The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1914-12-02
The Hartford Herald
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(By Thos. II. Marshall. Vice Presi-
dent OF the United States.)

(By Thos. II. Marshall. Vice Presi-
dent OF the United States.)
Vice President Marshall has a
knack at epigrammatic utterance'
Even in everyday conversation his
remarks are likely to be thickly
flecked with epigrams and quaint
bits of philosophy. In fact 1t does
not matter much whether one looks
for epigrams i'm his offhand talk or
from a formal speech, for the cpl
grammatic sentence seems to be his
most natural way of expressing
whatever is on his mind. For ex-
ample:
The flag and the drum thrill the
soldier. but the saber and the musket
win the battle.
Necessity is the mother of con-
tention.
Not even jefferson could make the
Russian peasant a Democrat
If were higher critic !
would change one commandment to
read: The sins of the children shall
be visited on their parents.
am for freedom. | want the
right TO sit in my narrow Presby-
terian pew and to worship in my
own narrow way, and ! am willing
to give you the whole outside world
for your Methodist hallelujahs.
We only truly live when We appre-
bend that life is a movement and
not a monument.
1t is well to long for the ideal; il
is necessary to deal with the real.
have no desire to sit before a
desolate fireplace gazing at the dead
embers of an unfortunate past.
1t is not education but regenera-
tion that the people need
Freedom for us is possession,
not a gift.
Too many persons view life
through "a glass windshield.
The shalls and shall nots Of de-
sire. prejudice and eXpediency are
so numerous as TO lose the untrain-
ed man in wilderness of doubt.
Mountain tops are mostly for Wis
ions. A glance and we go back to
the dead levels of life
Many of the ideals of the dreamer
are beautiful water colors that are
changed into indistinguishable blurs
when taken out into the storms OF
actual life.
Many of the evils of life owe their
origin and continuance to the fact
that our knowledge of them is based
on no data whatever.
Let this be the land OF men, not
laws; of love. not force of principle, |
not expediency.
We have no aristocracy of blood, |
and We are not yet too young to
have by any process of evolution an |
aristocracy OF intelligence and good /
ness.
We build our pedestals and we
put our heroes on them. but we de- |
mand that, whenever our images .
have feet of clay, everybody shall /
have the right to tread on their toes
with imDunity
That wealth is wise which can
at the midnight hour look out upon
moon-fooded chamber and fear no
man, and hear no angry knocks at
the door Of conscience.
The book of remembrance is too
small to devote many lines to the
man who has lived exclusively for
himself, Who OF us can recall the
name of the richest man in Greece
when Aristides made it just; the
name OF the richest man in Rome
when Augustus found il brick and
left it marble; the name of the rich
est man in England when Shakes
peare sounded all the depths and
shoals of human passion; who knows
the name Of the man who had the
most money when WashingtOn's
footsore soldiery Redeemed the
SHOWS of Valley Forge; of the richest
man in all the Southland when
Pickett's brigade charged the bloody
angle OF Gettysburg? No one knows
and no one cares.
When | wish to learn what the
people are thinking of the Admin
istration at Washington | do not
turn to the metropolitan dailies. but
! pick up my little paper from the
old home town in Indiana, and If 1 |