The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-01-11

always responds to every vibration
of other souls in trouble and need
The sympatheticless man is a pope
in religion-the kind who set up the
inquisition, cynic in philosophy, a
| tyrant on the home and a stern,
heartless miser in business He may
| have the genius Of Shakespeare, the
| learning of a Bacon, the oratory of
a Cicero, the eloquence of a Burke,
the generalship of a Napoleon, the
graces of a Chesterfield, the states
manship of Machiavelli and the ply
steal strength or sampson, and yet
If he have not sympathy he is not a
real man in the highest sense of that
term, but is a machine cutting it's
way ana crushing it's course, with no
regard to where it cuts and who it
brushes. The real man is akin to
all the world and rejoices in its joys
and is moved to sympathy by its sor-
rows.
And SO, the question may be mar
rowed down, and these qualifications
couched in the one word, courage >"
1t takes courageous man to be
honest these days, to be sympathetic
and to have the height about him
that he will die in the flames rather
than trample upon the white breasts
of women and tender faces of child
rem in an effort to escape from burn
ing theatre. It's easy to be brave
when long lines of soldiers are be-
ing flung like ropes across a battle
field and the sunlight is glistening
from ten thousand swords and gun
barrels, and painting steeds are thun-
dering by with the artillery and the
military band is stirring the soul
with martial music. Most anyone
can be brave under those circum-
stances, but it takes courage to say
No" when all alone in your Office,
where you think no eye beholds you,
and the SLY and cunning imp of
temptation drops few thousand of
'hush-money" on your desk. Under
such circumstances is where battles
are fought that cause Bull Run,
Chickamauga and Gettysburg to pale
into insignifcance and where many
| meet their Waterloo. 1t is there that
the treaty of peace Of what ought to
have been great battles is signed in
a check book AMI the plots and plans
delivered into the hands of the enc
my.
And So while the mentioned ads
called for man, we need those
wants duplicated over many thousand
| times If they needed only a man
We need a million men. There never
was a time in American history when
we had greater need for many men
than today. There never was time
when men could accomplish more for
their country than this very hour
Men are needed in every department
of public life. We need men who can
be trusted with the sacred rights of
the people with no danger that they
will be sold for mess of pottage. We
need men in public Office who will
appreciate the solemnity of the oath
they take to impartially enforce the
laws of the country regardless of So
cial standing or financial rating. We
need men in politics, not pygmies,
pillagers, manikins, mollicoddles and
milk sops. We need men who will
not cringe and crawl at the feet of
| the powers that be- afraid to lay
claim to their own souls. We need
men who cannot be bought, bluffed,
bartered or betrayed. We need men
who will learn the right and who will
stand by it regardless of public clam
or. personal pull or private pelf We
need men who know which side of
a question they are on and are not
afraid nor ashamed to confess as
much. We need men who will take
a stand and not flop" every time a
gust of ''hot air" blows. We need
men who know where "they are at
/ and will tell others without hemins
and having. We need statesmen,
orators. educators, politicians
preachers and philosophers, but they
| must also be men of unapproachable
/ integrity, profound conviction AMI
firm determination We need men
of genius. learning and wisdom, with
keen intellects and gigantic minds,
but they must be men of conviction
and the courage to stand by them at
/ any cost. The day of the tool and