Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-02-14

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Just what you and Harris say. Quit
work and go to Colorado. Z can't.
{. Don't bother about IT. won't 20.
that's all. I've begun to get attached
70 the cough, it has shown, such an at
fection for me- -.
He Strengthened Up and laughed at
the look in his friends face Gordon
Us only partly assured. /
lit will kill you ~.
First time anything ever did,
You have no right to neglect it,
IL Neglectit? Don't nurse It day and
night? No cough ever had better care
than mine. l giveit the best the patent
medicine show Affords
1t will be the death of ye,l''''
@"All right" Barton said: cheerfully.
Rather die fren my cough than from
stupid. thoughtless trolley car. By
the way, John did you ever think of
the difference between being rum over
by horse and wagons and an auto
mobile?'
II never gave it much thought"
More people get rum over by auto
mobiles than by horses; SO the facts
show. You. see a man can dodge q
horse because he-the herse-is alive.
But an automobile Let's change the.
subject Give me your programme"
My programmed"
"Y0nr programme as a reformer:.
What are you going to do? What lies
In your mind? Behn'- David Barton
swiftly changed from the careless, flip
| pant manner he had assumed ever. hts
physical condition, and John Gorden
instantly knew the friend who boved
him was talking now out Of his great
serious heart. "John, if you are really
going to try to make the old world bet
ter you've held out your arm to a wres-
tier who will give you the struggle Of
your life. l want to help. I don't be-
leve It will amount to anything-the
struggle. l mean. And maybe not the
help either. But tell me your hearts
desire"
SWELL, then," John Gordon answered,
while his whole expression glowed
with his real deep religious enthusi-
asm and Pride that swept his thought
even of Luella Marsh out of existence,
II have programme. First, plan to
live at Hope House as long as can be
of use there or as long as I can from
that place In the city learn the city. 1t
may be five years, it may be ten. If
it is ten, shall be only forty. A man
cannot do much public work worthy of
the name until he is forty"
"History and biography say other
wise, but never mind" muttered Bar
ton. eco on
"My plans of course do not cover
possibilities that may come into my
experience at the end of my residence
in Hope House. But have dreamed
Of many things. don't mean book
knowledge, but live, personal knowl-
edge Of people. Not the kind that
makes man a professor of sociology
In the university, but the kind that
makes man want to change bad laws
or make good ones; the kind Of knowl-
edge Of people that Paul had when he
said,Sz.Woe is me if, l preach not the
gospel the kind of knowledge of PEG
pie that compels man to see in every
other man a universe Of eternal value
and eternal happiness
"There are mighty few people in this
city that think of run-down-at-the-h ee1
humanity after that fashion," muttered
Barton again. Then after silence he
asked:
"Who's against you in all this?''
e''Selflsh greed, ecclesiastical pride in
the churches, political rottenness in the
city management, cynical Indifference
on the part of cultured men and WON.
en-, whisky, yellow press, business in
terests wherever they touch financial
loss, if reform calls for sacrifice; for.
eign born and foreign shaped classes
but most of all the opposition of higl
bred apathy which grows out of the
soil Of irreligion."
"And who is on your side?" Barton
asked almost mechanically, in a low
tone.
"GOd, all good men and women in the
churches, and there are many; rising
sentiment among young men against
municipal partisanship gradually ris-
ing journalism which in time will de.
mand the extinction of yellow journal.
ism, which is an excrescence that car.
ries in large measure it's own destruc.
ton, and rising tide of popular pas.
sion against the saloon as an institu.
! ton and for more equal opportunities
in the field Of struggle for human hap.
piness."
"You left out the largest item in the
list of forces against reform"
whats thaty'
1.-THE people themselves"