The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-09-23

people work, make them all get their
shoulders to the wheel and shove in
the same direction. That far we
have got. Next, so that they may
keep showing for all they are worth.
we have got to get closer and closer
to them; got to make them loyal to
Marker and its ruling house because
they want to be so. People can be
forced to do things for while by
law: but that wears off, sometime.
People don't have to be forced when
they do things through respect and
affection. They do them because
it's natural for them to do SO. Our
task now is to win their affection
without losing their respect. You
that direction. 1t would help,
materially. 1t might, sometime, your
royal highness, avert a serious crisis"
You mean?" she asked earnestly
Il mean that in the past there has
petii " iuuSIl loydlty mere ana not
enough people; that the time has
come when a-let us say very small
place like Marken-must begin to
wear its clothes differently. When
its royal house must stop trying to
ape the emperors and kings and
czars Of great and powerful nations;
drop the royal splendor pretence, and
begin to make itself power in it's
own way, on new lines, and let all
others think whatever they please
and be perfectly Indifferent to what
they do think. You've got to forget
that you are princess, and try to
make friends out there. Every one
Of those women working in the fields,
every girl out there of your age, has
just as many perplexities, and sor-
rows, and hopes, and ambitions as
you have. They've got just as much
right to live and to hope. Doubtless
some Of their sorrows and some of
their hopes would seem ridiculous to
you. Doubtless lot Of your sorrows
and hopes would look equally ride
ulous to them. So. if you wish to
help, and I know you do or you
wouldn't be here now, you must go
out among them and establish a new
line, common ground, whereon
their difficulties no longer seem
trivial to you, and yours no longer
ridiculous to them. Find a way to
rub shoulders with them. They'll
not contaminate you. You'll make it
whole lot easier for them. Get to
know their names. Help christen
their babies Learn to advise. Learn
to accept advice. Make them feel
that you are not only princess,
but woman as well. Why, the
proudest title any man ever had in
my country, Princess Eloise, was
given to a ruler when they common
ly called him Old Abe. Everybody
knew who Old Abe was. And the
reason it was the finest title was be-
cause they gave it to him from their
hearts! A nation fought when he
asked them to. A nation wept when
Old Abe died.
Some great pathos in his voice. un-
suspected from such man, some
prodigious seriousness, impressed
and subdued her as she listened This
was not the money lender. Here was
one who had pulled the curtain from
the alcoves of his mind, and ex-
posed therein something so noble
that it brought her, a princess. to
her knees. A glimpse had been Civ
en- her of a fair landscape beyond
all that she had ever seen, fairer
than she had ever seen, tenderly APP
pealing, warmly alluring, like unto
the dream Of Parsifal A land through
which she might not pass save
was crushed by sense Of littleness,
Of unworthiness. The American had
arisen to his feet and she felt his
glowing eyes. She arose, confused
by the swift traeery of her thoughts,
and stood before him with bent
and hands. clasped before her. She
spoke, still under the spell Of the
dream invoked by his clear insight,
but could only stammer, II am trying
am trying, Mr.. Kent, to see. And l
understand, new.-and I don't blame
you-why you despise mel"
Had she looked up, then, she would
have observed the swift look Of pain
that swept across his face, and his
struggle to hold himself in leash.
Just for an instant, and then, curbed
& by his relentless will. it vas gone,
and he was merely the quiet, INF *.
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