The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-05-24

CALDWELL, IDAHO, FRIDAY, M
young man that he had recently dis
| charged.
1t makes no difference who you are
and what your work may be, this sug-
gestion from St. Paul to think On
things that are honest will be help
fui and useful. The scope of the hon.
est does not stop with things of bus
mess; 1t reaches as we have said,
tne home and society, but it also
reaches the arts and literature. If
you are to paint pictures the great
artist is the one who is honest. II
you are to make portrait or if Won
are to paint landscape, honesty is the
basis OF true art. The famous French
artist Bastien La Page when he want
ca to paint a picture of Joan of Arc
ala not represent an ideal Goddess of
beauty, but he painted simple clum-
sy peasant girl-he was honest to the
facts. When God wanted to give us
portraits OF some of the great men of
ancient literature he did not picture
David for instance as faultless. but he
allows all the blemishes to be shown
with the fine qualities. This is one of
the characteristics that makes the BIZ
Die human and that makes it really
great literature 1t is honest.
AS we think then on things that are
honest we shall be come better moth
ers and fathers, better business men.
better citizens of our country. YES.
even better artists and authors. Let
US value highly the things that are
honest.
! Whatsoever Things are Just.
And now we come to the third word
that we are to consider. Whatsoever
things are just. If things true make
the practical philosopher, and if things
honest make the practical reformer,
thlngs Just make the practical ruler,
Could anything be more appropriate
than the way these great words of St.
Paurs tit into the conditions of our
times. We need to be true and honest
put oh how much we need to be lust
This word sums up the great teachinp
: OF the Golden Rule. Do unto all men
as you would they should do unto YOU
II all employers were just how few
strikes would be necessary. If mer
: in authority only knew how to con.
sider the rights of the other man, how
. much more contented all would be
From the time when Pharoah, king O.
/ Egypt oppressed the children of Israel
, throughout ancient and modern his
t tory, injustice has been the cause O
, war and of blood-shed. In our ow,
. history has not justice been one O
, the great things we have been think
: ing and working for? 1t was taxation
: without representation that was no
S just, that caused our revolution. l
e was the buying and selling of human
1 life that was not just that caused tn
k Civil War; it was the Spanish op
4 preston of Cuba that caused our wa
a with Spain. How different the pas
e would be if we had always thought o.
e things that are just But the socis
y injustices are not all in the past. l
i it just to Cypress little children and t
II make them work long hard days unde
o unlivable conditions so that some SCI
It fish owner can make a little large
IS profit? Or is it just for the laborin
n man to boycott his fellow laborer b.
n cause he will not join a particula
6 union? Or is it just for a man t
e. buy and sell girls in the white slay
lie traffic? In fact are we thinking (
e things just when we allow such thing
IS to exist? My brethren think on thing
At that are just. :
&C These first three stations are ii
:, ones that our men should visit mos
IL These three are the things of the a,
~ tive affairs of public life. Things tru
~ honest and just are more particula
81 ly masculine in the character. Do n,
understand me to say that women I
not need these qualities and that the
&c should not think on these things.
70 merely mean that the first half of tn
re summary Of St. .Paul's seems more a
70 propriate for social and commerce
;s activities The moral philosopher, Il
"a social refarmer and the statesman-lil
- ruler, these are more naturally men
ve but if these first three qualities see
Nv especially fitted for men, he last thr
4 qualities seem especially fitted +
nc women.
tn Whatsoever Things are Pure.
mt Whatsoever things are pure. The
OF is no quality that better describes {
in ideal woman than purity. It has be
IS. we'll said that women set the moi
IS. standards for a community and for
"a civilization. If the women as the me
of al index are moral and pure that $
er ciety must be moral and pure. Pu
of mothers make pure children and pu
wives make pure husbands. While
ay is not just to say that all the mo-
be responsibility of a country rests up
sy the women neither is it just to say Il
lot all the economic responsibility re
las upon the men. But generally spe;
ie- ing people understand that men ,
lie responsible for the commerce, for
Or profits and for the government Of
,er country. And too little have won
ell realized and shouldered their respor
his bilities. No matter how much TIL
ow two departments of life may over
rse and interact there is no doubt but {
are women have a great moral opportu
ex- ty and with this opportunity there
ely the corresponding responsibility.
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