Show THE OLD SETTLER SETTLED by albeit R lyman yer old settler stuff said a critical friend is perty good but like most perty good stuff it aint practical do you mean that it is beyond our reach we asked dont know as its beyond what we can reach he answered but its beyond what we do reach how humiliating to be caught offering men something besides that which they are already using something really practical to suit our friends taste would no doubt be a big chinese wall around the beaten path to prevent any progressive steps towards a new and better field wen men ate aie hidebound and alfy tl ty move in a circle the slaw wheels u their ox auit grinds round and round in a deeply worn rut if thi this strikes you as an extravagant statement just sit still and listen to the ordinary man dont interrupt him but follow his yarn closely and soon you will discover that he has completed the circle and is traversing his path again the dickens of it is he cant tolerate anything beyond the lints of that circle if anybody starts straight off across the country it gets terribly on his nerves and he begins to yell and throw things that is the great human disease that is what forced old gallilea Gal lileo to take it all back that is what struck po orold roger bacon jn in jail it ridiculed c t u ambus ai discredited V e very er explorer reformer inventor it has lambasted lam basted every progressive man or woman who ever tried to widen the beaten circle and make the world better in the steady march of human progress certain things are simply inevitable the old settler has pointed to a very few of them and time will justify everything he has said so we repeat without bl blush ish or compromise there i is a wonderful future for san juan san juan county is is yet going to he be discovered to be e appreciated evaluated aind and built up as a big region of homes for a multitude of men instead of being a place for cattle and sheep only that glorious work is not going to be accomplished by a generation clinging tenaciously to 0 the beaten bath ath the world moves is worse than folly to depend on the antiquated ways of yesterday to meet the more complex problems of tomorrow the chief ingredient of human life is progress no progress no life the whole i surface surf ace of the earth is cluttered with the ruins ruing of people who quit progressing men alen of the future will look back at this present system as nothing less than bar barbarous barb barwis arois it is quite possible conditions will get worse before they get better they may have to get worse to drive unprogressive herd from their continuous circle tut out of the great crisis will come a generation of wiser men who will see the necessity of going forward they will build a better world their faith and foresight wilt will make homes and villages and towns where the silence of solitude is ii broken only by the bleating of sheep the howl of coyotes or the vocal solos of f some venturesome ventur some cowpuncher |