The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1899-05-18
shoes for our own people to wear2

shoes for our own people to wear2
As the iron horse, with n wonder
full power beneath his black hide.
neighs up in the Wciser canyon and
gives hail to the night in our north
ern mountains, it would if it had a
soul, speak, as Judge Goodwin has
put it, to our people in words like
these:
"When | was born invention gave
to progress a child which was to be
to the modern world what the Genii
were to the ancient world, except
that | am real while the Genii were
but dreams. In me man finds the
naturalization of a dream which
haunted mortals through the CEN
turtles, while the world was slowly
pressing on to better state. At
my birth men we're glad to give me
their burdens, because could carry
them without fatigue. They thought
me to be but dumb slave to do
their bidding they saw that could
add greatly to their achievements by
enabling them to overcome heavy
matter, and with treless feet to chase
the swift hours l cannot add to
mans actual years but | can make
one hour for him equal to a day in
the olden time. AT first my work
was confined to the closely peopled
regions but at length pushed out be-
yond the settlements of men and then
something of the divinity within me
began to assert itself. Savage man
and the wild beast retired before me,
when the path was made for me into
the immemorial hills, before my
scream the scream OF the eagle died
away. The lordly bird spread his
wings to seek more impcnetrable
crags. Following in my wake civii-
cation came. Homes sprang up,
temples to art and to learning we're
upreared, and on the air which but q
year before was startled only by bar
barous crys, there fell the benediction
of chldrcns voices as with swinging
satchels in their hands they Sang
their songs going to and returning
from school. Then man began to
discover there was more to me than
polished iron and brass, more than n
heart of fire and breath of steam
In my headlight they began to dis
cover faint reflection of the infinite
light, and in whispers began to say,
1T is not dumb slave but rather it
is to progress an evangel. AS my
power increased it was seen that rs
the wild man and wild beasts fed be-
fore me old bigotries and old super
stitions likewise fled, snarling like
wolves, from my path; man moved
to higher plane, he comprehended
himself better and his thoughts went
upward 1t is not so years since |
became power in the world. Wait
until | am better understood, until.
smooth paths are made for me
through all the wilderness and over
the rivers and hills, and my soul in
other forms is given dominion over
the deep seas, that | may swiftly
bring together the children of men,
till gradually the nations take on
thoughts in unison and return to that
tongue which was universal when vet
man walked in the image of his ere
ator. Then armies will melt away
before me as savage tribes do now:
then no more caunons will be cast.
no more swords fashioned. Then
labor in the walks of peace be ex-
alted and l will take from man that
which is servile or gross in toll, the
wild beast in mems soul will be bred
out and in the peace of perfect BROTH
erhood men will possess the earth
and l will be the good angel that will
take away their burdens. &"