The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-11-14
Had a Powerful influence on the
American People.
In His Original Home He Favored
"Dlrect Action" and In the West
r World Built on Empire
What He Accomplished.

New York.-In a great many affairs
that 60 wrong today the social mind
ed detectives do not say. Cherchez le
femme; they say, Cherchez the puri-
tan ancestor. That dour figure In
sugar loaf hat and bun jerkin and
breeches striding on his way to
church with his flintlock and his
Bible. Is responsible for an extraor-
binary number Of things that now at
dtct IL. He stands In the way Of a
minimum wage, Of Sunday baseball,
Of tho uplifting Of the stage, OF the
speedy solution Of the white slave
problem, the divorce problem. the sa-
loon problem. the eugenics problem,
the 1 a. m. lobster palace problem.
which, the theatrical managers on
Broadway are aching to solve. but are
not allowed to.
The cavaliers despised the puritan
ancestor because he spoke through
his nose. But that was a minor fault.
speak at all. He Is the original
patentee OF the conspiracy of silence
to which all our Ills are due, as con-
trasted with the happy nations Of the
continent where there Is no conspir-
acy Of silence on all these fascinating
topics. and consequently these prob
lens do not exist. The puritan ex-
allied salvation at the expense Of con
~versation. thus failing to perceive that
the latter is the indispensable condi-
ton Of the former. IL he had not
been 60 afraid OF calling a spade a
spade, We should now have q flourish
ing literature and drama and art, and
We should have done away with the
social evil. v as conversational peo-
pie like the French and the Germans
have done away with 1t.
Considering that the truth slone
can be the basis of true progress and
civilization II 10 astonishing how many
things that whining, hypocritical puri-
tan ancestor accomplished In his day.
In his original home In England he
had not been going many years be-
fore he cut on the head Of . king,
sent another king packing about his
business, and In other ways pursued .
policy Of direct action" that should
appeal enormously to w. d. Haywood.
Crossing the Atlantic. he helped to
by the foundations Of an empire. For
! man who hated to call q spade .
spade. II II remarkable how well he
could use that familiar agricultural
implement. He used It to dig up the
ungrateful soil OF = rock bound,
frost-bitten commonwealth. Later he
~shouldered his spade and. still speak
Ing through his nose. but for the most
part faithful to his conspiracy OF 81
lence. he dug up the more grateful
soil Of the Mississippi valley and the
western prairies and the Pacific river
valleys, with occasional deviations to
To pick1x when he struck the ore
bearing lands Of Colorado and the
6ierras. He did not lose the early
habit Of carrying his flintlock into
the Held. He used Il IA Kansas, and
dve pears later he was carrying Il
over = thousand miles OF battlefield.
n hin own hypocritical way he called
Il . light Tor tree institutions against
slavery. When the war was over ne
went back - farming and railroad
A(uildinS, persistent ID his churchgo-
lagE hablts ana the traditional conspit@
~ e silence.
AfO forced 70 the conclusion
sthaf thu puritan a~ncestor Jared bet
~ tllan ~ dessryed and builded -