The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-05-12

in alone, but the horse had to die
some time and by taking it with him,
high honor was shown the horse. AS
more valuable to man and the state
than gold or fine raiment.
This was either splendid history or
splendid fiction. A chasm might have
opened during a convulsion of the
earth and by another cOnvulsiOn
closed again, or the Great God of
Israel, looking down upon the grand
pagan doing the very best he knew
might have closed it over him.
A great chasm was opening wider
and wider in western Europe and
homes and soldiers by the thousands
were falling in, yea, and thousands
of fair girls over whose infant SUM
bersfond mothers watched and pray
ed, but after thousands of brave
American men and horses hurled
themselves into the chasm, it closed
over them and the war was stopped.
A chasm is opening in America not
so bad as in Europe, but very serious
nevertheless, and homes are falling
in and lives made wretched. We may
thank the good God that to close this
chasm we do not have to charge up
to the machine gun and lannon's
mouth that what is needed here is
gold and silver and many of our best
heart beats. Can enough rich and
well-to-do Americans grasp the need
of the hour like the brave Roman and
the brave American soldiers did.
A man does not have to own all he
can see to the North and the South
and the East and the West to be hap
Ply. If he owns twenty to a hundred
acres he owns also a share in the
beauy of his neighbours fields and
groves and cattle, a share in the
beauty of their children's faces and
the music of their voices when they
sing in Church, a share in the beauty
of his neighbours home lights as they
shine forth like stars in the evening
Think how glorious it would be if all
the home lights in the world were
lights of owners and none of them of
renters.
Poverty might be abolished in one
generation if the poor could and
would make and keep a resolution to
remain childless until they had ac-
quired over five thousand dollars
worth of property, mainly of the more
useful kind. Those who succeeded
would have property to support their
children. Those who did not would
have no children to support.
Such a plan should not interfere
with love that fails not A man ought
to have spiritual power enough if his
girl became blind or lame or orphaned
to marry her and care for her and
caress her and call her his angel with
out bringing children into home of
poverty.
But suppose three-fourths of the
poor of America and Europe but not
of Asia did remain childless because
they failed to acquire five thousand
who would protect US from children
of Japs and Chinese who never
dreamed of having small families,
much less no families at all.
Suppose there be no Asiatic men
ace. If the poor refused to raise
children to be wage workers, what
would the millionaire do in another
generation for help in their factories
and for domestic helpers? The Pres
ident's wife would have to wash the
dishes if she couldn't make the Pres
ident wash them.
In the last twenty-four years a
large proportion of the labor of the
World has been paid for with borrow
ed money and in consequences the
World rs heavily in debt. Money was
borrowed for the Spanish American
War, the South African War, the war
between Russia and Japan, the Great
War, the Panama Canal, for good
roads and other public work If
Ohio was fair average, our State,
Country, Township, School District
and Municipal debt may have in
creased $4,000, 100000 National
debt $4,000, OOO,O 100000.
If the aggregate public debts of our
country decrease instead of increase
during the next twenty-four years,