The Delta independent., 1909-10-22
Those Who Think.

HOSc w no nu1R.
Judge Shattuck. There would be
less trouble in our schools if parents
would take the position that the school
board is right. If boys had been taught
to respect authority-t authority of
the home, the school and of the law
there would be fewer inmates in our
penitentiaries, our reformatories and
our jails.
Abraham Lincoln. -rhold, if the AL
mighty had ever made set of men to
do all the eating and none of the work
He would have made them with mouths
only and no hands; and if He had ever
made another set that He had intended
should do all of the work and none of
the eating He would have made them
without mouths and all hands.
Sidney M. Owen. General Hancock
was once laughed at for calling the
tariff a local issue. 1t is question of
right and wrong. not of percent. 1t is
not protection versus free trade, but
peoples rights versus the greed of the
PilNhGkCo lew. ne uuOSt Sluplu are
becoming acquainted with it and as
familiarity will breed contempt for it
this means the end. of system which
is for a few at the expense of the
many.
DR. James Withycomb. Science with
practice is the slogan of agriculture
today. 1t would have been agricul-
tural sacrilege few decades ago to
have referred to the Oldest occupation
of man as being scientific endeavor
Brawn and great power of endurance
were supposed to be the best endow-
ment for the hnabandman in those days.
While Drawn is essential. the trained
intellect of the farmer is by far the
most potent factor in successful hus-
bandry.
John Clay. Turkey, once the gran
airy of the nations, still is marveousiy
rich in SOIL minerals and climate, yet
the peasant of the interior plows his
ground with crooked stick as in the
days of Abraham. threshes his grain as
did the people two thousand years ago,
cuts his wheat and barley with "a sickle
and transports his products by the
stunted donkey, the camel and the OK
cart. One American reaper with two
men can accomplish as much in day
as can sixty natives and simple meth
DDS.
Edwin l.. Sabin.-In all vision there
i 10 a Hind -,
upon some topic. This is exemplified
by the readiness with which the most
astute business and professional men
dsbble in speculation such as mining
and similar allurements. What man of
ordinary common sense would think of
buying house which he or his agent
had never seen, or . horse, or . gun, or
almost anything into which he is put
ting money without privilege Of ex-
animation and expectation Of using that
privilege? And yet the majority of
men will invest sight unseen. as the
boys say, in a mine, in an oil well, in a
rubber plantation, merely upon the
word of a machine made prospectus.
/ W dTh ThUdU1.-1Iedt u our merit
age of hope, and great the obligation
of our civic fate. Fling forth the
triple-colored flag to dare the bright
untraveled highways of the air. Blow
the undaunted bugle and yet let not the
boast betrsy US to forget, fo- there are
high adventures for this hour; Journeys
to test the sinews of our power; for we
must parry-as the years increase-the
hazards o5 success, the risks of peace /!
What need we, then, to guard and keep
US whole? What do we need to prop
the state? We need the fine audacities
of honest deed; the homely, old integ-
rites of soul; the swift temerities that
take the part of outcast right-the
wisdom of the heart. Brave hopes
that Mammon can never detain, nor
sulIy with his gsinless clutch for gain.
We need the Cromwell fire to make US
feel the public honor or the public
trust to be things as sacred and august
as some white altar where the angels
kneel; we need the faith to go path
untrod, the power to be alone and vote
with God.