The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-04-20
Howe About:
Loafers
Reign of Terror
Owning Your Home
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= oors for more help than De Is en-
titled 10, has been troublesome
throughout the long history OF the hu
man race. The social plan OF the ear
| liesr family groups and tribes was
communism. but certain ones we're idle
and troublesome. and refused to do
| their share so the plan. after many
trials, was IN every case giver up
From that day to this Ioafers have
demonstrated that communism will not
| do: Communists themselves are TO
blame for the long rejection of their
| plan.
In olden days 1.-THE history books
say) all knew they must care for
themselves. so the idle were not very
! numerous. and the industrious and
worthy were able to regulate them.
| If a maj was especially annoying, II
was permissible for anyone TO kill him,
| with consent of the elders. A trouble
some woman was whipped by other
| women AS late as the fine civiliZa
ton in Athens a man who would not
earn his own way was placed in charge
of q more efficient and worthy citizen,
/ and taught better manners Loafers
/ were looked down upon. and not al
lowed TO vote: the more persistent
were made slaves, ana forced 10 al
least earn their Own keep on public
| farms
There has been a great change in
modern times: the idle have become
/ so numerous and powerful that a par1
/ of cry penny the industrious earn
/ goes TO the support of the shiftless-
When one looks over old history. life
seems continuing Reign of Terror.
OF nearly all the famous ancient
! cities ii is said they were destroyed
many times. The story runs some
| thing like this: In far-distant time
men discovered lsay on the river -Nile)
! II into a prosperous city. This pros
| perity attracted the envy of rival
| tribes. and the city was utterly de
/ srroyed. in, connection with much
! butchery. A long time after another
| city was built on the favorable site,
and destroyed. This process of de-
struction kept up until the present
ruins represent the ninth such catas
| trophe
The same story comes from the
Euphrares, the Tiber, the Aegian is
lands, and wherever men have been
most active. But for this love of de
struction we of today would be much
| more comfortable and advanced than
we are: one Reign of Terror plunged
| the world into darkness for centuries
and men learned nothing new of value
to pass on to their successors.
| recall time when every man had
an ambition TO own mis- home In
these strange days men are letting
! their homes 20 on the mortgage. or
| paying rent or demanding that the
/ landlord give them more time. q read
| OF one landlord who succeeded in put
| ting tenant out, after the renter had
| paid nothing in twelve months. ana
AAlAS lIC UclZlIDOTS
mad they burned the house,
NJ will again have an ambition to
own their homes, fix them up. and
| care for them. Men who can't rent
| houses somehow get rid of them, or
/ the houses will fall down. and no new
| ones will be built There is always
! finally an end TO the fiercesi battle :;
| the drunkard sobers up, to meet the
| realities of life again Men are nois-
| lily rafting around DOW. and refusing
( TO pay their debts, as they expect a
! change which will render il unneceS-
sary. but there will be no change in
! the old fundamentals; men must have
a roof over their heads, pay thei,
| debts. make a living. and these things
are easiest accomplished by sober,
steady men.
| have long been very proud of a
! common plug of a fellow named WAL
! ter Williams He was a reasonably
| good boy around home, and sent 10
school for q while, but never got his
! lessons very well; he didn't have much
school education when be graduated
| from the grades into the world of
work He became good
| workman. and was promoted to fore
man In due course The neighbors
| liked hin every year a little better.
and in time people in neighboriny
counties heard nice things about him.
| he never went to college or high
school. but took considerable advan-
tage of the education offered In the
school of experience. The last
| card of him ne was addressing an
enormous audience of celebrities in
Berlin. He never went to a university
/ but is now president of the State Uni,
versity of Missouri I'm glad
/ that an ordinary ping OF fellow is
able to de- that well in my country If
n WI half try.
The Russians. In enjoyment of per
\ feet freedom 70 act without Interior
4 ence from capitalists. have NOT done
very well; their average comforf ls
probably lower than in any other GOWN
/ try in the world. So ] do not
believe the capitalistic system is as
great q seourge as he's been charged
! by radicals ever since | can remember.
Even DOW. when we are in our deepest
slough of dependency. We are doing
! far better on an average than the
/ Russians: no radical writer has re-
turned from that country with q diff
| ferent story. The Russian expert
ment is founded on a book. not on
| human experience, and nations have