The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-09-03

hearts, no past treasury OF noble
deeds to help in the present. no
prescience Of the end to which time
is leading them the latter have all
of these and yet to listen to the idle
talk of many group OF young men,
one might almost doubt the exist
euce Of history Of our race. the
records Of glorious men and women,
of religion, truth, goodness. purity
Of women, and all the things that
ought to set a gulf between us and
the patient, instiuct-following, duty
doing, hopeless animals. Ifa pass
ing girl is discussed, the remarks
are too cften iuterlarded with lewd
jests which, instead OF humiliating
every mothers son, raise that pecu-
liar hyena laugh, that laugh without
honest mirth in it: you know the
laugh, so do 1. In such n gang,
goodness in man is sneered at as
hypocrisy truth is labelled as n lie !;
religion is dubbed buffoonery; great
ness not worth the trouble history,
of less account than the pedigree of
q pig.
Are you tied in with such group.
you in whom there is the strength
aud vigor Of youth, you in whom
lurk pretentous powers over the
destinies of our race7 For the sake
OF all that makes us the head OF Gre
alton, rub your eyes open, and let
into your brain some faint idea of
the glory OF being human creature.
II you can find nothing better to
do than you are now doing,
you are a sheep in your vacuity and
a tumble-bug in your tastes.
What sort of q country would you
have for the exercises of your inter
minable lack of purpose, if all who
proceeded you had been content to
kick their heels on empty boxes, TO
snarl and squabble over the trifling
things that exhaust the knowledge
Of your gang, and to stop the emit
ing of tobacco juice just long enough
to permit the passage of an equally
dirty Joke or story? Where would
now be the subjugation of continent
by our restless cosmopolitan ma
tion7 II Echo could repeat the first
word of the question instead of the
last, she would cry aloud, "Where ?"
Great nations are not built of such
as you, neither are they sustained.
You are worse than useless you are
a positive detriment to us. A ma
tion is not like q monument Of en-
during stone. 1t is living thing
, made up of living things. BY them
it rises to dignity, by them again it
is enfeebled and torn to pieces, Just
as in your body. health is maintain
ed by moving particles that attack
and destroy the evil, multiplying
creatures of disease are themselves
destroyed and your own death fol
lows. Historians in the past twenty.
five years have growi to an under
standing that it is the daily lives
, and thoughts of the great common
people that make history far moro
effectually than the master strokes
of an occasional military hero. You
then; you in all your meanness, are q
history maker. Because of youl
, narrowed and low life, the unwilling
l contribution you are making to our
: national history must also be mar
row and low. Oh, for the power tc
reach right into your heart and stir
e YOU from your sloth and your indif
o ference. -,
: Next week / will ask you to follow
me further. / will tell you of .youl
power and your opportunities. Their
n will follow some thoughts regarding
n the great ones who have proceeded
/, us. And finally, if this pen may b'
I dipped in might and i'll eloquence
= the last article will attempt to de
II scribe the power of noble woman IL
energizing us for good. Thus pos
,f sibly the new design on our sllye
:, certificate may come to mean NOR
u to us than handsome engraving
II with just so much purchasing powe
D, back of it.
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