Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-07-18

For every grain of wit there is q grain
OF folly; for everything you have
missed you have gained something
else. and for everything you gain you
lose something. If riches increase, they
are Increased that use them. II the
gatherer gathers too much, nature
takes out Of the man what she puts
into his chest-sweils the estate, but
kills the owner.
Nature hates monopolies and excep-
tons. The waves of the sea do not
more speedily seek level from their
loftiest tossing than the varieties of
condition tend to equalize themselves.
There is always some leveling circum-
stance that puts down the oyerbearing,
the strong, the rich, the fortunate, SUBJ
stantially on the same ground with all
others. IL man too strong and fierce
for society and by temper and position
bad citizen, a morose rufian with a
dash Of the pirate in him, nature
sends him troop Of pretty sons and
daughters who are getting along in the
danes classes at the village school,
and love and fear for them smooths his
grim scowl to courtesy. Thus she con-
trives to intenerate the granite and
feldspar. takes the boar out and puts
the lamb in, and keeps her balance true
This law writes the laws of cities
and nations. 1t will not he baked Of
its end in the smallest iota. 1t is in
vain to build or plot or combine against
it. Things refuse to be mismanaged
long. Though no checks to new evil
appear, the checks exist and will ap-
pear. If the government is cruel, the
governors life is not safe. If you tax
too high, the revenue will yield moth
ing. If you make the criminal code
sanguinary, juries will not convict.
Nothing arbitrary, nothing artificial,
can endure. The true life and satisfac-
r1gors or felicities Of condition and to
establish themselves with great indif-
ference under all varieties of circum-
stance. Under all governments the in
fuence Of character remains the same,
in Turkey and in New England about
alike. Under the prlmeval despots Of
Egypt history honestly confesses that
man must have been as free as culture
could make him.
All attractions of love and equity in
our social relations are speedily pun
ished. They are punished by fear.
| my fellow man, have no displeasure
in meeting him. We meet as water
meets water or current Of air meets
another, with perfect diffusion and in
Representation of nature. But as soon
! as there is any departure from SIMPLE
lty and attempt at halfness, or good for
me that is not good for him, my neigh
Dor feels the wrong. He shrinks from
me as far as have shrunk from him.
His eyes no longer seek mine. There
! Is war between us. There is hate in
him and fear in me.
All these old abuses in society, the
great and universal and the petty and
particular, all unjust accumulations of
: property and power, are avenged in
the same manner. Fear is an instruct
or Of great sagacity and the herald of
all revolutions. One thing he always
teaches-that there is rottenness where
he appears. He is carrion crow, and,
though you see not we'll what he hovers
for, there is death somewhere. Our
property is timid; our laws are timid;
our cultivated classes are timid. Fear
for ages has BODIED and moved and
gibbered over our government and
property. That obscene bird Is not
there for nothing. He indicates great
wrongs which must be revised.
Human labor, through all it's forms,
from the sharpening Of stake to the
construction Of city or an epic. is one
immense illustration Of the perfect
compensation Of the universe. Every
where and always this law is sublime
i The absolute balance Of give and take
the doctrine that everything has its
price, and, If that price is not paid, not
that thing, but something else, is OBJ.
tanned, and that 1t is impossible to gel
anything without its price-this doc.
trine Is not less sublime in the columns
Of ledger than in the budgets OF
states, in the laws Of light and dark.
ness, in all the action and reaction OF
nature.
In the nature of the soul is the com.
pensation for the inequalities of condi'
ton. The radical tragedy of nature
seems to be the distinction of More and
Less. How can Less not feel the pain
How not feel indignation or malevolence
toward More? Look at those who have
less faculty, and one feels sad and
knows not we'll what to make of it
Almost he shuns their eye; almost he
fears they will upbraid God. What
should they do? 1t seems a great in
Justice. But face the facts and SEE
them nearly. and these mountainous
Inequalities vanish. Love reduces them
all as the sun melts the iceberg in the
sea. The heart and soul of all men be
Ing one, this bitterness Of His and Mine