Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-02

stigator in order to show you where
you stand and that you are far be-
low par in the wage question as COM
pared with the Northern States?
have been labeled a foe to labor
because I am anti-cOmTnuniStlc; but
do you think for one moment that
l would recommend to you to fOregO
your rights to own property, TO say
what you want to when and where
you please, to write what you please,
to think what you please, your right
to assemble, your right to be a
Catholic, MOhOmetan, Buddhist, Con-
fucian, Brahman, ATHEIST, infidel,
deist, or agnostic, if you so desire?
Would l ask you to forego the great
est privileges ever granted hoi polloi
before in the history of the world for
a poor guarante of better economic
status and the loss of the above men
toned privileges? No! a thousand
times, no! l am your friend!
If you are interested in the over
throw of the rich, 1 am not your
friend, for you are prompted by envy
and not by interest in improving
your economic status. And if you are
interested in your social status, l
would advise you to visit regularly
the Leslie Perry Memorial Library.
20, yes it's in Henderson, you may
not know it; but it's here!) and I
will guarantee that you can come in
contact with some of the greatest
minds that ever existed. And think
of it, no charge! Read Ralph Waldo
EmerSons essays and see if they
don't submerge that petty, foggy
mind in Washington down to its right
level, namely, that OF moron. The
Great Mediocrity Of America may
perchance some day learn that our
Presidents weren't and aren't the
greatest minds America produces.
After all, Thomas A. Edison and Or
vile Wright were born in America.
How many of you know that Ralph
Waldo Emerson was the greatest
philosopher that America ever pro-
duced? Ralph Waldo Emerson is men
toned in the works Of a good many
European writer's of note, which on
ly goes to prove: "A prophet is not
without honor save in his own cOun-
try" You may ask, what good are
these philosophers, anyway" The
philosopher always precedes the
scientist i. e., the philosopher first
breaches the subject, the scientist
later on makes the discovery. In 9TH
er words, the philosopher is always
the forerunner of the scientist, i'd
est, the pilot bird" Due to me ex-
pressing in this paragraph some of
my many antipathies, l wonder if
you have labeled me a man with
anarchistic tendencies. If you have,
you have misjudged me. Civilization
cannot exist without government; but
is that any excuse to continue elect
ing fools to offices of which they are
mentally incapable of handling?
After almost seven years there is
still no beacon ahead guiding us to
economic recovery: This is the lon
gest depression our nation has ever
endured What! you say that this
country is no longer in the throes of
the 1929 depression? You should
have your head examined! And you
WPA workers, you have been allow
ed to exist, so you say, which is all
that dictators and cheap would-be-
dictators ever allow; "there are GER
tain truths which only mediocre
minds understand best"
1 apologize for veering from the
subject; but let us hope that ''omnia
vicit labor" detrimental to it.
FRANK L. FAULKNER.
Henderson, August %, 1899.