Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-07-06


the nortn- DO not give them up Let
US have war with England rather than
surrender them" Then William III.
Seward, secretary of state. faced one
of the fiercest storms of public opinion
ever seen in this or any other country.
Seeing that the retention of those two
men was of no Importance to our coun-
try and that their retention would put
Great Britain and the United States in
to immediate conflict, he said, I'VE
give them up They were given up,
and through the resistance of popular
clamor by that one man a worldwide
calamity was averted-
Some of us remember as boys huZ-
zaing when Kossuth, the great H;1n-
garian, rode up Broadway, New York.
Most Americans were in favor OF TAX
ing some decided steps for Hungary.
The only result of such interference
would have been the sacrifice of all
good precedent and war with European
nations. Then Daniel Webster, in his
immortal "Hulsemann letter" braved
a whirrwind of popular opinion and
saved this nation from useless foreign
ENHANCEMENT. Webster did not observe
the wind when he wrote that letter. So
in state and church there have always
been men at the right time ready to
face a nation full-yea, a world full
of opposition
Beware of Overprude zee.
How many there are who give too
much time to watching the weather
vane and studying the barometer
Make up your mind what you are going
to do and then go ahead and do it.
There always will be hindrances. 1t is
oil don 20
to overmaster all the other graces-
The Bible makes more of courage and
faith and perseverance than it does of
caution. 1t is not once year that the
great ocean steamers fail to sail at the
appointed time because of the storm
signals. Let the weather bureau pro-
phesy what hurricane or cyclone 1t
may, next Wednesday, next Thursday,
next Saturday, the steamers viii put
out from New York and Philadelphia
and Boston harbors and will reach
Liverpool and Southampton and Glas-
gov and Bremen, their arrivals as GER
tain as their embarkation. They can
not afford to consult the wind, nor
can you in your life voyage.
The grandest and best things ever
accomplished have been in the teeth
of hostility. Consider the grandest en-
terprise OF the eternities-the salvation
of a world Did the Roman empire
send up invitation to the heavens in
viting the Lord to descend amid vo-
alterations of welcome to come and
take possession of the most capacious
and ornate of the palaces and sail
Galilee with richest imperial f1otilla
and walk over flowers of Solomon's s
gardens, which were still in the out
skirts of Jerusalem? No. 1t struck
him with insult as soon as it could
reach him. Let the camel drivers in
the Bethlehem caravansary testify. See
the vilest hate pursue him to the boz
ders CT the Nile, Watch his arralgn-
ment as a criminal in the courts! See
how they belle his every action, mis-
interpret his best words. howl at him
with worst mobs, wear him out with
| sleepless nights on cold mountains.
| See him hoisted into a martyrdom at
which the MONDAY cowled itself with
midnight shadows, and the rocks shook
into cataclysm, and the dead started
! out of their sepulcher, feeling it was
no time to sleep when such horrors
were being enacted.
! Make Oprortuni les
Young man, you have planned what
you are going to be and do in the
world, but you are waiting for
circumstances to become more favor
able You are like the farmer in the
| text observing the wind Better start
| now Obstacles will help you if you
conquer them. Cut your way through.
Peter Cooper, the millionaire phi Ian
thropist, who will bless all succeeding
| centuries with the institution he
founded, worked for FIVE years for s25
a year and his board. Henry Wilson,
| the Christian statesman who COM
manded the United States senate with
| the gavel of the vice presidency, wrote
| of his early days: Want sat by my
| cradle 1 know what it is to ask
| a mother for bread when she he's meme
to give l left my home at ten years
of age and served an apprenticeship
schooling each year. and at the end of
eleven years of hard work yoke Of
oxen and six sheep, which brought
me Ssh. In the first month after was
! 81 years of age l went into the woods,
drove a team and cut mill logs
arose in the morning before dayugn.
and worked hard till after dark and
received the magnificent sum of S6 for
/ the months work Each of those dol
lars looked as large to me as the moon
| looks tonight Wonderful Henry Viii
| son. But that was not his original
| name He changed his name because
he did not want on bim the blight of a
| drunken father. As the vice president
| stood in my pulpit in Brooklyn. max
| ing the last address he ever made. and
| commended the religion of Christ to