The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-06-24

l. edge. Still the principle is the same.
'r Our blessed country has the most pc
n feet framework of government that wG
1t ever seen under the sun, contrived, &
e, our late lamented President said, to Civ
d perfect working to the great principle c
IS a government of the people, by the pee
n pie, for the people. 1t has constitution
e within constitutions, governments with
e governments, wheels within wheels
l. machine of vast complexity, which e1
e pends itself in the friction of its ow
i parts. To run it intelligently woul
:, require that all men shall give most @
/ their time to the business of governing
d To work this machine we have primar
# conventions, city conventions, count
r convent tions, district conven tions, Stat
: conventions, and national conventions
I each party duplicating all these-to elec
}, who shall be voted for. And then W.
| have elections with all these ramifica
: tions, when the people come up two o.
three times year to cast in their ballots
: But behind all this machinery are few
men who direct all its movements, anc
thus save the people from the anarchy
which would be inevitable if they came
to the polls without knowing how tc
vote. These few men behind the ma
chine are our rulers. They govern be
, cause they take the government, just as
the strong do under the constitution ot
club law. Thus the outcome of all ou1
equality contrivance is that the few gov.
ern who seize the government, and the
mass is governed. This is the law OF
nature which we set out to repeal with
our parchment constitutions.
Mans carnivorous nature must have
exercise in some form. Originally the
strong ate up the weak The inferior,
who were unfit to PROPAGATE their species,
fed the superior who were fttest. Thus
there was a constant improvement of the
race. This is what Darwin calls "natu-
raj selection" or the survival of the fit
test. Development ceases, and degen-
eracy sets in when the superior cease to
devour the inferior in some form But
it can never cease. In one form or an
other the strong will always eat up the
weak
With the development of varied pro-
duction and tastes the superior found
| better satisfaction for their appetites by
making the inferior work for them, than
by eating them directly. This is civiliza-
| ton.
Psychologists say that all labor is at the
expense of a consumption of the bodily
substance of the laborer. They term it
waste of tissue" They say every mus
cular movement and every thought we
think is waste of tissue. This very
lecture is great waste of tissue. Nor
ally and physically it is the same whether
we feed on what has been produced for
US by the consumption of the bodies of
other persons, or whether we eat them
directly. We are cannibals ali the same
In the simpler state of society, he who
ate the greatest number of his species
became the greatest. Is. our refined So
ciety he who has means to command the
consumption of the bodies of the greatest
number of persons in ministering to his
appetite, is thought a superior being
And when he dies he always goes straight
to heaven, on funeral sermon. The
needles eye has been enlarged so as to
give easiest passage to him most bloated
with riches.
The thing most desired and most la
bored for by all of US, is to be able to live
in ease and luxury by the consumption
of the bodies of other persons This is
only little change in the fashion of |
preying upon our own species. We are
as much beasts of prey as when we de-
voured each other. Human nature is al
ways the same.
As to the exercise of our carniverous
nature on the other beasts, the only |
change is that we cook them now, where
as we used to eat them raw Roasting |
them in the fire constitutes our civiliza-
ton over that of the other beasts. We |
say that they are inferior to US, and,
therefore, are meant for our use. This |
is an admirable adaptation of moral prin-
ciple to our carnivorous appetite. They
who are made inferior are made to serve |
the superior. 1t puts into the form of
pious sentiment the Darwin law of natu-
raj selection, or the survival of the fittest
In our political structure we have in
form repealed this law of nature; but
we have not made headway in practice.
But there is anoth er reason to explain
this inconsistency between our carnivor-
Gus practice and our sentiments: it is,
that the other beasts have no souls This
reason presents to us this great principle
If God has made any creature without a
soul, let those that have souls kill and
eat him on the spot.
That mind which is not satisfied when
a reason is given must be unreasonable
1t is a wonderful proof of forethought
in nature that those acts which have to
be done in carrying out her great pur-
poses in creation and development give
pleasure in the doing. Man must kill
to eat; but the act of killing gives pleas
ure. 10 kill is the instinct of mankind
Man keeps on killing when he has ceased
to eat what he kills. The manifest part
of our being feels noble sensation in
stealing up to unsuspecting birds and
beasts and killing them, and in deluding
simple fishes to thei? death by the treach-
cry of hook concealed in their food
Treatises are written on this manly sport
The proudest mobiles and princes of
Europe make pilgrimages to the great
American plains to feel the sensation of
killing the unweildy buffalo
Suppose that q man, left in infancy in
a wilderness, and grown up to mature
years in ignorance of the existence Of
meet another man who had grown up in
the same conditions, what would they
do2 Would they feel the JOY of society I
they had longed for? Would each rec
ognize his long lost brother, and fly to :
his embrace Not bit of it. They
would instantly fly at each others ]
throats That is human nature, and hu- !
man nature is always the same, Men and !
women are always going at each others
throats in some fashion-in professional
tion, cut-throat bargaining, social riI airy,
rivalry in love, tearing the throats of
each others regulations, and so on.
When men ceased to eat each other
the habit of killing did not cease 1t in
creased in keeping up full play to the
savage instinct. War was incessant
War is the natural occupation of man.
In the face of all our humanities, it is
the noblest occupation. The only men
that tradition calls great were great
butchers of their fellow-men. He that is
master of the art of war is demi-god