The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-04


able mitchell Gradually, more or less o.
their perniclous doctrine is fusing into be
lief in the minds OF the honest Ia Boring
classes, AID the latter possess the power TO
psralize every Industry at any moment By
negative aciion-by merely folding their
hands ard refusing 10 do anything. If they
vCuId so act, as a omit, they could prevent
snyihiDg being done for sufficient iength
sf time 10 produce National ruin, from
which, there could be no recovery save un-
der Military Government, where, individual
hhelty could have no existence.
CoInbrsubIe elements exist for univer-
sal war and are ready for iguition. a slight
thing could precipitste IT, Where would 1t
AndP In the years to come-perhaps the
Besr fature-aeTlsl navigation will be &C.
CUIOIl she'd. Armies on the earth will oe
stiscE ed by forces sent from the air hiSh
above. AIR ships supplied with dessructives
9ju be guided over armies, flsets aud forti-
fca;ioIs and the deadly missiles will be
cropped upon them Esen rival aeronauts
msy attack and de stIoy each other and their
ships in mid-air, armed with electricity in
forms that human invention will evolve.
Attack and defer Sc have, so far, nearly Kept
even pace, ana it hes not deferred war.
New discoveries of subtle forces in nature,
will give control to men for unlimited de-
siIuction OF human life. and with that
knowledge will come new ideas of morals
and new civilization.
1t is not possible to educate the barbarian
entirely out OF humanity and no civilization
Will ever accomplish it From the 2 lyal pa
geant, the Presidential State dinner the
parade OF civic societies, the outfit of the
cowboys, the trappings OF the Indian, down
to the cumbersome and revolving adorn-
ments of the naked savage, all slong the line
the barbarian is manifest. The trappings
are dictated by the same influence and they
are differences only in degree. One is the
at AF EA snI- ~E
science and art; and thence on down TO
the conceptions of the lowest intelligence;
but it is all the cropping out of the bscbar-
len in man, which alwsys has and always
will dominate evrything else. and his high
est attachments will be used for It's gratifcs.
lion 10 a greater or less extent.
In this country we have now entered upon
one OF the greatest revolutions in the history
Of the Nation; and if Grover Cleveland lives
TO complete his term, we shall have made
an advance into world OF new ideas aud
political propositions that viii prevent re-
turn to the worst ard least practical of those
We have favored up 10 this time. Whether
We viii turn aside after more evil methods
Of rev kind after his administration shall
be ps ssed. is yet 10 be learned.
-Four Thousand years ago, thirty Thousand
Rofknen at the dlct8tion OF one maO, with
ievtnUts raised by bis direction, Tilt the
mighty pyramios 1t has taken forty centu-
rieA 10 replace the civilization of his day
With our own. Forty centuries hence
d ore Or iees-suo our own civilization "
Ne replaced by one IS different from it as
cat different from the one existing when
be pylamios wers built. Between, Will be
;uCre dark ages.
The people Of tbs United States have it IN
heir power 10 shape the civilization Of the
sorid tor cent urits ana elevate it to the
Z g
poTt', lie value, and proper USES OF the
rights they lave IS citizens and then prop
rriy So Them. zoe perfection ut LIE could
~ reached aid tue tecnrity OF kGoW edge
'Dd order be assured. he wise, ibe honest
ard tie oToeriy would rale and tie isno-
fsn'. fhe dishonest aud turbulent would be
r.sTTained. Under orr Government the rst
Ia &c is given TO humanity to establish
and pei peius:H civil aid religions ll0erty--
Tbicb include Enogledge snd order
Is the inherent barbarism going, 6naly,
So fsr dominate IS to throw aside that
ctspop, In The greed tor gain, and fur lower
IA Ihs ibGivjdual 70 rule his fellows? And
"a the misuse and abuse of the rights OF citi-
1.ufhip will there become fixed 2 code of
ethics under which we viii go back to des-
,olio rule ard the |. airing results that be-
ior Y 10 *?
We bsve reached the turning point and
the moral forces born of our acts until now
are solving that question. With the co9nces
in favor of the retIOgrade result. AS with
other things we shall pass through many
crises--sometimes forward. sometimes back
ward; but unless we hold to the better eie-
ments now at the surface and that will con-
tinue to be prominent during the revolution
that will exist for the next four years, we
shall advance less than we go back, and
finally cease 10 advance at all
am Impressed with the opinion that we
have reached the level of perfection per-
mitted to us in The Infinite economy mot
that we can not improve, but that we will
notl and that, starting from our own u new
ciYilization-creatinc new mentality has
already begun On the eastern shores OF the
Pacific. and will move to the western in
the course of time. That one Of the effects
Of present. conditions will be an almost unl'
Versal war IN the not far distant future. We
bsve the nsa ns-if we will use them-to
escape its evils, profit IN many ways during
its progress and perpetuate liberty for many
generations. Will we do it? Are not the
chances in favor of our being drawn into ii
10 be the greatest sufferer
Our Statesmen will be wise If they heed
the signs of the times and shape the PUBLIC
policy for safety. And we, the people, vii
be wise If we see to it that none bot our hest
men are entrusted with the direction o.
| public Affairs.