The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-02-14
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ell other problems Of earth sink into insgnifcanca Tn
civilization gains. ~ e via
The abors of Ssyphus mirror the march Of the raco
ne thrd generation OF the Superior Class is impoent
Nlat tne world calls success fevers and enfeebes Tno
all IS the talnt OF death-the First Families have nntb
g better boast Of than the deeds of men long turned
DUST ana e sons OF men who could do and dare dwind
INTO microbes tnat consume and consumed The CON
noeur and dleante follow the creator and the barhar
ian takes them captive and they are no more
Nations, like men, have their periods of infancy voutb
MANHOOD ana Old age They grow strong and then anse
into senility and decay One generation destrnvs b
anotner produces and new nation steps in and crushes
me weakened state, as wolves upon the prairie fall non
the horses that grow old and lame FN
Wen succeed and the towers and monument they build
70 commemorate their lives crumbe into ruin and become
mere mounds that hide their dust and over i ali Nalre
runs her creeping and trailing vines as if 70 denv
the existence OF those who boasted of their might
beneath the walls OF ancient Troy the ruins of still
other cities OF which for poet sang: before Ceonaf
IA were other queens stung to their death by the ASH Of
oL after Phidas and Perces came men who rioted and
sed on the wealth ana beauty Greece had gained then
en came the barbara Roman blind to beauty and tun-
bed from their pedeStals the dreams hewn IN rnarba
thinking they were gods
Caesar grew great; and Brutus and Cassus stng for
the power that he possessed sought to seize the hanb ~
her own That savage speech of Cassius wherein he re-
aIed What sick man IN his fever said had scarcely
ehOe across the Forum before he had to flee and ere
long that tongue OF his forever stled and Brutus
hopeess encompassed fell upon his own sword and was
dead, ~ w vas
Young Augustus thus came into possessions which bo
mad not earned and his possessions owned him and pos
qned the welspring Of his being and all Rome as we'll
Ere long the barbarc German from the North oeran bi
heritage and did for Rome what his ancestors had done
Tor Greece.
Today the descendants of the Noble Romans sell them
selves Tor hlre, and dig, hew and carry that America NAV
nave buildings that scrape the sky and railroads over
which men are carried like the eagles flight
ar De from me to decry the splendid enterprise of
me strenuos men who making America great but wise
men perceive day when the of the men who own
Inc buildings that scrape the sky will toll and sweat en-
saved by race OF barbarians vet unborn
u1ll araip HON IL
c2onqtlons cor few men have always, unerringy behed
tg law OF Gause and Effect In the gitterng Shield of
Aches could be reflected the end of the owners
reer ana the destruction of all he prized.
Anaxagoras knew and told the fate that would come TO
tes and was ostracized for his emerity Jesus knew
a not one stone of Jerusalem would be left upon anoth
e and was cruced for SAYING So Savonarola saw that
he reign Of the Medici could long endure and thev m
eu ms body In the public square. Ibsen writes play lei
NV" le pillars OF society, did Sampson pull down the
sues OF Gaza and Chrstendom calls him crank Tolstov "a
.. ep propnetc % vision twenty years ago. saw Engands
oI ner maritime supremacy stripped of her proud
lge making peace with little people she could not
gate looking Tor ally to brace her totterng throne I'm
IHe New Lealander will as surely sit upon the broken
OF Brooklyn Bridge and gaze across at the ruins of Sta
city gone-ust as surely oxygen eats iron and
ect IooWs Cause The end OF running sewage into ord
sea- and breeding of beings who scorn honest out
: ana expect to live by their wits, is simply matter ,
= matnematlcal calculation. We
imagine that can do the things that have wrecked dou
aonS and yet 60 unscathed Is the of ostrich but
Wise all rnou ,r~aol, cJ ,.,;
ONE dav he thic pat;o,,,- 60 L,t ui VII
he crash nil . 1o iae, ouI iiidy VI us, knOWlng
nd Sneeze $500 ~ " ~ so"e' oiiy shiiie =
- su6ugate another is to subjugate YOURSELF the wav
gam freedom is to give it, But as there Is inevaheI :
~ Y all prosperity that its power to subugate SO com
Am tHee come day when the lessons of the past mer
A " learned well enough. that will no cor
srsed and kept for those who shall como aftr w bers
lhlS will NOT como aho, ,,S.;i - e IL r . ions
len to waro,l -. uii'ii TIE loiy oI educatng Ii
are for 90 waste sia cease In time OF peace pre- the
ARC e. "ai 10 lne adVlce OF fool So long as we pre- i'm
oi war we shall have have that
prepare for So Onp as mon acc,,n,uato roaltI th.
lelr children shall not "@'ieh .ldl
eSS of Cent;lit,, e. anu 80 long S the rotten shoy