The log cabin Democrat., 1907-07-18
FARMERS EDUCATIONAL
 AND COOPERATIVE UNION - OF AMERICA
OF AMERICA

The very best and at the same time the very worst educators are the news papers. This is a day in which the newspaper is an essential ot every well-regulated household lt is up to the householder to select from the vast number of available papers the sort tkat are for the betterment of his children and for his own help. It ought to be a strenuous rule to never allow a sour, calamity-howling sheet to come into the house. Every body who knows anything knows that the time never was in all the history of the world when the blessings of life-its necessities and even its lux uries-were so nearly evenly distrib- uted. This is day in which the servant enjoys comforts that king would have paid ransom for few hundred or even a few decades since. In view of this, it is q shame that there are papers which make money out of calamity bowling. The oppor- tunities for the young man are fair ly bursting into bloom. The young man who has "been diligent in his business is wanted all over this country to take charge of big enter prises where inefficient men are now trying to hold on by the skin of their teeth. When the world was said to be in its golden age, more than half of the people were slaves, and the golden age was only for those on top, while the Submerged greater half' endured slavery so abject, so appall- ingly hopeless, that it chills the mar row to even read of it all. No, select those papers which tell of all the brightness and good things that are within the grasp of him who wills .o Let no editor whose words are not benizen have an entrance into your family. This is a country of freedom and free men, and the message from every quarter should be the words of free men, who are free and who know it. If an editor can not be helpful, he should step down and out; and if he will not do so, the public should re- lieve him of his cares by letting him hunt another avocation.
 There is a great deal of silly twad- dle going the rounds of the press about this age of commercialism," and this being a day of greed for dollars. This is all arrant rot and the ignorance of the writers, if they could only read a little of the worlds his tory, would make them blush. There was never a time in the worlds his tory when there was so much dis interested charity and good fellowship and so many helping hands extended to the needy as today. There was never a period in all the history of mankind when there was not some men trying to own all the face of the earth. It has always been this way, and will so continue till the end of time. There are moral pervertS of all sorts. Some have one fad and some another, and they will go on down to the end of time pursuing phantoms of some sort, and commercialism is much talked of at this time simply because our commercialiSm is more widespread than at any other time in our history. It was not until half a century ago that any progress was made i'll the transmission of commit nications between men; simultaneous there came rapid transportation of freight, but the spirit and the accom- pIishment, under former circum- stances, was fercer even than it is now Don't let the pessimist get hold of you. This spirit of commercialism is getting on as it always has and al- ways will.