The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-01-01
1cAAPTER vII-tcontlnueal

Wna The red rag IN the faces OF the
states political rebels; he was one with
tho giEantic financial. interests that
Aorinated his party. Already bis re-
eiectioh wa bitterly opposed.
E2at that dinner, son" roared the
GARNER student. HLtli be the last one
tor that old cuss as 3 senator! The
governors crowdu get himl / tell you
taklows ought 70 get an ear 10 the
ground Here Wiley sits In his old
shop kicking OF q 81 Job for the Gem
restaurant when he ought to be out
among the people. Here's Harlan get
k4n& through law and then hanging out
Tor y picayune case old Thad Tan
n& thrown him TO keep him lined UP
With the old guard. In q few years
SSH pe fat and married, driving g car
around. never q hair sweated--and re-
Rpoctablel Oh. lordi"-Arne su"nte his
hard nsta together-sneyer rough
end tumble nGht in your life. Was there
Harlan SMILED THAT sort Of thing
wa not Tor the Van Harris.
KOu ought to come up to
wisconsin instead OF going east. That
Harvard graft "a all right tor law
Npilst OF the new times. Sometimes
up there In the north, I'd like you
% climb the hill with me and see the
fellows from the COW college fight 10
Goe into Carmacl's lectures on political
schSHce. say. fight 70 get inl Car
EanckH the faculty chap the regents
would fire II they dared. But l tell
ron every man who come out OF the
class room Ia a political missionary
against the old order. You ought 70
hear those youg professors talk--that'g
khe stuff Tor the Vest"
WNey's oyea were on the two. Both
F1Ahve sons OF the Midlands, one
neamruanN o. nrttNAL 49, {. IA
asNd0rs; the other healthily pink, the
beauty Of q Galahad, the pure nurture
&c his fathers victorian Etandards--of
&n@ w he loved Harlan better. There
WpM about him q completion, he was a
product or an American era done; the
ether was In the travail OF the making,
But he could visualize elf OF Arne's
cutlery. He himself, In the wandering
Hearx, had seen the epic OF the old west
clo@c; he had mingled the wine OF his
hfe with II. But now the new land
was here. the stately cities rising. the
ordered ~noblenesH of form. That was
az meaning OF the cry and tumnlt, the
EuIler democracy; the west had seen
Mn6 caught the vision; and Curran,
che Celtic roinanticist, could feel the
You shall seek the truth, ana the
truth shall make you free;' that Is
what they tell us up there went on
Arne. I've lain In bed after bucking
night on soil tests and economic
history ms listened TO the young men
going up III hill 70 CRrmack's lectures
the young men up the hill In the
SNOW az o'cIocki And when he de-
qAnged that the spirit OF socialism was
The spirit Of every good thing the world
Hraa fighting for; when he told them 10
ep out and preach the recall, and the
state control of wealth--I'vs heard
kAAwnNTMhab4Ah &c. n.
hiu took up the shout That's what
we're getting, along with soil culture
and forest preservation and law and
Rngineerfug--I tell you II sounds like
the march Of a Dew civtli2ation-the
ramp Of the young men going up the
atm
Harlan listened with his detached
ppd friendly smile. He remembered
last week stopping Arne In the post
cffice with a forecast OF the Ysle-Har-
ward football season, but the western
student had not seemed to h~ear--per-
haps he was filled with his vision OF
d young men going up the hill seek
lng the vision OF the New America,
kh0 truth that should make men free.
NAll those young fellows going back
% their states jump into politics.
went on Arne. $50 am i, Harlan.
Were going 70 stump this county talk
tnR pigs and politics, and wen ditch
Flrn Han for congress and Fairchild
Mter And where will o be-you. I
payr
Arne,R drawled Harlan with aggra-
RRting calm, 'I shah probably be ar
Extlng q line-fence cas In the Justice
Dourt.'
Arne snorted. Wiley. here, Is going
% get N the primaries again jim Hall"
Wiley" put In Janet slowly, last
creek the governor was asking about
Curran OF the News"
Wiley flushed, disconnected for once.
Flo felt that Janet was shrewdly read
kng him He had met Governor Delroy
n~nce--the Fighting anti-ring governor,
whom the rebellion Of the north insur-
gents had put In the chair. But that
belroy remembered HIM After all,
with his philandering old News, had he
really done somethingf He raised his
eye 70 see Janet smiling fondly at him,
khat old affectscnAte 'c~amaraderie OF
days long dead. Harlan. too, smiled. 1t
was rather droll to consider this OBJ
9eure country editor az q contestant
nGatnAt James Hall, n time his Ia
&hersH law partner, now n OF the
most powerful figures OF the lower
An the new civic conscience OF the
Gtaeef What hidden forces were "
vayed against the old order. the easy
a~oEninRhce OF property and class TO
which privilege had given q sort OF
Eanctity7 He had his first feeling Of
0iass consciousness, now, with these
challenging friends. And slowly his
thoughts went back to Aurelie, to that
@niien resentfuI shame with which he
had become aware OF his failure to
Feconcile his love for her with his sense
90 obligation TO his parents, their trad
4eAon, breeding, their love and hopes for
him. This seemed deepest in him, this
nbidtns sense Of honor TO them, to
their gentle birth and the manners Of
kheir kind. There were two sorts Of
right then-the clamor Of those who
fought up to seixe the good OF life, and
&he ~Eteadfast resolution OF those who
possessed this good and would hold II
against the others. Nothing new In the
problem; AZ was the problem Of demLc-
racy. harlan was considered an mi
able and democratic young man, yet he
could not define certain reserves IN
himBelf and why II was almost irnpos-
aible to pass these reserves or admit
o9herg to them, although thy were the
1enaInon understanding Of cultured peo-
DE everywhere. That was it--this bond
~ cultured peoplel And social rebels,
political rebels: the eternal spirit OF re~
hBllion OF any sort did not have this,
o. cared nothing for 1.-THE rough-and-
tumble OF life left little timo Tor ita
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