Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-03-28

or elsewhere for the ability to manipulate
the advantages set before her. Japan,
on the other hand, though she has less
natural resources, through her power to
take care OF what she does have manages
not only to keep pace with China but to
maintain a step or two in advance.
Thoroughly fit yourself for that business,
whatever it may be, letting all your
studies and efforts tend in that direction,
and permitting nothing which can be
overcome to prevent you from attaining
the desired goal, and then if your life is
not success the fault lies in yourself and
not in the training you have received"
NEWTON c. MCLAFFERTY's
subject, "Our Country" was handled
with a mastery hand and his essay in
spired every nearer with greater de-
gree OF patriotism, and made all more
proud of being an American citizen.
"The Declaration of ZIG and the
valiant knights who supported it are ever
fresh in the minds OF those who love their
country. They were no longer children
appealing in vain to the sympathies OF a
heartess mother; no longer subjects,
leaning upon the shattered columns Of
royal promises to secure their rights.
They were nation asserting as of right
and maintaining by war its own exist
ence. "A nation was born in a day
Wonderful, indeed, mas been the history
OF that nation. Springing into lie from
under the heel OF tyranny, its rogrcss
been onward with the firm tead Of a
C, nqueror. Fohn Quincv dams
says Of our national independence: 1T
stands and must forever stand, alone, q
beacon on the summit of the mountain,
to which all the inhabitants OF tle earth
may turn their eyes for genial d saw
ing light till all shall be lost in eternity,
and this globe itself dissolve nor leave
wreck bchind.' We hope it is so, but let
us not be deceived, for as it is with the
individual SO it is with the nation. Let
him that thinketh he standeth take heed
lest he fall. The growing discomfort
and strife which. together with crime and
deprivation, has filled up the history OF
our nation for the past year, should not
be overlooked. There are actions Of men
which speak louder than words. No
greater calamity can befall nation than
to prosper by crime. No success can COM
pensatc for the wound inflicted OH a
nations mind by renouncing Right as its
supreme law. For the proof OF this fact
we have but to look back to the ruined
empire OF Rome, and to other lesser coun-
tries who followed her example. Who
ever asks II the political future is to be
better or worse, really asks if men and
women are to be better or worse. The
fountain rises as high as its source, but it
rises no higher. The patriotism
Of the good citizen must be as sleepless as
the sellishness Of the practical politician.
From a territorial area of less than nine
hundred thousand square miles, our coun-
try has expanded into over three and a
half millions square miles. And
with equal rights guaranteed to even the
poorest and humblest Of our sixty-five
millions OF people, we can, with manly
pride akin to that which distinguished
the palmiest days OF Rome, claim, as the
noblest title of the world, Il am an Amer
lean citiZen.'"
BENJAMIN f. HovIEs
took for his subject that, at the present
time, all absorbing topic, Labor VS..
Capital" His Grafton was plain, logi.
cal statement OF the relations between
capital and labor, and evidenced careful
thought and preparation. He said, in
part:
"When we hear So much about indus
trial armies marching to the capitol to
demand their rights, and cheap politicians
in and out of congress giving their en-
doisement to the movement, we might
easily think the world was going back
ward and that material progress is all a
delusion. The facts all prove be-
yond question that the tendency in the
industrial world ha; been steadily in the
direction OF giving II greater share to
labor and a smaller hare to capital. The
one and absolute proof OF this is found in
the lower interest rates, which rpNrascnt
the returns for capital, and thu higher
wages for labor. The Y fact
OF the great combinations of capital so
often quoted to prove the power G, money
is really the proof CT weakness; for if in
divdual capitalists had the powo,, there
would be no possible inducement y them
to surrender it to the control of a combi
nation. In every combination OF trust
the impelling motive has been lack of
profit for the individual concerns, or in
other words, weakness instead of power
OF capital. The combinations promised
better chance for profit and for this
reason the individuals haye been willing
to give the plan trial. True it is that
some large fortunes have been accumu-
lated, the amounts of which appear
excessive to fortunes Of former years, but
these are due to brain labor and not to
capital as capital. The manual laborer
can, by the aid OF machine, increase his
productive power and his earnings, and
could we'll afford to pay rent for the use
of machine In the same way a brain
worker, with an organizing ability, can
use capital to increase his gains or earn
inns. he hnrroWs the needed canital nav