Morris tribune., 1909-09-18
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER Is, 1909.


go and haul it down if he wants to-or can.
After the first announcement, this north
pole business would have had hard time
maintain front-page-next-to-pur
matter position if it were not for the contro-
versy between Cook and Peary. AS unique
advertisement for their books and lecture trips,
it's winner.
Reform has fallen upon evil days, and for a
few years it is going to be hard for the reformer
to get an interested audience. Prosperity is
general, laboring men employed good
wages and farm products bring good prices,
and in such times a contentment lays hold of
the body polite, and reformers appeal in vain.
More than this, evils grow up in good times,
which the people do not overthrow until pinch
ing necessity rouses them to action. Good times
and poor times, reform and indulgence move in
a constant inverse cycle.
President Taft must regard Gov. Johnson
as his most serious rival for presidential honors
in 1912. At any rate he went so far in his
Boston speech this week as to answer Gov.
Johuson's Seattle speech-an answer by the
way that would be received much better in the
East than in the West. Gov. Johnson is under
great obligations to the president for in
other way could the governor been so definitely
recognized as the leading Democrat of the
country. It would be better politics for Taft to
confine his attentions to Bryan, than to adver-
tise Gov. Johnson.
In the death of E. II. Harmon, this
country lost the best exemplar of frenzied
finance. Now that he is dead many have been
singing his praises, but he deserves praise only
for his great ability as an organizer His
personal life was probably clean enough to keep
out of Jail, but in business life, he is not to be-
compared to J. J. Hill, his greatest rival. Harri-
man captured his railroad empire, and there is
no telling how many lives he ruined is doing
Hill has built up his railroad empire, and
while he has many faults common to the age,
yet he has pursued a oad-guaged policy, and
is deserving of more honors living than is
Hartman Dead
Senator Nelson, in his speech at the open
ing of the state fair this week. urged the boys
to stay the farm. This is what everybody is
and has been doing that mentions the subject
"Stay the farm" is the cry that is being
raised all over. And still it goes unheeded in
many quarters. Young brought up on the
farm think that things too slow in the coun-
try. They want to get to the cities where things
moving fast and where the whirl of
merce speeds on in all it's relentless rush. What
mistake these boys make! To barter their
independence for miserable little clerkship
some other insignificant occupation that hardly
yields them living. In the city they become
slaves to some mercial task master who
cares nothing for them except to work them to
the best advantage. They are just little cog
on big wheel. They discover their mistake
after while and wish they had stayed on the
farm. But when it is generally too late What
pity it is that young men will not heed the
"call of the farm" Modern methods of farming
have certainly eliminated the drudgery,
large part of it, and the farming of the future
will be an easy task compared with what it has
been in the past. But what is the use of preach
ing this subject? People rarely learn
cept by experience, even if experience keeps an
expensive school. The boys will persist in
leaving the farm, matter how much they
will, and few years of hand to mouth exist