Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-07-05
some OF JUDGE
LlNDsEYs SAYINGS


hood
I'VE are learning to put country
above party
TOO many OF the children growing
up are today being drained Of the
blood which the nation needs tomor
row."
"There are two million children
working and one million going to Jail
each year. The msngled fingers OF
the factory child go to fill the cof-
fers OF the greedy employer-then tell
me on this 4th Of July there are no
problems to solve and that the gov.
ernment is secure"
The evils that affiict us are within
and not without. What we must
teach our children is. that II the re.
public Is TO endure, and | never had
any doubt about 1t and have not now,
is that we must learn to fight evil
more and men less"
you think don't learn things
from children? Why. I've learned
more out Of the mouths of babes than
I ever learned from books"
What grander thing can you do
than to save human being? The
child who falls into the river finds
heroes by the score ready to risk
their lives to rescue them. But the
two million who fall into this mael-
strom OF commercialism, and the one
million who fall into the clutches of
vice and debauchery-what of them?"
THE way to serve our country Is
not to serve 1t on our national day
only. but on every day. and every
hour we live"
true patriotism, we must teach them
to love manhood more and money
less"
THE hope OF the nation is In the
manhood, and not in the money, and
we cannot make the nation great un-
less we respect manhood more and
money less"
There are too many men in whose
brain wriggles the maggot OF money
getting"
Let us change our standard of val
ue II 1t Is wrong, and IL 1t is not
wrong. let us never change It,"
What the world needs SO much to
day Is not merely honest men, but
men who are honest and unafraid to
fight evil. The soldier Of today who
will fight evil is as necessary as were
the soldiers Of the revolution"
THE nation must depend upon its
strong men,"
THE great mass OF American peo-
pie always have been and always can
be depended upon to respond to that
thing called feeling. Theodore Roose.
velt-why do We respect and love
him? 1t Is not because he was great
In war. not because he is great
statesman; not because he has writ.
ten great books. but because he re-
sponds safely and sanely to that great
undercurrent Of feeling"
I'VE must do our duty SO thorough
ly that our representatives will not
dare to debauch the government
When we have representative gov
ernment In this country we will have
Just as good q. government as We de-
serve"
The judge related how he had seen
in New York City 100 sons of the
plutocracy, some Of whom the only
distinguishing feature was that they
would probably be- worth twenty mil.
lions when they were 80 years old,
and fifty million when they we're so.
He had then gone down in the slums
and poverty stricken districts, where
he had seen thousands OF children
who teiled In the sweat shops while
the sons of the plutocrats slept This
he used to emphasize the fact that
there were problems TO be met
He related one q a great many
cases ne has had to deal with, and It
was surely a puzzling one. A little
boy had been arrested for stealing
watches from = jewelsr. The boy
said: Judge, you see that lax on
the watch. and that '22-J on the in.
side? Well there are lot of farm.
ers that think that means 14-karat
gold and ~ Jewels. They pay $40 for
II and 1t Is plated brass and worth
just $Lxe. II that jeweler can make
money. why can't II"
The two old parties In Denver came
In ror a terrible scathing and num-
ber Of instances were related that
were strictly to the point. According
to the Judge both parties In that city
are common srsfters. He declared
that they we're not the real parties,
but rather toe cloaks used to cover
up the representative government.
He had seen Democrat bosses go to
the board of county commissioners
and demand that certain appoint-
ments be made, and II not made they
would refuse to bring In the Demo
cratic delegation from certain wards
at the next primaries. He had seen
members return from q Roosevelt
club meeting and demand the ap-
pointment OF vault clerk at 500 a
month when there was no need OF
'uch clerk. And II such appointment
vas not made dire consequences
we're threatened.