News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-12-24

warning from the great Spanish
Armada" that threa tened our east
ern shores and boosted it's power to
tighten still tighter, the shackIes of
the poor Cubans, our next door
neghbor? Why should we know or
care for those men in our country
who had the keen perception to see
that our government in protecting
Cuba would raise the standard of our
moral supremacy and humane policy
above every other nation on the
Globe? Why should one understand
the strategy of war, the winning of
sea coasts, or know about the mines
that destroyed our beloved battle
ship, the Maine, or how will it benefit
one to see in that act the law that
brings swift retribution to the evil
doer? Suppose one don't know the
immense value of deep seated princi-
ples-ot the principle tor which Grant
fought the war at such an expense to
the country? Why not have allowed
the South to go and set up govern
ment by itseli? What if England and
all Europe did sympathiz9 with the
South and PROPOSE to give to the
southern states their trade and COM
uerce leaving thenorthern states out
10 the colo? The North and the Sonth
could fight for the balance of power
here, as we'll as they can on the east
ern continent.
When the great strikes come the
v,i1~iA i,,f a IN hn
moral principle to be settled in the
interests OF each and all only feels
the loss of coal and cares not, it
may be, if the principle is established,
l won't work and you shall not. If
staying at home and attending to
ones own business, living in pc ce
aud quiet, with money enough in a
safe place, where it cannot be squan-
dtred, and if peace of MUD is what
one seeks and Il quiet old; that is the
walk or the ROAD to take and at last
dropping first the town, then the
state, then confined to one room,
ones only home, and the couch the
only place Of repOse.
Taking another road, the wide.
awake road, looking for a chance to
make a dollar, trying first one thing
then another, gaining and losing in
the great whir of excitement, press
ing on, nerved up with courage and
hope and the conviction that so long
as one keeps the purity of the soul
and integrity of the heart, and out of
the clutches of the law one is safe.
We repeat taking this road, as sure
as water finds its level, one will find a
chance and grasping it, by experience
and good calculation, will be likely
to win. But it will not be q thOrnless
path, nor a bed of roses on which to
repose. La the most successful times
there will be intrigues, tOrmenting
cares and intense anxieties. The
"stings and arrows OF outrageous
fortune" will Resent whizzing through
the air, but with deep thinking, plan
ming and plodding one will be likely
to find bonanza of some sort. Then
comes the strain, how to handle it,
how to increase it? Here is the point,
for once on the race course habits of
thought and action force one on and
on, sometimes to Dre:ipiece where
there is only time for quick thought
and action, for the automobile moves
right along, and to turn the thing
requires all the nerve power and wit
one can command, and luck is the
man who turns the corner on the
square, honestly, equarely and up
rightly swerving, neither to the right
or left, avoiding a smashup. Who
would not prefer the poor mans bed
of ease to this awful race, even
though it leads up higher still in the
ranks of wealth, in the world of in
terest, intellect which gives the keen.
est enjoyment, and IN the society of
the cultured and refined, even though
it enables one to live in a palace and
to send his own merchantships to
foreign lands; and still more, even
though he owns the richest coal bed
in the country? Possibly the poor
man gets more pleasure out of his
humble repast with his pet children
around him than the man who has
to stand and face a clamorous mob,
freezing crowd and frowning world
to fight for his rights, what he claims
and what the world has admitted to
be his Just rights.
Success on this road, as a rule, has
been acquired by the closest atten-
ton to business and the practice of
economy in the beginning of life,
gathering up the fragments that
nothing be lost. When business as
sumes such an accumulation of trade
and traffic, such pOnderOCs weight
of this worlds goods to be trundled
along, such an amount of gold and
silver to be gathered and kept, only
the man of keen wit and sagacity
can find men honest, reliable and
faithful to help him and enable to
carry on these great achievements
and gigantic operations that not
only astonish the world, but benefit
it to a degree scarcely understood or
recognized by the common mind.
But the smartest thing of all, the
one that shows the greatest wisdom
and discernment, is to find and en-
ploy men who will be faithful to
the interests of their employer. 1t
may be said that the man who is
faithful in nnoitinno Of trt,gt onl