Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-06-12
|. H. S. GLASS OF 1912
GRADUATE WITH HONOR
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great locals. set your 1Q6aS 10 WOrK
on your own back yard and about
your home even if it is but a
humble cottage. Set them to work
In your community for better alleys
and streets, better municipal build
dngs. To live in a beautiful town
is one of the really good things of
life; such a town has a marked
Influence upon every one who comes
within its spell. The constant pressure
0f our surroundings counts Ugly
environment is harmful, slums beget
slums
A beautiful yard or park, an at
Eractive flower bed forms desire in
others to go and do likewise. You
can help all men far more by som e
such practical way than by any
amount of preaching or newspaper
talk about the evils of immigration
Again we may be of utmost service
TO these foreign peoples who are
coming TO our land by backing up
all the efforts made to give them
neal thful :cupations, light airy work
rooms and safe guarded machinery.
When we discover that certain
Ghings are injurious to those who
make them injurious to the consumer
or are socially injurious like clothing
Ea ade in a swea shop then we
should not buy them, but rather buy
&IoN fn
MAKE and g bod for men to use. Favor
good 81 san goods, clean stores and we
as nation can soon drive the
bad and the unWholesome out of our
life. Thus a end may be put to i'm
pure foods, injurious occupations.
I'VE can make working people happier
and more contented with their lot In
life. We can and may raise the
Inspirations and ideals of whole com
s4nunitits by such efforts. 1t is our
boupden duty as educated men and
women to be doing something for the
peoples who throng to our shores,
9h 3se men and women who have not
had the same chance in life as we
have had. It is net so much what
we shall do for them either as what
they will do to US finally if we do not
foreign born white men is even more
true of the coIored races. They are
nj ggers or chinks to most of us.
beneath our notice or consideration.
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and by some easy going logic we
en Ike ourselves believe they are
always going to be our interiors.
This common notion which you may
very likely share with most of your,
CoUntrymen should IT be too readily
acc opted. at least it will bear close
analysis before final acceptance. We
Americans now belong to a world
power; it is too late to ask how we
arrived at that state or why, we are
there, whether we will OF no Our
dag flies over dark skinned men of
ealien races and is bound TO do 50.
We must come into conta3 with
these people not only territorially but
commercially, we are bound to have
violations with them and no more i'm
portant question is arising before this
nation than that which concerns our
treatment of the colored man whether
at home or abroad. 1t is a question
TOO which must be answered Alright or
Erouble will inevitably come.
Ny work as geologist has taken me
inJo all parts of the globe and it has
Ebeen my lot to see the whits and
Golored races in actual contact in
many lands and to observe the effects
of this contact. I have been deeply
Impressed with the fact that the
whites in such countries as Africa
China, India, South Sea islands, not
9onIy are not considering the ques-
stion of their responsibility to these
races but that they regard it as
beneath consideration. They are
creating these colored races with
Jack of courtesy yea with such
brutality and indifference that the
cordial cooperation and understanding
so desirable is being threatened if not
destroyed in many regions. The
colored races of earth, using this
term in u general sense; out numbers
the white race two to one They
nave a great advantage. in num-
bers therefore. The birth rate among
chem is greater than with US in
spite of the want of sanitary
practices among them. They are in
tcreasing much more rapidly than we
are; especially is this true of Asiatcs
They are now and are likely to re.
main dominant in SO far as numbers
go. When it comes to mental energy
esnd to the use of appliances. the
whites are far ahead but this is not
necessarily to be the cass always.
The sons of earth are waking not to