The Greeley tribune., 1906-07-12

the great tide OF population una. III IL
been drifting from the country 70 tue
cities. We must decentralixe ihdusry
and trade as well ms population lns.
pariotism that ID latent IN every
heart must find an outlet IN every
country town and village In the work
Of Village improvement, OF creaths III
environment for human life wnere
the highest utility and beauty VIII
surround the entire community ana
where LOCAL civic loyalty viii prevaM
that will anchor the people to their
own hearthstone and where they VII
live content under their own vine anu
| fig tree.
1 This local pride and love Of home
Tand the home town is one OF tne
strongest of human feelings when
once it Ia deeply planted. II snould
be cultivated in every possible way.
Nothing should be left undone 70
stimulate or cement it. Every mempef
1 Of such Community should cultivate
a spirit of comradeship and cooperate
to advance the general welfare OF all.
The merchant, the small tradesmnn.
the country editor, the Church, should
all work together to that emo.
Home industry should be encourn ged
in every possible way. The whOie
community should cooperate to pro
| tect and stimulate the trade OF the
4 town.
The home paper should be literally
patronized. There is no one thing
capable of more far reaching and en-
during influence for good than the
country press. One of the most un-
fortunate Of modern influences has
been the trend Of commercial evoiu-
/ ton that has borne 80 heavily on the
/ NV <1,H AoV 1f
tha metropolitan family monthly and
mail order papers, filed with tempt
alton for the rural people to stimulate
the centralixation of wealth and trade
in the cities by supplying their Or1in-
ary needs from far distant and prac-
1 tically unknown sources. This trend
toward the Capitalization Of trade
and industry In the great cities. walks.
side by side with the Capitalization Of
wealth and population as a menace to
our national future. The danger 1t
threatens can only be obviated by
awakening the people ut large to re-
alization of it,
i The great central and controlling
thought that must rise above all
others as national ideal is the con-
viction that the real bulwarks Of the
nation are the Homes of its Citizens
and that the first thought and highest
ambition OF every young man should
besto establish HOME. a self-sus-
taining Home on the Land, where he
can be independent and enjoy the real
happiness OF well spent life and not
make the mistake that brings dissap-
Ipointment and misery to SO many, OF
setting up the accumulation of for
tune as the goal of his life's ambition!
1t is a lure which Of necessity must
wreck thousands In order that few
may succeed. The man who earns
lenough to live comfortably without
luxury, as every intelligent and In
dustriOus man cnn who has sufncient
pra ctical education. and who does
his duty to himself, his family. his
friends. his country and to humanity.
Ia the man who really succeeds in life
land who gets the greatest happiness
land satisfaction out OF It.
i To create a human character OF the
highest type with everything that
implies, Is the most admirable of all
human achievements and that every
4 man and woman must and can do for
themselves.
| "A time like this demands strong men,
Great hearts, true faith and ready hands:
Men whom the lust of Office does not kill,
Men whom the spoils OF ofFice cannot buy.
\ Men who possess opinion and will.
Men who have honor, men who will not
lie.
Men who can stand before demasosue.
And damn his treacherous batteries with
out wiuking;
Tnil men, sun-crewned. who live above the
1 fog.
In public duty and in private thinking"