The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1906-01-04

assume, because of the assurance the
railways have given, that rebating Is
dead or even hard hit. The railways
have given similar assurance before.
Not once have they kept them. Five
years age the presidents of the trunk
lines travelled to Washington to con-
fess and be shrived by the commission
just as the Representatives of the big
lines have done this week. They
told the commission they we're trnly
sorry for their past sins and we're re-
solved to depart from the path of law
and rectitude no more. Within year
the law was being fagrantly broken
rs before Chicago Tribune.
THE TRUEsT AMBITION.
A young man of ability and great
promise recently refused to enter a
vocation which would yield him a
large income, lest the temptation to
become rich might eat up his desire
TO help his fellowman. He feared that
the frantic struggle for wealth and
self-being waged by the ma jority of
the men with whom his position would
force him to associate would insensi-
bly, draw him into the same vortex of
selfishness. He felt that his ideals
would become tarnished, that his as.
pirations would be starved in such an
atmosphere, so he chose a vocation
which would enable him to render the
greatest service to humanity.
1t is refreshing thing, in a ma
terial age, to see people who are am
bilious to be useful rather than rich,
who are more eager to help others
than to make money. These are ma
ture's noblemen, these are the char
acters which enrich life, and which
have pushed civilization up from the
savage to the Florence Nightingaies
and the Lincolns.
One of the most promising things of
our civilization today is that, side by
side with the greed for gold, is the
cver-growing passion of humanity for
good. The number of people who pre-
fer to be useful to their fellowmen
rather than to make money is con-
stantly increasing. This passion for
good is the salt of humanity 1t is
what makes us believe in the future
of the race,-Success.
SPEAKER CANNON S OPINIONS.
We believe Speaker Cannon is right
in saying the present generation of
Americans is as good as any previous
generation, and that this talk of the
good old days was as common in the
days designated good old" as it is
now. The oldest man in America re-
members how the people of his time
talked of the good old days when men
were ali that they should be. IL Is ex-
tremely probable that the last years
of Methusaieh's life were clouded by
his realization that men were 80 much
worse than they had been 900 years
before.
And the man who prctends to be-
licve that there is dagger that this
country will become a monarchy Is
simply pretending. We have had
three presidents with more or less of
dIctatorlaltendenci Cleve- |
and and Roosevelt. They transcend
I'd their powers only 10 trying too
strenuously to have done that which
they thought should be done. Neither
Of them any more dreamed of being
An emperor than OF being hipopota-
mus.
But we do not agree with the speak
er in his statement as to the house of
There was a time |
when that body did not belong body
and soul to the speaker. There was a
time when speakers considered that
they were bound by law and justice.
with Car Reed and reach
Ing to Car Cannon, speakers have
lone just as they pleased, and the
house has sustained them. The house
Of representatives, controlled by Its
majority party, is an utterly subservi-
ent body and we do not believe 1t has
always been one.-Florida Times
Union.