Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-09
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think ne are. We hammer 81 them
wiIt energy and make q nois- thai
smites against the vault Of he4ven as
il the whole world were given over to
boiler factories and blacksmith shops;
a II there were nothing 70 % ID AL
eternity but 10 hammer and iingdong,
keeping the iron eternally bot and
Gathering and changing away as If the
fate Of the entire universe depended
on doing everything At once EitLoat
another moments delay.
That Is the way We do ihings-
whether We edit the county weekly o.
make the political speeches AZ the rAl-
lies, or are Justices Of the Federal
Supreme court addressing national
bar associations. Il IS always the
same thing. We are always sure that
il We do not settle some problem or
dispose Of some question right AZ
once, before doing anything else what
ever. the world viii be obliged TO stop
and We will all be lncky If We escape
ragnarok and primevel chaos.
/ Our learned friend Justice Brown
Of the United States Supreme Court
IS just like the rest Of Us. Here be
is At Milwaukee delivering q most
scholarly, able and eloquent address
intended to settle 'the question be-
tween labor and capital, when it is
entirely out Of the question that it
ever will be settled at all.
What IS more It ought never to be
settled at all Settlement means stag
nation, inertia, and the triumph OF in
ertia is against the fundamental law
Of the universe. Nature will not per
nit anything to be overcome BY its
own inertia. Nothing whatever can
be settled Nothing whatever has
been settled since the beginning Of
time. Everything moves and changes
its form as a snake changes its skin
for the sake Of growth.
All these questions are merely signs
that the world is moving and that the
human intellect is growing. When
Pharaoh's taskmasters stood with
their WHIPS over the slaves who built
the pyramids there vas small question
of any kind and not many problems
TO be considered. But we have grown
since then and we will keep on grow.
ing.
That will mean more problems and
more questions Some Of them will
frlghten the timid. They will think
tile world is coming to an end But
it will not 1t will keep on its orbit,
growing to be better and more in
habitable world with every century
that passes.
But no problem will ever be solved
and no question will ever be settled
Just as one generation has conclude d
that it has disposed of it forever, the
question or the problem, whatever it
is, will come back in a new form.
This is one Of the things they mcaLt
a long time back when they talked Of
u sea god whom no ropes could tie;
a Proteus who changed his shape as
you grasped him; who. if he could
elude you in no other way, changed
to sea water and ran through your
fingers back into the eyer-changing
and yet eyer-changeless sea that gave
him BIRTH They had great deal Of
sense in some respects, did those peo-
pie Of longtime back, and into some
of their simple stories they put more
Of the meaning Of things than we
have ever been able to get out Of
them.
The labor problem IS in good shape.
All the solution there is for it, all the
solution there ought to be for it, is
for every man to do all the work he
can and TO get what he honestly can
for it, working to help others and not
to hurt them. AS for the rest OF it,
let us see that the peace is kept, and
we can rely on the world to keep
moving.