The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-18
GIVE US HIGHER IDEALS.
A More Elevated Standard Desired by
All Human Kind.

| A more EleVaCo0 StauQaTu OeSAISu Wy
All Human Kind.
Some profound thinkers have no
faith in an ideally perfect system
of government when applied to a
people that is imperfect.
Take a family of Digger Indians,
say they, and put them in a house
furnished with all modern appli-
ances for refined living, and in a
week they would make it as vilely
filthy as their native wigwam. They
would utterly ignore all dainty de-
vices for comfort and luxury, build
fires in the center of the parlor
floor, wallow around and sleep on
the carpet, surround themselves
with disgusting litter and never
dream of cleaning things up.
On the other hand to offset this
we have the fact that Indian boys
and girls who pass through course
of instruction at the Carlisle School
came out civilized men and women
fitted to associate as equals with
the best in the land.
There is young man in Chicago,
Montezuma by name, who was born
an Apache Indian. In childhood
he was captured by another tribe,
that sold him to a white gentleman,
who brought him East and had him
educated, and now at % years of
age he is cultured physician, with
career of exceptional promise be-
fore him.
Some thirty years ago a Negro
boy living near the headwaters of
the river Congo, was sold to an
Arab slaye-trader. He was bartered
again and again until an English
man secured him, took him to En-
gland, educated him, and now this
one time black slave boy is a bishop
of the Episcopal Church, engaged
in the enthusiastic conversion of
his swarthy brothers on the banks
of his native river.
Perhaps if wise teachers had taken
this Digger Indian family and made
them see the sweet uses of COM
Portable house, they might soon
have fallen into the way Of appre-
ciating all the appliances of civil
lied life at their true value.
The great Goethe held to this
theory Of mans government keep
ing pace with his progress in moral
and intellectual enlightenment, but
in the face Of all these affirmations
of the philosophers, we will still
hold to the conviction that bright
beckoning ideals are necessary for
the elevation and capitalization
of the race.
We believe that a just and right
eous system of government is a
grand school for the people that
enjoys it, and serves to develop in
them individually those qualities
which are most harmonious with it.
Looking on the reverse side, sup
pose one Of our most tourishing
counties was planted in the heart
of Persia, with cultured popula-
ton of $4,000 people, having high
standards of morality and an ele-
waited social code. Let them be
dominated for a single generation
by the soul withering power of an
oriental despotism and you will
find them sadly debauched and de-
graded from their high estate in
the past.
Let gnostic philosophers coldly
sneer at the ideal beauty and theo-
retical perfection that reformers
would bring into human govern
ment, yet the great unalterable facts
of history and human experience
are WITH and not against them.
We claim that the wealth power
and high civilization of our repub-
lie is directly due to the sublime
theory of government enunciated
by the early fathers, which they
and their immediate descendants
lived up to far better than we are
doing today.
It is high time that we had a re-
yiyal of that vanished fervor of love
for liberty and pure government;
and at the same time create new and
loftier ideals of social and political
life for our people to strive after and
make into living fact.-N. Y. Voice.
Pussy Willows.'
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