The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-07-31


the laws OF the home? As a tree bends
so will II grow. / say to you, my peo-
rle. set yourselves as examples, slim
ulate your children by your own les
sons to do better things to aspire for
higher things and II you cannot d.
this by love then try some stringent or
more unpleasant way, but compel
obedience n you cannot stimulate
by example, then stimulate with a
physical stimulant, that Is the way
my mother stimulated me to better
things.
TO Father, Too.
Fathers, this talk is equally for
you. Every night the same old ex-
cuse Is given. to go down town. There
10 the lodge. or a business appoint
nent or the club, some excuse. Then
two-thrds OF those men go down to
TIE town and stand about some drug
store or some saloon with no business
Ia the world 20 attend or nothing to
do. You leave that wife OF yours at
home, tired and worn to struggle with
The little teething baby Men. stay
at home where you belong at nights
Keep your children at home. It Ia On
Alit NAittf lUdl llfN BtA llllO Illktnltls
Take those tender lives and during
the first seven or eight years you can
so mold them that they will be trained
for the remainder Of life. plead
with you to raise the little child I'm the
way 1t should go.
Another thing Of Importance.
teach them the habits Of Industry. As
II general rule IL Is not the busy man
or woman who gets into trouble. This
great nation is going forward I'm leaps
and bounds. and we need you, there IS
q place for every Industrious person
In the world. There Is no place FOR
the hobo or vagabond. There are the
drones in life who imagine that the
world owes them n living. the drones
believe that and the Industrious bee3
XIII them. I am not advocating that
we kill the human drones, but down
in our state wh>b a man or woman
will not work and has no visible means
oc support we call the idleness actual
crime and put them on the road to
treak stones and improve our hight
ways ana compel them to work and
earn their own living.
Purpose and Pluck.
1T Is the men and women who
have purpose and pluck that succeed.
You must work FOR yourself and for
others. | wouldn't give thing for
"A person that lives for himself only.
II Is the persons who put their arms
about the necks of their weaker
brothers and help them to greater and
grander things that makes their lly-
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losophy Of life and my mother taught
1t to me when / was a little fellow
back there on the farm" Governor
Glenn sang the words of this song
and was inundated by the applause Of
the audience. The purport OF the
words was: "If you meet an honest
man struggling In honest toll, doni
sreer or discourage or tell him II Is
TOO late, but cheer him and help him
onto the summit of the hill"
81 reckon, dear friends. that the
PEOPLE that laughed, at Abraham Lin
coin when he was green country boy
little expected TO see him become the
creates. president this country has
ever known. / don't suppose that tho
men VINO laughed at little Henry Clay
ever expected to witness his ascension
TO the top of the intellectual and po-
| litlcal world of our country.
Was n BAH Pitcher.
You will pardon me for speaking
90 myself but this hand of mine has
done every kind OF menial labor. My
| father died on the field OF battle, my
mother was left with a family of cail-
| dren on the old farm. l was but six
years of age. l have ploweI, | have
| driven the OK team trying 10 make an
honest living for the sweetest mother
a boy ever had. The farmers and
Inelghbors about me sneered and made
| fun of my childish efforts. They were
| too proud to take hold of my dirty
little hand and give me word of en-.
| couragement or little help. For fouI
years | was one Of the best baseball
pitchers in the state of North Caro-
lima and | am proud OF It. When !
| became governor of North Carolina
| those very men who had sneered al
my efforts came into my office. After
| | had won success they wanted to con-
graduate me, ana come to see me
They were too proud 10 take my help
less hand back there on that old farm
and | was too proud to take their.
when l became governor of North
| Caralina. Oh. men and women, teach
your children that they may have
pluck, that they can live for them
selves and for others and gain great
and high things in life.
Men and women, teach your chill.
dren TO be patriots. Patriots i'm the
higher ana better sense not Just poll-
ticians. Teach them to love God with
ell of their minds and hearts, teach
them that 1t 10 beautiful to die for
their country, for the glory of their
flag and the honor of their land
Pay Old soldiers Pittancc.
| "The miserable pittanee that we pay
| the old soldier is shame. / am the
sen of Il confederate soldier, The life
of my father was given on the field Of
| battle, bu; / should be willing To bear
nay share of the responsibility If they
would pay the old soldiers more that
| their lives could go down in peace
and happiness The war is over. The
soldier in blue stands elbow To elbow
with the soldier in gray marching la
one country under one nag to tbs
Igreat beyond.
Teach your children that 1t Is a
great thing to die for their country.
Make this their motto; i shall so live