Evening star., 1912-11-10
The Country Stor@k@@p@r
Views Modern Ideas

ter friend to you and your wife and ba-
bies than the eloquent gentleman in a
frOck coat and slouch hat who tells you
what he will do for you if you help get
him job that pays five thousand or ten
thousand or fifty thousand dollars year.
All the con men are not engaged in
selling gold bricks and mining stock.
Some of them are dispensing political
piff1e.
Il know there is a lot of misfortune
and lot of unfortunate people in the
city. They invite misfortune by choosing
to live in the city. If there was as much
misfortune and unhappiness and misery
and injustice up there as l hear tell of,
I'd run faster than rabbit to get out of
such a place.
I've never met any political candidate
fortunes of the world. I'd rather go to a
pastor than a candidate for conso.ation.
There's some ill-luck in the word, of
course. but we can't be lucky all the
time. We've got to stand share of bad
luck. In the country we have spells OF
bugs and blight. but we keep on p.owin'
ana piantin'. It's the only way. When i'll
luck knocks you down the only proper
thing Is to get up: if you don't you'll stay
down. The legislature amt coming along
and pick you up and pat you on the back
and pay the grocery bill and settle the
interest on the mortgage, that you put on
the farm to buy piano or an automo-
bile because daughter Sue insisted on
in the county.
up to the city there never were be-
fore SO many able-bodied men quittin'
work at 4 ocock In the afternoon. loaf
ing on their jobs. spending money for
cigars and high balls. talking sport or
strolling along the streets with creased
pants and patent leather shoes. Never
before were SO many young fellows talk
ing loud about their rights and keeping
mum about their duties. Never before
in
| man as he is" and sassing their bosses,
acting cussed Independent, tn owing up
| their jobs because they interfere with
their pleasures or gettin' fired because
they won't understa nd that thei' boss
interest is their interest, and then squeai-
ing about hard times and inequality.
Never before were so many young fell
oWs running off on vacations to rest
up because they are run down from
overwork, when the reason is that they
won't go home and go to bed at the
right time, but insist on walking the
streets. or ga livanting with the gir.s.
and helping to pay the high license of
the saloons.
'Never before has 1t been SO hard to
get reliable men at good wages to work
faithfully and systema ticaly. There
never was SO many incompetent men as
now. and al of them putting up a buff
and looking for a bigger position than
they can fl and asking more wages tn
they are wo- tn Never before was SO
many girls working at small but suffi-
cient wages trying to dress themselves
up ike senator's daughters. Never We're
people spending so much money for
things they don't need as they are spend
ing now.
Some of the city men 1 talk with say:
With al the doors of opportunity cloeed
and locked what are our boys going to
do? The next generation and the next
one will get on all right. There amt nc
need worrying about posterity. Poster
ity always looks out for itself and let's
the family burying ground grow up in
weeds. Fifty years from now the young
cubs will be lookin at our pictures ard
Sayin': What awful funny clothes the old
codgers wore in them DAYS
"A man needn't trouble about posterity.
remember once my old grandfather sal
to me when / was little shaver:
, Sonny, he says. whales has almost dis
appeared from the Chesapeake bay They
are being exterminated yes. sir, extermi
mated. / don't know what is goin' to be-
come of you and the world when thert
are no more whales in the Chesapeake
Many of our big industries are support
ed by the whale. Without whale oil
there'n be no lamplght Lighthouses
will have to shut up and navigation viii
stop. There'H be no ships or sailors
Commerce will be dead.
well. whales has disappeared from the
Chesapeake bay. So / figure out that
when the next generation comes along
the boys will find something to do i
they know how to do it. and IL they
want to do it,