Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1890 — WAKE UP, BOYS. [ARTICLE]

WAKE UP, BOYS.

Kafr* the Whole Earth if \«uMNT In- J „ titled to It- jt / c t II I was looking ttfis moraine at a squirrel in his cage. The little fel- i K)W was putting an immense amount of : energy into L wheels tAicF yet .all that -b% accomplished. was to make the wheel* go round and T round with wonderful rapioity.f-Bot" tbe i squirt el was not to blame lor this dCtigpd'nt* energy. His cage comprised the limits of hie world and he Imd no other way of j exercising |his muselfe but to turn his ; wheel. It stirred un fy compassion th C }4cil#«litVhen I ihoug|«ic4rl Upbn the bonier™ P his keeper for his daily food, be would be in the topmost branches of the finest tree-* silecting the cho.cest nuts, and laying, in stoie eHop the' 4 winter. The squirrel is entitled to-pity, hutkj freedom ' WWMCtrTR) 18 IhTitlfed. BuT bow about the human squirrels whq dqJlftsferttblj l cage hav/juit such a iimited field for tbe exercise of mpafttfca. «■. (jjfjcmmHOribed raomittlaOds worfi/hai osfipot brmg .iqut the jiaasibtUiip? .trfijwe < tateiitii?" And yet a young man who proposes to go through life without securing ti-e very best-'-AJiiedtitnX Übat-cttH ye i ob- 1, tained lor the purpose of qualifyinghim. for meetirrg-Birrt TlfgelmxgfngL \hej.-dmi|E* de 1 1 be lately #plt sTiin Jbl iaiide.i and his work m iife-tsTieceSStrrfly 1 iWTtSO'

to one weary monotonous turn of the wheel that, the only applica*'%iofa can make of nis energies. The squirrel that would refuse to turn his wheel would betaken out omd-killed, and| the man" who by education ip fitted p only one-kina of. w jut. must turn the wherilWfftfe. “He wants earttif'. Sk Inflt. A slang expression ivhen used in its highest -educatipnal|«tti|q| iljd J&'lAffa provijejl jwilhlbiains lor comnr«iensi|)u -and fnfiifi* jsiia iuiSscles |o| jafttn! wrfbfS toc whore wfttra as the territory of his powers, Jf, .hi’virtue of education, lie enjoys the rafigfi of unlimited freedom. he [ will not be. tjhe’caged ftqufr’fef, i dependent l his owner fo*.l*i«, daily food and protection, but thenest positions of life Will be within his grasp and he will enjoy the sovereignty to igimU* iWTW energies, the dignity oTlndept ndence. Now, boys, put youi selves m the cage. pioviaed Uy the caprice of > our employer, end tl|4i\ r look out between bars of youi) your fallow fiffen, with no better abilities than 4«c.ni;4fik i sessed, enjoying the delft; ous freseffirntfaE. ] tygP|W)rlfl and fßßiUakinpMjilMp gm ter. but blame for ehoosflSSafiK juiiro'w Uiqit of a cage. drortW**<JJiHihe affekt, fiigj, 'yorld-r r ~Jjieter« jPT'trman.