Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-07-08
REsTAT1NG THE on TRUTHs.

Tnere are IOur great WONup gnhl
should be written upon the four cor.
ner stones of every public building
: In this land, with the sacredness Of Q
religious rite.
These watchwords of the republic
are Equality, Simplicity. Economy
and Justice. They are interviewer
with every fiber of the national fab
rIc. To forget or deny them will
lead to every misfortune and every
possibility of destruction that rises
now threateningIy in the path OF our
country's greatness.
These words are the keynote to
James J. Hills exposition address at
Seattle. To the American people
they should be self-explanatofy. To
hairsplitters, sophists and to those
who turn the common good to person
al advantage these words are fictions
to be explained away. The better
view must endure If the perpetuity
of our institutions is to be assured.
Equality before the law Is a thing
which one owes to everybody else
and which everybody owes to every
one. Simplicity is severer require
ment, but none can attain to any
important goal of achievement with
out self denial, which is the essence
of it. Simplicity is the secret key
to the highest success.
Economy as a virtue apparently
is too much forgotten not only by
the spendthrlft, but by those per-
sonally above reproach who yet
waste the public funds. Without
economy accumuIations of capital
must cease, progress be arrested and
the higher aims of human life be
foregone.
Personal and public extravaganza
are among the most mischievous ten
denotes in the republic.
Justice, which the Roman legist
defined as the fixed purpose to give
everyone his own, is the only alter
native to class strife and corporate
debauchery. Nor will it do to mag
nifty any number of these four requi-
sites of survival to the exclusion of
any other one. The serious impair
ment of one will wreck the whole
structure. There must be concur
rent building from the basis of each
and all. President Hills words are
q call to arms for the future defense {
and the development of individual,
corporate and collective prosperity.
Harvey Parsons, the cartoonist OF
he Topeka State Journal, is a genius
n his line. A cartoon in a recent
ssue tells a story better than it could
20 written in thousand words. 1t \
describes a daily scene in the Govern +
RS office, where John Dawson, as the
doctor" of the administration tests 7
III applicants for office. The picture {
hows Dawson with a "heart tester" {
n operation. A rubber tube hanging v
n each ear connect with main valve
1hich is placed over the heart Of the
pplicant for office, who stands on a !.
ig book, entitled "My record as a \
tubbs supporter" In the background =
1t half-dozen anxious candidates n
Or penitentiary warden and other .
obs, Waiting for the supreme test" y
'hich means, as far as Dawson is y
oncerned, Does your heart beat II
ght for the big boss?" AS doc
,r" Dawson stands and TESTS" the
arious applicants for Jobs to ascer- n,
lin If their hearts are beating n
right" on the question OF United lie
.ates Senator there is displayed be- lie
re him on a table che oath which
Lch subject must subscribe to, and ..
hich reads: II do solemnly swear
support the Stubs administration %
so hep me Stubbs." Beneath this
teresting cartoon is the old-time
and frazzled by-word
the Governor, Great care will be Ia,
served in filling state appointive III
fices, and only the best material or
lected." BEST material" is con- Ia
rued to mean job-hunters who pr
II be right" on the Senatorial
estion three years hence.
The paving proposition has reached Rt