The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-03
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and OTHER THINGS


n and OTHER THINGS III
The farmer of the present day must
be as sharp az ''raiser or he will be
> held in contempt by the old fashioned
grazer.
One of the most amusing things In
life is to watch soma social scandal
monger or knocker get into some coz
ner and whisper scandals about an op-
posing scandalmonger IN the opposite
corner. Such people are only equaled
in furnishing amusement to sensible
people by another class who spends all
Its precious time embToidering and tat
ting little silly nothings" that nobody
wants to hear.
hate gutter. for he invariably
becomes a grumbler. Suppose you are
sick of the life struggle, and you have
received terrible grill1ng, and your
eyes are pulled and your breath comes
short; suppose zoa have not had a
tquare deal and gOur pockets bsYe
teen picked by one OF the modern sOei4l
s:ayengers; sETpose your enemy does
Continually keep rubbing on the raw I'M
til you sweat blood and you find it hard
to keep holding up your chin-keep on
and on-any old chump can squeal, and
pike, quit o: die. To die is dead Easy,
but to fight, to come back, 60 smile and
live on-that is genuine ADericah n IL
hood. Fight on young man. Fight for
self-knowledge, for self-respect and
self-reliance-these three are a trilogy
that make you winner in the end.
We hear the ''has beans wailing
about the good old times. But l want
to announce that they are now here.
They are here bigger and better than
ever before. We are getting more and
paying less for it in the efforts of
hours than in any period of the world 9
history. We are better guard I'd and
have more privileges, more absolute
rights and more opportunities than in
any generation since Adam. Our al
vice to all is to take the road that Ieads
to Succes5ville. Lat US stop whining.
Let as remember that the grandads OF
the past did not get all OF the good in
the world leaving Us nothing but husks
In fact today is the elly time that the
world ever had any scientific rules 90
work By. II there has been 50 much
done by the rules of "out and try"
what may we not accomplish with rules
based on scientific accuracy?
The expression "best people" do this
or that, and that they sanction this or
that is Haunted in our face continually.
What does the term mean VIXEN used
by the hoi polloi, the common herd? Il
means 1.-The richest people" of com
munitY. It has been accepted by the
most of as, that only people with big
bank accounts or large landed estates
are the "best people, - Only peopls
are good who have the cash. We are
willing TO forgive any one anything he
may have done, except the crime of
being poor, We are willing to place
him in the class of the ''best people,
though he may be "a dirty aid ignor-
ant as digger Indian providing he has
the spondulics. lie may have been
cattle rustler, a widow robber and ex-
tortionest Of the basast sort, but il b
has kept out of the pen, and can show
the ''long green" we poor human
bugs" will crown him as a mighty
man of valor and place him in the
"Who's Who" book.
We who are struggling to get into
the who's Who" column of social de-
sirables are apt to talk to the rabble IN
terms Of general sympathy. We are
apt to say il We were only judge we
would correct these inequalities How
oft have we had our weaknesses used
as stepping stones to place some one in
official position and when that ''some
one" would reach his official desire,
then we would have the sad experience
of witnessing our preferred brother S
sympathies curdie; and he would i'm
mediately ask to be welcomed into the
circle of our ''best people" forgetting
the people who made him possible; and
soon we hear him pratin9 about how he
came up from the CRIME and the smoke
and social filth through his own efforts
and now he belongs in the class Of the
preferred. Our calls Of human need
sound so far way to him since he has
been crowned ''Knighs OF the Snobs -
But there is better day dawning as
the masses become educated, tha ''rot-
ten-rich'' are losing much of their an
cient power.
Let me call your attention TO SOM
Of the late new things: Andrew Jack
son never heard of the Bell telephone
yet there are plenty of man still voting
for Andy; Grant never heard of q pho
nogrsph but there are plenty OF me
who marched with him TO Appomastx
1t has not been more than three year,
since the father Of antisept;c sarkerj
died; and bridging and crow ing teeth
are so new you eau easily fix the date
Electric lights, trolley cars. timed sal