The Delta independent., 1910-07-08
THOUGHTS OF THINKERS.

David Day.-The railroad bluff as to
laying off employees when the crops are
being moved is rather a stupid fish
story. There will be more for the rail-
roads. more for the producers, more for
labor, more for the consumers if they
W Il only lay off dividends on false and
fictitious stock.
j. w. Murphy. The press is the last
bulwark of liberty in the United States.
Nearly all other of our old-time ideals
and traditions of liberty are SWEPT
away. 1t can even be said that the
American people have lost their jealous
love of liberty forgotten what it
cost in the first place, and look upon
the entire Revolutionary and Civil War
periods as more or less of joke.
George Thurner. country in the
world offers such splendid opportunities
for the uplift of the human race as does
America. What a wonderful document
is the Declaration of Independence and
what fine, noble body of men were
its signersl If the American people
were to live according to the Declara-
ton this would be the most wonderful
country in history but am afraid that
the whole human race is deteriorating.
F. j. Turner. We are apt to think
that the grabbing of timber lands and
choice water fronts is quick device of
the late nineteenth century. In point
of fact, it is as old as the hills. The
process began before the first James
town settlers had been here a year. AS
civilization advanced westward the old
struggle between the speculative pro-
moter and the producing homesteader
was fought out again and again.
History has REPEATED itself in successive
epochs all the way across the continent
DR.. Lowell. We are told today that
man is the product of the people among
whom he lives, that he cannot escape
from his environment. But on the
other hand it is also true that man to
some extent creates the world in which
he lives; that is, it is the things of
which he is conscious which constitute
his environment. No two men, how
ever similar their state, live in the
same world. 1t is the use which we
make of opportunity which really makes
the possibilities of life. But there is
another thing that makes a difference
in life and that is the standards men
set themselves. The standard which a
man sets for himself regulates his
interests.
John WHY'S. When l was a younger
man, and the automobile industry was
in its infancy. if seemed to me rather
foolish that the farmer had to take
hours to go to town when he might as
well get there in just few minutes by
whirling along the roads at safe, yet
comfortably fast pace-faster than old
Dan Patch or Lou Dillon herself ever
dreamed of ripping off the miles on the
cinder path. There is nothing like the
automobile for the farmer. Take my
own case for instance: Suppose owned
a farm twenty miles from town and
wanted to find out how much | could
get for sixteen tons of hay. Besides.
l might have some personal buying to
do and want to call on few friends.
couldn't do it over the telephone. be-
cause face to face with man, can dc
better business than any other way
it might make big difference. Now
if didn't own an automobile I'd have
to lay off whole day and drive into
town. Well, this way work round ths
place until about two O'Clock in ths
afternoon, hop into the machine and ir
half an hour or forty minutes, I'm il
town doing business-in two hours ol
less I'm back home ready for the even
ing chores.