The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-06-07
Contributed.

1t is only by thinking about the pure
and good things in life that we come to
love them, and it is only by loving them
that we come to long for them, and it is
only by longing for them that we are
impelled to seek for them or inspire
those around us to seek for them, and
going right after them that they be-
come ours and we enter into their
beauty and blessedness.
Think right and you will soon vote
right as we can change what is wrong
with the machinery of our government
if we want to. The only question is,
will you begin. There is no deeper
passion than the love of liberty, native
to the human heart. To be free and
move in accordance with that freedom
is the right of every American citizen,
providing in so doing he does not in
fringe on the rights Of others. So eNer-
else your right of liberty, think for
yourself, do not follow some one as
sheep follow leader or you are no
better than the dumb sheep. You have
some sense, use it, and do not be tool
for the other fellow. Exercise your
American sovereignty or you will lose
it. Think and by thinking you will
learn to think. There are some men
whose independence Of principle con-
sists Of no principle on which you can
depend, whose free thinking consists of
not thinking freely, but in being free
from thinking and whose common sense
is nothing more than the sense that is
most awful common. If this fits you,
hereafter use your sense. Once there
| lived man who was so selfish and
spiteful that his victuals did him little
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crabbid, very lean and long, he would
scarcely make a shadow. He was tell
| ing how much his brother looked like
him, people could hardly tell them apart
all the difference there was, he said, was
that he was heavier set than his brother.
We always have wondered how thin his
brother must be. Always think and act
for yourself for you will be held respon-
sible. Other people will help share
your prosperity if you invite them, but
you will find few who will help bear
your adversely especially if you are to
blame for it. So do right; be an Ameri-
can and proud Of it.
Not long ago man said prohibition
crank was the crankiest crank he ever
saw. Another, who has had a full meas
ure of experience, said, everyone knows
they are right and the world behind on
this, but it was most damned unpopular
but was growing and ought to have
been here long ago. Even these mer
know, feel and see their duty. Teacf
your children to look down on the
liquor vender and the traffic and it will
get more unpopular than the prohibition
crank is now. Not to it's own time
merely does the generous mind of pro
hibition feel that it belongs. 1t com
prehends in it's regard the whole human
race, and extends it's care even to pos
terity. | wish no better lot than to bt
the friend Of men prescribed and sacri
feed by those who hate them for thei
superiority. This is why the Jews
hated Christ, and blessed are they wht
suffer for his sake. When prohibition
walks to the scaffold at the command o
liquor, error and guilt, every step sh'
takes is an advance to glory. Woe tt
the times and woe to the people among
whom it is nest damned unpopular t.
be prohibitionist. / love the demo
\ cratic party, | love most of it's princi
pies, but l left it because it has Away
taken revenue from the juice of hell ant
thereby legalized the liquor traffic. II
: rather be right, even if it is mos
damned unpopular, to corrupt men or
corrupt age. Xxx