The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-10-21
anew CONDITIONS TEACH NEW
DUTIES

A valued friend, writing from q
distant state, incloses US clipping
from speech delivered in the Unit
ed States senate BY Hon. Thomas e.
Watson, perhaps spoken in opposi-
ton to the League of Nations, in
which the following sentences are
UNDERSIGNED as If emphasizing cur
friends approval and as closing the
discussion against which nothing else
can be said. permitting no other argu-
ment to be advanced or be entertain
ed.
The following is the extract from
Senator Watson's speech TO which
our attention has been particularly
directed:
sI4et us go as far as Washington
went: we are no wiser than he. Let
us go as far as Clay went: we are no
wiser than he, and no wiser than
Jefferson
Mr.. Clay, in one of the finest bursts
OF eloquence that ever sprang from
his musical lips, congratulated his
country upon the fact that it had ev-
erything that the human family could
desire, that it never would need adj
iftional territory, that it was suftl-
cient unto itself; every flower that
bloOmed, bioomed for US; every fruit
that ripened, ripened for US; that
every food the human appetite crayed
is at our command every variety OF
soil and OF climate are ours, and he
congratulated the country upon its
self-sufficiency
OF course we all agree without en-
pertaining one thought to the con-
trary that washington, Jefferson and
Clay stood head and shoulders above
the mass of the people of their sew
eral generations but the world has
undergone marvellous changes since
those times and we do not have to be
reminded that new conditions teach
new duties
If by some mighty dispensati0n OF
providence it were possible to bring
these men, whose memories We so
fondly cherish, back to life they would
be pupils at the feet of the average
school boy and girl.
If given SO simple thing as fric-
ton match Washington would be
ignorant of its use
Ii he had desire 20 kindle fire
or have some one else to perform
this service for him he would expect
the flint and steel and finder box to
be brought into requisition.
He could scarcely be made to be-
lieye that by the mere touch Of but
ton a whole city could be instantly
illuminated
He would be as ignorant as Hot
tentot or Digger Indian of the uses
of sewing machine, a victrola, q
gas or wood stove. a refrigerator, a
therlnos bottle, breech loading shot
gun, repeating rifle, an automatic
pistol, a steel pen. blotting paper,
and a hundred things Of daily use
now found in nearly every home.
The implements now used on near
III every farm would be as amazing
to him and of their uses he would be
as ignorant as an infant in arms.
The father of his country as well
as the author of the declaration Of
independence, and the father OF a
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FAINT industries. would believe that
they were in some other world and
for al the things that make for ciyi-
lization they would be in another
world for the world does not stand
still it is not the world they lived
in.
The world is ceaseless in its move
ments and in its resistless sweep its
can not remain station
airy
The tendency is forever onward and
onward.
Let us go no further than Wash
ington went then We would not
have gotten very far.
When Washington was alive there
was no steam or yet it had not been
utilized to mans service and it took
months where it now takes days TO
cross the ocean
We live in a different age aud are
surrounded with entirely different
Noah was the wisest man of his
generation. although having direct
with God. yet il tradi-
ton be true, it took him one hundred
and twenty years to build boat
But he had plenty of time. He lived
to be over nine hundred years old.
His primitive mode of living and
length of life were the same as if
he had inhabited some other planet.
Centuries later solomon was di-
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