The Delta independent., 1909-10-29
Men Who ThinR.

Robert Moore.-The high prices of
provisions are not caused by the In
efficiency of the farming people but by
system of trust breeding that is made
lawful. This should be entirely done
away with and the trust combines not
only curbed but entirely eliminated
then we would have less anxiety of
mind and more brotherly love. AS it is,
the trusts are becoming more firmly
entrenched every day and it will re-
quire most heroic measures now to up
root them.
Drake Watson. Young people rare
ly take good care of themselves. They
are the ones who can eat anything, who
can stay out late and feel fine the next
day. They think they are so robust
that they do not need to take care of
the mselves. And this is the reason so
many folks grow old when they should
still be in their prime; the reason, also,
that many die young. Nature is keep
ing books on us and if youth wastes
health and strength the overdraft is
soon apparent.
J. S. Hoy. Christian and refined
people have invented or discovered an
easy and safe way to kill bears, bobcats
and lions. One way is to catch them
in trap and shoot them; they can not
then hurt fellow. Another way is to
run them down and corral them with
pack of crazy dogs; while the bear is
killing the dogs have a party of brave
men with repeating rifles pump keg-
ful of lead into the bear just before it
has killed the last dog. Either way is
safe and still the hunters have a bully
good time. BAIL
Robert Coyle. 1t is said that the
love of money runs in the veins of the
Anglo-Saxon and it looks like it.
Among these people. especially in this
country, it is not blood. not birth, not
titles, but money that makes aristoc-
racy. The circle from which the poor,
although educated and refined, are bar
red out, gives hearty welcome to the
person who has wealth and nothing else
worth speaking of. According to our
ordinary social standards it is cash that
counts rather than character. Dives is
on top and being on top is lionized and
no questions are asked as TO how he
got there. If we are to be warned Nv
the civilized nations that have perished
the haste to be rich is cne of the most
portentious and dangerous symptoms
of our times.
H. A. Powell.-The well balanced
man who has a fancy for the best of
everything is the successful farmer.
He has something for sale and j,
always sells at good, strong price
because it is desirable. 1t costs no
more to keep the best stock of all
kinds on the farm-horses, cattle,
hogs. sheep and poultry, even to the
pure bred dog and cat. These things
all add dignity and the appearance of
thrift to the ranch. 1t costs a little
more at first to get good, well bred
animals and little more, not much. to
provide oneself with the best of seeds
and grains to plant and SOW, but it paws
big to do it. Once started the expense
is not SO great in keeping it up and |
would never fool with a cheap agricul-
tural journal fo- time is too valuable to
waste on trashy reading.
Morton Alexander. The political ma
chine knows nothing of principles and
cares nothing. Its first and last I'M
pulse is self preservation. The pur-
pose of its existence is plunder, pillage,
piracy. 1t begins its career at the pri.
mary in the theft of political power
stolen from its rightful owners. Later
on it sells that power to those who use
1t to oppress and ensave. Having in
trenched itself behind election laws that
shield and protect, it fears no molesta-
ton. In vain do the people, seeking to
possess their rights, veer first to the re-
publican standard and then to the demo-
cratic. The result is always the same
the machine energy is triumphant. To-
day it is called democratic, tomorrow
republican, but always it is the ma
chine-cold, calculating, deliberate, de-
void of ideals, lost to honor, unmindful
of principle animated always by the
same sordid ambition of power and
plunder.