The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-03-04
Their Advantages Outlined


In your infancy you were well
red and housed and tended with n
careful solicitude. You went, in due
course. to public school, where
among possibly less desirable things
you learned in many of the essent-
ial avtivities of life to play the
bame.'
, You had the fostering care of
English gentlefolk; the instincts of
gentleman which were Unborn in
| you were sheltered and developed
by many affectionate and prudent
hands. And, in due course. you
went into one of the services or to
your university, and passed there
from to your chosen Cor allotted)
| niche, the law, the bar, the school
the church, the hospitals, the city.
well, gentlemen--noblesse OBJ
lige-what have you done in ex-
change for it all? 1 do not mean
for yourselves, but for England?"
The letter writer goes on to argue
that If these were self-made men
they might with greater justice claim
that they owed no man anything.
that, having got to the top by hard
| fighting. they meant to stay there.
and that the devil might take the
lowermost. But you, gentlemen, are
not self-made. / have obstinate per-
suasion that because. to so large an
extent, England made you, you owe.
and you will, as good sportsmen. be
glad to pay, a heavy debt to Eng
land
Debts of Self Made Men.
1T may be well TO pause here long
enough to say that there are few
self made men in any civilized coun-
try who are not heavily indebted
for what they are to the influences
with which their country has sur
rounded them. Especially true is
I this of every American. Take even
such a life as that OF Lincoln, whose
| environment was as harsh and bar
rem as that of any American life
! could well be and yet 1t was this
native land that gave him her his
tory to read. and the life of her first
great President to inspire him, and
that old Indiana statue both to teach
him the meaning of liberty and law;
1t was his country that kindled in
his heart the great passion that con-
sumed the dross of his nature and
ennobled his manhood. No man.
rich or poor, can live in this free
and benignant land without incurr-
Ing a heavy obligation to do his ut
| most to enlarge her liberties and
confirm and secure her order and
peace.
"Pars Minima' proceeds to bring
before his countrymen certain pain
fu facts respecting the conditions
of The wage-workers in his own
country and adds: IL is more diff
cult, n more heroic, a more patriot
ic thing to weigh such stories as
these with deliberate conscious in
tention. than to face an enemy in
their battle line. obviously so since
i'm practice for one who is found
| willing to do the first, there are
thousands who would welcome the
chance of doing the second.
Bound TO Solve Problem.
81 am sincerely convinced, lgen-
tlemen, that the obligations of our
order demand that If the solution
of any of the great problems of pow
| erty in this country involved very
serious inconvenience TO ourselves we
should be in conscience bound to
move to that solution. AS surely
bound as |, man of peace and un-
trained to arms, should be bound
I'm conscience Cor honor-that's the
same) to undergo the extraordinary
Inconvenience of being killed IT, sav
in the case of invasion, the safety OF
my country or of any port of my
country, demanded II.
"And so this letter-writer goes on
to argue that the men who are
ready to die for their country must