The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-10-27

| man VINO did not say:
81 have the finest neighbors In the
world"
There is a gentler atmosphere where
there are women and children: | read
the other day that hawks and song
birds often nest In the same trees.
With mothers and young about, the
hawk behaves himself, and does his
killing elsewhere.
When the Yankees went south In
1865. how they acted. no women or
children being along. My son has
been in Texas for years, with his fam
lily. and writes me: 1T seems to me
have the best neighbors In the
world"
Men are always rougher when the
women and children are not along.
Note what the men say on returning
home after a day spent downtown
with men: sit seems to me have the
meanest opposition in the world"
l often hear people say they intend
to take up special course in music.
French, literature, whist, etc., but have
never heard of anyone taking up a
special course in taste. of Judgment
in handling what education or sense
one has. I oftener have need
of taste or judgment, than nearly any
thing else. One does not play whist
often. or often encounter French
word. but the exercise of sound judg-
ment, taste, will greatly help him.
Huey Long, Holy Roller In the
radical religion, says his father was
poor and ignorant. and kept in that
condition by the INSCRIPTIONS rich.
:. +. Huey has two brothers. mature
men, and respectable and successful
lawyers. They both say their father
was large farmer, better edn-
Gated and more intelligent man than
their brother Huey. and able to make
better speech than any of his sons.
The Long brothers also say that when
they were children, they had intelli-
gent and helpful neighbors. and were
never ground down by anybody.
1t is easy for anyone to win in poll
tics. if the candidate is able to tell the
demagogue story gracefully. The DEM
agogne story is thousands of years
old. and always the same; all dishon-
est voters ask of new man telling
it is that he be eloquent. dramatic.
good liar. and rogue like themselves.
new book on sociology by col
lege professor Is like a new memorial
to Abe Lincoln; 1t is not actually
needed. Prof. L. P. Jacks. of Oxford.
mas just erected another monument of
4OS pages to the ideal society which
expresses itself In providing comfort
able homes for the poor, drunkards,
fallen women. orphans, criminals, etc.,
with hope of retaining the subjects
of our charity.
If our race ever attains an ideal so
cial arrangement, there will be no
poor, drunkards, fallen women, or
phans, or criminals. A mans great
est injustice is that he is hampered In
his efforts to successfully care for him.
self by being taxed to care for those
less Industrious Only of the man an
imal is 1t demanded that he carry
part of another's load.
Say that In the natural march of
man. the natural load of each one is
forty pounds; to carry forty pounds
all day turns out considerable task
by evening. But we have increased
the load of every reasonably hearty
man to certainly fifty pounds Some
others are carrying only thirty. twenty
or ten pounds. or no load at all In
deed, man. worthless persons are be
ing carried in filters from camp to
camp by the stronger.
The French woman called George
Sand was perfect type of the radi-
cal. Her morals were atrocious. but,
like others of her type, she had enor-
nous visions of saving the world.
81 would be cut to pieces for ideals
| know will never be realized" she
wrote. 81 grope In darkness and my
tired arms grasp nothing save delu-
sive shadows. yet If l followed my per-
sonal inclinations | should not pull
nv neighbours child out of the water"
Radicals everywhere have always
been like that: know they cannot ac-
complish what they so disturb the
world by attempting. and neglect the
little good hourly at hand.
(This indictment of radicals is brief
and simply written that it may be
easily understood. | so intend 1t;
purposely avoid making book of the
idea.)
A man informs me that he married
a woman who had lived all her life In
hotels and boarding houses. and that
she was so little civilized that when
he took her to house he provided.
she struck matches on the walls of
the rooms.
There is much | am tempted TO
write, but after | have written it, and
try to decide whether | have written
clearly. Understandings (and. most of
all. sensibly and usefully), | am so
discouraged | am disposed to write
less and less. More good advice
is being. offered today than ever be-
fore. By the time we have considered
half of it, and sent out our own, we
are tired. and have little time left for
anything else. And the good adj
vice is not benefiting US: II seems to
me we have now more unsafe men and
measures than ever before. and less
steadiness in emergencies. AS grow
older am more and more disposed TO
go along more quietly with the crowd.