The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-19

and since our morning and evening
diet is war. we advise reading the bed
time stories for a change, TO keep us
from growing blood thirsty.
II the reviews given us Of Gen. Fred
rich Won BarnhardTs latest book, Ger
mauy in the Next War, be true, we can
understand the spirit of the German
nation. Some of the salient points of
the book were: ''God will always see TO
it that war always recurs as a drastic
medicine for the human race. War is
holy and christian: that feebleness
(peace) is the enemy of the Holy Ghost.
He adds: ''The ine7itableness, the
idealism and the blessing of war as an
indispensable and stimulating law of
development must be repeatedly en-
phasized. and then add to the above
arguments chapter on the Fright to
War" and then keep pouring this into
the minds of the people for number
of years by the scholars and official
leaders of the nation, and you can
take the most peace-loving and gentle
people OF earth and transform them
into 2 fierce blood thirsty nation.
From the way some people live. the
the shiftless life, the careless regard
for the laws and ordinances Of the city
and society, you would conclude that
they belong to that e'ass that is always
saying Let George de it ''or t'let Jones
pay the freight. - This shifting Of indi-
Viual social responsibility causes much
Of the trouble we have to meet ia
life.
There are two classes Of imposers up
on society. The first is that class that
thinks that wealth can do anything.
It believes that money is king of earth;
that it has no flag, and that il does not
have to recognize the wishes OF others.
II this class rides in an automobile all
travellers on the highway must give
the road, and children must dodge the
wheels or be crushed-bnt let me sug-
gest that dollars and brains are not
Synonymous. Dollars can be stolen,
but brains are not secured in that way.
The other class of irresponsibles is the
one that has neither dollars nor brains,
but wanting to satisfy its brute instincts,
insists on satisfying its desires regard
less of the general rules Of society, and
h.
county jail or state penitentiary. It
refuses to play the game Of life by the
established rules. It has strain Of
anarchy in it. 1t is made up Of our
weak brothers and sisters who have
gristle instead Of brains to direct their
thinking.
We are always talking about the
wonderful blessings OF big Business"
but until big business makes friends
with the common people there will be
strikes, look-outs, protests and general
bitterness among the real producers Of
the nation. There is q growing belief
that God packed this earth with good
things for all the people. and the people
were to enjoy the good things and the
only condition placed upon the people
was that they were to unpack. But a
few men saw the situation, got hold of
the natural resources-coaI, and a man
bs the name of Bear got on TO thai lid
snd then reported that God had appoint
ed him steward for the people OF the
United States and that he was ready to
take all anthracite coal orders from the
boys at so much per; and John D. got
on the oil lid and was ready to let all
uses have oil at his price; then Andy
made frame up on iron ore and an
nennced that he was ready to furnish
ali the dear people with any iron pro.
duct known at his price; and then Aug
ust Weirhauser took ninety percent of
the timber under his watchful care and
doles it out at his price-and now the
masses feel that the Big Business class
will get govt and have hob-nail Iivers
unless it is by wise legislation lin.
tied in its bill of fare. In othes
words humanity is asking for the right
to gradually come into its own. This
ia the problem for the coming Rener.
alton to solve and it will need brains
raised the Nth power to adjust il
rightly.
For the last twenty years people
have thought that organization was the
only thing required for Success in any
enterprise. But any Organization that
is Doing business on the organic ID
thought ard plans of twenty years age
| is a boob. If the railroads had though
much, except along the lines of ex
ploitation. they would not haye pro
dueed condition whereby the United
States, By the thinking Of one man
took much of their business from them
A few years ago We were led to beleiv,
that only big thinkers Of the race be
came railres6 men, now il is absolutel,
amusing to hear these big Brains
whine ard beg Of the people TO giz'
them q "hand- cut" 10 keep them fron
starving. II We read correctly the rail