The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-17

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OFFICE-Bissell Building, Corner
LaPorte and Center Streets. Tele-
phone 81.
Entered at the Postofice at Plym-
outh, Indiana as second-class matter
Plymouth. Indiana, August II, 1905.
The more man knows the less he
believes. fhe older he gets the more
he finds he does not know. With age
comes experience. with experience
comes a consciousness of his ignor-
ance and weakness. AT ten bow :
willing TO learn AT twenty he begins
TO feel his importance. At twenty
five he knows it all and at thirty he
is ready to teach the world and run
the universe. At forty his experience
takes little conceit out OF him. At
fifty he will listen to advice, but Will
still do pretty much his own way. At
sixty he finds he IS not the powerful
man he thought he was At seventy
he concludes that his ignorance over
whelms him, AMI he knows absolutely
nothing. and it has taken him a whole
lifetime TO find it out
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The man who stands around on the
street corner and complains about his
town, the county, taxes and the
weather is mighty common clay"
He IS of little use to his family, his
country or his God But he seems
TO live and thrive in all kinds of
weather and under all conditions; he
is found at the crossroads store. the
village, town and city. Like the fly
the mosquito and the chigger, he is
not fatal, but he is mighty disagree
able.-Liton Record. The same thing
is to be said OF the calamityite in
politics-exactly the same thing He
is the cheapest sort Of politician and
an abominatoin unto the country that
he infests.
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Wisconsin has fallen in line with
more than half the other states in
the Union and has provided for a
state railroad commission and for
rate regulation. Inasmuch as this
law is TO be attributed to the strenu-
ous efforts of Governor Lafo1lette
more than TO those of any other one
man, and inasmuch as it is supposed
to embody his views and therefore
likely to De as stringent as it Is pos
sible at this stage to make such a law.
the effect of it will be noted with
considerable interest And this inter
est will be somewhat intensified by
the fact that there is as much anti
corporation sentiment in Wisconsin
as in any other state in the Union.
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The Chicago & Northwestern Rail-
way Co. has issued a circular giving
information as TO how a homesteader
can secure land in the Uintah Indian
reservation, which is TO be thrown OPP
en- for settlement Aug. %, the presi-
dent having signed the pro- ! ton
giving 100000 acres of Uiniah land
to homeseekers. Any citizen of the
United States above the age of 21
years or at the head of a family
though younger, widows and deserted
wives, may register for a homestead.
All applications must be made in per-
son by registering at one Of the Uni
ted States land Offices named in the
circulars sent out. Persons wanting
one of these free circulars should
write w. B. Kniskern, % Fifth Ave,
Chicago.
This is what President Roosevelt
said, September 3, 1902, in speech
delivered at Dalton, Mass:
We have right to expect from the
government that it will secure us
against injustice; that so far as is hui
namely possible it will secure for
each man a fair chance; that it will
do justice as between man and man,
and that it will not respect persons.
The government Can take hold Of
certain functions which are in the
interest of the people as whole.
More than this the government can
not supply the lack in any man of
the qualities which must determine
in the last resort the mans success
or failure. If we would remember
that, there would be less danger in
our thinking that perhaps by some
queer patent device or some scheme
the state, the government, the town,
can supply the lack of individual
thrift, energy, enterprise, resolution.