Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1913-12-06

belief 1t was better to allow this sort
OF silent partner to furnish the indus
try and the economy
Who shall measure the power OF
river. for ever falling to the sea? How
many millions of horses and men has
i equaled in its wasted power in each
generation. in each decade, in each
year? Certainly sufficient to lift the
entire burden of labor from the shout
ders OF the world.
What mind can measure the extent
Of such a force, or dream the posi-
bilities Of it's application, If it could
be set to work? What equivalent OF
human brain and Drawn could be val
ued against this careless, ceaseless
power, derived endlessly from the air
and the earth-power given to the
peoples of the earth before the arrival
Of our present political and industrial
masters; given them in the time when
/ the earth was the Lords and the full
ness thereof. The minerals under the
EARTH the food produced in the soil,
the waters offering paths and power
/ before the earth and its fullness
passed from the hands of the Lord
into those OF our present masters.
these, 1t may be conceived. were in
| tended as the Lords gift to the
peoples of the earth. That, however,
was quite before the advent of John
Rawn.
Toll has always been the human lot.
We have carried the mechanical bur
dens as we'll as the mental burdens
of life on our own human bodies and
souls; although all the time thousands
of patient giants we're waiting. willing
10 serve US. John Rawn could see
them waiting. He knew 70 whom one
day would be due the power. and the
kingdom. and the glory. He could
look toward the whitetopped noun
tains, foreseeing the day when they
would be put under tribute, because
| they breed tumbling waters of i'm
measurable strength and utility. Their
| heritage Of beauty and majesty Is
naught to minds such as that of John
Rawn's. Utility is the one word in
the maxims Of such as these. men
beloved of the immortal gods.
We speak Of kings, of emperors, but
what emperor in all the history of the
world had servants such as these, sub
missive giants such as these. to work
! for him? We speak of miracles of
OLD. What miracles ever equaled the
business wonders, the money iling
! miracles, of the last twenty years In
| America?
Where gat this silent partner OF
| John Rawns it's own tremendous
| power? Out of the sun and the earth.
| the parents of humanity. The rain.
/ drop on the leaf, shot through with
| the shaft of the sun. fell to some near
| by rill and, joined by other rills,
marched on. alive, tireless. tremen-
dous, toward the sea. Even far up
/ toward their source, had your little
| boat lodged. counter to the current, on
some rock or snag. and had you at
! tempted to push it back against the
! thrust of the downComing waters, you
might have got some knowledge of
! the power of even little stream. Ten
! feet below you, that power again
T., would have been quite as great: and
ten feet below that again as great;
| and so on. to the sea. 1t required the
advice of no professional maxim ma
kers to teach a few of our great men,
our specially endowed superiors, John
/ Rawn first among them, that this pow
er one day must be used. In accord
ance as it shall be used, the burden
of humanity may be lifted from hu-
man shoulders. or thrust crushingly
down upon them until indeed human
! ity shall cease to hope. The earth ana
its mllness are no more the Lords
today. They are John Rawn's.
The simple plan of the Interna-
tional Power company was to make
some strong obstruction inviting the
enormous resistance of the Father of
the Waters, tantalizing that power
into being Thus. in a manner perfect.
ly simply. this force. once evoked and
utilized would turn numberless
wheels endlessly tirelessIy So much
Tor the material side of manifested
power. The essence, the soul, the in
tangible spirit of that material pow
err was. in the plans of International.
to be transmitted by wire at first. and
later through the free air. Its sale in
definite and merchantable quantities
would come as near to the solution of
the problem Of perpetual motion and
perpetual profit as may be arrived at
in this world of limitations
ITO BE CONFINUFDO