San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-01-08
NO. A.

puJtluB ocito VI tEo0o uRou s4V &A~a-
sas prairies to diminish the'winds and
TO equalize the supply Of moisture
and heat while the artesian wells of
the French engineers have created
many oasss in the African desert; and,
when the canal from the Mediterran-
can does its work ON the burning
sands, not only the hesrt Of Afrioa,
but Southern Europe will experiences
change Of uniform temperature.
So the saving Of household druid
gerry which wears out so many wo-
men whose brains might be exercis-
cd ut invention, or turned to the ra
tional administration Of charities, or
to similar uses for sconomizing lifo
and strength, and putting them
where every blow will tell, ispossible
only among thinking people who are
capable of seeing the advantages OF
new projects, such as, Q. O.. co-opera-
tive housekeeping.
The emphasis which IL TO be laid
upon large and immediate increase in
human knowledge and wisdom is Of
the nature Of that military sagacity'
which, in preparing for o siege, in
sists that every man who hasin him
the making of a soldier shall submit
to drill while all non -combatants shall
be sent away. The optimism of the
American in the Civil War that ex-
temporized militia would be equal to
all the fighting was a costly folly which
cannot be prudently repeated in the
approaching contests in which shall
be arrayed upon one side the hope Of
true freedom, equality, and spiritual
development Of the majority Of the
human race and on the other side the
certainty Of the slow starvation and
consequent barbarism Of millions Of
people who have once beheld, but
could not hold the promised land Of
civilization.
And, once more, the people Of Uto.
pia will have universal sense OF
moral responsibility put into daily
practice in all relations, moral and
social.
It is one of the surprising revela-
tions which come to many visitors OF
the poor in American cities that by
far the majority Of the wretched are
the product Of drunkenness or Of .
shiftlessness whose parentage few
carnations back was in alcoholic drink.
It is the strong impression Of British
philanthropists that the '.intolerable
deal Of sack to the penny worth of
bread"in the working mans purchases
has quite as much to do with his deg
radiation as the inequality Of the
distribution OF natural wealth, against
which he is wont to raise such an out
cry. More self-restraint everywhere
among the poor, supported by statute
law as we'll as by organized philan'
thropy; more prudence and foresight;
more recognition Of duty to their
neighbors--would prevent squander-
ing Of actual resources and create new
means OF subsistence.
But there is equal need Of a COM
mon morality among well-to-do peo-
pie. Eliminate from the Irish ques-
ton, that sort Of absenteeism in
landowners which means enormous
expenditures in gambling, or in per-
sonal luxury which has no extenua-
ton in it's benefit to any wholesome
art or industry, and let the produce
Of the land be nationally distributed
among thousands OF small freehold
ers, and Mr. Gladstone might COM
fortably retire from statesmanship
and the Fenian would be out Of bust
ness. Limit our American million
aires to the possession of what their
own sagacity, unaided by mere luck
or the tricks of the stock market had
earned and then impose upon them
Peter Cooper's conscience, and many
q foul quarter Of our great cities
might receive sanitary Improvement,
and many O poor household now des-
perate under an unjust impoverish-
ment would be happy and ambitious.
As the competitions Of life become
more severe with the increase Of the
worlds population, il viii become me-
cessary for the more prosperous mem
bers Of society to give up IN the in
terest OF the whole community many
of the privileges which have come
10 be held as rights, simply through
long usage. And il is in this direc-
lion that the socialists claim-that
land, like air and water is human prop
erty, inaienable 10 any permanent,
private ownership-is likely 10 have
its vindication. In anideal Christian
commonwealth, although there would
be no leveling, no distribution OF
wealth without regard to earning
power, yet Gods gifts, whether in the
natural soil or in the enhanced value
OF land which comes from its being
in q town OF city. would be recogni'
zed as common property, which, AZ
the summons Of need the provisional
owners would willingly surrender 10
the State.
And il il Just 90 far ss the ideal
Of Jesus. the kingdom
10 cone on earth, 10 seen 10 Be no
mere arbitrary imposition upon q
world incapable Of rsosiung n bat
the result Of q legitmats evolution
Of human nsturs building up human
socistys and 30, IN the so-c.lled 81
pracfioatiIifis IN Jesus prs.ohing.
the long beforehand anticiPaion of