The National tribune., 1895-07-11
WORTH OF AN IDEA.
PART L

Will incluoe ali of these requirements. Second
honor viii include deficiency in some one point.
WORTH OF AN IDEA.
PART l.
Ideas govern the world, not gold. Machines
do much of the worlds work, but machines are
born Of ideas.
human worker without ideas is only
machine. He is content TO serve all his life
doing the same work over and over again,
making the same thing year after year, without
progress. ambition. or purpose.
Ii is the thinking man who becomes master
workman. perhaps proprietor. Ideas become
10 him an inspiration and force. They rally
his Intellectual powers and these control and
develop his physical ability.
Stupidity becomes machine in the work.
shop of life. but ideas only can make a man.
1t is no chance system that returns TO the
Hindoo citizen penny, and to the American
laborer dollar. for their daily toll; that makes
Mexico, with its mineral wealth, poor, and
New England, with its granite and ice, rich !:
that bids tho elements in one country become
subservient to the wants of man, and, in an
other. to sport idly, and run to waste. 1t is
thought that makes the difference.
Ideas do not stir the Hindoo and Mexican rs
they do the American. Here they beget enter
prise and invincible courage, that defy diff
culties and surmount obstacles. They assure
victory.
1OhhS pcOpIe bnOnlu lAEe IN the worth oil
idea; for this will exert great influence
upon the occupation they choose the methods
they adopt and the books they read.
lnealess occupations, associates, and books
should be avoided, since they are not friendly
to intelligent manhood and womanhood Ideas
make the wise man, the want Of them makes the
fool.
Roger Sherman was poor boy in Newton,
Mass, apprenticed to shoemaker for his board
md lot bag hrr. L.
the poverty of his father would be that of the
son. and that he would never rise higher than
tie last on which he worked and the peg he
drove.
But. early in life, the idea took possession Of
the soul. :" can become a lawyer" How it
could be done was not quite plain to him; but
from the time the idea possessed him, be said
that il must be done.
That idea was the making Of him. IL rallied
his latent faculties, and bent them to one end.
To become lawyer was the dream OF his
youth. Obstacles dwindled away before tho
indomitable spirit which that Que idea nursed
into stalwRrt life. Every leizure moment be-
came selfimproving moment
book was his constant companion. Spare
time was the most valuable time of all; for il
was used 10 improve his intellect and fit him
for the duties of q noble manhood. His occu-
patton became teacher TO him, and the world
school. de learned from everything around
him: and, al 80 years of age, he was admitted
10 the bar. The dream of his 0yhoOd was
realized.
The idea that possessed him at IL years of
age lifted him out of the dull routine TO which
he seemed TO be doomed for life, and placed
him at once higher mp in the scale Of being
Roger Sherman grew greater and greater as
long as he lived. He became one of the found
ers of our Republic. He was second to no pub
lic man as statesman and wise counselor He
was one Of the committee appointed to draft
the Declaration OF Independence.
L. w. Goodlin, Provo. o.
FREEDOMS FLAG.
BY Josioh Moody Fletcher.
Uproll, uuroll each ample fold
Der mountain peak and broad savanna:
What hero bold or knight of old
Fer fought beneath so proud "A bannerf
II waves, the beacon Of the free,
The toiliug bondsmAu's sole reliance
n. on the foes OF liberty
u nashes full and free defiance.
Unroll il TO the storm and breeze
And craven be the heart that falters.
Although u sweeps the distant seas
ana maps above oppressions affairs,
Unroll IL In the cause of right
The serfdom of the world awakine
Until Its stars are drowned in light
As morning Stars when day is breaking.
Oh give il 10 the clear blue slyt
It's stripes not from Iyrant iashes.
And nobly then IL courts the sky,
As proudly there IL upward flashes
Oh ever. ever may il wave.
Unchanged by despot fear or favor,
welcome TO the bleeding slave
terror To his proud ensisyerI
BE TRUE TO THE FLAG.
DEAR FRIENDS OF THE l.. n. w: / have
been q member of the Loyal Home Workers
some time, but this is my first letter 10 you
through our columns of The NATIONAL TRIB.
UNF.
think the Memorial Day number of TIE
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readers. 1t is truly the soldiers champion.
and the upholder OF cur Order as well.
Now, II We all will put our shoulder to the.
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