The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-01-11

Six Months 30 cents
would be revolutionized. There would
be no longer necessity for the manu-
facture OF such articles as burglar
proof safes, vaults, and similar
appliances. The large army of men now
policing towns and cities would be no
longer needed. Ali bond and guaran-
tee companies-now seemingly indis-
pensable-with their multitude of Of
hcers and clerks, would cease to be OF
use.
Jails, warehouses and prisons would
be abandoned. Judges, lawyers and
the greater part of public officials
would have no longer calling. That
large body of national jockeys. famil-
larly termed diplomats, who ride for
the people, on every pretext of interest,
in the great International races, would
find the services so reduced and simpli-
fed that limited few would be suffi-
cient to accomplish all the work
necessary between the different coun-
tries.
Armies aud navies would cease to
be; and with them their many adjuncts;
arsenals, military schools, manufac-
tories of arms and ordnance, and the
various paraphernalia requisite for
their equipment.
Banks, both national and state,
would be almost superfulty. Ma
tlonal treasures, the great storehouses
of country's wealth, would have out
lived their days of usefulness, and
henceforth be made to serve the people
in capacity befitting the changed
condition.
Just think! Jurists, lawyers, states
men, politicians of every class, even
kings and presidents all on common
level with mankind. Oh, what spec
tacle! These high and mighty aef the
land; these immaculate statesmen;
these jealous guardians of public
honor; these irreproachable custodians
of nations integrity; these divine
rulers, all changed to mere men by the
erasure of the simple prefix dis from
the word dishonest these gracefully
quitting their lofty places and turning
to apprenticeships or even begging for
permission to Cd bpy back seat in the
primary classes at some industrial col
lege, whereby they may learn the art
of earning a livelihood, now encum-
bent on their reversed position. Yet
all this would be as nothing compared
to the extraordinary phenomenon that
would take place when the stupendous
effort was made to disgorge, from dis
honest Golfers, the multiplied millions
of illgotten dollars, and return them to
their rightful owners.
The old proverb, zones meat is
another's poison" must remain ever
true. Opposing forces are manifest in
all nature, and therefore must be right.
The real architectural substance of this
world is the two polar elements, each
essential to the other, good and evil,
i. e., honesty and dishonesty, on which
it all turns.
Who may say that there was not in
the great creative laboratory two dis
tinct and opposing elements, honesty
and dishonesty, if you like, which the
Divine Ruler saw fit to thrust on ter
restrial domains, for a purpose unintel-
ligible to us, where they may combat
each other with absolute freedom;
finally, bringing about result or con-
dition in perfect harmony with the
divine plan.
Individuals and nations may, and do,
heroically, struggle with and combat,
as best they can, all motives of dis
honesty, but they will never be able to
entirely subdue them. You dreamers
of Utopia. awake! Know once and
for all that no such condition can ever
exist. Recognize the fact that this
vision you have so constantly, and
valiantly pursued, and that has as
constantly eluded you, is only the
shadow of the real, cast from the
celestial abode on high, and can never
be grasped by mortal hands. PAUL.