The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-08-03
court, decision in the labor injunction

courts s decision IN inc laOor injunction
ayes. That labor organizer from
Earlville, McBride-got Wiley excited
about il. 1t would smash the union
movement, Wiley said"
The Judge sighed. For the first time
he had seen a fash of Harian's old
cheerful eagerness-and 1t took Wiley
Curran's Insurgency to bring it. This
man, Mcbride, is organizing the soft
coal miners on the upper creek-all
those foreigners that were brought in
there. And he denounced Congress
man Hall last Sunday at the Earfville
Turnverein meeting, hear"
"They're after Hall, father-hard'
Old Jake Vance says that Wileys Cur
ran ought to run against him-he says
the Governors crowd will get behind
any one to beat Hall"
The Judge laughed. wiley Curran
in Congress? Harlan, I saw him last
! week down on his knees digging up
geraniums for that funny old lady who
keeps house for him-they were throw
ing cupfuls of earth at each other and
shouting like childrenp
Harlan smiled. Il supposed But,
dad, this political move is getting big.
Jake Vance says it's the young mems
movement. Look at the chaps like his
boy, Arne, who's come back from the
agricultural school chuck-a-block with
what he calls the Wisconsin idea. And
see how Gov. Delroy won on it-he's
the young mems Governor.
THE State" retorted the judge
dryly, "is in an uproar over nothing.
When this Wisconsin Senator got up
to speak at the last session the solid
and representative men simply would
not listen-he talked to their empty
seats. A demagogue, a disturber-and
as for Jake Vance, he has been the
county's original malcontent since
granger days and Greenbackism."
The young man listened quietly.
Father, his son is different. You
ought to see how earnest he is. A
student-farmer come back from Wis
consin whooping it up for the initiative
his fathers locality among the old
mossbacks-and showing 'em how to
raise better corn than they ever did
beforei Pigs and politics-Arne says"I
a." smiled the judge, "am still for
the Constitution-and my boy, I'm glad
you went to Harvard instead of our
Western colleges. If you're going into
politics-" he grimaced. for politics
was distasteful t. him. and yet Harlan
had grown up with the consciousness
that some day he should enter politics.
His mothers ancestry of Virginia had
given it to him as the milk he drew.
1t had been the one grievance of her
married life that the judge had not
cared for a more militant public life.
She had an old-fashioned ideal for her
boys future-she was not sure OF it all,
but it was to Be career honoring the
State, reaching up, perhaps, well-onc
could neve. tell how far such a son
might go, one who had the best of
East and West in him. Despite their
tradition the Van Harris felt the Mid
lands to be the heart and soul of the
republic, the seat of power and inspi-
ration. Loyal to every inch of the At
lantic seaboard, they knew the mighty
valley would home the millions OF the
best Americans, here would be the breed
of the soil. the determining economoism,
the building and enduring individual
ism.
The mother glanced brightly at him.
"Of course Harlan's going into poll
tics!! And he'll never have the strug-
gle that Billy Lee will have. Here.
among his own people" she dreamed
an instant, her eyes going out to the
encircling hills-"Harlan, dear-there's
no limit to what l see for you. Oh,
we want you to go on, boy-always on
to the best and highestp She arose in
her eagerness and came to him, parted
the fair hair from his brow and kissed
him. Dear boy. won't you thank US
little bit-down in your heart-for
saving you"
He was still. But his arm stole
about her slender waist. Her smooth
cheek under the silvery hair, which had
a girIish trick of coming down before
her ears, was against his own. After
all she was "the best of mothers" as
he had told Aurelie. Always about
him this gracious care, this ennobling
presence, this exalting standard of life.
Always this warm, serene, home
guarding-all tina. was best.
He kissed her in her old. comrade-
ship of mother and son between whom