Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-11-07
BAn the Draws, Plant Trees and Sum
uner-F allow

You Can't Do 1t, did you ever hear
a sentence like that before you
can't do it'' fills quite a speelin some
peoples vocabulary. This bit of the
English language is repeated so ofton
that its indellibly impressed upon
eur minds. About the first speech
can remember was You can't doit. ;"
If Columbus had needed this
language, he would not have discov-
cred America. If Robert Fulton had
needed such an admonition, he would
not have a place in History as the in
venter of steam boats. If Mr.. Bell
would have needed the wise ones who
said you can't do it, he would not be
the father of our Modern Telephone
system. If Benjamin Franklin
would have listened to his friends
who knew he could not do it, he
would not have caught electricity
from the clouds. If the you can't fell
lows could have had their way, the
Panama Canal would not be a reality.
If the you can't fellows have their
say, the Great Artificial river will not
furnish the parched prairies of West
ern Kansas something to drink. The
great canal that will soon be a real
ity, with its public highway stretch
ing from the gulf to the heighth of
land, would die in infancy, if we had
to depend on the fellows who know
it can't be done the arid belt would
remain dry. 1t is the fellows who can
see some good, that will cause these
dry prairies to be dotted with arti-
f1cial lakes. 1t is the fellows who are
willing TO push that will furnish a
remedy for the destructive floods
that costs our government millions
each year.
You can't always see benefit by
standing in the back ground, you can
see game palmer if You join in. You
can sit in a good comfortable box
and watch the national game of base
ball, you can guess, but the fellows
on the diamond are the ones that
make the game go.
You can watch the balloon from
the distance, but you can't make it
rise or fall, unless you take hand in
the game.
This great canal is going to be a
reality, if you want to help get in, if
you wait much longer some one will
have your seat. Congress convenes
in December only one month from
now. Have you asked your candidate
what he is going to do about it? Are
you ready TO say TO your congressman
that you are for it? will you go after
him on the subject? OF course you
can retard the building of this canal
by pulling back, and in the meantime
the organized force that built the
Panama will disband and it will be
harder to get them together than il
will to hold them while they have q
leader and are organized. The ma,
chinery will work better while it is
bright from work, very much better
than it will after it has been rusted
by sun and rain, then machinery has
a fashion of rotting when idle, the
bolts become loose, and the tools dull
but if we can provide for their imme
date use, great repair bill will be
avoided.
Suppose we can turn the attention
of Congress to this great information
al work, this home building, rather
than have them jabbering about wal
and its expense, sup Ose we cut dowI
the appropriation for battle ships
for navies, for standing armies, fol
ammunition, that is now taking sixty
three cents of every dollar of Govern
peDt expense. Did you get that, ]
mean that every IS cents of the gov
eminent uses for its running expen
ses, goes to the secretary of war, OF
for war purposes. Shame on Amer
lea, a Christian nation, that mus
spend SO much money for war.
You say in peace you must prepar,
for war, suppose You tell two neigh
bors who live on opposite sides of tn,
road, that in order TO be friends the,
must build cupalo on top of thei
houses and keep their Oldest son il
each family there with gun to keel
the neighboT across the road from
stealing his farm, his horse or hi
crops. You say nonsense, and SO d
1, those boys viii be sure to scrap
they will get their parents to logger
heading and a battle will be the re
suit. Yes, nonsense, of the rankes
kind. But as nation we are doin
that very thing.
You say we must provide some