Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1913-03-09

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his one best friend"
Are there any best friends in bust
ness. Mr. RaNn?" she asked.
4Of course there are. Haven't been
friend 10 him: haven't | got a lot
Of friends Of my own"
What would they do for you tomor-
row. Mr. Rawn?"
We'll, that's different matter; they
I might take care OF themselves
would take care of myself But this
fool here that I'm asking you to handle
isn't taking care OF himself or anyone
else. He's crazy. that's all about
him! Did he hand you out any OF this
talk about the rights of man? /
more than half suspect him of sympa-
thizing with these labor unions. He's
a Socialist at heart, that's what he
isl"
She nodded her head a little.
Names don't make much difference in
such matters"
isn't il q funny thing" he rejoined.
turning to her in his walk, that the
very men who have failed, the very
ones who most need help themselves.
/ are the ones who are out TO help
every body else! The blind always
want to lead the blind! These labor
unions depend on us for their daily
bread and butter, yet they want to
fight us all the time, There's no trust
in this country so big as the labor
trust, and there's no ingratitude in the
world ike that OF the iaboring mans.
why. look at me, Jennie-you know
something Of my plans. This very
month ! was going to put fifty thou
sand dollars more into my cooperative
| farm in the south, thing l have been
working out for the benefit of my la
boring people. I'm going to do more
than old Carnegie has done! You ard
/ ought to have set up some kind OF
| prizes, medals-start some sort of hero
competition. Helping colleges is old.
and so are libraries old. / don't place
| myself any station back OF Rockefel.
| Ter himself. The Rockefeller Founda-
| tian was a great idea Just wait! III
raise him out of the game! When 1
get all my plans made, they'll speak of
John Rawn when they mention philan-
| thropy!
And just to think, Jennie" he went
on excitedly, that all such big plans
| for the good of humanity. should come
/ to nothing! To be held up and handi-
/ capped by the folly of a man who has
/ never been able TO do anything for
himself or anyone else! 1t makes me
/ sick to think of it. He claims to be a
| friend of the laboring people. and here
| he's tying the hands of the greatest
/ friend of the laboring men in this
! town today-myself, John Rawn, stand
/ ing here! Why. if I'd hand this coun.
| try the John Rawn Foundation for
| industrial assistance. all thought out,
| all financed. all ready to go to work
tomorrow. that crazy fool there. with
his Socialist ideas. would block it all.
He's going to block it all
/ Now, it's up to you. You're the
only one that can keep him from do
ing that very thing. Don't you see. it
isn't just you and me he's running. 1t
| isn't himself he's running. He's going
to hurt the whole country Jennie,
there's considerable responsibility on
{
in thinking that the weak can help
the weak. It's the other way about
it's the strong that can heIp-Power!
that's what counts! It's for you
to show him that. Jennie. girI-it's
not so much myself. But think OF
your country"
Yes" she nodded, that's precisely
it,"
"But he didn't affect you in the
least, Jennie-he didn't get you going
with that kind of foolishness"
Il never heard any one talk just as
he did, before" said she slowly. You
see, l hadn't thought of these things
myself, for I'm only a woman. He
said that all this power, taken from
the hills and the forests and the air
and the rivers, belongs to everybody
to all the world"
But he didn't impress you with that
nonsense, Jennie?"
"He said things-I told him that I'd
never thought of life just that way.
And ] haven't, Mr.. Rawn. ] told him.
as | admit TO you. that hadn't thought
Of anybody much but myself Just
tried 10 climb / think all women do"
Its right they should. it's the only
way. Selfshness is the one great
cause Of the worlds progress. my
dear"
Well, told him that his way of
thinking was so new TO me, that
needed time to think it over"
But you didn't believe a word he
said-you never would"
Mr.. Rawn," said she. looking him
full in the face. we've both of Us
climbed pretty fast. l always put my
family out of memory all could. But
! somehow | seem to recollect that my
father used TO talk of things a good
deal as Mr.. Halsey does. ] begin to
realize what I told you a while ago
no matter how or where we climb, we
pay for what we get. sometime, some
where, somehow
But listen" she leaned toward him
With some sudden access of emotion.
Il can do this muchi Ill agree to
bring in Charley Hslsey. bound hand
and FOOT You can throw him and