The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-06-10

color Art In shreds and splotches has
never been able to produce anything bet
ter than a poor copy Of the work of the
old masters. done in some forgotten day
But the pictures it would paint. that adorn
the galleries OF its dreams, are OF such
Incompatible grace and beauty that be-
sides them the TRANSPORTATION aud Last
Supper are as miserable daubs-the mag
nihcent creations OF Tapheal and De Vinc
the work OF awkward ametures II you
want plenty or room. try Art
Sculpture Is prostrate and mute before
the crumplng fragments of the time OF
Phidias while inches remain to be fiMed
and quarries OF marble ana granite wait
the transforming chisel that brings the
resurrection and the life There is work
for you.
STRIVING NAN.
Man. striving TO know nimsef. finally
discovered the circulation OF the blood.
Just think Of It, 1t took thousands OF
years OF wise leeches. with innumerable
cups and lancets, for mankind to produce
a Harvey. who demonstrated that the
DEMONSTRATING principle in the body was
ood, and that after being pumped out
OF the heart II didn't dry uA seep
, away but returned agam and yet agani,
purged Of its impurities, to the reat cen
trail reservoir and propeller-the human
heart That was anot"er field day for the
disciples OF Hippocrates when Jenner's =
vacclnated patient walked through the
smallpox hospital unscathed. But from
the cradle OF the human race ,nere has
been diseases, vague. unknown or mis-
understood, transmitting their virus from
generation to generation, more deadly
tnan night shades O, the Upas tree, slay-
ing every year their thousands ruthlessly
and without restraint devastating homes,
swapping heart strings, and tearing the
fond embrace OF love asunder, while
quacks qulbble and medicine IL dumb.
e. trouble with doctors ately has been
that they run too much 10 microbs and
| fashionable foot-baths in morning dew,
Instead of hunting for 5-lnch rapid fire
extermnator for the ills that the neah
is heir to. pharmaceutical" as near
rs l can come at it. means something
about medicine, and II you have laid out
our fe work along tnat line there Will be
enough TO do TO keep you busy
HAS NEVER REEN WRITTEN
The American novel mas never beer
written. our own territory Is rich IN
material, abounding in Indian legand anC
tradition II Is a tacs unllumod an,
without expression. We shall yet know
|, some American Hugo. or Dickens. o
q Thackary or Tolstoi. The book will yet
4 appear Inspired by no venal pen; which
does not sugar coat indececy and call u
realism; which is not stuffed with 500
, ciety's trumpery: but with tender sym
a pathy for humanity. cheers the faintine
I leart. binds the broken. rebukes oppres
sion, extOlls virtue. enoblss the IA nd, and
I | makes Of an who read better men anc
h lmen-The Les Mserables OF America.
s. our history is incomplete. We hay
v had chroniclers OF facts only. .sot until
% our records have received the search
Hight OF philosophy shall We know
Hume. a Gibbon, Maccauley. and un
g born millions receive the benefit 70 whiei
,r our experience entities them.
D. LIKE A LIGHTNING FLASH.
N Occasional a great speecn Is heard
g. some spledd gem OF truth 8 in tn
" gold OF eloduence A burst OF OratOry lik
le a lightning fash con sumes the menta
,s miasma. It's thunders drown the mouth
re- ings Of demagogues and the noisy elael
a Of place hunters aud politicians, while o
m its draaperies Gods message Is written Il
Or characters Of flame. But such spectacle
lc have been rare in history. More disunc
Al than any record that has survived IA
voice of Demosthenes raised against IA
We evils OF that time. the forensic impuls
q. that moved Rome 10 march ngaina
es PhiHp: or ,ae invecties Of Cicero hurle
Va against Cateline Robert Emmets VII
by dication before his judicial murderers wi
a. llv. until Erins dream comes true an
ts ireland wrongs are forgotten under
IT. government Of It's own people iio
he precious to us the memory OF the tempes
d. uous words OF Patrick nenry-a viii
wind to the name OF patriotism; or We
ster. the sturdy expounder Of the Coz
"a shtution. whose mighty soul goes marci
at ing on while the institutions OF fr'
'et government shall live, or Lincoln, whor
ch n he had done nothing else. ins Getty
.or burg Grafton would have made immorta
an Awaken the dronlng prosiness o. model
70 debate Restore the noble art Of orator
en- TRADE AND CONNER II.
iis our trade ana commerce has ASSUME
ne gigantic proportions. But recent even
'7- have opened doors. and through them '
. have seen that the present volume or bu
~" einess is but the shadow Of the substan
vet TO be There are unknown seas
~ sail. strange ports to enter Our ooN'
" lbales and barrels are travelling nc
Highway, over the Pacific sea.
~ "Argosies Of golden sails droppl
down with costly bales. Our mark
places shall yet become vocal with mo
49, tongue than Dewldered the builders
49, Babel While partition and plunder a
,ay the watch words Ia the orient, Amer
ID, slips IN with something 20 trade Or se
,nd And huri, indeed. past ali surgery, 4"
no. be the sick men" Of the east. when va
80 kes shrewdness enters their domains Dl
OF terng American wares ana mercha
al Use. -,
Is FOLLOW FRED. dsiprA onzoeAh
the PUBLIC QO-sTIONs.
ssl- with the great public questions arisl
10 from the recent war. you viii have
a.. New and unexpected situations ha
been thrust upon US. II will become o
en- duty as intelligent citizens to study
,ro- scope and meaning of our constitute
the You win be called upon 70 determi
hat In the exercise Of your prerogativ
ime whether an extension Of our author
the under present conditions means the in'
irst guratlon OF a colonial policy; whether
70 establishment Of a colonial policy; whe
ress er the establishment OF colonial dep
n aencles Is a violation OF the fupdam
oily TAI law OF the land Just how far Int
INTO lyention between armed combatants sho