The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-03-26
NO NEUTRALITY IN NATURE.

! IS frequently irks0me, and soIn6
times it even becomes burdensome,
| but being imposed upon mankind
for purpose ii must be not only
patiently endured but zealously
prosecuted. We are all children in
way, more tutored than tutoring in
the school of life, and childishness,
! If permitted, would control our
every action, filling us with poetic
fancies and causing us to fit from
pleasure to pastime quaffing deep
Of that nectar brewed by idleness
and sweetencd by indifference. for
getful of all seriousness and obliv-
ious to the Creators call to duty.
/ When man and woman, fresh
I from the hand of God, gamboled In
the Garden of Eden, free from care
and strife and happy in the blissful-
| ness Of their own ignorance, there
was concisely shown that peaceful
and poetic condition which might
have now been ours but for an inter
ference that brought knowledge Of
| right and wrong and with it life's
responsibilities If that sweet will
which is the charm of innocent
childhood, and to which we are all
at least receptively inclined, could
dominate our course, how few of us1
would prefer prosaic duty to that
poetic fantasy which must have
made of time one continuous dream
of bliss for that pair of grown up
babies who roved the valleys of
Eden clothed in the habiliments of
nature and drinking deep with |
each indrawn breath of the perfume |
ladened air, while for pastime they |
plated the lions name and tickled |
the hyena to hear him giggle. Here /
was the neutrality of nature in the
original package Eve, unfettered
and unrestrained was neither con- i
cerned nor disturbed as to the
whichness of the whatness with
which she was adorned. and Adam, +,
blissfully content with the nothing \
ness of the occasion, was unmoles- +
tedly happy in the absence of at
fairs of home and state and unoccu- r
pied with concern as to who should n
De president, senator, governor, rep n
'esentatiye or constable. But n
Adam and Eve, they clum' up a il
tree, Il
Adam got stung by bumble-eye b
bee ID
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Immediately everything changed. u,
I'VE begun to closely scrutinize the
ig trees for the latest prevailing r.
ancy in dress pattern and to ques-
ion Brother Serpent about the next
spring opening" while Adam hit n
he ground hunting for a job. And
hings have been different ever
since. |,
AS we each make our appearaneat
IN the arena of life the Supreme \
Master entrusts us with talent !
and requires that we improve it |
against his demand. AS children we |
go through period of preparation,
after which we are duly initiated +.
into the sterner realities of life.
Duty becomes the watchword. TO i'm :
,rove the talent is life's purpose. :
die Indifference may invite us, but | =,
Id "bumble-eye" is still on the job. :
We each are measured for a place as
Material is fitted for its purpose,
nd in that place we must find our a
elves. or fail If there are teach ,
rs there must be some to be
aught We must either influence or
e influenced, and just as there is
~ a OF to
ion neither is there any gainsaying i,
hat enlistment and CONSUMPTION in
he armies engaged in eternal war
are for right or wrong is contin-
tally going on We must either vol ,
lnteer for service under one flag
Or we are drafted for duty under
he other. There is no such thing IN
real life as neutrality.
A newspaper is a means provided
for the enlightenment of the pee-
pie, it is mouIder of public opin-
ion. 1t must either make for good !
or evil, exercising power through
the true or false opinions it puts
forth A real newspaper is merely n |
mechanical copy OF the individuality I
of the power behind it. There is no |
such thing as journalistic neutral |
ity, just as is neutrality of nature |
impossible, at any rate there has
not been since old ''bumble-eye" got |
on the job We must account for the
talent.
That's why this newspaper is for
Woodrow Wilson for president Cone
Johnson for United States senator,
William F. Ramsey for governor,
and SO on down the line. You can
always put your finger on us.
The organs are complaining :,