The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-24

'S~ VIA nave the unreal instead
OF the genuine, because you will in
slst on dealing with the unknown in
stead OF trading with your own home
merchants. 1t is human nature fo,
you to do this because the rule of life
is to follow the will-o'- the-wisp blind,v
Everybody does this, everybody tries
to grasp the indefinite instead of rrah.
olng the things at our very home
door,
Really 1t is laughable when Won
come to think of it. You sent vonr
dollars to us because you fancied and
hoped that the distance, which gives
encnantment to the view, would send
you something in the way of a great
prize. Of course we did not.
we spend our dollars like water in
foreign lands while at home we do
not ind so much to interest MS
rather we think that we do not, Year
after year I have made the pilgrim
age into practically all of the foreign
lands. 1t has cost me, I do not care
to say how many, thousands of dol
lars.
Yet all this time I know and realize
that we have better things to see, bet
ter things to ride in, better things to
eat, than any other land. To the
crooked and thieving guides in Paris
and London and Berlin we are the
easy marks" We are the simple.
minded. We are the deluded, the
easily decoyed. The gilded palaces of
reVeiry in Paris and Vienna, the un-
wholesome cabaret of st. Petersburg
and Brussels, the gambling hell of
Monaco, the glittering vice halls of
Ca1ro-are all maintained by Ameri-
can dollars. We support them. We
make them rich. We have made
champagne necessity, we have made
truft1es and mushrooms both expensive
and desirable.
It's the history of life. Every crea-
ture shall prey upon the weaker. And
we are the weaker who lavish our
money on this sort of foolishness. It
is really true that it is you, the peo-
pie OF the soil, the dwellers i'm the
country, who are the wiser, after all.
We seek dissipation and spend our
energy and health as we'll as our dol.
lars in looking for excitement.
1t Is to you, in the country, that
the nation looks in time of war. Why
not in peace also? The strength lies
with you. The power is within your
grasp. All you must do is to exercise
your rights of franchise and your good
sense and Judgment
Try it. Get together among your.
selves in your scattered communities.
Hold meetings. Discuss among your
selves what you ought to do to i'm
prove conditions. Talk it overflow
to keep the money at home. Simply
feather your own nests, that's all.
Make your efforts count to your own
advantage. /
Is it possible that the dissensions
and petty jealousies that are popular.
ly supposed to exist in all small COM
cannot be done away with |
so that you can all combine for the
good of the whole? What if an armed |
power were on the way down the
county road to burn and sack your
town and cut the threats of your wom-
en- and children? What would you
do? Would you sidestep a mass
meeting, called to create a defense,
because Bill Jones or Hank Buncomb
was going to be there? Would you
sulk and refuse to. have a thing to
10 with the defense plan just because
You had some grievance, real or other
wise, against somebody who, would be
here?
Not on your life It would be a
grand rally. It would be Hello Bill'
md Hello Hank" Gimme a lift
With this pesky cannon" "Cut buckle
lole in this strap for a belt to hold up
ny sword" "Hand over the powder
here, 1 want to fire few bullets at
he enemy"
That's the spirit. Unite for the com.
non interest with trade at home as
our slogan.