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Volume 9 January 27, 1911. Number 4 
The cultivation of puble spirited- 
ness—the community spirit—was the 
keynote of the address of the eve- 
ning at the annual banquet of the 
North Shore Horticultural society in 
Manchester Wedesday evening. 
There is a call for patriotism in 
every community,—in science, in re- 
ligion, in education and in law,—yes, 
in every walk of our life. We need 
lawyers whose talents are consecrat- 
ed at the altar of civic righteousness, 
and whose service to the community 
makes the path of justice easier to 
tread and the ways of vice, crime. 
and injustice more difficult. We need 
leaders in religion with high motives 
and free minds, unbound by the 
shackles of outworn creeds, fearless- 
ly but justly dividing the Word of 
Truth, to live with the strong for 
the weak. We need men of commer- 
cial integrity and honor. We need 
large-hearted and level-headed edi- 
tors impelled by, and only by, high 
principles, never degrading his chair, 
nor paper, nor constituency by 
‘‘tommy-rot, smut and untruth’’ un- 
der disguise as news, advertisement 
or editorial, with a pen dipped in 
caustic for all that is harmful to the 
publie weal, and pen to serve the 
cause of worth. 
To THE many persons still hving 
who remember Horace Greeley as a 
daily figure in the life of New York 
the one hundredth anniversary of 
his birth, which falls on Feb. 3, 1911, 
will have a special significance. By 
those of a later generation no less 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
is tribute due to the memory of a 
man who played a part as editor, 
anti-slavery leader and ardent sup- 
porter of the Union that made him 
one of the leading characters of his 
century. 
The moral force and energy that 
Greeley brought to his work gave 
him a personal influence that to-day 
is difficult to appreciate under 
changed conditions. The blows he 
struck for freedom when the fight 
against human slavery was a doubt- 
ful cause and most needed recruits 
were the expression of convictions 
that ignore popular ill-will and per- 
sonal danger. He was a dangerous 
combatant whose conscience told 
him that he was right regardless of 
majorities and minorities, and time 
and events have fully justified the 
enlightened doctrines that he preach- 
ed with unsparing vehemence. 
Merely as’ the man who brought 
about the nomination of Lincoln, 
Greeley would deserve a fitting 
monument. In journalism, in polli- 
tics and in pubhe life he exercised 
extraordinary power, and in the 
main that power was the result of 
moral ideals that can never die. It 
is well that steps should be taken at 
once to bring about a fitting observ- 
ance of the centennial of his birth. 
On the 25th of January, 1759, Ro- 
bert Burns, the poet, was born in a 
little clay cottage, the first child of 
a Scotch gardener, William Burnes, 
in the parish of Alloway. What a 
place he has made for himself in 
the hearts of men! Well may we 
draw a mantle of charity about his 
failings in remembering the great 
good some of his poems have done 
for man. One cannot write his name 
without realizing the great work the 
Scotch race has done for démocracy. 
Robert Burns will endure because 
of the spirit of democracy, innate in 
man, that found expression for all 
time in ‘‘Is There for Honest Pover- 
ty.’’? It is the universal protest of 
erushed humanity against false vir- 
tue and a social cry for freedom and 
true worth as against lordly station 
and the presumptions of a well-filled 
purse. 
‘¢A prince can mak a belted knight 
A marquis, duke and a’ that! 
But an honest man’s aboon his might— 
Guid faith, he manna fa’ that, 
For: a? that; an’ +a” that, 
Their dignities, an’ a’ that, 
The pith o’ sense an’ pride 0’ worth 
Sve higher rank than a’ that.’’ 
The religion of creed and the hy- 
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pocrisy of ecclesiasticism did not es- 
cape his ‘‘terrible’’ mirth. He did 
his part in the struggle for the re-— 
ligious life of the heart as against 
ecclesiasticism. What is more search- 
ing in its biting sarcasm than: 
‘*Calvin’s sons! Calvin’s sons! 
Seize your spiritual guns, 
Ammunition you never can need, 
Your hearts are the stuff 
Will ke powther enough 
And vour skulls are store houses o’ lead, 
Calvin’s sons, q 
Your skulls are store houses 0’ lead.’’ 
Against hypocrisy, the severe ar- 
raignment of ecclesiasticism in Holy 
Willie’s Prayer probably has no 
equal in literature — 
“‘Lord, hear my earnest ery and prayer, 
Against that presbyt’ry of Ayr; 
Thy strong right hand, Lord, mak’ it 
bare, 
Upo’ their heads, 
Lord, weigh it down and dinna spare 
For their misdeeds. 
**O Lord, my God, 
Aiken, 
My very heart and soul are quakin’, 
To think how we stood groanin’, shakin’, 
And swat wi’, dread. 
While auld wi’ hingin’ lip and snakin’, 
And hid his head’’. 
that glib-tongued 
In Pilgrim’s Progress, as Great 
Heart passed by, he saw hanging on 
the same tree, Simple, Sloth and Pre- 
sumption. To know too much may 
accomplish less than simplicity. Sim- 
ple does not know enough to do any- 
thing. Sloth is too lazy to do any- 
thing. Presumption will undo more 
than Wisdom and Industry can do. 
Every public office is a trust to 
be administered and is held by the 
good will of the people. When a - 
journal fails to serve and build a 
community it will die—and ought 
to die. 
No enterprise can succeed without 
the good will and help of the pub- 
lic. This is ever true of a journal. 
We are here to serve. But service 
is not subservience. 
When a man thinks he is ‘‘too 
big ’’ for his ‘‘job’’ it is because he 
does not realize how big the job 
is. 
If your business does not grow by 
building up the community it will 
end in ruining you. 
Labor for a purse robs the laborer 
of the greater reward of industry. 
Watch for the Ground Hog. 
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