The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-03-17
EYES 'FRONT.' ONWARD



Once more in the American Nation, in common
with the entire civilized world is facing crisis that
calls for adjustment. Once more called upon
to rouse courage to awaken hope to bring the
determination that manifested in the spirit of TO
stage has arrived where might be led to believe
that this nation has outgrown the purpose for which
the pilgrims sought it's primitive coast for which Wash
ngton prayed at Valley Forge for which Lincoln issued
his call to aSms for which fathers crossed the
boundess pralres and opened fighting to conquer the
wilderness of the west.
We have seen unbrided greed take possession of
the nations resources and render them unable to pour
forth to the common man the wealth that untold
centuries have stored for We have selshness
manifest itself at the cost of human misery place in
dividual gain ahead of general welfare. We have
the nations economic life blood clotted and pre-
vented from fulfilling its life giving purpose. We have
seen the health, wealth. and welfare of democracy
placed on the market in exchange for pottage of in
dividual gain or personal pleasure.
We have seen the Sermon on the Mount erased by
the greed of plutocracy We have come to wonder
whether this nation has reached its end melting
pot and to follow the of the Babylonian the
Persian the Roman empires. We have
chosen representatives fighting among themselves,
ddng while the nation burning, each one fearing
that the other one might gain some glory in leading
the way out of the chaos We have seen one after
had sworn to uphold their hands,
The time has arrived to blot out the past and look
with renewed faith to the future. Astronomers
plain to that is the darkest before dawn Ahead
of us 122, 100000 mouths to be fed many
pairs of feet to be shod; untold of fertile fields
waiting to be titled; idle mines calling for the
production of that which needed by FARMS factories
and homes. Roads are Tor transportation.
Vehicles waiting to bring plows from Cincinnati to
Ardenhurst and potatoes from Ardenhurst to Cincin
natl. Business men stand ready to
Factory hands again to furnish the garments
to clothe the thousands that sorely in need of
them The key to unlock this distressed situation the
medium of exchange, the dollars and the pennies
being held in boarding and prevented from carrying
their mission by the act of those who would willingly
wreck the nations economic system we'll those
who mistakenly but honestly believe that they are
saving something for rainy day. Wreckers of
and governing bodies with clamoring demand that
the funds of the hard taxed farmer and laborer be
indiscrimnately handed without any thought of
those from whom the funds must be collected.
An orchestra cannot play with two directors
beating time in different tempos. The support that
so dsastrously and so often malciousy withheld from
our Presidents Wilson and Hoover, must be fully
corded to President Roosevelt house divided against
itself cannot stand
A new spirit must be awakened through the width
and breath of the nation the spirit of father and grand
father that sent them out with empty hands but
courage in their hearts and faith in their breasts to
build for themselves sod house, open up the fields
build homes and villages and cities and states it must
replace the gimme spirit of today. Cooperation be-
tween and man, family and family, community
and community state and state must again be brought
into play by determination possible by force of law
if necessary The climbing higher in the sky the
As the need is getting greater the agencies for their
relief multiplying It is common purpose, no man
stand or fall by himself He must "Sail with the
wind or go down with the ship" This is yet the
America for which we, fathers forefathers,
left the old countries to better existence. The
spirit is here as large "The game fish swims
upstream" Eyes front Onward.