The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-07-11
SOmE THINGS
and OTHER THINGS

Bigotry, lust and force were the
three btutes that have IN the past kept
the Golden Rule from directing and coz
trolling the men Dethrone 1th=se
brutes ard real Brotherhood will be
established.
This age has proven the old theory of
vested rights to be q lie. Position can
no longer be inherited. Tue new theory
Is q man may possess what he has
strength to obtain. This century de-
mands BROADER chests and broader fore
heads to be able to east off the viciat
ins ira 5itions of the past.
We have often been forced to take
stock in people OF whom we once made
a laughing stock. We often stoua q
man before we rear a stone to his
sacred memory. We always beat back
the thinkers who urge US TO leave the
beaten tracks of OIL We are always
ready to reprove those who seek to i'm
prove Us. We jeer all Innovations and
in the future give them a welcoming
ovation. Most people hate change in
living, even if it makes them more
comfortable.
Just as the steam ditcher replaces
hundreds of shoYels-just SO the new
type Of mantle viriIe, full blooded,
terrific, vitalIy sustained man is beat
ing down the unfit. The moment you
commance to Rloat over your yester-
days and boast Of what you once did,
you are 'fbas been" Keep absorb
ing rev ideas or old ideas placed in
new setting and you will renew your
strength and will have new weapons to
meet the competition Of the present age
or you become e back number in the
worlds progress.
When We have become satisfied with
ourselves, we haye become very unsat-
isfaceory to cur neighbours. He who
advances the same old theories, tells
the same Cd stories, works By the
same old rules, eats the same old bill
of fAre, reads the same old book,
breaches the same cid sermons. votes
the same old ticket, tramps the same
old paths, takes the same old papers,
reads the same old magazines, is a So
ciaI dead beat The world has changed
it's mind about these ''fxed fellows"
and is spelling Progress with capital
letter.
Il is not an uncommon thing to hear
people long for the good Old times. It
is Of the opinion of the writer that
there never we're any good old timez."
Such complaints are tommy-rot. The
only thing these old grumblers need is
to twist their complaints and frowDs
into smile, take a deep breath. look
this glorious hour squsrely in the face,
give a Fourth of July hurrah. thank
Providence for having the opportunity
to take part in this century and get
down TO doing a mans work.
Until yesterday ago thu mailed fist
was the only right. That fist made the
millions, slaves of misery. These
slaves were serviIe, cringing creatures,
chained to the lords by ignorance and
superstition yesterday men had
their futures allotted to them before
they were born-the son of q laberer
was an heir 70 the worlds drudgery.
The biggest monopoly the word has
ever known was the Trust of Aristoc
racy and it's claims are real modern
jokes to thinking people,
1t was formerly thought that man
who was honest enough OF wicked
enough. lucky enough or mean enough
to accumulate large fortune must Of
necessity be very wise man; so we
would elect him to Office, place him on
our school boards, make him county
commissioner, because Of his infaIable
wisdom, bat we are learning that the
money accumulation is not infalable,
that he may know how to accumulate
but not know anything about distribut-
ing wealth for the benefit of the many.
The people are coming to the conclusion
nan who have accumulated abnormal