Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-01-07

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BY HERBERT KAUFMAN

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Time the eternal bookkeeper has closed ledger
totaing the last columns of the past yeara year of val
orous deeds-a brave year-a year of mighty glory.
Why there's hardly room all the credit entres-anc
as for debits-you can scarcely find them.
The dogs of war hadn't enough exercise to get the ken
kinks of their legs. True the Moo1s
la fuss and made muss-aowing, Nicaragua ndulged in
one OF her chronic brainstorms granting the tariff nsur
gents could not restore Repubicnsm to Amercahe loss
alone of Leopold the Unspeakable practically
Leopold damned and stained with nfamies all
the rubber on his Congo plantations made into huge
eraser, could ever clean from the memory of men,
We've had no conflicts between world powers-no holo-
causs at Messna San Francisco-not famine
in CHASTITY jeweed starving Indiano panic to block the
highways of trade lock the doors of industry Save for
Freedom sob at the martdom of Ferer and the wall of
wives at Cherry scarcely page bOtted with the Unver
sal Tear
From pole to pole has achieved superbly. He has
pushed back the the horizon He has chanted the
exutant paean of Progress in strange His genius
has famed to it's hghesthis courage has persisted the
farest goals He has rent the wells of long elusive
les. He has exalted Civilization within span
twelvemonth than ever did his predecessors.
He has made himself master of the winds and
added them to his domains of land and BY his chan
mel flight Beriot joined the cliffs of Calais and Of Dover
With bplane and monoplane the Wrghts and Curtiss
Latham lifted the stigma of dersion from the fame of
pioneers of aeronautcs the late amented Mr. Daedaus
the much misunderstood Darius Green
The Atlantic fog met it's Waterloo off the banks of Nan
tucket. The wireless &C. O. d. gave voice
to sound above the widest and the ouest
of distress to pierce the blindness of hundred miles
Abdul the Vulture sits Gagged in his palace
broken his wings and clipped his alons For time
since ohammed waved his green flag the Turk
the master of his destiny For the first time since the
bazed upon the domes of St. Sophia the millions along the
Bosphorus enjoy the rights of manhood
The old gods topping. The wrongs right
ing Where Cyrus and Darius sat in satrapy, the
their sons are sitting in last Persian
pot is the constitution has to Mesopotama
Cape Colony the Transvaal and the Orange State
have been merged into union, preamble independence
Five hundred millions of dollars dropped into the cup
of Charity. hundred rich diminished their fortunes
in the of education and humanity The soldiers of
science have been armed lavshy do battle pest and
pestilence.
The North Pole has been for the Stars
and Stripes. WHY THE ONLY THING THAT SEEMS
LEFT FOR TOMORROW is THE SEARCH FOR THE
PHILOSOPHERS STONE
We living in the mghtes period of the Earth-ths is
the Golden Age The civilization of Perices, the glory
Rome the magncence of the Renaissance tin
sells by contrast.
One by the long gone Argoses of coming
into harbor. Nothing is utterly futile. All things be-
If there to think and persist
The New Year is in the dawn Face with courage and
with hope Any of it's unborn days may bring miracle
Some engineer bore down to the furnaces of
and drive the plants of all with their energy
Synthetic research may discover artificial wheat Some
chemist produce beefseak in his laboratory
the testtube henceforth of all steers "A physician
may find for Tuberculosis may conquered
with a
AND WHO DARES TO SHEER WHEN BUT TEN
YEARS AGO LANGLEY WAS THOUGHT FOOL BE
1CAUSE HE TRIED TO FLY.