The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-07-30

ua shams do know that the highest culture springs
from that divine knship the heart of humanity such
felt by Shakespeare Dickens, Thackeray, Harriet
Beecher Stowe and Robert Burns.
They pirate of Ibsen and Omar Khayyam and adore the
priest of pessmism Schopenhauer They stepped in
fads and all of their talk is conceived in faddism and
born in Stiffness OF all the shams the intellectual sham
the hopeless When the Greeks said gods
could prevail against every power except
stupidity they meant these intellectual fools of life You
feel like flying away and sitting with the who lives
in the hollow tree and hear something real The who
sits all day mendng the highways knows real
things and it is pleasure hear him talk If it is
only about weather signs.
Never your guns upon the unlettered. They are
honest and do the best they they are
wiser than the children light like Peggohy
in David Copperfield.' Everyday, sagacity
mother wit and horse beat culture" like the
tose did the hare Load with scrapiron spikes
dead cats and rotten for the shams who talk in the
superlative about things they know nothing Of who
despise the herd and who look wise they
really believe the nantes of the old have fallen
their shoulders They have haOs around their
heads and carry no diplomas from the Seven Wise Men
They shams
Once learned professor, who could talk in
private without seeming be addressing Sunday school
convention, called upon give his opinion a com
mittee report. He said:
Il unaterably persuaded that this commentary
report is full, voumnous exhaustive copous, and ade
quae. 1t u.s. in word to speak more conssey, reevanty
ample, abundant plentiful; speak more fully it
is penteous Overlooking and exuberantly in
dubable. Perhaps Perkins is with this even
ing has something to the document submitted
to u.s. and he smiled the smile of the whole curriculum
upon poor Perkins,
ITS all damn rot" growled Perkins and the meet
ing heaved sigh Of relief rejected the report and
lied Perkins the spot by eecng him president.
This professor of the unknowable fully qualified
to preside If Club for he always straddling
ifs and why's and balancing his great brain like Bondn oh
the tight rope Niagara. He at home such
Alcotts actuality thingness
the here" He could debate fuently such questions
"Why is exstence?" He deep versed in books but
shallow in himself.' From such shams natures
flee as from the day of wrath to and rugged
family loses all it's terrors us swear.
And then have the eternal pious sham who
measures all other by rule but carries
heart of duplicity under cloak of moral recttude Was
there ever such sham the who pretends that the
Lord guides and him in all his business
schemes? He goes about representing company
in which he and God the only shareholders, he of
course holding the common voting stock When he prays
he schemes and asks God to guide and direct him but
takes good to pull the wires himself When you
hear such humbugs exhort you want go and do
something real wicked for change.
An old Morse chief said to the missionaries who
to pump him full of ghost stories:
Il believe in neither gods spirits in my good
right arm"
That was real No sham.
And the labor'sham, too-he who poses apostle
of labor the working mans friend He shrieks in his
stump speeches that he is ready die any time
drawn salary in his hand. He never works He is a
fake. He deceves and robs the poor man by his con-
temptibe shams. He is insult every working man
and working woman He is labor's enemy. He is dema
gogue in the cap of bells of the fool. most
atrocous selfseeker in the world He talks about the
"downtrodden poor, tong masses" the privileged
few. He tries to stir hate for the thrifty the
CeSSful he gette
fawns the unwashed, the idle, the shftless, the
Rough Riderhoods' of life. He hates clean shirt,
good coat full dinner pail, for prosperity ruins his
cupation. The real working people of this world know
him and his shadow is growing less every day
All shams towards. All true culture is sound
the American dollar and has ring of
can test mans courage by setting dog him, start
ing after him, electing him office If he
is sham he will show it.
Politicians revenue only finally show the white
feather They study political meteorology They go with
the weather They faith in themselves
nor the great heart of humanity Some day there is
rift in the cloud, and the shines through
politician for hire is exposed in all of his
Then he appears, the meanest most craven most
crawling, most cowardly of the worlds shams.
There is longing in every for something
real and genunea real friend, real love-
heroine, real for faith in something
of oak can tie to and bet last dollar Find
ing little of the real in life, learning experience
that life is largely mirage continuous performance
dissolving views the heart fiction
realize Hottest ideals We walk with good
and true and faithful Strange to say which we
have always called fiction imaginary satisfies the
longing heart where facts fail.
This is why all normal persons romance and
poetry and the worlds novels, and it just
reason that John Halifax Gentleman Jane Eyre,
David Copperfield The Three Musketeers and The
Vrgnian, appeal strongly every class of readers
There is a secret something in the of man which
responds quickly to the trumpet call Of real herois
within the dark chambers of memory there yet
images of the days of old when knights bold
women good and true.
Since the first glad morn when knew each other