Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-06-23
EDITORIAL,
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Into the Primitive.

A state trunk line where the auto
mobiles whisk by at thirty miles an
hour many times day and by the
river side a grass-grown lane lead
Ing toward near distant ridge. The
busy tourist passes the lane with q
roar not intent upon nature study
out the Wayfarer pauses and then
turns southWards toward the hills.
The road is fair and it leads toward
a roaring stream that bends itself be-
meath the bluffs and passes into the
river beyond. This is Crow branch ),
Pete says, and sure enough on q
stark tree sits a crow looking like
Poe's raven, the aperient bird of Red
Raven splits or Old Grow of reverent
memory
Pete is reminiscent. Il wonder If
Wlntergreen grows under the pines
as 1t did fifty years ago." SO we climb
and Pete for all his five and sixty
years is in the lead. The way leads
through underbrush toward high
ground covered with pines All is
stiffness here-the wild flowers still
| grow in this shady place and the rock
IS covered with fern like a green but
perpendicular carpet.
! This is primitive and will remain
| so. Despite the inevitable changes
! to the landscape in the county Pine
| Knob will always be as it was ages
| ago. The under rock is hard sand
stone that resisted erosive effect and
made pile the towering buttress Of
| torest-clad rock. The soil thereon is
crumbled sand mixed with forest
mold from the ages of falling leaves
| and rotting vegetation. 1t is fertile
though shallow and wild things grow
IN profusion. The climb is steep
leading zig-zag toward the top and
here and there Pete finds his winter
green. They taste bland and frag-
rant, a part of the wild.
At the top some hundred feet up
are trees and then civilization again
with pasture table land and cows
grazing on the bluegrass. This spot
OF several hundred acres remains to-
day as it was one hundred years ago
and back of that through the ages
before even the Indian came. An
hour spent there is pleasant and
profitable. The mind is refreshed
and losing the present becomes a
part OF time for it knows that Nature
here will always hold her undisputed
sway.
To present two radically different
views OF the political situation the
Herald reprints two editorials. The
first is from the Dodgeville Sun. a
paper that ranks foremost as a Pro-
-gressive institution. The second is
from the Fl Atkinson Union, one of
the best Weeklies in the state and Ill
tra-conservative. AS the reader leans
one way or the other he will agree
with one or the other ideas expressed.
Now for the Sun:
Made Good For Its Masters.
Friends of good government are
not disappointed in the Republican
platform. for they did not expect any
thing. The party leadership is thoro-
ly reactionary, so it was impossible
for the platform to recognize any
real issue. Besides, platform prom
ises may mean anything or nothing.
Lodge, the big figure in this latest
/ convention of the party, explained
away the promise of tariff revision,
made twelve years ago, by saying that
! 1t did not necessarily mean revision
/ downward. Wilson, who declared for
| certain planks in the party's plat
form before his election, notably the
canal-toll plank, declared squarely
| against them afterward.
/ What happened at Chicago was per-
haps more of a sporting event than
political one. 1t was just part of
the old-line politicians game. Hard
ing, reactionary and politician like
the rest, is possibly good man per-
sonally like many another instrument
/ of evil whose name is written in let
! ters of lying light on the pages of
! our history. Ard we hope he may, If
/ TN hn Oh
according to his lights. No doubt he
belongs to the old school of political
sentimentalists, who know little or
nothing of modern thought, or he
could not be acceptable to a reac-
| tionary convention and its bosses.
For the lack of idealism that made
| one more such convention possible
the nation must continue to pay, of
course, in varied miseries, moral deg
relations and, in time, catastrophes.
! But that seems to be the way of the
world. How many centuries will it
| take us to learn that ideaIism is the
only materialism that can possibly
succeed?
This is what the Union says:
Clean.
The mud-shooting guns of the DEM
| ocratic party, all loaded and primed,
have been spiked by the nomination
of Warren Harding of Ohio and Gov.
Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts to
be president and vice-president of
the United States. 1t is clean,
brainy ticket that anyone can vote
/ with honor.
The bench-warming club at the
courthouse have decided that what
ails America is lack of production
''The trouble" says Uncle Hy Fogel-
strong, "is that nobody wants to work
any more" Uncle by, with unerring
! accuracy, impales hapless fly in
food Of tobacco juice, shifts his legs
and proceeds to damn the laboring
classes and the country in general.
Harding is a good man, amt he?"
Yes, seems to be O. K. However pres
! dental aspirants generally have the
X-ray applied thoroughly and any de-
| fects will be plainly shown before the
votes are counted This goes also for
the Democratic candidate. The peo-
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