Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1922-09-22
THE RADICAL IS A sH1RK


This isn't perfect but since the dawn of his
tory has been improving.
1t has improved because the of each generation
have solved the problems of that generation
Men began to emerge from savagery when they de-
establish chou shalt kill" they
began improve their worldly lot when they settled
the thou shalt not steal" After the primary
rights of life and property secured. another mile
stone in progress passed when the sancy of the
home established. -..
Men establish governments that "life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness might be secure
All this progress took great effort great thought and
great struggles
We of this generation born into a complex civ
ilzaton the fruit of the toll suffering and conservation
of men and women Of former time.
To generation, quota of problems is
given to solve.
The vexed question of the relations of capital and
labor, belongs to but when had nothing, it
bothered at all.
Even the who wrote the Declaration of indie
pendence did bother about whether the gov
eminent the public utilities the public utilities
the government.
When commerce consisted principally in bartering
neighbor modern problems of marketing
and distribution unknown.
Now, the civilization progresses, and the
intricate become relationship each with the other
the problems there and the difficulties
to be ironed out.
There are thousand things that are right, and
everyone knows it. Some things not wrong, but
just appear other things half wrong half
right, and still other things dead wrong.
But in this year 1922, have long since passed
the child's age when it is easy be good" We
studying the higher problems where mans
meat is another mans poison and where the tail of
boys kite copper wire puts out the lights in
city hundred miles away
We have the problem of individualism and social
ism SETTLE the problems of capital labor the prob
lem of the right to work and the right to quit work. and
thousand other problems. Shall the government own
the railroads. and not, how latitude going
initiative? Shall
the coal Mines and not to what extent shall per-
nit ourselves exploited by operators miners?
These problems to settle and alone.
They problems peculiar to this generation and
ever difficult they may they difficult
than the problems that fathers solved in their time,
and grandfathers in theirs
But who is to solve these problems? Certainly not
the Shpsteads, Oesens Kvales, Townleys Bowens and
Magnus Johnsons any other carpng critic, fault
finder preacher of discomfort.
The problems of this generation being solved
the Keoggs and the Nelson's the Preuses Volseads
the who sit down and study and think and evolve
plan that appears to be workable. Perhaps proves
workable and perhaps it does not but it certain to
fall short of perfection and to require study and
thought to meet new conditions. Thus we progress.
Nor is it fair to give all the credit for progress
to limited number of constructive leaders They but
work out what the majority done, and the real
majority who rule the and who work
not the who stand the street listening to
soapbox orators The neighborhood groups Of and
who gather in town and country quietly dis
what they have heard and read the
and not the groups who gather at pink teas or
moonshine parties
The solving Of present problems takes real work
real thought and the radical who merely fault
finder a shrk He has neither the capacity nor the
inclination to apply himself the real solution of
problem and he does double damage by his hampering
of those who would solve them
The solving of problems done by the progressives;
the radical is buzzing drone.