Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-08-09
FOOLISH IDEAS.

In . recent Philadelphia North
American appears a cartoon entitled
The Shady Side Of Her Family
Tree says the Sacramento Bee.
a young woman Is holding tryst
with a dudlsh-looklng young man,
while in the shade Of a neighboring
tree stands an Irish laborer with a
pipe In his hand, and by his side a
patient, sad-faced wife.
The young woman is evidently
ashamed OF those beneath the tree.
and her anxious glance shows she is
afraid the insipld bit Of humanity with
her win look tnat way and see what
she Is evidently so determined he
shAn not see.
Vac cartoon tells its story eloquent
Ey. II is the old.old tale over again
me tale OF silly woman reveling in
tho fortune established by an honest,
conscientious. and God-fearlng labor.
Sng man, and trying to conceal the
truth Of her descent, as though, as
dhougn It were something at which
she should blush.
on the contrary, she should be
proud OF IT, The man to whose toll
and Industry, and shrewdness, and
financial ability, she aud her father,
and her fathers father before owe
she Foundation OF their wealth--and to
ahal wealth their position in a syco-
phantis society--was one whom men
win ever respect If dudes and fashion
pilates do not. He was one, in com.
parison with whom the lnsipid non.
iptellect by her side Is as mud to
marble. The old laborer was of that
hard old granite out OF which the
Xord God Almighty has hewn the
characters and the souls of men who
haye blazed the path OF civilization
ahmugh wildernesses; who have
wrested secrets from the bosom OF
Mother Earth; who have spanned
continents with bands OF steel, and
welded the ocean In polygamy's bonds
90 countless sails; men who have
Fought the battles OF Humanity and
liberty. and have throttled Oppres.
si0n even on the throne Itself; men
who have saved Nations and built
commonwealth; men who. with the
Jewels which the exploring and sleep.
leas mind have brought from the
caves Of experience and industry.
have bought their ransom aud their
kin's ransom from those twin gaol-
arS OF the daring heart, low blrth
and Iron fortunes" men who. even, II
born ON the mud foor OF an Irish
cabin, have steadfastly set their faces
20 the eternal stars, and dying, have
bequeathed TO their descendants the
records OF honest and honorable lives.
men not touched with the aecolaie
by a sensual King himself but the
breath OF yesterday men knight,
ed in mankind's nobility by the great
King OF Kings
And the patient, toillng. sadfaced
woman by their sldeg Surely the
Hiarna hath reward for them
Snrely, he viii not turn from them.
surely the Chrst will not be ashamed
of them because they were uncom.
planning. loving, hard,working com.
panions TO their struggling husbands
he hath not forgotten that black.
eyed Maid of Judah who bore him.
He hath not forgotten that he was
brought forth In manger tie hath
not forgotten the toll at tho carpen.
tors bench nor that his holy mother
Was busy with the household duties
while he ana Joseph worked for their
daily bread
The silly, rutile.aeaded. female
fashion plates OF today may he
ashamed Of the honest toners from
whom their families sprang. but he
knoweth that the ones 10 blush Tor
themse'yes should be the aplsh dc.
secndan,s not tAe stalwart founders.