The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-01-13
The PIONEERS
Continued from page one.)


our social and economic affairs Lighting the dark
places, pointing the way leading the multitude to
think, to see. to know, and then to find the right
way.
Pioneers in educational affairs, with ideas of
text books with ideas about Fairgrounds, with argu
ments of physical culture with heralding of Gary
School IDEAS all pioneering the way for greater
fulness in the common school.
Pioneers with ideas to prolong life and allev-
late suffering Men like Loeb. Mayo, Murphy and
the many others who are toilng in laboratory and
clinic battling grim death IN his chosen strong.
hold. Pioseering the way for better security in
life and for larger and fuller enjoyments of health
Pioneers in literature. with visions of romance
in our present mode of living. with ideas untram-
meled by sissy sentimentalism, with books of orig
nal Characterization.
Pioneers striking new note Homers harp
and sending song throbbine through the misty cor
ridors of the temple of Rhythm, to awaken men and
to inspire men, TO live and endeavor.
Pioneers in Art, bringing light, beauty, and
tone upon golden palette and with the touches of
genius, to make the poets song living tangible
ideal of gladness
Pioneers of national greatness crying out to the
people; Make ready Prepare Pioneers of
national greatness, advocating the training of arm
ies the building of navies, the erecting of engines
OF war. Pioneers who say we are great in peace.
but who say that to be truly great as nation, we
must prepare TO be great in war.
Pioneers for peace with warnings from plat
form and pulpit. Pioneers for peace, with money
charter great ship and fill it with peace advo-
Gates who with courageous zeal go forth acrost the
to storm the blood stained citadel of Mars.
You will find the beginnings of the pioneers in
the dawn of history. Their leaders were always
the great in the world have in this short pa
per only endeavored to give you a mere outline of
the theme I use as topic.
In the epoch we are living in men pioneer.
ing the way to further development of the nation.
both socially and economically. You read constant
repeated arguments in favor of what seems to be
changes in the regular order of things such as
government ownership. singletax, prohibition, So
cialism, equal suffrage universal peace, prepared
ness for war and other measures. These radical
ideas not attacks upon the existing order of
things. They the result of the gradual growth
of the needs and requirments of great nation rush
ing onward in rapid development. Mankind is al
ways advancing along the road of progress Out in
the lead the pioneers blazing the trails. They
who today are pleading for the adoption of new
ideas pioneering the trail Of progress
We need o trick of monarchal statecraft, we
require no example of imperial wisdom to solve the
problems of national life. No king nor min
ion of king craft has, as yet followed the trail of
the pioneers, seen, afar the vision that glorfed
the ideals of the beginners. We as nation have
followed the pioneers into places, have scaled
endeavor into greater and grander realms of polit-
cal ideals.
GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY
THE PEOPLE. AND FOR THE PEOPLE,
SHALL NOT PERISH FROM OFF THE
EARTH-,"The are the words of one of our great
people will the pioneers who will safeguard
and protect this realized prophesy.
Pioneers in the workshops Pioneers in the
marts and ports. Pioneers in the laboratories and
clinics. Pioneers in the schools and colleges. Pr
oneers on the farms and in the homes. Pioneers
the print shops and studios Pioneers laboring
striving, working aud urging. SOLDIERS OF
PROGRESS/. KNIGHTS OF ENDEAVOR/
Bravely courageous. Hoping and leading. On
ward and upward. to the goal the beginners saw on
the far horizon.