Show opportunities AT ROME HOME J FAMOUS HOW HOME opportunities RAI gayb BREX overlooked ep solution of the labor question to be 1 round hunu in the development of home industries many a beautiful thing Is pernicious in its effect there Is no telling how many men inen have given up a good lighting fighting chance and have literally laid down in harness because they bad absorbed from john J ingalls poem opportunity tho the idea that they chev had bad had bad their chance and that for them at least opportunity would not return hero 18 the poem master faster of human destinies nm am 1 I fame love and fortune on my footsteps wait cities and fields I 1 walk I 1 penetrate deserts and seas remote and enss ing by and mart and palace soon or lato late I 1 knock unbidden once nt at every gate if sleeping wake if feasting alse before I 1 turn away it la Is the hour of fate and those who follow me reach every state mortals desire and conquer every every foo foe I 1 save rave death but those who doubt or hesitate condemned to fal failure lure penury and woe seek me in vain and uselessly usei essiy im am alore I 1 answer not and I 1 return no morn mom A beautiful cocin yes yea but pernicious ious as Is the theory of fate or tile twin tenet of predestination if opportunity comes but once where Is the liso ilse of striving president james of the university of illinois during the recent com commence ment exercises took occasion to refer to lo the philosophy of ingalls lu galls famous poem it Is falso false aud and mislead misleading ln 91 11 said bald mr james it la Is not a single opportunity port unity which comes to a man it Is a train it Is a never procession somo some small email some largo large growing perhaps more small and more cint cant as tho the years flow on but over ever and always opportunities too numerous too grent great and too largo for us to utilize fully tills Is good healthful optimism there never was in time when opportunities of nil all shapes sizes and colors Iolj bol up on every corner as they do today to day and they are riot not confined to any particular country or locality they are arc waiting everywhere undo under r tho the rapidly changing industrial and economical conditions they are spring fringing up in odd anti out of the tv way places old settlements old villages moss grown ind for years silent ns as tile the cemetery that clings cling to their shirts are finding now youth in ili the revival of occupations and simple industries dus tries which twenty years ag ago 0 o were deemed d impossible tho alie abandoned farms of now new englana tho farms that were left teti antless because it was thought that the only opportunities for success were to bo be found in the west are arc receiving ing new leases of life PENDULUM IS SWINGING BACK r for or n full half century tho the american people have boon been money mad everything has been sacrificed to tile tho one idea of accumulation the dollar sign became the solo sole badge of lionor honor and n mans success was measured not b by y what he made of himself not by wh what at lie accomplished for his follows fellows or tho iho world nt at large but by the size of his bla pile this standard of buccola ins has warped the imagination of the whole poo pie the merchant and professional man bend every cery energy to the piling up of bold bricks and alio farrior farni or not to bo be outdone out done lies awake nights thinking how bo be may get moro more 1 land ind ho lias has row more thin than lie he can till but the land lust has haa seized him and homo home rom comforts forts and a quiet life anro sold in ili clr market in order that tho the line fence may be removed this has been the condition for many yoark and it requires observation to detect any cliance clia ncr but brt a reaction lias has set in tho pondu luw 1 N swinging back A growing sentiment in favor of a moderate success a quiet life annl homo home surroundings it Is appa apper r ent with this comes a desire to get pt back to original principle to abandon tho the cities and seek the healthful life of the farm and the aligo village lligo tile growth of our cities lias has been abnormal the direct result of abnormal normal transportation conal tiong to him that hath shall lie m riven annl to him that linth hatli not even that which lie he hath shall bo be taken awny tins lias been the work policy of modern commercial comp compin enles le tile the small email town tins been sacrificed to the city this was ras the natural result of competition in centers where numerous fallt ands meet low rates are given to both the lb going and outgoing fre lalit but where thero 14 nit one road the traffic Is taxed all that it will bear this condition has baa had bad a continued on oa column t I 1 opportunities AT HOME HOMB tendency to draw tho the manufacturing interests into the groat great transportation centers con tors the tide has flowed strongly toward tho the city find and tho the small email town has hall had a hard bard struggle to retain its ON own n in this respect however tho the pondu pendu luli aluir is swinging back also the conditions surrounding the workmen in tile the cities tho the lack of home life and the presence of accumulated vice have demonstrated to the satisfaction of every one that wo we will never reach our highest industrial success until the average workman Is placed where ho bo can have fresh air a family and a homo home for that family faintly the small town everything else being equal la Is tho the place pince for industries A man with a homo and who spends his evenings with ills his fal family lilly beautifying that homo home is not only a better citizen but lie Is worth infinitely more to lila employer than lils his brother brot lier laborer who has no interest other oilier than that lie he finds with ills his saloon companions and in ili ward politics when the reformers have settled tho the industrial labor questions they will not lie calling for loss hours of work but a distribution of the lie hours bours of work six hours in ili tho the factory or the mine and the balance at homo home working on an acre of ground may he be made a solution of tile the whole question between labor and capital any man with a homo home and ono one acre of the earths surface that lie he can call his own and with emple employment ment at fair wages during live or six hours of tile alio day need never far want for himself or hla fits family under such ruch conditions hta his family can bo be reared and cauca educated tei and live under the advantages of a SOMO social atmosphere |