Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-11-28

belief it was better to allow this sors
of silent partner to furnish the nous
try and the economy.
Who shall measure the power OF
river, for ever falling to the sea! no"
many millions of horses and men mas
i equaled in its wasted power IN eacn
generation, in each decade, IN eacn
year? Certainly sufficient to lift the
entire burden of labor from the shoui-
ders Of the world.
What mind can measure the extent
of such a force, or dream the possl-
bilities of it's application, II It couiu
be set to work? What equivalent OF
human brain and Drawn could be val
ued against this careless, ceaseless
power, derived endlessly from the ar
and the earth-power given TO the
peoples of the earth before the arriyal
of our present political and Industrial
masters; given them in the time Wnen
the earth was the Lords and the luli-
ness thereof. The minerals unoer tue
earth. the food produced in the SOIL
the waters offering paths and power
before the earth and it's fullness
passed from the hands Of the Loru
into those Of our present masters
these. it may be conceived, were IN
tended as the Lords gift to the
peoples of the earth That, however,
was quite before the advent OF JONI
Rawn.
Toll has always been the human lot.
We have carried the mechanical Dur
dens as well as the mental burdens
of life on our own human bodies ano
souls; although all the time thousands
of patient giants were waiting, Wiling
to serve US. John Rawn could see
them waiting. He knew to whom one
day would be due the power, and the
kingdom, and the glory. He could
look toward the white-topped 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 maxins of such as these, men
beloved of the immortal gods.
We speak of kings, Of einperors, 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-pil1ng
,oo;r 81 @f l,a L. fuyo nj In
America?
Where gat this silent partner of
John Rawn's its 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 ri]l 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
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
lzers 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 hui
man shoulders, or thrust crushingly
down upon them until indeed human
ity shall cease to hope. The earth ano
it's fullness 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 manner perfect
ly simply, this force. once evoked and
utilized, would turn numberless
wheels endlessly, tirelessiy. So much
for the material side OF manifested
power The essence, the soul, the in
tangible spirit of that material pow
er was, in the plans of International,
to be transmitted by wire at first. and
later through the free air. It's 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
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