The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-03-04
OLODWOPPER
Gives Us a Practical Talk on the Law
Of "The Survival Of the Flitest"

or "Ihe Survival or the FilteBt"
For the NEWS.
"BusIness from business principles" Il
copy the above quotation from "somo-
body's" sermon TO farmers, urging them,
tho farmers, to study the business relations
Of their calling more than they are sup
posed to do. According to the best OBJ
servations that I can make, the farmers, az
class, are wide awake aud up 70 every
thing pertaining to their interests, aud not
a whit behind the suburban mechanic or
the retail merchant the men with whom
the former comes in contact. When writer's
on agricultural subjects urge the farmer to
more energy and to greater watchfulness in
his calling, and calls him "a fogy," IL is
not to be inferred that he is considered the
only sleepy person in the world
Competition in all branches Of business
has become so sharp and margins Of profit
so narrow that every person that under
takes to conduct q legitimate business hnds
himself engaged in a race for a prize that
the slothful or lazy man never win. This
is proper, for all the improvement, moral,
intellectual and social, Of the human family
has come from the necessity Of mans ma
ture, and commerce, with the arts and man
ufactures, is the great civilizer Of mankind,
''Briars and 5ramJEs, and the sl0sat Of
the 6ro1O."
Terrible words but still If there we're
no briars nor brsmbles to be subdued and
thus to necessarily bring forth the sweat Of
the brow, mankind would never have
learned to make even "Rprons out Of fig
leaves" Aud people that did not so much
as wear aprons would, wean, be very poor
neighbors, vide the Digger Indians.
Therefore, let us thank the good Lord in
his mercy for "the briars and the brambles. ."
That healthy competition in trade and COM
merce which sharpens wit and calls forth
the faculties that best fit mankind for good
citizenship. This is what has ''subdued
the world, " and sent civilization along with
the arts and sciences into every land from
pole to pole. It has built the railroads and
telegraphs, cleared out TIE great water
ways, and whitened the seas with the sails
Of the nations in friendly comm cree. So
completely has the energy and skill Of man
conquer ed natural obstacles that 1.-The high
seas" have become the great thOroughfare
Of commerce. and six thousand miles Of
ocean is scarcely to be considered factor
when considering the relative value of tn,
different commodities that enter into com
merce. The spices of India, and the prod
uots Of China and Japan and the remotes
islands Of the sea are as freely and almos
as cheaply laid down at our doors as the
products Of our own fields. Then who
would be a drOne? The world is so organ
lied that nothing vital, nothing social ol
commercial can stand still. Everybody
and all classes that can not keep pace will
this great tide Of moral, intellectual and
commercial advancement that is sweeping
around the world, must stand aside and b.
left behind to be forgotten, or swept owe
and buried out Of sight
There is no resisting the infeXibls law o
the Survival Of the Rttest." We continu
ally hear Of the law Of "the survival of tn
fittest," but how many think Of what ire
sistable force it is marching on how 81
lently it is bearing down and exterminatinl
whole races Of animals and plants, who'll
families and tribes Of people; even who'll
nations.
''The survival of the fttest Thin
what it means II you do not know Wha
it means will tell you. It simply mean
this that you or I, if not fit to propogat
and hand down to future generations de
Boendants with the necessary physical in
tsllectual and moral stamina to stem tn
current Of human progress and keep afoa
above the waves Of adversely, it must g
dOl0R and be blolted from the earth.
This is the way nature gets rid Of useles
things That is things that have serve
4 their time and become obsolete. Who'll
Il generations Of plants, and animals by mi
y lions, and probably through thousands c
r ages, have come up on the earth and passe
1t away, to be superseded by higher typel
The coal measures, the fosseliferous rock
- and the marls and the phosphate. beds, tn
fertility that the higher orders Of PLAN
now feed upon, came, all, from these el
q tinct races. So it will ever go on while Ii
1. world stands. The moral and physical lei
" ers and their descendants, and such as al
sr not 6t for the duties Of the times must g
~ The farmer that has impoverished h
OF land by wasteful sloth until it fails to SUI
port himself and family generally ''sel
out" and ''goes West" The advance
- civilization is made up, largely, Of thO
that have been pushed back in this way.
10 What will mankind do when there Is !
On 'West"? Where then will be the outlet
loL 'safsty-valven for those that the law
Of 'the survival Of the httest" pushes out
"a the busy and prosperous highways and cs
%, tsrs Of agricultural and commerce2
on CLoDHoPPER.
Tp T GLENwooD Stock FAnG, Feb. 90, 1885.
.ty It is lpring. A resurrection Of naturt
Nd latent forces i0 taking place. Like the wOI
be around you, renew your complexion, inyigorI
To- your powers, cleanse the channels of li
Of Az rs BaT6aparilla 10 the means 10 use for q