Windham County Observer

NEED OF THE TIME

It is the need of the hour, as it was at the founding of this government and during the last century to see it preserved, that the best minds of civilization would be engaged in a titanic struggle to reestablish economic order. This country's founders built on principles that guaranteed individual rights not accorded in the old world, and encouraged exercise of individual initiative which gave spirit to the task of taming a wilderness. After nearly a century, it took armed conflict to keep the union together. Now we are in the toils of another major crisis—this time recovering from the effects of a war that was finished fourteen years ago. If our forefathers could establish orderly society in the face of a foreign foe and of hostile Indians, if the north and south could be reunited after bitter sectional strife, we can, with developed resources and everything to do with, bring back prosperity on fundamental principles. Qualities inherited from courageous antecedents are certain to be reflected in stalwart mastery of present difficulties. We need fortitude and patience, and we may feel certain that out of the crucible of trial will come a stronger nation and an advanced civilization.—Herald, Wayne, Nebr.