The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-03-17

Immediately after recovering
from long illness.
The other day that freckled-
faced fellow handed down de-
cision from the bench of the
United States Circuit Court of
Illinois imposing a fine of twenty
million dollars against one Of the
most defiant, pernicious and
powerful combinations of capital
the world has ever known. That
boys name is known around the
world today as Judge Kennisaw
Mountain Landis.
You cannot tell what these
lads are going to become. Des-
tiny waits just around the cor
ner. Perhaps the ragged little
fellow you pass unnoticed on the
street every day viii some day
make every citizen here proud
because it is the home town of
that little lad. Destiny seems to
delight in disappointing the as
siduities of art with which it
would rear Iaborious dullness to
distinction, and to glory in the
/ luxuriance and vigor of her wild
and unexpected productions. She
takes care that her darlings
shall slip up into greatness in
the shade with no thousand eyed
public to watch their growth,
and blazon every new deed, every
blushing emotion of young gen
ius, to the world. She fiings the
/ good seed to the winds; some
/ perishes among the stony places
of the world; some is choked out
by the thorns and brambles oi
every adversity; some falls into
/ good ground and yields a mod
/ crate harvest; but still Other
/ seed is caught up by the myster
ious currents OF the air and flunl
far into some barren and IN
slightly spot where, in spite of ;
thousand obstacles, it works it
solitary but irresistible way uI
: into sunshine, and spreads owe
its desert birthplace all the bean
ties of vegetation.
Let US be careful and consiG
crate and tender and loving wit
the boys. Let US remember ths
there is a continent of undiscoy
; cred manhood in every boy
we can only inspire him with th
ambition TO play the Columbu
with his soul. Let Us have th
faith of Trebonius, the instru
tor of Martin Luther, and thel
is something worth finding
every boy. Trebonius, it is sal,
always stood uncovered in Il
presence of his boys. who ca
" tell, +" he was wont to say, wh
man may rise up among the
= youths 4? There may be amor
. them learned doctors, writer
: sages-nay even princes of t
- empire. And his faith "
justified of her children for ev,
then there was before him [
boy who afterwards became t
> hereic leader of the Reformati
-that solitary monk that sho
ia the world. +"
I'd In the boys we see the promi
e. of the future. What the count
~ will be tomorrow depends up
. the boys of today. The streng
'e of these benign institutions
De the free will remain only as t
st boys are imbued with the sac
as fetal spirit of those who,
,a fields of suffering and of bloC
made those institutions possib
The safety and sanctity of
home will continue tomorr
ge only as our boyhood rears I
ideals and standards that upht
of the home of today. The bu
ness lift of tomorrow will be
III better than the boys are taus
no to make it. The Kingdom
n God will be hastened or hinder
off as the church wins or loses
w. boys.
:, The boys of France during
eu early days of the French revo
de ton bore a flag displaying
ed shining letters these word
IL "Tremble, tyrants, for we sh
~ grow up" Let us remem