Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-01-03
kAMPEskA AND HIGHLAND.
AGATEs AND ASHES.
by Agricola)

(By Agricola)
America in her infancy produced
one OF two gentlemen that, perhaps.
may lin the course of human events,,
be called great. Take George Wash
ington, for instance. George was a
pretty fair general and withal a toll
erably decent citizen. George took
a lickin' one day rather than tell his
old dad he didn't hack an old scrub
cherry tree with his little. hatchet-
the lad was just a mere kid and it
looked pretty good for a small boy.
Fact is, Mr.. Washington had the
reputation of never telling a lie all
his mundane caree (married man
though he was).
1t came to pass George became
quite a man on this side of the big
waters. Folks over here sorter looked
to George to do and go ahead with
things, they respected his opinion
Georges action, his ideals, his judg-
ment, his ideas expressed, have be-
come the common property Of the
land he helped to found; they have
stood the test of time, they have last
ed far beyond their author.
OF course, George dabbled in small
things. He tackled anything
like the kaiser; he amt nowhere COM
pared to brother Wilhelm. George
was just a common every day brave
fellow, he didn't have the enlarge
ment of the gall like the kaiser, this
abnormal condition OF the CALLS what
enables the kaiser to undertake to
hf,cc tho nhO1o I h1o,oA1 y o.1Nho Eln,,
golly, I'll bet a quarters worth of
beefsteak that George never dreamed
of such a thing, he wasn't big enough
a man, it kept him busy ADDING the
little one-hoss jobs folks wanted him
to do, butt then as / say George lived
in the day of small things. He had
a small country, little capital, small
means, epuny equipment, etc, ETC., but
then anyway he a nowhere with
the kaiser. Why, gee whizz! one
time they tried to make him king of
America, but he wouldn't take the
place. He knew he didn't have it in
him to make a king.
OF course, MI. Washington licked
the British, but then a lot of folks
think Providence was on his side. and
then France helped him. The kaiser,
no doubt, could whip the British if he
had the French on his side, but they
are not on his side-they's still mixed
UP with some of the Americans, and;
it's getting "worser."
Now as / said George was nowhere
with the great kaiser, he lacked, as /
aforetime stated, this enlargement of
the gall that helps and makes a Teller
tackle things even if there are people
in the road, but now there is one or
two things about Gen. Washington i
would like to have Mr.. Kaiser notice.
Washington declared agriculture to
be the best, the proper, the noblest
occupation of man. Again Washing
ton did not believe in trying to take
in too much territory. Thirdly, Geo.
was at the close of his life First in
war, first in peace, and first in the
hearts of this countrymen.'' This last
place he has kept, rivalled only by
Abraham Lincoln land it may be ONE
day also by Woodrow Wilson,. Now
keeping this. last part all these years,
Mr.. Kaiser, means something. | was.
wondering if you will be first in the
hearts of your countrymen a century
or more after you are dead and gone,
eh, Wilhelm
Tom Jefferson secured a little more
lgterritory, but he arranged to pur-
chase his land. MI. Polk put a claim
on a little more. some of it a little
questionable, possibly, but some Of
the folks he took on actually asked
him to take EN- in, MI. Kaiser. We
have never known of any folks ask
ing you to take EN- in-you'ye taken
in on several occasions, but you fall
ed 10 consult the folk much. Then
our people got ahold Of Alaska and
that by purchase. Abraham Lincoln
had land trouble but he didn't attempt
to get any more land by his big war
he just figured on holding what he
had.
Now right here, Bill, I'll tell you what
Abe. Lincoln said. He said he tried
to keep in touch with the heart Of
the common people, he above all else
wanted to do what was proper, and
just, and what vas desired by his
people, he wanted to do the right as
God revealed to him the right. An
other thing he said, Bill was that
'sYou can fool ome of the people all
the time and part Of the people some
OF the time but you can fool ali the
people all the time and, Bill. you'll
find ont that you can't fool all OF
your people all of the time, and you
can't fool all the world, Bill, nor can
you run all the world. All. Wilhelm,
for some years you somewhat fooled
all the people, while they IN a sense
suspected you; they never dreamed
pf the deep seated plans, the unstint-
ed. the completeness of your prepara-
ton, the science, the labor, the teach
ing OF war, the training OF forces, the
buying and boarding q stores, the
building Of ships for the all, ships for
surface Of the seas, ships TO sal, lurk-
ing demons, beneath the waters. to
strike, without warning, their prey;
the instilling Of unrest and dissatis;
faction into the peoples Of your sis
ter nations, the sending forth Of spies
the breadth Of the world. The civil
lied world. sir. would not, could not
believe q rU1er Of these later years.
40 fha hnud ~ a grnat nation would