The Herald
D. E. STITT, Editor.
Entrd M tecond-ctau matter Sntnbr 8, WW, )
t the post orttr at Monmuth. Onwon, under tht
Act of March 3,
Stroot will l in the saddle und
rilling 'is usual.
MR. HITCHCOCK-SOCIALIST
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FRIDAY, JAN. 19, 1912.
A GOOD SIGN.
One ofMhe best signs for fu
ture prosperity, is the tendency
toward inspiring the youths of
of our state to reach out into
agricultural pursuits ami other
occupations which will prepare
them for lives of usefulness after
school days have been com
pleted. In another column will be
found a communication from h.
R. Alderman, superintendent of
public instruction, who is work
ing to accomplish this end and
to instill a desire for agriculture,
stock-raising, etc., in the minds
of school boys and girls.
WHERE THEY LEAD WE'LL
FOLLOW.
The political forces are align
ing for the shall we say the
march onward to the national
capitol? Well, hardly, but for
the scramble for office and the
patronage that goes therewith.
During the next few months
the saviors of the nation, from
all factions, will parade or ex
toll their many virtues, and their
great ability and desire for the
wellfare and progress of the
colintry wite a "vote for us and
we will do you good."
There will be platforms to run
on but none to stand on, and
should some over conscientious
winner insist on making his
promise good he would very
likely discover that he was on
the "rocky road to Dublin,"
and his constituents, the Oil
Trust, the Coal Trust, the
Beef Trust together with the
other members of the Trust
Family, proceed to deal out
some Trust advice and medicine
which would cause him to shrink
about ten degrees and disclose
his actual insignificence when
compared with those who dic
tate the policy of the adminis
tration. We have, or ought to have,
the best government under the
Sun, because it is founded upon
the best foundation, but we have
left the foundation principles
to a large extent and let party
spirit and greed blind us to a
degree that is detrimental to the
best interests and wellfare of the
nation as a whole.
When a campaign is on the
situation reminds us of a band
of sheep when the leader breaks
from restraint and leaps over
the precipice the rest follow.
In the case of the sheep destruc
tion comes to both leader and
follower, but in the political
field the leader is liot blinded by
partizanisin; he has his axe to
grind and his selfish propensi
ties kee'p him wide awake to his
purpose and true to his slogan
he, or they, do their followers
to a brown finish.
Generally speaking, we'll all
fall in line and "whoop-er-up"
for the next nine months, but
when the votes are counted Wall
To what base purpose is this,
our Government, administered
that we should hear the head of
one of its departments recom
mending such rank socialism as
the public ownership and opera
tion of telegraph lines?
This recommendation of the
rostmaster-General is not alarm
ing except as the name socialism
may have terror for us. Logic
ally, the telegraph service, being
purely a service of communica
tion, may he incorporated with
the management of the postal
service, and probably would
have been so incorporated if, as
a service, it had been in exist
ence at .the time the postoflice
was established. Rut, theoretic
ally, it is held that the telegraph
having started in life"" as a pri
vate business, it must so con
tinue its career to the end.
It is true that in the experi
ence of other countries, logic has
been sustained and the theory
crippled; but vested interests
have shouted ''Socialism!" and
the rest of us have been terrified
by it.
It is about time that we should I
begin to discuss all these various
matters, looking to a new ad
justment of governmental re
lations toward industrial enter
prises that are essentially mon
opolies, without being disturbed
by any hysterical fear of social
ism. Those are matters to be
considered on their merits, just
as if there were no such word as
socialism in the entire vocabu
lary. That seems to have been
the spirit in which Mr. Hitch
cock has grappled with this
matter of telegraph service.
The question now arises: Will
Congress and the country dis
cuss the matter in a similar
spirit? Telegram. .
THE MYSTIC ORIENT.
Leisure and Languor Dominate Life In
the Far Eait.
The Turk in spring will Bit on
the hillsides and smoke and dream
for ten minutes at a- time, some
times for hotlrs. They call it mak
ing "kef." When you have a Turk
ish student who makes "kef" in
class he is hopeless. No part of th
lesson sinks into his mind, fie
speaks when you call on him and
tries to answer your questions, but
his thoughts are far away.
I have stood leaning against our
terrace wall in the hoauty of spring
and gazed for fifteen minutes at a
time at certain shrubs and flowers
which were bright with sunshine
until my thoughts seemed to soar
away beyond the confines of space
and of time. It is as easy to be
mystic in the east as it is to he
practical in the wpst. -The differ
ence between the east and the west,
in a word, is this: Tlere we do not
like to sit down; there they do not
like to get up. Here leisure is a
sin : there it is a virtue.
Our American habit of crowding
every moment, of seeking recrea
tion in violent and exciting forms,
is the result of our climate. It is
hard to sit still and relax and de
sire nothing, not even amusement.
Such a life, feverish in its activity,
does not make one really happy
and is bound to lead at last to a
breakdown.
In the east one does not have to
do something in order to be happy.
One does not have to plan theater
parties, games, crowded excursions,
in order to be happy. One is happy
merely to exist. One can sit down
and be happy. Repose is as natural
as activity is to us.
For this reason I have often
thought that the east may in time
become our great sanitarium. Just
as the orientals who come to our
country learn to work and to hus
tle, so Americans who go to the j
east learn to repose. A few year
there will change one's restless,
nervous habits into calm and poise.
You censo to worry about things.
Desire, which is the chief source of
our anxieties, falls from you. If
you can't do a thing you have
flanned on you say: "Never mind,
t is not important." If there is
something you need, but cannot get,
you say, "Well, 1 can do without
it." If there is a play you want to
see, but cannot; a trip you want to
make, a friend vou want to visit,
and things Btflnd in the way, you
say, "Some other time." Thus the
east creeps in upon yon with its
laziness, its repose and its feeling
of resignation, and you grow tai
and healthy and forget that you
have nerves.
Reader, if you want to know
what paradise is en this earth visit
Constantinople and the Bosporus in
the month of May. Boston Tran
script. The Welsh Tongue.
The confusion of tongues had
done its destined part, work in the
tower of Babel being pretty much
suspended, when all aLnce Welsh
emerged from the racket. The
sound of consonants being pro
nounced without the help of vowels
was at once seen to cause no small
uneasiness in high quarters.
"No use overdoini; the business!"
these hastily exclaimed and forth
with called a halt.
As for Welsh, what was done
could not, of course, be undone, hut
the ensuing distribution of lan
guages happily relegated it to the
remote corner of a remote island of
the sea. so that the embarrassment
was by no menus what it might
have been. Pnek.
Professional Cards
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Otlice in B. K. Baker's Reside"
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Dr. J. O. Matthis
Physician and Surgeon
Office in Postoflice Building
Calls answered promptly
both day and night.
Both Phones.
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Houses wiredat $2.00 per drop. All kinds of Inside wiring done,
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