The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-27
SOME THINGS
and OTHER THINGS

IL We Will uOI DSllSNG, surely We
shall not be established. Isa. 7:9.
Said not unto thee, that, if thou
Wouldest believe, thou shouldest see
the glory of God. John 11:4O. =
Remember folks are not born with
standardized impulses like ants All
minds are original, and if any one
wants to 'loco" you by saying dis
couraging things to you or about you
heed 1t not. He is only doing it to
get you out of the competition.
Little souls always try to reach So
sial position by cunningness, tricking
or by lying. They feel they are not
able to enter the game by competing
for it honestly so stoop. A man who
for it honstly so stoop. A man who
gets his place of preferment by a
pulp must always think less of him
self. He knows he is not quite a
man.
| If your conscience is not ashamed
to greet you as a friend, don't you
worry about your enemies.
As long as you try to climb higher,
others will try to pull you down. 1t
matters not what pace you take you
will find hostility. Keep on climbing
up the highway and you will at last
arrive.
If you are right to a few, you ma,
rest assured you are wrong to the
many.
While we are placing more and more
dictatorship into our democracy, we
are firm believers in the democracy
taught by our fathers. As long as
men believe in representative bodies
democracy will grow. AS soon as we
want to shirk our own responsibilities
we start for dictatorship. The great
est boodlers on earth are found in
autocracies.
1 sometimes wonder if our national
conscience does not rise and fall in
versely with the rate of bank dis
count?
l wonder if some of our western
riches is much more than suggestion?
L am of the opinion many a man has
suggested himself rich. If he were
requested to pay thirty cents on the
dollar he would absolutely fail
sssR
Some of these days we will come
to our senses, and we will have a new
class of patriots. You know it takes
nations as we'll as it takes folks a
long time to grow sensible.
Never mind the mixture of figures.
but when optimism goes on an orgy
there is money to be made.
1t is rather amusing to hear men
talk poverty, while We turn our backs
and boast of being the richest nation
on the globe by at least one hundred
per cent.
We don't have to be demagogues
IN order to teach our children to de-
sp1se rogues, it matters not where
they are found
Hospitals, churches, libraries and
universities are not evils, but the man
who uses them to hide his meanness
is devil
All of US have our luxuries-
nave yachts, automobiles, books,
greyhounds, pOodles or an ash bar
rel cat-Iuxuries, but we have them.
listened to man make a mean speech
about a man who had a poor brindIe
dog while the speaker rode in
Super-slx, but the man with the dog
could afford the dog as well as the
man with the super-six could afford
his car.
1t will not be long until the man
who takes more than a reasonable
profit will be considered an enemy to
society: In fact today a man who
suddenly gets rich from the estab-
ished business of the world is con
s!dered an unsafe and an undesirable
citizen. Any man who gets rich off
OF men working for two dollars q
day, moving mountains by shoveling
them away" is a blood sucker, and a
IegaIized hold up man, not fit to as
socIate with honest laboring men.
People are everlastingly talking
about success. Just having money is
not success Plenty of people have
money, plenty of money and are ut
ter failures. A man whose only am
bFtlon IS getting money" is a very
contemplate person. What men
want IS success. 1t means doing or
nave done something that is or has
honestly helped your fellow men. On
ly such success lives in history. We
are now proving how rich we are, but |
to prove wealth getting is sign of |
success, we must spend it in such a |
way that will prove that money is |
one element Of greatness.
About four years ago there were
plenty of peace blinded men who |
thought world violence had been |
Many of US almost re-
GREETED that the civilizing of the In
dams had advanced SO far that tn. |
doors of West Point would soon be |
closed as there could be no need of |
TINS schooPs graduates But our eyes /
have been opened, and we are al
most persuaded these peace propagan-
dlsts were working receiving paw
from the modern Hun government.
a man who would now stand I'D and /
advocate world peace would be con-
.ldered dangerous, and should be
lockd up. In other words only crazy
people or spies would even mention
such thing.
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