The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-07-09

railroads that we're guilty of rebase..
We found !ex trusts that we're e.-
reciaIly bad and oppressive Fror
Ne. York City 10 San Frsneise1
there we're possibly i've hundred me-
Who uere guilty Of the crime Of graf:
bu, 10 read the sensstional article.
that we're printed, une would 5eliers
,hA. eighty millions H American pee,
pie were grafters. and the eighty mil
.ior. had 70 suffer for the guilt of the
Eve hundred.
DR.. Hunter il his book on lover :
says ,ha, 20. 90 school children 20 y
school hungry and without breakfast
every morning in New York and
Brooklyn. A careful investigatio-
Vas at once made by men working Il
philan,hrupic work. They asked the
school children in the grades, anc
could not find one that vas hungry f0r
bread. They thought they would s>s
the small children. for the small child
ren would be more likely 70 tell The
truth. and they could not 6nd in the
primary grades q single child tha.
vas hungry for bread. After invest
eating the whole Of the east side in
New York they could lot fnd single
hungry family. though they fouad
seven hundred families With accounts
il the Povery savings Bank, and ye,
Dr.. Hunters book will be read by
hundreds OF psople and believed by
many, while this statement is eollos.l
lie
During November and December Ee
bad = panic. Many said it vss the
wort panic since the days Of 80, yet,
during the very darkest days Of the
panic, the average income OF the Amer
ican people during November and De-
cember vas three times the average
income of our fathers from lsoO to
1870 We have, however, . dark bot
On our national escutcheon. When
Koksuth vas in Fsneul Hall be e1-
claimed Here is . nag without .
stain, . nation without . crime" We
have . crime in legslized and licensed
saloon. but even this crime that for
years has vexed and puzzled our phil
snthropists and Our reform workers
Is being rapidly solved, and counties,
states and vast terrisLries are q every
election voting dry" and sooo this
hydrs-hssded monster, ths American
saloon, will, like slsvery, be the thing
Of the past, but 70 do thiA - must en-.
large The moral forces until love levels
al rasks and lays The shepsrd's crook
beside the seepter. There are many
solutions offered for our American
problems. Education is good, but i,
alone is not sufncient. An educated
william 10 . thousand times more Of .
criminal than II be had no education.
We are told that the reformation Of
environment will solve our problems,
but We cannot change all of our envir-
onmente. We must change ourselves,
end then The environments wlllch1nge.
Socialism has been offered, bu, mors
and more il does not seem to meet our
needs Of the rising generation.
when . deed 10 done for freedom through
the broad earsh's aching breast
Runs . thrill Of toy prophetic trembling nov
from east 70 west
And the slave vbere'er be cower feels that
soul within him climb.
To the awful verge Of manhood y The eDeF1y
sublime
on . century bursts full blussomed On the
thosny stem Of time
New occasions teach new duties
Tine makes ancient good uncouth
We must upward sill and onward.
Who would keep abreast Of truth.
Lo. before Ms CLEANS our camp fires
We ourselves L. uss PILGRIMS be:
Launch our Nayhover and steer boldly
In the deaperste winter SEA-
Nor attempt. the futures portal
With the pass blood russed key