People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-15
SAY, BOYS!
Which One of US Fellows will be
President in 1928?

the VOICE office four newspaper men
of whom the writer was one. The
Others represented the Harper Adco-
cate, the KiOwa ReyieW and the Bar
Der County Hlder.
Nothing remarkable in the incl
dent-but there was something strik-
ing in the quartette that started us
thinking. Three Of those present
were on their way to Topeka as dele
gates to the Peoples cOnyentiOn-all
four Of them editors of Peoples party
papers-and even that fact might be
only a passing accident in the shift
ing Of newspaper life.
But there was something that as
sureS US these men were sincere,
easnest, unprejudiCed seekers Of
truth.
What?
There was not one OF the four over
% years Of age.
Young men are the hope Of new
ideas.
They have the energy, the courage,
the ambition and determination to
do something in the world.
They pine over no regrets and fear
not the untried future.
Their lives are before them. They
long to conquer the world.
Their ancestors have been swal-
lowed up In the whirlpool Of cOmpe-
titiOn, and many fathers have become
reconciled to the lash and the blind,
and fallen in under the slave drivers.
These young men may not be states
men-heaven knows there are too
many statesmen" already-but they
have human hearts, and manly aspi-
rations, and opportunities to pursue
the right.
They may be hOOted at by their
elderS-but they were born in a fortu-
nate age, and may live to help estab-
lish government OF the people, after
the decisions Of custom and despair
have been banished as a mist by the
sunlight Of brOtherly love and free.
dom.
The old men who have opened their
eyes just at the age when nature
stands waiting to close them again
forever, have learned by life Of ex-
perience, and we should respect them
as teacherS-but upon the young men
of today will fall the brunt Of the
new battle.
The principles Of right have always
existed-but to US is the revelation of
the progress Of the ages in the struggle
for their adoption.
1t is but natural that the great
West should lead the reaction against
the encroaching restraint OF liberty,
which drove Us westward.
Here the eye and the mind look
upon an unbOunded prospect. Imita-
tiCn Of the East grows fainter, as PEG.
pie scatter westward; and bold
strokes Of nature assert themselves
as the man is thrown upon his own
resources and isolation shows him
the need Of cooperation.
He fOrgets the methods laid down
in the books, and conditions force
practical ideas into his head.
Having once received all he pro-
duced by a days labor, the man can
never more feel content to pay for su-
perviSion that he could d, better
without.
He learns simplicity and directness.
He sees that the complications OF
financial legislation" are composed
principally Of formulas to enable
"hnanciers" to squeeze a living out
OF labOrers without toiling them
selves.
The young man growing up in the
west, learns natures laws first-they
are a part Of his being-and no peda.
gogue in the world can persuade him
to exchange real ideas for artificial
ones.
The young man of the west poss-
esses as . birthright, that healthy in
difference that accepts nothing until
he sees what kind OF stuff there Is in
it.
Call him savage, II you will-but
he SEES through your fiimsy cere-
monies, and scorns them.
He Is tied to no formality.
Give him only facts-nursery
stories don't 60.
This Is the only lifetime we will
ever spend on earth.
Let US get things ready for our
children.