The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-04-23

this country would have had no father
II might have had no liberties,
What name stands out on the Dec
aration Of Independence like that Of
John Hancock2 He was a gilt edged
patriot from the first. Mrs, Hancock
wanted the colonies to be free. but she
didn't want Johns coattails burned
| In the doing Of It. When he started
for that meeting In Philadelphia that
was to result IN cataclysm she
sought to keep him back, She finally
| threatened 10 SO home to her mother
IL he went to Philadelphia, and what
was his reply? You may have never
read il, as 4 great many historians
have deliberately left II out OF their
pages. but II has come down TO me
from an authentic source, He told
her Just what any patriotic husband
should tell his wife under the circum.
stances. have picture of him In
my minds eye as he stood facing her,
AS she gives him her ultimatum he
draws himself up, folds his arms. and.
looking down on her with the pride
and scorn Of king. he replies:
"Then 80 and be hanged to your
He went to Philadelphia and signed
that declaration and got others to sign
II, and you know the result. Suppose
he had stayed at home and gone hue.
kleberrying instead
When Fulton began working on the
steamboat that afterward voyaged on
the Hudson and revolutionized the
worlds transportation, Mrs Fulton
told him that he was wasting his time.
She had the idea of the patent wash
ing machine In her mind, and she In.
sisted that he drop his Idea for hers.
She was at him night and day to do
this. She had 1t all figured out how
much soap and starch and rubbing
would be saved, and as a matter Of
fact she did haul him Off his own work
for a week or two. When he went
back to 1t there was family row, and
she wouldn't speak to him for a month.
Even when he had finished his boat
and she was moving majestically up
the majestic river Mrs. Fulton was
so mad about things that she denied 1t
was a success. | see that chills are
running up your backs and your hair
standing up at the thought of what
this world would have lost If Mrs. Full
ton had been permitted to interfere
with her husbands ambitions. We'd
have had washing machine warrant
ed to save 10 per cent of elbow grease,
but what Of the thousands of steamers
that come and go?
Not Washington.
Take my case for another. I am not
a Washington, a Hancock or a Colum-
bus, but have always had my aims
and ambitions just the same. l wasn't
ten years old when l decided to take
the lecture platform. My mother tried
to spank Il out Of me, my father tried
to CAD II out of me, and my school
teacher, who was jealous, tried to cuff
1t out of me, but it stuck. II was there
when I was hoeing corn for 30 cents q
day. 1t was there when I was In Jail
for licking lightning rod man. It was
there when finally got married.
AS soon as told my bride what fu-
ture / was working for she insisted
that / become hog driver-buying
hogs Of tho farmers around and driving
them to market! Some young men
would have given way, but I stood
firm. We parted almost at the altar,
but where Is that woman today? Who
has ever heard of the next man she
married and insisted on his opening a
hen farmf They are not known from
the sands Of the seashore, while l
stand here before you tonight with the
laurel leaves crowning my brow.
Wives, beware! Hands off! Every
husband La the country has an am
bition. You see yours sitting on the
fence by day and down at SINNERS
grocery at night and you abuse his lazi.
ness. 1t rlny not be that is ALL He may
simply be nursing his ambition-wait-
ing till the time comes for him to make
his mark in the world. By jawing
enough ald by threats of the rolling
pin you may stir him up to cut suf-
icient wood to last over Sunday-even
to get himself into the potato patch or
the cornfeid-but in the doing of it
you may Destroy future president Of
the United States and topple down the
bulwarks of American liberty"
NJ. QUAD.