The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-01-29

That's because of course ho was the Scotch poet whose songs arc house mold words with almost all Scots men. That there was greater Burns, the Burns who was the poet for all humanity is itself merely in- cidental It is fine thing to see poet honored in this very material age when the sweetest music to the majority is the jingle or dollars and cents.
 We can ill spare the poets from our civilization. But thcre are flower who receive honor and none at all who are less adequately re- auited for the servcie they render during their lives.
 poets who like him gre of real service in upholding the actualities of liberty and truth, and not the shams and hypocrisies that pass muster as such, usually will be re- warded with stone when they ask for bread.
 The poet who strings his rhyme to suit the interests, who deifies convention and conforms to the mos. outrageous pervorSion of moral con ception is usuclly the ono that is highly honored. He is respectable, and his poetry is quoted by the politicians and finds snug resting place no matter what the doggerei may be like, in the reading book at school.
 But let there arise one with a tongue of fire and eyes with fine frenzy rolling as the Greek de- scribed him, to tear the mask from the hypocrisy of our lives to reveal the fact that liberty, disciplined by self-assumed authority is not liber- ty at all, and behold he is avoided as plague end ignored as noncn- tity. The interests that control our lives and our destinies insist that our minds must conform to the principles of existence that they lay down There must be no at- tempt to soar to tho greater heights and weave for mankind visions Of an untramelled human ity. There must be no lifting of the rags from the fostering ulcers of the body polite, no exposure oi the filth that passes muster as mo- rality, no straying from the unvary, ing conventions which conceal the hypocrisy of it all.
 Some poets have donc so. And they have later earned their right to be acclaimed as the great work CTS for human freedom. Burns was such a one, but Burns is honore because the conventions which ht despised and tho cant th@t he out ragged have been banished from society or modified as to be unre cognizable today.
 Today it is easy to fight the wretched doctrines of Calvinisn with it's bl:stering terrors of pre- destination and foreordained rightc ,ousness. But in Burns's time it wal d real power. It ruled over tn: minds and the lives of men and an! assault upon its firm citadel wa dared at ones peril.
 There is no danger in honorins the libertarians of the past becaus' the aims which they strove fo have been already accomplished.
 But it is the hberatarien of tn present who fouts what we hay been taught to uphold, whose ero sive genius eats away tho sham which we havc always respected who blast away the accepted strip ping of falsehood from the goldel $ truth on the bed rock, of facts these are they that are hoIore only with as great danger to thos who do so as to themselves.
 The men who have pointed ou false gods and rotten institution and turned away the masses fror their worshipping in the past wer daring men who, today are easil honored. But those who would d the same thing todny and penctrat for the multitude the villainy carefully nurturcd rcspectabilit. the falsehood of an alleged trutl the dishonoFablencss of highly ht e nored conventions, institutions an cvsfematheae arc threatened wit