Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-11-18
FIGHT A COOL FIGHT.

People get tired of politics. They say
it is /. good thing that the campaign is
And they get tired of buying
AMI selling, of business and all the
dru!sery of making q living. They
get tired Of religion, or what they
call tis.t, from the rat int o which they
have fallen. Peopl. say as to politics
thit it seems to be ono campaign right
after another, and that there is no end
to it. Or course, it must be so, since
we have republican government. If
the people we're able to forego their re-
sponsibilities and hand them over to
some king or other they might be re-
lieved of the ceaseless bother of poll
tics. Otherwise they must stand by;
must fight and fight. year by year.
How beautiful it would be if organ
lied government of any kind was un-
necessary; and how delightful it would
be if all work was but play, to be taken
up and to be laid aside as impulse
might suggest; and how glorious it
would be if bread and clothes we're
free, and all trouble gone, no more
pain, or tears, or contest anywhere in
all the. world. We think so when We
are tired. We think so when u cour-
age is we'll nigh exhausted. We think
so when the darkness comes, and when
the burdens of our lives bear us down.
But there is no end of trouble in all
the world. The only alternative is
surrender or fight. If we could make
Il world out of hand we must confess
we could not make a better one.
Whether or no, here we are, soldiers
all enlisted for life. Perple dream be-
times of the coming of a day when
they will be free Of trouble, but no
such dream has lei been fulfilled to
men. Indeed the record is that as
their strength increases they are Civ
ell heavier burdens. Tho prayer of
men should be for strength.
Anyway, there is no end 10 the cam
paign. The enemy may be overcome
here or there, but every clearance of
the smoke of battle discloses his ban
ners and his trenches. Therefore from
day to day and from month to month
and year TO year we are called upon to
rally. The achievements of the past
are the inspirations of the present.
"A good deal that is put down to the
score of trouble is only cowardice.
Time spent in looking for the easy way
is time wasted, and more than that for
it leads us into the hardest way.
The jolly fellow is the one who fights
with courage, and who keeps at it, and
who has the joy of victory and the
peace of a satisfied soul. Difficulties
as they are met face to face and wres.
tied with disappear many times, and
giants many times on near approach
turn out to be dwarfs. 1t is the COW.
ard who suffers most.
In weariness of flesh and spirit we
ask ourselves, Wherein to us is COM
%pensation? To have met the reason.
able demands of ones W conscience,
to live in the knowledge of faithful
service, to have the liberty of right
eousness, is the highest compensation
that can come to any human being.
One cannot escape from the company
of himself. 1t should be the business
! of his life to make his soul his sweet
companion, his everlasting friend, his
: supreme and kingly guest.
In the field Of politics a ssore head
is II of the most Objectionable OF
men, if he lack the sense and art to
conceal his disease. Why should there
!, be larger charity for "sore heads" in
other departments of work? The child
who cannot have it all his own way
and therefore knocks over the cot
house he has helped to build, the man
. who cannot have it all his own way