The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-01-01

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CHAPTER v111-tcontinued).
But again Arne growled. Fairchild
va the red rag in the faces Of the
states political rebels; he was one with
tne gigantic financial interests that
nominated his party. Already his re-
election was bitterly opposed.
Eat that dinner. o n roared the
farmer student. It'll be the last one
Tor that old cuss as a senator! the
governors croWdl1 get him! / tell you
FELLOWS ought to get an ear to the
ground. Here Wiley SITS in his old
shop kicking of a 81 job for the Gem
when he ought to be out
anon the people. Here's Harlan get
ting through law and then hanging out
Tor some ptcayune cas- old Thad Tan
ner hrows him to keep him lined up
with n old guard. In a few years
neaH be fat and married. driving a car
around. never a hair sweated-and re-
spectablel Oh. lord!"-Arne smote his
na:d fists together-"never a rough
and tumble fight In your life, was there
Harlan"
Harlan smiled. That sort of thing
was not for the Van Harris.
You ought to come up to
Wisconsin instead Of going east. That
Harvard graft is all right for law
Dut you want to catch the new
up there In the north, I'D like you
TO climb the hill with me and see the
fellows from the COW college fight to
get Into Carmack's lectures on political
science. I say, fight to get inl Car
mack,s the faculty chap the regents
would fire II they dared. But ! tell
you every man who como out OF the
class room Is a political missionary
against the old order. You ought to
hear those youg professors talk-that's
the stuff for the Westl"
WNey's eyes were on the two. Both
native sons Of the Midlands, one
bronzed with the soil, lean with his
ardors: the other healthily pink, the
beauty Of a Galahad. the pure nurture
OF his fathers victorian standards-of
the two he loved Harlan better. There
wal about him q completion, he was a
product OF an American era done; the
other was in the travail Of the making.
But he could visualize all OF Arne's
outcry. He himself, in the wandering
years. had seen the epic OF the old west
close; he had mingled the wine Of his
life with 1t. But now the new land
was here, h stately cities rising, the
ordered nobleness Of form. Taat was
the meaning of the cry and tumult, the
fuller democracy; the west had seen
and caught the vision; and Curran.
tho Celtic ~romantcist could feel the
Cplendor.
you shall seek the truth, and the
truth shall make you free;' that is
what they tell us up there went on
Arne. Tive lain In bed after bucking
all night on soil tests and economic
history, and listened to the young men
going up the hill to Carmack's lectures
the young men up the hill In the
snow at z o'clock! And when he de-
clared that the spirit Of socialism was
the spirit Of every good thing the world
was fighting for; when he told them to
go out and preach the recall, and the
them shout. and others going up the
hill took up the shout. That's what
were getting, along with soil culture
and forest preservation and law and
engineering-I tell you 1t sounds like
the march Of a new civilization-the
hill" .ssasS
Harlan listened with his detached
and friendly smile. He remembered
last week stopping Arne In the post
office with g forecast Of the Yale-Har-
ward football season, but the western
student had no seemed to hear-per-
haps he was filled with his vision Of
the young men going up the hill seek
ing the vision Of the New America,
the truth that should make men free.
All those young fellows going back
to their states jump into politics."
went on Arne. $50 am I. Harlan.
We're going to stump this county talk
Ing pigs and politics, and wen ditch
Jim Hall for congress and Fairchild
later. And where will you be-you, ]
say"
waiting calm, II shall probably be ar
guing a nne-fence cas- in the justice
court"
Arne snorted. wiley. here, is going
TO getstn the primaries again Jim Hail"
Wiley" put in Janet slowly, last
week the governor was asking about
Curran Of the News"
Wiley flushed. disconnected for once.
He felt that Janet was shrewdly read
Ing him. He had met Governor Delroy
'once-the fighting anti-ring governor
whom the rebellion of the north insur-
gents had put in the chair. But that
Delroy remembered him! After all
with his philandering old News. had he
really lone something? He raised his
eyes to see Janet smiling fondly at him,
that old affectionate camaraderie OF
days long dead. Harlan. too, smiled. Il
vas rather droll to consider this OBJ
tScure country editor as a contestant
against James Hall, one time his ia
theirs law partner, now mi of the
most powerful figures of the lower
house. What, then. was Wiley curran
An the new civic conscience OF the
state? What hidden forces were ar
rayed against the old order. the easy
dominance Of property and class to
which privilege had given a sort OF
sanctity? He had his first feeling OF
class consciousness. now. with these
challenging friends. And slowly hi.
thoughts went back to Aurelie, to thai
sullen resentful shame with which he
had become aware of his failure to
reconcile his love for her with his sense
OF obligation to his parents, their trad
ation, breeding, their love and hopes fol
him. This seemed deepest in him, this
abiding sense Of honor. to them, tic
their gentle birth and the Of
their kind. There were two sorts OF
right then-the clamor OF those who
fought up to seize the good Of life, and
the steadfast resolution Of those who
possessed this good and would hold II
against the others. Nothing new in the
problem; it was the problem Il demec-
facy. Harlan was considered an ami
pble and democratic young man, yet he
could not define certain reserves In