Show RAMBLING THOU tills popular government alter after all in th experimental stage patriotism not round found solely in aaion of traitors traitor nations may have an while the tha most progressive saffet arom lethargy copyrighted BY iby nemo EMO to voters and those who love loar them just when nhen there is comparative para tive political quiet let us have a little talk together about traitors trai tora that sad failure major general benedict arnold with hs his passion ate temperament tem his hia extravagant habits his fashionable N wife ife his d delayed e rank and finally lis his foolish attempt to humilia ie his hated bated com compeer peers is known to every child as THE traitor unhappy roan man his name is buried bene beneath atil mountains of the most awful obloquy and his career is made to give point to many a speech as if a man were able to pr prove ove his own patriotism by pointing out some one alses lack of it now patrio patriotism tim is not a negative thing like that it is which prompts a man to cry out to a witnessing g world and a recording heaven fl 1 I thank hank god ged that I 1 am not as this ibis poor traitor before high bea heaven ien I 1 1 I would ne latin lasting rebuke lo 10 ini meet 6 e that first to mst abt a stone should bs be a sinless one bear in mind that in arnolds time abo ih principles of democracy wo wore were re being tested but also bear in mind that the they y have also been tested in no DO less degree dearee at auy ady moment since great dangers are nut not always noisy and battle like they may be silent as the work of king ushers esbers craw fieh and muskrats along the levees of the mississippi and the more dangerous because of their silence it seems clear to me that a nation that lives and grows is never out of the experimental peri mental stage it never can until it dies take definite unchanging place in history and be spoken of as aa having a sure and certain glory or shaine A nation sunk deep down in unprogressive ways way like denmark a quarter of ventury aen aceD tury ago may pick up ind and show enterprise and a nation like france lifted to the very heavens bj its privileges may may be so untrue in its individual lifo life to the things that aregood are good and pure and loyal to nature that its future becomes a dublois dubi ois olis one thus we americans must never lose sight of the fact that our vast area is merely a great stage on which an experiment in ia government by the people is being tried on the grandest scale in the history of the i world so because the outcome has just the element of uncertainty uncut about it that all other experiments have it i it ii t ours to work and watch arid and wait to re inove move every possible hindrance to a progressive proof that government of the people e by the people arid and for the people is such a success that it need never perish off the earth as a tiling thing that has been tested ested and thrown aside but as aa in a field the contest is with weeds so in our government the battle is with traitors and they exist not merely in the pages of 9 a school history to bo held beld up and execrated is aa alun s that have been 1 I say bay chev exist not there and then only litt but here and now BI perennial weeds as stubborn as disease as dangerous as powder they do not prowl around with guns and cannon they sign and seal no unholy agreements they cannot be found lurking near explosives with to torches relles where are they then lot us away with them you say sav but go go gently lest perhaps your mothers son be found among then traitors are those who occupy positions of trust and forget that they are public servants traitors are the voters who con condemn denin house bouse servants for incel and discharge thern them yet criep cringe I 1 and cran crawl I 1 before public officials is as though they were of superior flesh forgetting the while that every such official official would be as naught save for the people who placed him there traitors are legislators who promise to obey the wi will 11 of the people and straightway do the opposite bringing shame a and nd public doubt upon the very hon home Is of good laws without which no nation can live traitors are the selfish men who buy the bodies and souls bouls of lawmakers law makers and have their will with thern them for a price traitors are they who forgetting the blood blied for their welfare and their privileges hold up their votes to be bartered over and purchased so that great questions asking for un biased judgment are looked upon through t the he alluring glass of monetary gain traitors are t elioso no C who living under tinder a free and thrilling government whose str strength enoth is its reliance on oil the hearty co operation cooperation of the people take no more share in its active support than a bushman or a or a russian serf every indolent voter unappreciative precia tive ofa of a condition of life and liberty and individual influence that downtrodden down trodden nations I 1 gaze caze at with longing ionin ion in F eyes ever every unjust judge bringing his high and essential office down to the dust duat of personal considerations every one who never looks at a question except bioni a point of 0 gain or loss to himself all these 1 I say say are making i ng us tremble at ha cup of wrath which by the immutable laws of outraged opportunity I 1 gradually fills up to 0 o be held to the lips of a nation found worshipping shipping wor an ideal of eloth or wealth or conscienceless conscienceless selfishness it 1 search them out and see sea how near your own doorstep door step you will come then ply yourself with the question as to how to lo better conditions not in a distant state but right where you live it can be done don in part and by very simple means if you will but undertake it fasten on your own mind beyond all chance of escape the lack of appreciation that is shown chown when a man tacitly accepts like a hungry animal all the blessings of a quiet country free from wars alarm all the protection in his rights and then feels DO call to make even the slightest I 1 return unless it be of still further personal gain to him then remember as a clinching fact in the self lecturing you have been enduring that a man is responsible as far as his in fluency reaches and that that influence begins at home jerusalem was kept clean by every man sweeping before h his s own door and the clea cleaning Zing and bettering of our political conditions is to be effected by the same ample method i I 1 would not dare to thus write to you unless in my own small corner corder an honest endeavor were being beina made to practice some of this thid preaching |