Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-07-31
CHAW--- ---WAY
BY G. H. T.

! BY q. II. I.
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La Toilette and De Almond both gave
us some things to 'chaw" upon. but it
was John P. D. John who raised the knot
ty questions of the ages: "Whence have
we come; What are we here for; And
whittier are we headed?" As | looked
over his audiences. which were always
ereditably large. saw many who were
honestly trying to keep the connection
between his premises and his conclu-
sions. But in our hunt for the Infinite we
seem to have bitten off more than we
can chew; and a great majority OF the
audience. after the first fifteen minutes.
were willing to take the Doctors word
for it rather than agitate their brain
cells following him. DR.. John. who is the
learned ex-president Of DePaw Univer-
sity. told US some very interesting things
about molecular attraction and cellular
differentiation; and devoted one whole
lecture to setting the late Colonel lnger-
soil right in regard to the Mosaic dispen-
sation and things: and II the illustrious
ARnostie hadn't stolen march on the
devil snd had himself reduced to ashes
at the Milwaukee erematory. there
wouldn't have been anything left Of him
but nsbulous ether after the Doctor got
through with him last Friday morning.
After the tsrgivsr.ation Of . man like
DR.. John It Is refreshing to meet up with
. woman like Carrie Nation. who takes
the bible for just what It says and does
Mt have any trouble with the hard places.
II the Lord doesn't know what he meant
Carrie does. It takes sublime self as
suranes to look through even the big lend
Of telescope into the nebulous expanse
Of incomprehsndable space and still be-
lieve yourself an appreeiabls factor in the
aggregate. And yet, often think this
will bs a dull old world when man loses
the sublime eoneeit that he 10 . worker
together with the Infinite. Carrie has It
bad; and that 10 chiefly why she 10 inter-
ssting both to herself and other people.
| can't say that Carries style Of delivery
has improved In the two years she has
bssn absent from us. but think she has
added = few new sxplstivss to her lin
guistie outfit. She has added three more
inearesrations to her jail record. making
It 81 now. think Il was thirty before.
Every ailing seems to count as another
star in her crown Of rejoicing. She pro-
badly realizes that II she didn't get pulled
about every 80 oftsn her capital stock
would Be seriously diminished. On the
side. Carrie said that the ehairman's re-
mark about her name living in history
was all right, but Il wouldn't b 50 much
because she couldn't tell lie as because
she can tell the truth: which she counts
q much rarsr virtue than the one poss-
essed by the first illustIious wielder Of
the hatehst-
DeArmond Is a polished speaker but he
doesn't get 70 the point with the eelerity
that eharaeterizss Mrs. Nation. His de-
liberation and qualification is almost ex-
aspsrating to the auditor who wants his
thinking done for him. In fact his modi-
fieations make his statements so fair. and
rational that there is small appeal to the
multitude in them. II you want to carry
the crowd with you. you must put !,
strong and lose sight Of all exceptions &c
the rule. DeArmond defined IAN Amer
lean Citizen" as he should be. not as he is
He didn't give US any bombast. He said
that the great body Of what we rightly
some Of the worst as well as some Of the
best men in the world; and starting from
that point he showed US" that our per-
sonal prejudiees. which bred and nourish-
ed our political partizanships. were tht
bane and hindranee to our growth in higt
citizenship; that this was what defeated
our attainment Of the popular good anc
allowed the selfish eorporationist, whI
was wise enough to subordinate his per-
sonal views to the attainment of speolfit
ends. to get the advantage. 1t was I
fine analysis Of the foolshness of undu,
partizanship from the stand point OF gooC
citizenship. 1t supplemented Senate
La Follette's talk finely. But then. ther'
were those who didn't think La Folettt
needed any supplement. And they qui
before DeArmond did.
But for talk that didn't have much Il
do with the case, commend me to tn
eartoonist, Ash Davis. 20 me! o my.
That such talent for marks shouldn'
have some capacity for remarks accom-
panying it. Excuse the pun. | caugh
the infection from Davis and haven't 60
it out Of my system yet. But the fact
that when you do find a eartoonist VIII
can talk and draw successfully at tn
same time that eartoonist will be