The Delta independent., 1909-11-05
Men who Think.

that it would be a nice and pleasant
thing to retire from the farm and take
up life in the city, consider the change
that would take place in. your bill OF
fare. We know the road seems long
on the way to church or town but for
our part we would prefer to go that
way on rasher of home cured bacon
and eggs and plenty of butter than to
walk five blocks on some detestable
breakfast chaff with skim milk and
eggs of questionable vintage.
James j. Hill. They say l am rich
and they roll off the number of my
| millions. The fact is, owe more
money than all the men in Minnesota.
To make my investments profitable and
keep them from fading away l am
obliged to eternally struggle keeping
them active. One investment calls for
another to protect it. This eternal un-
rest of business means national pros
perity. To picture the great business
builder as parasite living on the labor
of the proletariat is an insult to the
intelligence of the age.
DR.. David Blaustein. 1.-The foreigner
is better American than the American
himself. With respect to the oppor-
tunities and institutions of the United
States some native born citizens feel
very much as town boy does toward
the public school. If he attends at all
it is in a superior, patronizing way as
if he conferred favor instead of re-
ceiving one. He is cloyed with his
privileges. They are so abundant that
he has lost the power to profit by them.
At the same time farmers boy, fresh
from the plow, comes to town hungry
for knowledge and carries off all the
prizes of the school. We are quite apt
to value our opportunities in proportion.
to their scarcity.
Robert G. Ingersoll. There was an
idea in the olden time-and it is not yet
dead-that whoever was educated ought
not to work; that he should use his
head and not his hands Graduates
were ashamed to be found engaged in
manual labor, in blowing fields. in SOW
ing or in gathering grain. To this
manly kind of independence they pre-
ferred the garret and the precarious
existence of an unappreciated poet,
borrowing their money from their
friends and they regarded the useful as
degrading; ideas from the dead. The
educated were willing to stain their
souls to keep their hands white. The
object of all education is to increase
the usefulness of man to himself and
others.
Justice Brewer.-The two words
liberty and stability express the proper
relation between the people and the
government. Mankind would not have
been able to accomplish what it has if
the government had made itself felt on
every side holding back the desires OF
the individual, setting limited bound
aries to the scope of his ambition,
directing every day what he should or
should not do. Quickly there would be
an energy and initiative. Man would
lose interest in his work and would be-
come inactive, unproductive. Individ-
uality without bounds, without form or
cohesiveness. would result in the mob
and other confusion. Government is
necessary to give form and system to
Individual effort but not to restrict it.
Frederick w. White. These rare
October afternoons are wonderful for
walking and day dreaming. The tinge
of melancholy in the turning foliage
and the withering trees is offset by the
brilliant sunshine and the tiugle of the
crisp autumn air. The country in
Colorado has not the exquisite fall
coloring of the east to lure one. but 1t
is the country that has always been
nearly as immortal as the sky and is so
much nearer to US human beings. There
never was time that the country did
not exist. 1t was here before man and
today man can find an exultant joy in
watching the violet distances, the play
of the shadows upon the mountains,
the consolation that the mortal mind
experiences in the vast openness of the
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