The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1864-07-20
Necessary Humbp9a

All lotn,ih the cry against humbngs, and de-
piore the tendency OF the human race 70 be hum.
buggad. This Is the strain that has been sung
Tor mAny centuries past BY those Who proiessed
wisdom, and all the multitude echo the chorus
let We do bot find tat humhngs are less nuner.
ous or that the people are less liabh- TO be i'm
posed on by them. We lind some little OF the
hnmeag 10 everything around us, In everybed,'s
rhArasser, aud in everybodS,s action. We sec
q m everything we see; hear IL in everything We
bear, and wtthoutn hun,bag little could be don.
that u doue. II IL, therefore, hardly lie Ian.
guage Of cynieisni to ray that all the world is
humbug.
However might have been at some remote
period OF the past it il certainly the case nov,
that humbugs are absolutely necessary. People
have an inordinaie iondi,e-s for being deceived,
aud II ihes can find 40 one 70 deceive them, viii
deceive themselves. Hence the peasur. with
whch we watch the tricks OF the jugser, and
the excited iuierrst with which sc follow the
fortunes Of heroes aid heroinrs upon the@ssage
These deceptive arts give pleasure; tut wheth.
or that pleasure arises from 'he s.e uf iHith
or iron some more hidden. hut fcss worthy prin-
clples Of our ratnre, ae cannot say
In GREAT many OF eur humbugs, however,
there is really no deception The people eau see
through ali the cloud and uudetst,ud what is
j
daylight. Yet i: il pleasant to hav. the cloud
there. At the theatre >leinre tire car, ain i
siiied, every spectator knows nhat those het.iud
it arc dt'lng--ttat they are arranging the scene.
and adjusting the lights, and making Il II tIe pre-
partitions for the act iat Is abou, To he performed
let when te cur'an Is raised, each tries 70 be,
heve that he scene Is real that il il rhr des"r,
islaAd 81 Prospeto, or the bleak iuovr whore the
weird sisters have aghted to hail tie Tlanc ui
Cav dor. So il ii III all our grand 81 grauts
Nh$re great displays are made or cFalurur
speeches rehtarsed. y . one /, deceived ~ lem
Everybody really rates them at what they are
worth, though pro!es ells iLev believe item what
thee appear 10 be. Tie iuatbuE IL NOT ohy
endured without murnnring, but is cu gerry cher
istied IL Is accepted necessary TO Curceal
what would ee coarse and un,ighty withopr this
covering When physician, whose sands VI
HE save almost run cut. attempts . ancgd tF..'r
constitutions by giving theu la- drug. or Iir
Braines announces that he will read characters
bs feeling the bumps on the head, they hay hoot
in derision, hut.th- great Lurntus of Law, legi>
lauoH aud politics they saAe-Hot exactly as srti-
Gus nIntter--but as veiy agreeable diyetsiots
thrown into the more sttroHs parts of life We
neeti some such rnrg- 10 give rounding to ii
sliatp angles OF buSlrcss and so long u they
remain Acknowledged hambugs, they " i'll lee per
tecuy harmless and often very amusing Ties.
ARE niece ssrv hunihug~ which VIC must uphold il
W would maintain regularity aud order. Tha,
some OF them are evils there can be doubt; bat
so hong NJ the constitution Of the human mind
rcftsins what ii now is, they cannot be wholly
nbtltisheds< We hope. therefore, for some period
in the future when people will be susicen,ly
controlled by reason 70 call things BY their righ,
names, aud to see item as they really are.