The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-21

and to abuse him. He has been held up
to ridicule as uncultured visionary, a
freak hare-brained iconoclast.
The truth is that Mr.. Donnelly is a man
Of profound thought. student, reader
who has sought wealth in all the fields Of
literature.
Like Col L. F. Norton. he has done
much to scatter the seeds of higher and
better thought as any man now living. His
books have within them the enduring life
of force and reality. He means what he
says-means 1t intensely. And when a man
Of that stamp devotes his mind to social
and political problems, he will be felt. He
imprints his own mental conceptions upon
the brains Of others.
Like Henry George, he will live most po-
tently in the years that are to come The
future will appreciate him even though the
present does not.
His words and his example will be an
inspiration to the apostles Of right. Weak
lings will see how bravey he battled for
better government, and will grow stronger
by his example. He is one Of the many
men who live for an idea, and would die
for faith. Money cannot buy such men.
Office cannot seduce them. persecution
cannot COW them.
They endure under storms Of opposition
lust as the granite hills tower alOft after
the passing cloud has spent it's idle tenn
pests on their immovabe SUBMITS.
There are some men you cannot conquer
thank God!
Foes may beset and friends desert. but
they are THERE!
They scorn the foe who meets them with
abuse, and they despise the treacherous
friends who meet them with betrayal
True to themselves and to their creed
they lift their thoughts serenely above the
petty jealouSies Of friends, and the pett1er
chickering's Of foes and they press forward,
in the path to which their own dauntleSS
souls were foreordained These men may
,;ohl h1f how
true may not always be conciliatory. but
are never base. Professional politicians 10
, not love them, because they are not maze
with supple joints, to bend with every
turn in the policy of expediency.
The professional Office-seeker does not
love them, for they think more of planting
the colors of principle on the citadel CT
the enemy, than they do of securing some
trfiing gift from that enenay-to the Shame
of the colors and to the neglect OF tEc
principle.
Such men of lion heart as Donnely want
no gifts from the enemy. Of the enemy,
/ the only boon which the honorable warrior
can ask is an open field and fair tSht-
For paltry tricksters of the hour whose
highest idea of leadership is to stand in
| front of tie enemy and humbly beg sWlS
! at the regimental canteen of said enemy
! and who go off into spasms of JOY when
| said enemy superciliously filings them a
! crust to crunch or bone to gnaW, Sucn
| men as Donnelly entertain a profound and
| whitening contempt! He looks down on
| them and pities them. = He understands
| them and rates them at their real value.
But as for him, he no more cares for
! their small envies and jealousies than the
| eagle on the rock cares for the mouse
| which rounds it's dull life within sixteen
! inches of it's hole. To the mouse, such is
| meant to know any other. But to the
! nature 1t knows no other. 1t was not
| meant to know any other. But the
/ eagle life is different. The storm may
! gather on the hills and the darkness and
| the terror may gather about him, but he
rises to meet it with the fierce JOY of
| strength and IF defiance, and he dashes
| through the clouds into the sunlight be-
yond, or he dies in the tempest, which
! sought to beat him down.
/ The world goes forward to grander mod
! els, government changes into loftier forms.
| because of the resistlesS thinkers who put
| principle above party and expediency.
! No mere offce-seeker or time-server ever
| loosened chain on human limb, ever
: staunched a wound in the body polite.
ever hushed a sot Of the social or political
4 outcast.
! No man who makes barter of faith and
| merchandise of creed ever lifted a cross
| ever broke a Shackle, ever overturned a
| despotism, ever liberated a people.
The squatters around the flesh pots may
! wax exceedingly sleek and fat-may fairly
ooze with oily satisfaction and plenty; but
if the hosts of God are to move onward
there must be some leaders whose souls
are not stupified by the fumes of the flesh
pot. Il. +. w.