Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-16

fWrftfen Specially for The Bufletfn.)
 They divide up khe human race in an sorts of Ways-by color and by descent, by shape of the head and slant of the eyes, by race and religion. by thickness of the skull and kink of the atso, be divided between the stable and che unstable races. You remember Ja- coois characterination Of and prophecy for his born: Unstable as water, the days of the patriarchs, wise men, it seems, had come to recognize this dividing line and to understand that the unstable man was not huak for 5ucceze.
 The stable man is one who "stays put" When he is confronted by a problem he solvsg 1t from tho bottom coming to a decision and in taszing his stand, but when hs has once taken it he remains. Horsea and oxen can't move him; nothing can but new evi- previous dectaon. There-is a difer- encs between stubbDrnness and stA.bil- fty. Tho one roots itself wherever chance or warizn s1appens to drop it and arguments of reason and evidence; the other plants ttse1f at drst where reason and evidence point as che best Scca- ton, and stays there till reason and
 
 Of a change. Stability is the brake on the wheel which holds the load where it ought to be; gtubbornneas is a spike driven ta1rough hub and axle pinning manly virtue. the other an unmanly vice
 The unstable man lacks Che rugged strength of hfa stable brother, as well ss the clcdiike an.nundiity of his stub born cousin He is of 1sss use to the world than effher. He tR . chip on the etream. a straw 1ecoro the wind, vagrom uncWstnanfy fn . world where
 The line which dividss individual men likewise divides rzcas. The dom inAut peoples of the world today those which make Europe and America n,s,s otmsrsnt rom oAs Asas ,. ana ,, Arrscasnare @ ectefdzfxc s116ereuces between the great peoples who rule the world comm erciaa- ly. tfdustTtaiH. dnanc4a1iy and impe- ruled by them, fs tha< the latter are almost invariably unstable in their habits of life as well as their methods of thought The stable races are land fhensetves in some chosen are area i and master 1t They como to rule it's or- Ean3c life and to possess all of use that can be won from its inorganic preme control they gradually work outward And to the radfatinx sweep of their spread there can be no sue csssful resistance except by another people. similarly stable.
 Tho Enufishman ruIss India and the eoudan and the unstable millions bow their necks in submission to his hun dreds- This may seem unjust in the Thfngs -they-are it as the law. In Eivedua97y, the desert warriors of the AAhd who surrounded the British surares at Ofmd5uaman were as strong 11elr eventual defeat was certain from che outset What comparison can there be between the fierce fighters of Afri- can deserts or the wandering Tartar Brftish or German or French armies which confront them? ''See Jackson eud his corps, standing like 8 stone waHf" wzs Lee's admiring tribute to hardest fought battles of the Civ1l war
 it is this stability of men and of na- <iens and of races which counts in the history Of the world And one of the outward signs of dts existence is in the become landowners ana 1and11olders. The tent dwelling Tartar cannot com prehend the passton for the soil which seems to 4nhere in the white races. He has never felt #. Here today and yon- der tonorrow-what does 1t matter to him where hie tent is pitched, so there ts water and forage for his herds? But with us in America and Europe there is an fnborn end racial hunger. for the laud-nct merely for what it will yield to ua. but for fts own sake. We want some portion of 1t as our very own, wazrt 1t in fee simple, want it to stay on and gtay with, want it to use either as factory or shop or playground, but, above all, az the site for Home. We want to own it, to have the sense that it is ours, from the center of the earth I'D and out to the last aftenuzted limit of the atmospshere- Or course there are exceptions. Some of us would rather live in rented tenements than on our own land. But these are not the