The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-23

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If you tramp towards the horizon for
success land you may have walked so, 900 |
miles, you will find that it is the same |
distance away. 1t will be better for
you and for the world, for you to stop
tramping, and settle down to real dig
ging. Let me suggest to you that the
greatest contributions to the race in
this wonderful age have come from the
diggers. If you observe closely, these
contributions to happiness have come
from hands not hedged about by heavy
presidents.
All the wealth of the world is still in
her strong boxes. Man has never de-
stroyed one element. The elements
are here for you to gather up. 1t is
for you to pry the lid off of the strong
box. If you 90 not succeed you de-
serve to fail. In this county there are
SCI, 900 acres. These acres are owned
by less than $500 persons. These
prairies are just ''dyin' for you, and
If you do not get these acres, you are
nothing but spineless jelly-fish. If
someone would give you Gift, - it is
10 to you would flop back like soggy
old sponge.
This country is glorious land of
better Tomorrows. If in Hays you
find the crowd is too big, the contest is
too fierce, answer the call of Colorado,
Montana or Idaho-go where the land
needs a crowd. But for the general
| peace of present company, stop your
whining like pup or cawing ike
crow. You are cheating yourself out
of good opportunity to be man.
EASY problems are not worth demon
strating. Wind-falis are usually wormy
and not fit for market. Little men are
everlastingly doing little things. Real
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tremendous things The good things
of earth are only for sons and daughters
of strength. If you ever visit the hall
of success, you will find on its portal
arch this legend inscribed 81 am human
will. All who doubt themselves destroy
themselves, and those who believe
achieve.
Men who are always prowling around
in the dusty cob-webbed garrets of an
tiguity looking for achievements, have
taken their eyes off of the bright and
morning star of tomorrow. They have
become senile in thought. But the
dust of the past in a moral sense is
enough to give anyone who is ethieally
Disposed the la grippe. When you lift
the curtain of those elder days for g
peep, you see the superstitions anc
Ihypocricies of the priest, the whimper-
ing, simpering kings, the whip-gashec
slaves, and brutalized humanity. My
advice is to let the curtains remain
down, forget the nasty dreams, anc
from now on help to construct society
for the good times yet to be.
Any man who stands for civic
righteousness will always be criticized
by the human failures of the yester
days. It would be an easy matter il
any community to name half dozen OF
these LEFTOVER" of an earlier civil
zation They carry the sign "not
wanted" around with them, but they
have not yet been able to read it, Sc
they stand on the street corners, kick
ing and cursing the social progressives
thinking they are impressing the
passers-by with their Anticipated
ideas" They are dead but do no
know it. If you cannot be construct
i've leader, be a leaner, but not bull
dozer.
was listening to some young fellows
prehaps they were twenty-five years o.
age, complaining about the times
chances, and the unlimited amount Of
selfshness in the men of success in ou
: town. After I heard them for awhile
from the way they talked I though
they had very bad attack of menta
'hook-worm. Such folks are the file
in the ointment of the worlds happi
ness. Then 1 listened to person tall
who had seen more than seventy-f1v,
summers plan the work she must d.
: this year, and this seventy-five yea
old-young woman was undertaking t.
5 do more than this ''bunch of jelly-fish'
youths would do in ten years. Ever,
: youth should learn that there is no par
in the long roll Of past time ever equa
: to the now. All of the yesterdays can
not be compared to one hour of the to
days.
Fifty years ago the people of tn
east thought these Western Kansa
= plains were only fit to grow cacti. horn