Show T the h e 0 old 1 settler e t t 1 berty w written ri t t en f from ro m salt i t L lake a k city my dear san Juaner Jua ners 3 A story is s told of an old man who was both rich and wise who I 1 gave each of his two sons an equal amount of money but w lied the greater part of his hi s fortune to charity they protested that lie he had robbed thern them but he told them n he had bad given them just enough and not too much though the old man gave but a little he had it stipulated that thai each son should put the money into merchandising as they had been trained and that the principal was never to be reduced neither son could use anything but the interest accruing on the money after their first year the older brother being in great need used all the increase on the money but the younger brother taking account of the smallness of the amunt added it to the principal and aid avon won his life revenues from other sources that was the policy followed by both brothers for a number of years the older brother fleeced his capital stock to the skin every year and it remained the same he lived in chronic poverty and became discouraged cou raged the younger brother after a few years hid had more than enough revenue from his business to supply his needs and the business continued to grow making him as wealthy as his father had been but I 1 am thinking of san juan joan it is our inherit nace and it is what we make it a growing I 1 profitable source or an investment fleeced to the skin I 1 have I 1 I 1 heard men say speaking of salaries I 1 expense money and perquisites qui sites that range far beyond I 1 the bounds of reason and justice this cost us a thing its on the county and wed be foolish if we take it when it is here within our reach the idea with too many people s to do with the county as the older of the two brothers did with his inheritance keeping its productive power right down to the minimum minimum in fact there being no stipulation in this case that the capital stock shall not be squandered the countes coun tys resources are likely bikely to be exhausted and the whole thing bonded to the limit think of the fine things the county can do for its people if it is built up and strengthened instead of being exploited and bled at every turn it is only what men give that comes back to them 1 their passion for taking and taking to the limit reacts in a closi 1 ing up of the sources before them i and they impoverish themselves by their greediness the matter of the countes coun tys income what it amounts to and where it goes should be the business of every taxpayer especially it should be the business the pride and the honor of every man who is entrusted with its keeping not to spend it or draw on it for his real or imaginary services the essential difference between a democracy and a monarchy is the difference in the standards of honor and education of their people 1 the monarchy is for a peo 1 continued on page 13 i the old settler continued continue d from page one pie pic who lack what it calls for to trusted rusted with the values of their own destiny and the destiny of their fellows jt it has to be handled by a dicta dictator tor who takes matters into his own hands and makes them to go for the sake of his own ambitions A democracy is for people with b higher h e r 1 ideals d ea I 1 3 and the integrity to conserve e the interests of the government on which they all depend the idea of american g government 0 v e r n m en t i is s t that ha t t there h er e m must u st b be e a c central e n t r al p power 0 w e r rn more 0 r e s sacred cr e d an and c I 1 more important than all its trib ut aries the capital stock that is the central resources and power of the county to grow and to bless its people should be jealously IY guarded and buit bu it up as the main business on which the people live yours for san juan ALBERT R LYMAN |