The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-12-15

piddle and fume over issues dead and
damned by the decades gone for.
ever?
A political faith IS nat to blame: It's
the people who lead II and refuse to
apply the faith to the questions OF the
hour and take advantage of oppor-
tunity. To take q man from Ohio and
place him at the head OF the great
waterway question is flying In the face
Of reason; but to take one whose
knowledge Of his country was CLEANED
from encyclopedias and who thinks the
distance from Kansas City to Frisco
Is almost half as far as from Cleveland
TO Sandusky, is a reflection upon our
intelligence as a nation.
We who have seen the once wealthy
and rich New England states depopu-
lated by the husbandmen because Of
soil ruined in an effort to care for
rapidly-increasing population; the hills
| Of Virginia. Mississippi and Tennessee
all bat barren, and now read the boast
ful utterance of the thoughtless that
the Grand Prairies of Illinois and Iowa
will never fail. too wen understand
what futurity holds In stsre unless we
return to that wisdom taught by Egypt
In tho past so far distant as to be re.
lated to mythology.
The issue must be forced by those
OF the West. II should be remembered
the people OF the ether sections, once
they get the proper Interpretation of
the object, will be as one. They are
as honest and as true to manhood as
are the people of.any land. They arE
but a generation or so removed from
the pioneers, and they are as anxious
and prayerful for the advancement of
their fellows as are the people of any
land They, however. are not eogni-
1ant OF the facts. and we may have 20
spend decades In overcoming and COW.
ing the artful dodger who viii hide be-
hind every stone known only to the
parsonage OF one who lives the para.
site life-availing himself OF expedi-
ency tariffs and getting behind the
lustre OF some departed hero who
would be our CHAMPION II u5w with us.
Ages, Ia the span OF real statecraft.
are as seconds OF time; we who lead
the van today, are in the tomb tomor-
r,w and those who follow in our wake
will have only the successes we have
wrought to make their day better and
greater than ours. but, as nations and
history are made and man impro ed.
all generations are but dim flashes OF
light In the darkness.
VIII We then, because someone for
he moment called great but who will
Kin the oblivion forces tomorrow, stop
| our demands and remain idle heuause
Of fear2 II so, then our generation Is
one OF the few not worth the space and
time we have dotted the surface of
/ the earth and 1t would have been bet-
ter for humankind II we had never
been part Of It's history or being.
The BurtOns and the Cannons may
laye Influence and they may retard
The progress OF man, but II will be but
Tor day. and futurity will take up the
work We leave It, and go forward. each
lay making the plan OF life greater and
sasier; each generation adding to the
better things and making evil more
)ppr blous 10 the masses,
Such is as true as the needle TO the
1 aole The past Is proof the present
sNemplflcaton. and pOsterity, looking
lver the great things we have done
VIII spend, perhaps, an lille hour read.
ne what was done by some we NV
tear, and years studying those builders
who make II possible to find ZONES and
1lenty for the vast army OF human.
dnd.
Concluding, would II not be wise to
spend the millions We are p1uring into
the Pinchoi forest preservation
scheme; the millions 1t Is costing to
support country life commission; the
millions we are spending to prove o.
4 the world that a fleet OF battieships
may sail around H. the millions We are
| paying to tais and that experiment for
/ the proof OF statement made by
some ass (unwisely elected or ap-
pcinted TO office) into fund that
might be used as a principal to lean
TO the brain and Drawn of this nation,
paying IL back to the Golfers from
whence Il came, with due and correct
interest2
As the wheels OF progress revolve
and men take their places like a pilot
on a ship, II is well that we proceed
With c nseryatism and courage. but Il
does seem that the wisdom OF the ages
teaches we should proceed toward the
goal which promises most 10 man.
kind. and that the blight of partisan
Ignorance be MT allowed TO hamper
the eyerincreasing power which has
sfl forwari eoi conquer the ills that
make life too hard Corruption ana
vice flourish best where the goal q
low; evil follows pnly the wicked or
tae badly debased intelligence, aud
Christianity, II q be worth whal we
prize Il for bids as 30 aud conquer
the world.
Are you one OF the conquerors into
whose brow Is burned the priceless
dladem OF righteous effort: Il OF the
other sex, upon whom the cross OH