The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-02-18
WORK EARNESTLY
FOR EQUITY
And Win a Glorious Victory
For Toiling Humanity.
Pay Your Dues-Darkest Hours
Come Just Before
Dawn.

The most important thing in life is
to pose in the right direction. In
order to do this, we must have the
correct view point, from the van
tage ground of which we may choose
our pathway of duty. We are con-
fronted with two ends; success and
failure. To win the former it re-
quires of us labor and perseverance.
We must remember that those who
start for glory must initiate the melt
ed hands of action, and must pursue
the game not only where there is a
path but where there is none. We
must be able to simulate and dissimu-
late TO weep and 10 reap, to conquer
the earth like Caesar and to fall down
and kiss 1t like Brutus. If you wish
success, hold your ground and push
hard. To stand still is to give up
the battle. Be alive, be patient. work
hard. watch opportunity. There never
II
when Equity demanded harder or more
earnest work than now. We should
attend our locals and visit our neigh
boris locals, encourage one another.
We are very sorry that We have
men all over the county who claim
they are awful good equity men, who
never attend their local and some
never heard an equity speech in their
lives. No wonder such men ar so
hard to please. You will hear some
of them say, IF they don't do better
another year, don't know whether
will pay my dues or not" Such men
as these are doing the organization
more harm than good.
Now ] would be man or a mouse,
| would quit or pay my dues. Come
out like a man and go 10 your local
and use your brains 30 make your or
ganization better, instead of chewing
the rag all the time. If there We're
proclamation issued that men who
would not encourage the organization,
should not eat, there would be several
so-called Equity men that would /
starve To death in forty-eight hours. |.
Therefore, we would insist that ev-
cry man in the Green River District
pay his dues and help us as we'll as
our families If there be a pleasure
on earth which angels cannot enjoy OF
which they might almost envy man
the possession of, II is the power of
relieving distress. If there be a pain
which devils might almost pity man
for enduring, IL is the death-bed |
consciousness that we have failed to
do our duty. The heart which was
intended to beat with compassion for
others has become contract cd to a
narrow circle and life that inesti-
mable gift of Providence instead of
drawing to its close a rounded and
complete whole. has been stinted and
dw9rfed and passed on Ia the ether
world by i'll prepare ton for the
great changes wrought by the hand of
death.
In regard to paying dues, we hear
men say that $l.0 is too much. Now
would like for some man 10 name
any organization that has done as
much for the farming people, that
can be run with less money. The in
itiatiCn fee and one years dues is
$3.50. If any man will look at this
as "A business proposition, he can see
that The man that joins now IS getting
the best of It. For We men that
joined five years ago have paid almost
81 In dues, besides we have lost lots I
of time and paid our fare while at
tending the District, County and State
meetings. while our neighboIs stayed
at home making something to place
on the market and get the benefits
of some other mans labor and give
the man that did the work no credit |
whatever.
Now ! appeal 10 you fellows. is that |
right, and is that a christian spirit? |
] say it is not. 1t must be an en-
ror of the head and not the heart. |
Now you fellows that are cut had Just |
as well get in, for We are going to
win as certain as the world stands
and we will do it without night riding
for there is where you belong and you
know it as well as do.
l.. B. TICHENOR
nIINnEE