Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-07-02
TOO MUCH SPEED AND
TOO MANY LAWS
Hon. Gunnar B. Bjornson Of Minneota Discusses
Tendencies Of the Times Before Kandiyohi
Pioneers.
No Emergency Existing Which Warrants Special
" Session of Legislature

OOSo4O11 VI
Following his Introductory remarks,
Mr.. Bj0rnson said: A.$S
1t is customary, nay, it is almost In
cumbent upon man, on an occasion Of
this kind, to deal in fulsome fattery re-
garding the pioneers.
I am going to depart from this GUS
tom. I am not going to fatter, am not
going to soft soap, am not going to
devote the few minutes occupy to re-
lating the hardships and struggles of
the early settlers.
But I am going to leave, one or two
thoughts with you that suggest them
selves through contemplation of the
pioneer idea.
There are many lessons to be learned
by the young Of our settlements from
the pioneers. One Of these is not to
be in hurry.
Don't BE In q Hurry,
The pioneers learned this lesson.
the hurry and scurry policy of the pres
ent.
They have laid deep and solid and
substantial the foundation OF this re-
public. It is for those who succeed
them to build upon that solid founda-
ton super-structure that will last
that will be in keeping with the foun-
dation.
The great trouble with so many of
our enthusiasts and reformers is that
they have not and will not learn the
lesson to wait
Reformers insist on enacting into law
their half--baked theories and think
that if they are not allowed to expert
ment with their whims and notions on
the body polite that that same body
will go to physical wreck and ruin "
There is nothing genuine, nothing
real, nothing true that can not afford
to wait.
Quotes Bryan.
William Jennings Bryan made a
statement the other day that has been
quoted with approval by many period
icals of the more conservative trend OF
thought. He said, II have found that
only those who are in error need to win
at once. Those who are right can af-
ford to wait"
The true is never in a hurry-it is
the false that is always trying to beat
you to it.
If you intend to build for time yor
must take time. If you. are going to be
satisfied with sham structure you car
put it up in a hurry.
Some one has said that when Goo
wishes to make a squash he takes three
months but when He wants to bri1s
forth an oak He takes three hundred
years.
You who came here in the early days
and settled upon these then barren prai
ries know what it is to plant the see1s
Of progress and watch things grow. Il
has taken generation to make the fer
tile country We see about us. Today thu
young man expects to find ready to his
hand the conveniences it has taken 70,
a generation to acquire and complete.
High Prices Toll on Speed.
We complain about the high cost O.
living, and, to be sure, we are payinS
pretty steep price for the privilege o.
existence.
But is it not a fact that a large par
toll on the speed at which we are trav
cling. :: - FL,
In this day of the fast train and tn
faster automobile every municipal1t!
has a speed limit law. Nature has ais
placed speed limit law on the individu
al statute book Of every man and ever!
woman. All too seldom are these law
observed and the consequence is injury
death, destruction.
It pays to observe the limit law.
t. It pays to learn from the pioneer
that it pays to wait. %.-7=%-.'E IT,
Somewhere in the good old Book Their
appears this sentence: "Be still an
know that I am God.'
What volumes does not that sen
tence speak to him who listens!
BE still and know that I am God"
Because we have forgotten to "b
still", forgotten that God is God, W
have lost our grip on the wheel and tn
| machine is running away with US.
Force-Pump Education. ~
Take our schools, for instance, W
| are every year inventing some ne'
tangled force pump with which to pun
this everlasting education" into on
| children. From top to bottom Of GU
| educational system we are working a
break--neck speed. J
| So great is the speed with which "
shove our children through 4 SO man
books, or rather, that SO many book
| have to be showed through them, In
given time and woe to him or her who's
constitution will not stand to travel Q
standard speed. ~
! So great is the speed with which W
shove our children through school, Q
shove school through our children. tina
when they are graduated--shot out 6
the mill as a finished productivity ar
a wreck, either physically or mental
or both. = 5sz5 4.4z
It is fashionable in these days
know a little Of everything and SO tn
/ speed is set for the schools to conforl
to that fashion. .:Ss
A child is supposed to come out
polished, balanced, finished product an
in order that the frills may all be tacke