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Vol. IV. No. 15 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, OCT. 13, 1906 
Three Cents 
24 Pages. 
AUTUMN REVERIES. 
By D. F. Lamson. 
A few students under a haystack, 
a hundred years ago, prayed, into 
existence the modern American 
missionary movement; but there 
were pluck and purpose as well as 
prayer. “We can do it if we can,” 
were the words of the devoted and 
heroic Samuel J. Mills. A similar 
knightly utterance is attributed to 
John Wesley, “Whatever ought to 
be done can be done,” words fit to 
revolutionize the world; the same 
spirit has been immortalized in Vir- 
gil’s rowers, “They can because they 
think they can.” ‘ 
Some persons are wofully lacking 
in a sense of perspective and _ pro- 
portion ; they easily condone a grave 
moral obliquity, but they are hor- 
ror-struck at a false quantity or a 
split infinitive, which last, it is 
true, is enough “to rile a Shaker or 
an everidge saint.” 
Religion owes little to pomp and 
circumstance; it makes its home in 
barns as well as cathedrals, in pris- 
ons as well as palaces; its founder 
was laid in a manger, and its first 
preachers were accustomed to hard 
fare, coarse clothing and all discom- 
fort; and their true successors have 
often fared not much better; the 
lives of many a missionary, as Liv- 
ingstone, Mackay, Paton and Jud- 
son, are as full of pathos and hero- 
ism as any hagiology can boast. 
Nature will sometimes assert it- 
self in spite of all efforts to disci- 
pline and train it, as when the 
teacher of English told her class 
that a preposition is not a good 
word to end a sentence with. 
We sometimes stand like Bilboa 
on some peak in Darien, some van- 
tage ground of attainment, and life 
seems full of vast opportunities and 
possibilities; but the main thing is 
to walk in the light of today, and 
to “do ye nexte thynge,” as runs the 
inscription in the old English par- 
sonage down by the sea. 
: lives 
Kipling calls the brown man half 
devil and half child, and another re- 
cent writer describes men as half 
God and half devil; be this as_ it 
may, certain it is that many men 
are a bundle'of contradictions, there 
is in them a Dr. Jekyll and a Mr. 
Hyde. “I find in me two men,” says 
a French writer. 
A weak purpose and __irresolute 
will are as powerless in morals as a 
dangling participle in composition ; 
in the one case rhetoric suffers, in 
the other, experience and influence. 
An excellent spine was a school- 
boy’s reading of an excellent spirit 
in the statesman prophet, just what 
is needed in our politicians and pub- 
lic leaders generally; more moral 
backbone, more willingness to 
stand Athanaisius-like against the 
world, and to do right though the 
heavens fall. 
There are many things said that 
are well enough as far as words go, 
but we feel that they lack the note 
of reality, they have a hollow ring; 
there is ball needed as well as pow- 
der to do execution, and after all it 
is the man behind the gun. 
. “They laded us with such things 
as were necessary’; good, consid- 
erate friends, those islanders; most 
of us load ourselves with superflui- 
ties, these are what worry us and 
wear us out before our time, not 
the needful impediments of life. 
Culture and simplicity are very 
closely allied, though many seem 
to think it a mark of learning to 
use great, swelling words to ex- 
press their thoughts; a plain farmer 
who heard Daniel Webster at Bun- 
ker Hill said of his oration: “Every 
word weighed a pound,” but Web- 
ster’s style is a model of simplicity, 
straightforwardness, and that ab- 
sence of art which is the perfection 
of art. 
These matchless October days, 
with their mildness and charm, re- 
mind us of what the autumn of our 
should be—serene, mellow, 
golden with the fruitage of experi- 
ence and hope, free from life’s hustle 
IN POLITICS 
Cong. Gardner Again the Choice of 
Republican Convention 
Congressman Augustus P. Gard- 
ner of Hamilton was nominated by 
acclamation at the Congressional 
convention in Ipswich last Saturday 
to succeed himself in Congress. 
Upon being escorted to the plat- 
form he accepted his nomination for 
a third term, speaking in part as 
follows: 
“T am afraid that I am classed as 
a ‘wicked standpatter.’ Perhaps 
that is putting it a little strong, as 
there are a number of tariff sched- 
ules I should like to see changed. I- 
don’t think much of the existing 
hide and leather schedule and I am 
not in ecstasies over the glass, 
sugar or steel schedules. I am per- 
fectly aware of the fact that some 
people are making more money than 
they ought out of the steel sched- 
ule; but, on the whole, I should 
rather see a few people making a 
little tsxo much money than to see 
everyone making too little money, 
which was the case the last time 
the Democracy had a chance to 
tinker the tariff. On the whole, 
however, Massachusetts fares pret- 
ty well under the Dingley law and 
1 doubt if she would fare much bet- 
ter under a new customs law. 
“You can put the producer out of 
business, if you want to do so, by 
hostile legislation, and by the same 
act you will put the consumer back 
into the public soup house. This 
has been demonstrated pretty near- 
ly every time that the Democracy 
has been in power. ; 
“Now I have a word to say to the 
voters in this district, because I 
know I have a harder fight ahead 
than in 1904. | hope to win, and I 
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and worriment and killing competi- 
tion, a prelibation of the rest that 
remaineth. 
