Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-11-19
Had a Powerful Influence on the
American People.
In His Original Home He Favored
Direct Action" and in the West
srn World Built on Empire
What He Accomplished.

New YOrk.-In a great many affairs
that 90 wrong today the social mind
ed detectives do not say, Cherchez lie
femme; they say, Cherchez the puri-
tan ancestor. That dour figure in
sugar loaf hat and buff jerkin and
bTeeches striding on his way to
church with his fiintlock and his
Bible, is responsible for an extraor-
binary number of things that now af-
fCt US. He stands in the way of a
minimum wage, of Sunday baseball,
Of the upliftingsof the stage, of the
speedy solution of the white slave
problem the divorce problem, the sa-
loon problem. the eugenics problem,
the / a. m. lobster palace problem,
and a good many other problems
which, the theatrical managers on
Broadway are aching to solve, but are
l0t allowed to-
The cavaliers despised the puritan
ancestor because ne spoke through
his nose. But that was a minor fault.
The real sin is that he refused to
speak at all He is the original
gatentee Of the conspiracy of silence
to which all our ills are due, as con-
rasted 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-
ajed salvation at the expense of con-
'7fsation, thus failing to perceive that
no latter is the indispensable condt-
ION Of the former. If he had not
57en SO afraid of calling a spade a
spade. We should now have a flourish
as literature and drama and art. and
We should have done away with the
social evil. even as conversational PEG
PIE like the French and the Germans
nave done away with it.
Considering that the truth alone
eaa be the basis of true progress and
.'-izatton it is astonishing how many
a.1ss that whining. hypocritical puri-
.-a ancestor accomplished in his day.
ID his original home in England he
nag not been going many years be-
.oIe he cut off the head Of a king,
sent another king packing about his
,'s'neSs, and in other ways pursued
pulley of direct action" that should
egPsa! enormously to w. D. Haywood.
,'osslug the Atlantic, he helped to
Jay The foundations of an empire. For
q man who hated to call spade
'.aas. it is remarkable how well he
.o~a use that familiar agricultural
"'piemeut. He used it to dig up the
t1sSa'esul soil of rock bound,
'.'s'-oltten commonwealth Later he
."o1.oered his spade and. still speak
.~s through his nose, but for the most
t''I faithful to his conspiracy OF ST.
'71ce' he dug up the more grateful
-o'' OF the Mississippi valley and the
'TS'ern prairies and the Pacific river
,a"eEs, with occasional ,deviations to
.ue pickax when he struck the ore
gearing lands of Colorado and the
S'eEfaS He did not lose the early
or carrying his fiintlock into
cue aeld. He used it in Kansas, and
'e Years later he was carrying 1t
y's' a thousand miles OF battlefield.
= - us own hypocritical way he called
night for free institutions against
slavery When the war was over he
Ven %sIt back to farming and railroad
=, Sa'uing. persistent in his churchgo-
uaolts and the traditional conspir-
'cy Of silence.
we are forced to the conclusion
to u@' the puritan ancestor Jared bet
VI nan he deserved and builded bet