ but
in the Southeast, and on land cost
ing less per acre, and tha^ corn
grovm in the Southeast has taken
the prize for quality in competition
with the most saccessinl farmers
of the ‘corn belt’ and other parts of
the country. If he has an idea
that he should go to Texas^to raise
cattle or to Kansas to raise liogs,
he should know that there is no
part of the United States in which
beef and pork can be produced
more cheaply than in the South
east and that the experts of the
United States agricultural depart
ment who have studied the matter
and conducted • elaborate feeding
experiments are of the opinion that
an increasing proportion of the
meat supply of the United States
for home consumption and for ex
port must come from our section.”
In the line of industrial develop
ment, Mr. Finley urged the still
further utilization of Southeastern
raw materials in Southeastern fac
tories and spoke of the opportuni-
-ties for a wider diversification of
mannfacturing. After summariz
ing the co-operative development
work being done by the Southern
Railway Company in the territory
traversed by its lines, Mr. Finley
said:
“Our lines outside of the South
have recently been greatly extend
ed by the establishment of agencies
of our freight and passenger traffic
departments in the extreme West
and Northwest and in Canada. Oar
purpose in this is to broaden our
work and make its influence nation
wide. These men are the extreme
advance guard of the Southeast,
thrown out far beyond the breast
works. They have been carefully
selected for the particular work
they have to do. Each one of them
is a center of information about
the territory traversed by our lines.
It is their special business to dis
seminate this information and to
build up travel and commerce be^
tween their localities and our sec
tion.
“Taking into account all of the
advantages of the Southeast and
the forces working for its develop
ment I do not believe, Mr. Toast
master, that any section of the
United States can look torward to
a brighter future.”
Mr. Finley spoke of some of the
special advantages of Columbus
and the surrounding territory, and
said:
“Your city will always occupy a
prominent place in the annals of
the Southern Railway Company,
for it was here, on March 2, 1874,
that my distinguished predecessor
in the office of the president of the
company, was born. Samuel Spen
cer typified all that was best in the
old South and the new. Brave and
chivalrous, as a boy of sixteen, he
responded to the call to arms and
fought gallantly for his state and
section. With the return of peace
'he resumed his interrupted studies
and, upon their completion, de
voted his tireless energy and his
splendid ability to his chosen call
ing. He rose from the bottom to
the top by sheer ability. Educated
as as engineer and a builder, his
work was always constructive, and
in the end it was permitted to him
to perform one of the most impor
tant works of his time for the ad
vancement of his native state and
the entire Southeast in the forma
tion and welding together of the
Southern Railway system. It is
peculiarly fitting that we should
pay a tribute to the memory of
Samuel Spencer on this occasion for
he stood pre-eminently for the
spirit animating the Columbus
Board of Trade—that of Southern
Progress.”
BUCK FOREST ITEMS
Providence permitting. Rev. J. T.
Anders will conduct his usual ser
vices at Laurel Creek the third Sat
urday and Sunday.
Misses, Annie McGaha and Ada
Stamey of Brevard were visitors at
the home of the Misses Thomas
last Saturday night and Stmday.
Oscar Ball of Rsgah Forest has
recently been spending a few days
with Mrs. W. M. Ball of Bock
Bridge farm.
Miss Ada Robinson of the Blue
Ridge s^tion was visiting in this
commnnity laiit Monday.
Americus Heath of Carrs Hill
v^as among the many visitors in
this locality last Snnday.
. PAT. I
TAFT AND ROOSEVaT
IN DMACEFUL ROW
HAVE LOWERED DIGNITY
OF THE OFFICE
President Taft First Man Who
Fver Canvassed for Votes
While in Office.
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A statesman is a successful poli
tician who is dead. That is the
definition of a statesman that was
given by the late Thomas B. Reed
of Maine, who was one of the
smartest men I ever knew in my
life. While that may be true in a
general sense, I want to say that
there are a few statesmen in the
national capital at this day who
are not dead. I have talked not
only with those statesmen, both
republicans and democrats, but
with politicians on both sides of
the political fence, and they all ex
press the same opinin that this
fight in the republican party for
the nomination for president be
tween Taft and Roosevelt is the
most pitiable, execrable and dis
graceful exhibition that has ever
been seen in American politics.
They have all come to the conclu
sion, regardless of . party, that
neither one of these men can be
elected to the presidency if they
are nominated at Chicago.
While this conclusion is very
gratifying to the democrats, it is
correspondingly distasteful and
worrying to the republicans. They
are all hoping—that is the repub-
cans—that a deadlock in the Chi
cago convention will ensue and
that neither of them vnll be nomi
nated and that a dark horse, with
out regard to any particular indi
vidual, may be the republican nom
inee, and thus cut the Gx>rdian
knot in the republican party con
troversy.
With all these confiicting opin
ions from the leaders in both par
ties to whom I have talked, I hesi
tate before the republican national
convention to predict anything.
However, it seems to me as an old
fashioned politician and political
writer and a looker on in Vienna,
so to sx>eak, that it makes no dif
ference who carried the state of
Ohio as to the final outeome of the
campaign. My opinion is that if
the Taft leaders and the members
of the national republican commit
tee have a sufficiently stronghold
on their own delegates, that Mr.
Taft probably will have enough
votes on the first ballot to nomi
nate him. If they have not that
hold and the delegate revolt to
Roosevelt, he may be the nominee
on the first ballot. If the former
condition should prevail in the con
vention and the Roosevelt leaders
know that it is inevitable that Mr.
Taft is going to be nominated, they
will bolt the convention, hold a
convention of their own and nomi
nate Roosevelt on the plea that he
has been swindled out of the nomi
nation by the steam roller process^
of the present administration. It
makes no difference, whatever,
which end of the bag the republi
can party holds in the next cam
paign.
There is going to be a democratic
victory and a democratic president
in the white house after the 4th of
next March. If there is not, then
Thomas Jefferson’s opinion of the
people of this country who vote at
the polls will have been declared a
fallacy that the American electo
rate is not worthy of the ballot;
that they do not understand repub
lican institutions, are imfit to gov
ern themselves and the sooner we
have an empire the better off will
be the people. I honestly believe
that is Roosevelt’s idea and that he
understands the idiocy of a whole
lot of people in this country be
cause they continue to support him
in the face of all of the infamous
lies he tql4 and all of the, scnldng*
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