The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-07
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those with whose names we are all so
familiar The past few days OF May
las taken a great emperor and Amer
ieas great author and writer A
Few years pass and those who have
teen making history are no more
since the Boy Orator OF the Platte
electrified Democratic national CON
Nention and came into the limelight,
5Ae world mas changed maste. s-Han-
va, thsn practically unknown McKin
ley, Cleveland, Altgeld, Hoar, Plan
Harrison, Fitzhugh Lee, Sampson,
leopold, Cervera. Ii Hung Chang and
others VINO wlNte their names across
me stage OF publicity with innumer-
able others have gone across thE
styx. Some of them shine greater
than when in life; some are and We're
3f the immediate time in which they
hred and will not long be OF the
Aorld-famed Bui they are gone--to-
liy the two men who are known to
Al. the void and who seem destined
20 live in history, are both Americans
Roosevelt and Bryan, both impetu-
IN belief of destiny and principles.
Neither may ever reach the pedestal
II Twain neither Will he the phitoso
rher that is Tolstoy; neither has the
learning OF Ii Hung Chang-but they
represent an era-they are applying
The ideas for posterity which others
taught to the now, They are e ratio,
perhaps, and each has countless enc
mics, but It's the irrepressible Cauca-
slan spirit-daring to do and trying
TO acclaim that which appears good
according to their reasoning. But the
5flaaoWsBofsdeath change things-pel-
aapsi PeapW will outshine them in the
alteiwhile certain it is that Edison
aas done more for humanity than any
other fifty men alive o. of recent
note. Men, when the cold finger Of
the historian comes 10 tell the story
are measured for .wAai they do
mighty warriors and greater states.
Men had America in the first quart.
er century of her history; still the
Dlan who invented a steamboat has
left a greater legacy TO humankind
the inyento.s Of the telegraph and
the telephone may outlast our great
est statesman's well-deseryed fame
When the ten collaboraters met to as.
certain, If possible, the ten greatest
names of all history, Ghengis Kahn,
unheard OF by many and almost a
myth to others, was found to outrank
a thousand men supposed to have
made imperishable records-not be
cause he was conquerng general,
but because he allowed the dawn OF
progress to shoot athwart the skies
Ot the Far East. OF the men now
living, Edison was found to be more
gene ally known of than the mightiest
potentate OF the world. It's a mys
1eryo this life--that which makes us
strive and love and hate and strive
again to recOup from errors and do
something for ourselves and those
whom we love. Then, as age comes
and we draw around us the shades or
departing YOUTH, we struggle for a
brief moment TO be good and great ,
We are shuffled along, sometimes Will.
ingly and seldom protestingly; the
cho d we know Of and yet can not un-
Gerstand, snaps and we are off for
the othee place Of abode; unknowlng,
the vast majority of us unknown. Still,
as We traverse The highways and fiji
our little inches; as we strive to 60
upward or doeilly allow the drift u
take up, the eyer-recuring axiom
comes ever and ever, The greatest
study of mankind Is man And
throughout the centuries, even before
lmelokar Numbered the doctrine OF
rights of the individual, we had
asiddied vet learned precious little OF
ourselves Zorcaster and the Nazarene
wrote to ignorant people and thei
writing have made us have faith-only
when we are certain all Is well to be
reminded those who builded the pyra-
mds had progressed forty centuries
ahead of their time, and we of today
know naught of them, save through
the winding legend of Copt mytho-
logy -Bowwow Buzzer