The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-07-27

have never known of their existence
if it were not for their insurgency.
They could not build up so they pro-
ceeded to tear down. 1t takes real
ability to win fame as a constructions
list; any incompetent can gain notori-
ETY. as destructionist. No insurgent
movement in all the history of insur-
gency ever amounted to anything I'M
less it was led by men who had ac-
complished something before they be-
came insurgents. A rebellion based
on personal disappointment, selfish
ness, stubborness, or desire for no
toriety never succeeded.
1t is the ninety and nine regular
sheep that furnish the wool to clothe
and the flesh to feed the world, and
not the one that deserts the flock and
preambled off into the desert.
1t is the decent men and women who
observe the regular ruels of civilized
society and not the senseless scatter
brains who disregard them, who keep
the social world from degenerating in
to a series of bachanalian revels that
would cause all hell to shudder.
1t is the respectable men and wom-
en- who wear clothes, honor modesty
and regard sensible sexual regulations,
and not the hybrid radishes that dis
regard these necessary accessories of
civilization, who keep the world from
the damnable lewdness of free love de-
generacy.
It is the earnest, honest, faithful,
righteous men who proclaim the old
fashioned doctrine of Christ's saliva
ton that save mems souls and lift the
world to higher and nobler plane Of
thought and action and not the mod
ern missionaries of mercenarism who
disown the Book, deny mans divine
origin and maintain that men and
women are simply evoluted monkeys.
It is the men who maintain party
solidarity, stand by organization, re-
spect the rights of the majority and
act in cohesion with their fellow party
workers that bring about reform in
the political world and not the indie
pendent insurgent who goes off on a
tangent, recognizes no authority save
his own sweet will, disregards organi-
zation and stands like a rock in the
pathway of reform, unless it is his
own reform.
The trouble with the modern world
is that it takes these wandering
rams too seriously and as a result they
take themselves too seriously.
If the contrary buck is determined
to leave the pasture and try his luck
in the desert, let him go. It is fool
isk to go after him and bring him
back willy nilly, and hire brass
band to celebrate his return.
If degenerate social outlaws desire
to banquet monkeys and utilize chorus
girls footgear for drinking goblets,
let them do so, but don't advertise
their foolishness and don't send ennis
saries to plead with them to abstain
from their idiocy.
If a fool-advocate of the Back-to-
Nature doctrine wants to strip HIM
self and go out in the mountains and
subsist on nuts and berries, and if
idiotic women want to become his dis
ciples, let them go, and instead of
urging them to come back, don't let
them come back if they so desire.
If the modern advocates Of indie
pendent, man-made religion insist
their grandfathers and grandmothers
were monkeys, concede it; it is prob
ably true, but it is hard on the mon
keys.
If modern political reformers in
surge and desert their party and in
sist the majority are corruptionists
and they alone are pure, that ninety
and nine are foes of the people, CO.
ruptionists and enemies Of reform, let