The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-06-05
THE DOG DENAGOGUE.

am afraid that was rather frivolous
gtri before married Robert Faiburn. but
am very different now. Anyone would
Son beconie serious Who had tn, privilege
Of being niurh With Robert For h4 is an
ex-feiiow of his eolleSe. ami q professor in
great LONDON institution. and his views are
Ill advanced and earnest He has worke 4
oat a great scheuie for reconstrue ting 50
'iety rs soon as ever society will let him,
though at present it doss not care Of being
reconstructed very mulh | believe there
se several ways Of remodeling our social
system, tut, as Tar As | have been able to
foilow II, Roberts is much the incest q
them all
am not clever at details, but the main
points OF his plan are 10 redistribute wealth
oy psrsuadins kindness il possible-not
foresl, all the people who have property "a
90 shares With those who have not: to slim
uiats trade aud commerce by abolishinx
capital; AND u give everybody q nice little
farm all tO himself, and let him do the best
he can with it Thsn b wants Us to con-
eentrste our empire by giving up every pos
session We might ever he called upon Ia fight
for, which woull enable US to do without a
standing army, and put down the church
and house Of lords and some other thiuxs I
forget ut this moment Then We should all
be happy AMI comfortable once more, ami
other nations would love Us, AMI probably
follow our good example.
I'm sure that all sounds simple enough.
and YET there ARE tinles when Robert seem,
quite - despair Of seeing it ever accom-
plished Even this last extension Of thu
franchise has nat raisei his hopes very
much "rhe fact is" he declares. the bulk
Of tho people, radical though they may call
themselves, are at heart conservatives
They can not look 1t things from cosmo
p'litAn point II view; they haven't tho
courage for experiments On large srals;
hey oil have vested interests in some shaus.
aild they distrust any change that may Il.
feet them. What We require Is a class that
will approach these questions without any
personal bias whatever, and yet, at the
saine time, in sufficiently enlis htsnssi and
philosophical sp r.t'
hut he C. vi not find enough people Of
this sort to make class, until one lay.
when had b.@n RIA ling alou TO him about
some recent exlss, iments in teaching dogs
to recognize the letters Of the alphabet, ami
even combine them into words md ssn.
fences, he seemed suddenly inspired with a
solution
II have il, Fridoline" b. cried, ii have
1.-THE key to the social problem; the new
u Tor Is founi! The future sviors Of this
unhappy country will be it, dozs' am PER.
fectly serious, " he continued launching into
lecture, ~ b. has rather habit Of dot "
WHEN excited Hitherto, although tho
sAgacity, the almost human intelligence Of
the dOG has never been denied, his inner
feet powers VI expression b I'VE not enabled
him ~ do himself full j,,stice The barrier
has begun to be removed, now that the first
dog has learned 70 communicate his IDEAS
IN wOrds What one dog has done Others
can do. Nay; DO not despair Of seeing all
dogs In r~eipt IL FREE education from the
STATE. And when that l. effected, Il will ls
an anomaly which every radical mind will
abhor should thoS. highly educated and
intelligent animals be refused the franchise
ut time when probably every woman
would be in poss,ssiOn Of this high privilege.
Canine suffrage will lec, n. necsSsity.
And what n suits may We not expect from
this irruption Ut fresh, vigorous intelligence
Fur centuries our dogs have teen watching
tho webs Of our political Penelopcs. II IL .
impossible that they have done no without
arriving ut some general conclusions ON the
subject, and what those conclusions are W
shall ere long be snabled 81 ascertain with
accuracy.
THAT their views will be Of levelinp and
generally Democratic tendency, | do not
pesonaly doubt for q moment, the long
degradation Of being compelled a. they
have been, to sufserve the selfish sports Of
pampered arstocracy, must have enrolled
them long since in the crusade against
landed interests. They own no property,
aud can thus have little interest in defend.
ing Il; they have no desire for military
glory, and, therefore, NO mischievous i'm
pulse Of patriotism; no religious principles
VI any kind, and, consequently, arc free
from any sup ,rstitious reverence for state
protected church But It may he necessary,
Fridoline, notwithstanding, to prepare them
for the high duties that will devolye upon
them ~ citizens, no that, when the time ar.
rves, they may vote AS one dog on the side
Of progress
For they will prove in dextero,is hands
tremendous political engine, and, well ma
nipulated, might easily sway the balance at
every polling booth in the kingdom Think,
too, Of the impression that demonstration
Of English dogs in Hyde park on any ques
tion that was stirring the public mind would
infallibly produce tremendous, Fridoline,
tremendous!
"rhis only makes il the more vital, II you
have followed int, that there should be no
bungling In the matter, that the national
dogs should he thorough I'll | Systematically
indoctrinated with accurate by which 1
mean to imply my own, views before our
opponents have had time Ia /, REEVE the full
political ifnportvnce Of these early instances
Of canine education
II quite see that, dear" | said, what I
do not see is exactly how yoi are going 70
indoctrinate w many dogs
That is question:" salt Robert, 10
which intend to devote some anxious con.
sideration'
And, one day, not very long afterward,
b. came home with q face positively beam- ,
ing why, did not at first understand, foe
he was heing followed by the queerest LOOK
ing dog ! ever saw He was Of no par.
ocular breed, but seemed compounded II
The worst points Of the conlmoner mongrels:
ne was shaggy at irregular intervals, and
bare where dog Of any slf-respect would
have been hairy h. had pink eyes and pic ,
BALD nose, and his tail appeared TO live ,
him. 8
Imagine my surprise, then, when Robert !
ntroiu, ell him 10 ile Is the future RECON. 1
'rator OF his race, and even Of humanity /
DO not jud e him by appearances, b. I.
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