The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-08-26
SOME THINGS
and OTHER THINGS

The mysterious winepress of God is
truly in action on the continent of Eu-
rope; and it is to be hoped that much of
the ancient cant, aristocracy, divine
right of kings, the preferred by birth,
and all other rot of the ruling classes,
will be squeezed out and the people viii
come into their own. Their groans
have been going up as a memorial for
centuries.
When funerals become sort of re-
ligious highway robbery, it is about
time for thinking people to call halt.
It is getting so the average man can
not afford to die and expect to be buried
in style. It seems that as we are max
ing social surveys, that funerals should
be taken under investigation and re-
port made.
When you put out to sea at the set
ting of life's sun, you will find you will
have to make the voyage alone and the
voyage is across fixed gulf; the cur
tains will rise no more until you are
summoned before the Bar of Last APP
peal. Now as you are hurrylng along
life's highway, would it not be well for
you to consider what standing you will
have with the evidence you will have
when called to take the witness stand
at the Bar of Last Appeal?
Did you ever hear this one, Better
be a live coward than dead hero?" If
you will study the most Of US, you viii
find that IS our work-aday motto. 1
know ''It is better to die like Hector
than to fly like perfumed Pan" 1 have
concluded that success should not be
IL
but by the opposition he has encounter
ed and withstood, by the honest fight
be has made. Some victors are so ever
lastingly cheap.
If you will take thrift, prudence,
judgment, foresight and hindsight in
about equal proportions and stir them
we'll and then add a modicum OF
pluck" you will have a compound
that Will meet the mortal needs for
honorable success. And the foundation
| for all success is nerve" upon which
| to start the above compound; but if
| you are just an ordinary every day fool.
The thoroughbred sticks to his aim
! but the mongrel IN the contest viii let
/ his hold slip. Here of late l have no
| ticed a good many mongrels. As long
AS it is easy fighting, tn Y get along,
| but in the contest they soon stand on
the out edge of the 'free-for-all' and
bark.
have dealt with men long enough to
know that every man has his secret
sorrows, and oft times when you say he
| is an ''odd one" or "cold proposition, -
| it is neither;-he Is only sad hearted be
cause of the grief he is forced TO carry.
1t takes a brave man to squarely look
| the devil in the face and call him devil.
/ We secretly admire such man, but we
never make him leader because we
are too cowardly to fight. know we
say we honor a man who is willing to
fight for the right to think; but the
most of US are nothing but blatant liars
when we say it, for in the next breath
we will say, after we have witnessed
such man in a contest, "WeH l honor
him all right, but it was not in place,
he has no tact, the poor devil might
have expected what he got, fellow
that is so Independent might know he
would get it," and to finish our excuse
for playing the coward, we will con
clude our defense by saying, well, l
/ mighty poor Judgment. We then pat
ourselves and then start along our old
way, but mentally placing our publicly
announced hero down as fool. And If
he should ever ask us for a position, We
answer ne is gritty and means well, but
we cannot use him. He is too indie
pendent. We are such liars and don [
seem to know it.
If the papers report the doings of
congress correctly, you are profoundly
impressed with the acts of the present
democratic congress what love, what
/ Judgment are manifest Congress has
appropriated s., Ole, IT'S for the health
i of the animals-hogs. mules and goats;