Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-11-13

Cant you send a message of con-
dolence to the Grand Forks Herald on
the defeat of Tom l.. johnson IN
Ohio" inquired a gentleman the
o her day as he heard the verdict of
the people of that state on Johnson's
two by four single tax platform. No,
we are not in the condoling business
just now. We read once in the Bible
about some people who went OF after
strange gods and they got the worst
licking they ever received as a conse.
quence. That theory is all right on
paper but when you begin to make the
practical application, tits just like
the scheme of government drawn up
by Locke for the government Of the
Carolinas when they were first settled
lit simply won't work. The news
paper which takes up these wild
theories does not deserve condole1ce.
Looking over the hotel register the
other day, we saw this entry:
"Richard Roe ana Mrs. Roe
Those are not the names of the palt-
ties We go them from the lawyers,
and they gos them where they get
everything else out of the misty
past. Inquiry developed the fact that
it was a pair of happy souls just start
ing on a run for welded happiness or
a South Dakota divorce court. He
had never registered as the happy
husband of the only angel IN earth
before, and he got the style and the
usual phraseology somewhat mixed.
After awhile he will write in it
Richard Roe and wife with the same
carelessness he will allow her to
carry the wood, where he now would
not permit her to stoop to pick up a
pocket handkerchief. Those thines
get old like our clothes.
In discussing the need of the negro
in the south, Booker T. Washington
once said:
various reasons are given to explain
why foreigners sy Dramatically avoid
the south. Ona is that the climate is
SO hot; and another is that they do
not like ths restrictions thrown about
the ballot; and still another is the
presence. of the negro in 80 large
numt ers. Whatever the true reason
is,tthe fact remains that foreigners
avoid the south, and the south is more
aud more realizing that it cannot keep
pace with tie progress being made in
other parts Of the country if a third
Of its population is ignorant and
without skill.
THE south must frankly face this
truth. that for a long period it must
deaena upon the black man to do for
it what the foreigner is now doing for
the great west. If, by reason Of his
Skill and knowledge, one man in
Iowa learns to produce as much corn
in a season as four men can produce
in Alabama, it requires little reason
ing to see that Alabama will buy most
Of her corn from Iowa.
Why not have a lecture course
this winter 2 asked a gentleman the
other day. Don't know. There is
really no need of living if we are to
merely exist in an intellectual coma
tose state, and hobble around on ou1
intellectual pins like an old widowe1
with the rheumatism. The wealth of
the individual is the intellectual
balance sheet he is able to strike
with himself at the end of each wear.
What pleasure can there be in living
if that living is an intellectual blank
We are simply aborigines under such
conditions. There are sew. raj WAYS
by which our wits can be sha1pened,
One is to get married, but that method
is rot always available. Then there
, is the show, those great presentations
OF human frailties and foiblesy in a
void. In addition to this, we have
he books, by whic we talk face tc
face with the good and great. And
I still comes the lecturer who gives YOU
ten years of mis- brain service in an
hour. Can't stand too many of them
! like eating c~abbage-a little trouble
to digest but gives you intellectual
strength. There should be people
enough in this city to support a hist
! class lecture course and not interfere
with shows, society gossip or the only
newspaper in the state.
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Sometime ago you said something
, about what the boys of today havt
! seen that Washington never saw
4 Please tell us something more about
them. Schoolboy."
Washington never rode in the cars
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