The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-02

| II Morgan had been soldier he would
have set fire 10 the mills and passed on
| Instead, he let them stand after demand
ing end collecting a tribute OF 5000"
you learned the printers trader
said
Eyes, and ate my share Of husks. shy
father urged me 10 get an education and
be lawyer So did my mother. But
thought my parents were behind the
times-a belief common to the boyhood
Of all generations. SO at the age OF If
teen I smeared myself with ink and
thought l was a printer. In course OF
time. my mother weeping at my depart
ure, l found myself in Louisville. stick
ing clumsy type on a Roman Catholic
newspaper My wages the first week
amounted to $40. My board was s.
Pays Price of EgOtfsm.
Thus It went. nip and tuck. wages
gaining on expenses one week. only to
DO overtaken and passed the week fol-
| owing, Robert ]. Tracewell. egotist. was
paying the inevitable price. sim. I am
thankful I paid Il then and not later in
life. BY and by I dropped down the river
10 an Indiana village not far from Evans
Vile The weekly paper there was owned
by an absent doctor and run by bottle
loving foreman. who vanished one night
and never came back. Then l ran the
paper myself. writing the local news.
setting the type. and soliciting advertis-
ing and subscriptions. Ny age was six
teen and | was ignorant as a buffalo.
May heaven always spare me- any sight
OF the ancient and horrible files which
commemorate NY work as editor.
Yes, sir. I lived on husks AT eight
cen. my judgment confirmed the judg-
ment OF my parents, and I went home.
ehastened and convicted. TO enter col
lege and then 10 be a lawyer. Now.
have some practical opinions with re-
spect 10 education. We force II on peo-
pie against their inherent rights, and
without moral justification on our own
part. I have never seen a man who
hadn't all the education he could handle.
nor have you. We drive the negroes into
school. and when they have been gradu-
ated they blacken our boots.
Compulsory education carries with II
the obligation of the state TO find suit
able jobs for those who have been edo
Gated by force Judge Slaughter, OF In
diana, was the ablest man ! have ever
known. He was never at school more
than six weeks in his life. Abraham
Lincoln and Andrew Johnson were self
educated, but they became Presidents OF
the United States.
III & "a
owed him so. aud he asked me 10 take
the case / collected the money after
suing twice. and then / said Reuben
you are an ass, You risked So on a boz.
whereas you should have employed a
lawyer with knowledge ard experience
Under the circumstances. ] shall not
charge you a cent. You are a dull fell
low. Reuben, and so long as you and
are in Corydon I shall be ySur lawyer
without price whenever you need my
services. but don't get too liugious and
free with your mouth.
At that time, I said, lawyers In
Southern Indiana rode on horseback from
one county seat 10 another and picked
up such business as they could ind
Travelled as Lawyer.
4 Travelled in four counties for several
years. Local lawyers would set the
cases. and then We would come along
and try Them tn court. Some trips were
successful financially and others were
not. We took our fees in money or
promissory notes and got along very
well without banks. Travelling a circuit
made men resourcefui and sharpened
their wits. Cases we're tried on the
spot without any preparation. except
over night. Moreover, NEST " the law
gers were able men. In the evening
they would drink whisky and play
cards"
Which was very ba6 A." observed, in
order 20 note results
"Oh, don't know" Mr. TracewelI re-
piled. Il have views also on the whisky
question. We waste much of our SYM
patty on weaklngs. elf a man is feeble
morally and lacks self-respect something
VIII get him finally-that is natures
method OF eliminating its mistakes. AS
a man who doesn't drink drop OF
liquor at any time or at any place,
say that the evils of drunkenness are
greatly exaggerated. The weakling is
doomed, and ne might as well be de-
stroyed by whisky as by anything else.
Nature has its processes by which il is
purged OF the things that keep 1t back
and litter up its works. An incapable
lion doesn't last long In the jungle. A
sickly plant in the garden is soon de-
voured by parasites. Fight and defense
are the fundamental requirements of ex-
istence-from the invisible seed sown by
the wlnd-up TO an Abraham Lincoln or a
William Shakespeare.
Yes l rode a circuit and 1 saw the
weaklings perish. but the strong men
lived"
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