The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-12-25

belief It was better TO allow TINS sorE
of silent partner to furnish the indus
try and the economy.
Who shall measure the power OF a
river, for eve falling to the e How
many millions of horses and men has
II equaled in its wasted power In each
generation, in each decade, in each
year? Certainly sufficient to lift the
entire burden of labor from he's shout
ders of the world.
What mind can measure the extent
Of such a force, or dream the posi-
bilities OF its application. IL 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 it's fuliness
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 or our own human bodies and
souls; although all the time thousands
Of patient giants were waiting, willing
TO serve US. John Rawn could see
them waiting. He knew TO whom n
day would be due the power, and the
kingdom, and the glory. He could
look toward the w~hite.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 n 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-piling
miracles, of the last twenty years 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 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, or
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 a 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
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 frcm hui
man shoulders, or thrust crushingly
down upon them until indeed human.
ity shall cease to hope. The earth and
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 a manne perfect.
Iy simply, this force. once evoked and
utilized, would turn numberless
wheels endlessly, tirelessly. So much
for 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 m~erchantable quantities
would come as near to the solution OF
the problem of perpetual motion ind
perpetual profit as may be arr ged al