The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-01

| citizenship have become a power that IS
| dsDgt rous even now, and capable of irrepsr-
able mischief Gradually, more or less of
| their perniclous doctrine is fusing into be
Lief In the minds of the honest IaboriBg
| classes, AID the latter possess the power to
| psralize every industry at any moment By
| negative action-by merely folding their
hands and refusing to do anything. II they
would so act, as unit, they could prevent
anything being done for a sufficient length
OF time TO produce National ruin, from
which. there could be no recovery save I'M
der Military Government. where individual
liberty could have no existence.
Combustlbe elements exist for univer-
sal war and are ready for ignition. a slight
thing could precipitate il. Where would II
end2 In the years TO come-perhsps the
near f1ture-aerlsl navigation will be ac-
compl'sbed. Armies on the earth will be
ed by forces sent from the air high
above. Air ships Supplied with destructives
Will be guided over armies, fleets and forti-
hcatioDs and the deadly missiles will be
dropped upon them. Even rival aeronauts
may attack and destroy each other and their
ships in mid-air, armed with electricity in
forms that human invention will evolve.
Attack and defense have, 50 far, nearly kept
even pace, and it has not deferred war.
New discoveries of subtle forces in nature,
will give control to men for unlimited de-
struction of human life. and with that
knowledge will come new ideas of morals
and new civilization.
1t is net possible to educate the barbarian
entirely out OF humanity and no civilization
will ever accomplish 1t. From the r oval pa
geant, the Presidential State dinner. the
parade OF civic s0cietits the outfit Of the
cowboy the trappinlS Of the Indian, down
to the cumbersome and revolving sdorn-
meDts Of the naked savage, all along the line
the barbarian is manifest. The trsppings
are dictated by the same influence and they
are differences only in degree. One is the
creation of The highest powers of genius,
science and art; and thence on down to
the conceptions OF the lowest intelligence;
but 1t is all the cropping out of the barbsr-
ian IN man. which always has and always
will dominate evrything else. and his high
est attachments will be used for its gratifca-
ton to 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
10 complete his term, we shall have made
an advance into world of new ideas and
political propositions that will prevent re-
turn to the worst and least practical of those
We have favored up to this time. Whether
we will continue to move on ward, or whether
We WILL turn aside after more evil methods
of new kind after his administration shall
be passed. is yet 20 be learned.
Four Thousand years age, thirty thousand
workmen at the dict alton of one man with
revenues raised by his direction, b lilt the
mighty pyramids 1t has taken forty centu-
rles 10 replace the civilization OF his day
with our own. Forty centuries hence
more or less-snd our own civilization will
be replaced by one ss different from it as
that is different from the one existing when
the pyramids were built. Between, will be
more dark sges.
The people of the United States have it In
their power 10 shape the civilization Of the
world for centuries and elevate it TO the
highest level II they would learn the
power, the value, and proper uses of the
rights they have as citizens and then prop.
eTly Use them, the perfection OF life could
De reached and the security of knowledge
and order be assured. The wise, the honest
and the orderly would rule and the igno-
rant, the dishonest and turbulent would be
restrained. Under our Government the first
and perpetuate civil and religious liberty
which include knowledge and order
Is the inherent barbarism going, finally,
% so far dominate ss to throw aside that
chance, in the greed for gain, and for power
IN the individual to rule his fellows? And
IN the misuse and abuse of the rights of citi-
zenship will there become fixed q code of
ethics under which we will go back to des-
potic rule and the dwar6Dg results that be-
long 10 It?
We b ave reached the turning point, and
the mofsl forces born of our acts until now
are solving that question. with the chances
in favor Of the retIograde result. AS with
other things, We shall Tass through many
crises-sometimes forward. sometimes back
ward but unless we hold to the better ee-
ments now at the surface ar that will con-
iinue to be prominent during the revolution
that will exist for the next four years, we
shall advance less than we 90 back, and
finally cease to advance at all.
am impressed with the opinion that we
have reached the level of perfection per-
mitted 10 US in the Infinite economy mot
that We can not improve, but that We will
not) and thst. starting from our own a new
ely ! zation-creating a new mentality has
sjresdy begun on the eastern shores of the
fnclfc ana will move to the western in
y couTse of time That one of the effects
IL present conditions will be an almost uni
v.rsal war in the not far distant future. We
nsve he me ans-if we will use them-to
escspe its evils. profit In many ways during
it's progress and perpetuate liberty for many
generations. Will we do it? Are not the
chances in favor of our being drawn into it
to be the greatest sufferer?
Our statesmen will be wise IL they heed
the signs OF the times and shape the public
rolicy fer safety. And we, the people, will
ta wise III - tn il that nome hUt OUr heat