Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-07-14
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EDITORIAL

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For not being the choice of either
a pretty lusty candidate.
This promises to be a dull campaign.
The reason being that the people
have no natural leaders,.
The only alternative is third party
and that has about as much chance as
an icicle in Hades. What the mighty
Teddy couldn't do it is a safe bet that
Bob LaFollette and his following can't
do. 900
Every once in while a big man
comes along and the people follow
him. The people will follow strong
man through bitterness, despair and
starvation The Lord doesn't send his
big men very often, sometimes we
think not often enough. But he does
send them and the big man will come
along sooner or later. Then the people
can cast out their petty politicians,
and time-servers and
follow him. Until then we will have
to shift along as best we can.
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This hero worship is human at
tribute. We depend upon symbols and
composite of courage, humility, brains,
honesty, industry and broad-Hinded-
ness that we admire so much because
we all secretly would like to be that
way ourselves. Most of us fall short,
away short, but nevertheless we can
appreciate bigness when it arrives.
every one of us. When our hero
comes along we fall down and worship
and then prepare to wade through
blood for him.
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A Madison judge sentenced work.
ing girl to three years in Waupun be-
cause she had committed perjury in
his court. Maybe this was just but
it seems to US that this judge is pref
ty severe and holds himself altogether
too high. The girl came into court
originally asking for a divorce. Dur
ing the trial it developed that she was
guilty of adultery and later on she ad-
mitted that she had lied III her testi-
mony. Perjury is bad crime but it
is often committed How often have
court attaches, lawyers, reporters, ev-
en- the Judge himself, sat through tes-
timOny when they all felt satisfied
that the witness was falsifying? But
because the witness was clever or be-
cause it didn't matter much except to
make use of before jury, the thing
was passed over. After the Madison
trial was over the woman burst into
tears and the judge stepped down and
attempted to quiet her. tits all for
the best" he said. Maybe so-but it
doesn't seem merciful. The bril- was
bad but her environment was bad. She
was riding on train that bore her to
a destination that Is worse than death.
w. e--0oo-
Through all the present unrest 1t
seems to us that a ray of light Is
beaming and that things will partially
adjust themselves and people will qui-
ct down to industry and thrift after
a while. Labor is kicking up good
deal of fuss but this is labor's inning
and it is feeling its OATS" so to speak.
Labor was held down for long time
maybe since the world began. La
Dor produced but shared little. Labor
was held so that it YVES in actual sIav-
cry for centuries and virtual slavery
for centuries more. But the World
War changed this. Like all great up
heavals the price of blood paid is hav-
ing its effect in emancipation. 1t used
to be that Labor bore all the burden
in case of accident or death but this
has been changed It used to be La
Dor worked lifetime and then crept
away to penurious death but this
will be changed. Labor says now that
it is entitled to ease and honor in its
old age without the poor house facing
it. Labor says now that it is entitled
to decent living and Labor is going to
get it.
Labor itself will curb the bolshevik
and Labor will again come back to
production because this is Labor's
habit and Labor's life If Labor has
been greedy so has Capital been
greedy. But as all things are mat
ter of compromise present troubles
will be compromised Labor will see
that it gets it's fair share and learn
that it cannot have more than its fair
share. n
We believe In farmer organizations
because this is an age of organization.
Glasses have learned that they cannot
compete with others who are power
fully organized. All this may be very
wrong viewed from an ethical stand
point but it is also very necessary. The
fact that the clever big fellow feeds
the more gullible little one on plati-
tudes advising him not to do this or
that his real motive being to keep the
little fellow from doing things that
will interfere with his profits. Some
of the wise ones wrap the American
flag around themselves and tell us
that anything interfering with spe-
cial privilege is unpatriotic.
But the little fellow is getting wiser.