Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-12-31

ern democracy. In the providence of
God the Jewish people were shut in by
the deserts on the north, south and east
and the sea on the west. There they
fashioned their own laws, grew their
own social and domestic institutions,
reared their own prophets, poets and
judges; there the Savior of the world
touched the earth at Bethlehem. and
as waters sometimes pile up until at
length they break through all obstruc-
tons anc sweep out through all the
land, so at last the flood divine bursc
its barriers. and this command was
sounded forth: go We into all the
world and preach the eyangel unto all
nations
Little Greece, too, was shut in be-
tween the mountains and the sea until
she developed sweetness and light in
her sons and daughters, just as the
Swiss were shut. in within the noun
tain walls for centuries until they per-
fected their great message And what
shall we say ef Scotland and England,
save that they are isolated lands-peo-
pie that remained apart until they de-
veloped great individual value?
Individualism the Key.
In individual excellence we have the
key to all problems, the solution Of all
vexed questions. the clew to every
maze. Individual worth will give us.
for example, the secret of an increas-
ing wage. We all want to double the
earnings of the people. How shall we
do mis-? BY laws shortening the hours ?
Limiting the output? Legislative enact
ment? No, by individually doubling
tho quantity and quality of our work.
Over in Rome is block of stone. 1t
was carved by the hand of an old
Greek. When Michael Angelo was
oyertaken with blindness, he comfort
ed hin self by going daily to the room
where was the Torso. There the grand
old man would put his hands upon the
marble and feel the flesh over while
the solar life passed over his face.
Lifting his eyes toward heaven, he
would smile, even while his lips moved
softly in prayer to the God of infinite
beauty. But what of this stone? The
head is gone; so are the hands: it is
without feet; you can buy as large n
piece of marble from the quaries OF
Ferrera for one lire; and yet Italy
would not give up that piece OF marble
for kings ransom. 1t seems that a
great inyidual put his thought into
the marble and made it think for him.
Personal excellence in the man whose
hand held the chisel lent value to the
marble that was yalueless. For wealth
is not in the raw material named mar
BILE. nor wood nor steel but in tn
amount of soul that is put into the raw
material.
Genus vs.. Labor.
Now and then man arises 10 say that
labor creates all wealth; that all the
property in American society was Gre
ated by labor; that capital has wrested
away labor's all and that strong men
and corporations have despoiled labor
of her own; | hold in my hands ali
editorial in one Of the great labor
sheets of the country. in which occur
these words. Every dollar of the ten
billions of the prcduc- Of this country
last year was created by labor. and
four dollars out Of every five that labor
created was stolen from it.
Now, test the statement Years ago
the men in the gas plant at New York
City from coal extracted the yapor for
light. and carried the tar out to the
Jersey City flats and threw it away az
waste. One day poor young man.
boxing ca gerly for work and position,
Glanced to see the teansters carting
away this tar. He fingered for weeks
about this black flood At last he
worked out a plan Of using this waste
tar In conjunction with pebbles for