The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-10-01
INDEPENDENCE.

The citizens of this Republic have
almost made Fetch out OF '1ndepen-
dence" and worship at its shrine as:
3'The heather in his blindness,
Bows down to wood and stone"
This condition originated in the
time of the Revolution, having for its
foundation the world famous phrase
in the Declaration of independence,
"That these United Colonies are, and
by right ought to be Free and 1nde-
pendent States" What those states
men really meant was: That these
United Colonies are, and by right
ought to be Free, Self Governing,
Dependent States. Independent
of Great Britian's despotic rule but
inter-dependent one upon another.
Had each state attempted to set it
self up as an Independent power, sep
arate, distinct and Independent from
every other state, instead of a great
strong, mighty Republic, the envy and
admiration Of all other nations on
earth, we would have had heterogen-
Gus conglomeration of petty munich
palities, jealous one of the other, often
at war, one with the other, and we
would have had Mexico instead of a
United States.
The present awful condition Of
Europe is due to the fact that each Of
the great powers are, and have been,
striving to become independent of
each other instead of mutually inter
dependent one upon another.
Inter-Dependence is the corner
stone of civilization while indepen-
dence is the foundation of barbarism.
The only absolutely Independent in
dividual is the native bushman Of
or the ape-like tribes in
central Brazil who dwell among the
trees in the wooded fasteness of the
Amazon. Among these people as
soon as babe ceases to draw susten-
ance from it's mothers breast, it is
cast loose to live or die by it's own in
dividual effort, there is no inter-de-
pendence one upon ano;-4er. The ap-
parel of the male consists of a girdle
to hold his primitive blow-gun; that
of the female, a pair of ear rings and
a garter; and they subsist on roots,
berries, bugs, and crawling things,
and each individual barbarian thinks
the universe centers in his own in
and that the world and
the fullness thereof was created for
his own especial benefit and behoof.
1t the realm of modern politics the
Independent" has the call. The peo-
Pile have been deluded into the thought
that man must be an independent"
to accomplish any reform or bring
about improvements in existing con-
litions. They fail to realize that
modern results can only be secured
BY inter-dependence, each legislator
upon his fellow legislator
FOR cooperation and assistance, and
hat a legislator that cannot secure
such cooperation and assistance is of
10 value to his constituency or to the
country.
The present Representative from
his District is an independent" and
ylorifies in the fact. His idea of in
dependence is that he must kill all
lbuses with his own little blow-gun
md he scorns to ask or accept Co
operation, unless all Others will CO.
operate on his own terms and sub
cribe to his views without reserva-
ion. AS a result, he can secure no
more results in Washington, either
political or of any other kind. His
is of the kind as that Of
he Amazon, and he can no more ac-
results in the realm of legis-
alton than can they in the realm of
utilization. When a man becomes
,bsessed with the idea that the world
.enters in himself he is of no use to
he world.