The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11

LOQSSOmSneSS IS the price you pay LUZ
power. The higher you climb the less
companionship you viii have. You
may be able to share your success with
many, but your failure you must bear
alone.
America has two recurrent crisis
the presidential campaign and vacation,
and they are both about here. Perhaps
the latter is the most important to most
of the people-you had better plan to
take one-then vote.
If you think leadership is easy, sup
pose you try to be leader. You just
lift your head above the social dead
level and you will discover how many
bricks there are to knock you down tn
your place. There are plenty of people
who have in store pile Of bricks to
heave at you because they have had
misgiving that you have notion of
stirring from your dead~level. You
must be strong enough TO take welt
ing or be forever wisher.
Many sane people are considered in
sane by mad men; and many conscien-
cious people are hypocrites in the sight
of gamblers.
If we are to have clean government
we must have clean men to ill the Of
fees. And it now seems that Mulvaine
and the Mulvaine type Of political office
seekers are to be invited by the folks
who believe in 1.-THE people rule" to go
''away back" and take back seat and
watch the honest progressives direct
the policies of the state. Il is strange
how some of these old political dead
/ bones still want to speak. They have
been dead for ten years and do not
know it. It is amusing to peocle who
observe the passing and changing
events to4watch those old 'fhas been"
try to trick the people by their old
''shell games" Change your approach
to society or get out Of the game
If we read the modern jargon Alright,
the elemental passions described by
amateur sociologists, some men now
living make the personality of Rous-
seau's natural man" look like a
gentleman and a scholar.
Some of our latest books seem to be
clogged with physiological PSYCHOLOGY.
1t is natural to desire to grow rich.
Most of US are doing our best to crafty
that ambition, and we are finding out
that the men of wealth of the past did
not play the game honestly. It now
seems that the modern men of wealth
never were creators of wealth, but have
become rich because of the growth Of
the population.
Il is well known that an enormous
percentage of the productive wealth OF
the United States is held by small
percentage Of the people.
1t now seems we will have to repeal
the laws that make for trusts, and give
the chance back to call the people" OF
play into the hands of the socialists.
The American people have no desire
to destroy incentive to create wealth
or deprive a man of having rich found
alton for great family name; but the
idea OF establishing an endowed class
of idlers is contrary to Americanismi
we believe dangerous to American In,
situations.
The farm is factory of individualism.
It is the place where people get the
idea of wealth producing.
They tell US that spring is the birth
day of revolution. 1t surely seems sc
| by the way the wind is banging and
slamming things around today. From
the way the dust is flying you'd know
there was something doing.
Most old Nimrods are looking over
their fishing tackle, not so much fol
the sake of catching fish as for the fur
of trying to catch them. It is really
astonishing how uneasy man gets this
time of the year. He hears the call Of
nature from the woods, rivers, and
ponds, saying Come out and be a true
sport.
I know that bronchitis, sore throat
and rheumatism have been chasing
all through the long winter months,
but you feel that wet feet, tired limbs.
and boy-hunger would drive them
away-Yes, get ready, men, and the
first opportunity you have, answer the
"can of the Wild
They Forget the Work.
They talk lot about the man who
owns a little farm, his independent nook
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