The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-04-28
REFLECTIONS
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II is better to listen to cheerful liar
than to truth-telling hard luck
fiend.
FRIENDSHIP is an asset that can
be made either valuable or worth
less. 1t all depends on ourselves.
EVERYTHING comes to the man
who waits. But if you have any
thing coming, the best way is to 60 af-
ter it. Let the other fellow do the
waiting. If he waits long enough
someone may came along and give him
kick, but that's all he'll get.
THE greatest pride of some of our
churches is the wealth of their men,
bers and their social standing. But
such church is not church. 1t is
purely commercial affair with saliva
tion as a commodity. An inferior brand
however, is usually kept on tap at the
mission annex around the corner and
thither the man in overalls must wend
his way.
DID you ever stop to think that your
happiest periods in life were those
when you gave due respectto the rights
of others? Those were times when we
did not envy the possessions of our
neighbors, when our minds were filled
with the highest thoughts and we could
look every man square in the eye.
That these same times will return to
each and every one of us is not an
impossibility. 1t all depends on our
selves.
THAT the Poles, Jews and Firms are
joining the Japanese army is not
surprising. These subjects of the car
know from experience that to express
their opinions means to be silenced for
ever. Alone, they are no match for
their oppressor, and are justified in
joining forces with anyone who will
attempt to clip the claws of their enemy.
Wherever the car rules there is no
such thing as freedom of thought or
constitutional justice. These elements
have made our own country great and
have placed Japan in the van of nations,
but they are unknown to the Cossack.
But like the sun, the world moves on
and the Russian armies cannot long con-
tinue to be an obstacle to its progress.
SOME of the newspapers term our
anti-alien or anti-anarchist law
a "freak law" because under its provi-
sions an English agitator was recently
arrested on his arrival in this country.
Now, this man does not believe in or
ganized government and after being
fired out of his own country he comes
over here to create trouble and Incl
dentally to line his pockets. This
kind of men ought to be arrested and
deported. We have too many of them
now. That's why the law is a good
one. But, say some. the same law
would prevent such man as Count
Tolstoy from visiting the United
States. Of course it would, and being
a prominent disbeliever in organized
government he ought to be kept out.
THIS country has been a dumping
ground for "banished patriots" long
enough. The law in question is all
right.
WE "reach and grasp" for a great
many things. What we cannot
reach we wish for. Who is there can
not remember the days when he reached
for the jam jar and wished for anything
from stick of candy to a team of
ponies, and later on when we wished
that we might be a soldier, hero or
for wealth, power and fame. But sup
pose that right now you could have one
wish that would be gratified. What
would it be? Of course in the nature
Of things perhaps all of Us would choose
liberty, but 1 mean aside from that.
For my own part L believe 1 should
wish for brains. For Brain Power
is the greatest thing in the world.
The man who has it finds everything
within his reach, he is always able to
grasp the situation. Business men
worship it and there is nothing they
more desire in their employees. In the
large commercial houses it is always
noticeable that an employe who is sus-
pected of having brains has small pull. |
When he is promoted the other fellows
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