The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-03-09

IL WAS Jue pIOuu DOdSo VI uuo haoiOh
that a marshaps baton was in the
knapsack of every soldier. In this
country, and in these days we have
grander and prouder boast. No
marshals baton encircles the empire
of our possibilities and no imperial
whim marks the boundaries beyond
which we may not aim. In our
higher civilization and more perfect
government we are the creators of our
positions. No accidental circum-
stances of birth or condition bar our
ambitions. We are equal in citizen
ship, and in the reslizations of life's
rewards one man is successful beyond
the other only in so much as he makes
himself. All fields are open and tbs
harvest is to the one who works
most diligently and industriously.
In the country where our lot is cast,
we enjoy advantages, that to others
are lost, but these very advantages,
are but the fruits of the brain and
Drawn of our fathers and ourselves,
who in truly republican form of
government and an enlightened
administration of the laws, have
crvstalized their wisdom and their
experiences.
We enjoy rare privileges that others
do not. Ours is the heritage of a
glorious past, and present that is
ever up and ready for the future.
We are something more than mere
workers. We toll through the early
years that our ambition may bear us
fruit and bring US honor and com
petence when the shadows will have
begun to grow heightened. There il
an individual ambition in us tina
/ makes us the peer of any people oi
| the globe. We are not content to 81
2 our lives out working at the footstool
= of others. The mechanic aims to b
e a master, the painter an artist, tn
e clerk a merchant, the laborer that h
b, may gain recognition, and as it
d physically so it is intellectually. l
: towards progress we must keep pac
e with the leaders or fall back into
d mediocrity that is entirely incol
e sistent with the spirit of American
G ism.
l. The drones, however, are fe
r, indeed. In the high positions
ic honor and trust filled with men NJ
t, vet in the zenith of their lives, in Il
D. we'll filed classes in which your
IN men and young women spend Il
l. evening hours in study, in Il
4. libraries that are patronized to the
full capacity, ay, and IN even Il
Mt humblest American home, there
ck evidence that the parents and the
he sons and daughters realize that mil
al is the ruling power in this newer al
II greater world. We have passed t
he ruder stages of our civilization, a
MS what best fits man to grapple WI
ar living issues, what best enables h
nd to discern improvement, to sugg'
zee inventions to cope with Others who
nd only capital is brains-that is wi
ou tells in life, is the more varied
he accomplish which admit of grea
de the possibilities. l connection
Ter suggest to young men and stranl
r. recommend the Encyclopedias b
me tannica. There is no field in
ed world of either mental or physl
IN activity which it does not cover.
is the result of the critical labor
Sc, the best scholars, compilation
ers history, the story of the achieveme
Iez of years, panorama in which see
to are called up filled with informal
ire, that no college course can give.
the an education in itself. No man ne
ker any other library, no man could h
her a better one.