The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-03-21

oehef II was better to allow this sort
OF silent partner to furnish the indus
Try and the economy
VINO shall measure the power OF
river, Tor ever falling to the sea? How
many millions OF horses and men has
IL equaied In its wasted power in each
generation. in each decade, in each
year? Certainly sufficient to lift the
entire burden of labor from the shoul-
ders OF the world
what mind can measure the extent
OF such force. or dream the possi-
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. ceaselcss
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 wnen
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
passed from the hands OF the Lord
into those of our present masters
these 1t may be conceived, were In
tended as the Lords gilt to the
peoples of the earth. That however.
was quite before the advent of John
Rawn
Toll has always beer. the human lot
We have carried the mechanical bur
dens as well as the mental burdens
OF life on 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 one
| day would be due the power. and the
kingdom, and the glory. He could
look toward the white-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
| Rawns Utility is the one word In
| the naNims 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
missiye 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 Rawns it's 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 rll 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, on
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 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 from hu-
man shoulders. or thrust crushingly
| down upon them until indeed human
itv shall cease to hope. The earth and
| its fullness are no more the Lords
| today They are John Rawns.
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 manner perfect
y simply. this force. once evoked and
utilized would turn numberless
wheels endessly, trelessiy. So much
| for the material side of manifested
power The essence, the soul. the in
tangible spirit of that material pow
er was. in the plans OF International.
to be transmitted by wire at first. and
later through the free air. Its sale in
definite and merchantable quantities
would come as near to the solution Of
the problem of perpetual motion and
perpetual profit as may be arrived at
in this world of limitations.
CTO BE CONTINUED)