The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-09
BILL NYE's THINK TANK.
Painfully Shocked Over q Scientists Alieg
Discovery-His Platform.

BILL NYE's THINK TANK.
Painfully Shocked Over a sc,eDtists Alleged
Discoyery-His Platform.
New York World.
| have been painfully shocked and disturbed
by finding the following piece of information IN
one of my favorite newspapers:
Starring with the idea that the hand varies
sensibly in size with the amount OF blood pres
ent in IL 81 any moment, Prof. Mosso the ltal-
ian psychologist, has made some most startling
hand was placed in closed vessel of water.
when the change In the circulation produced oy
the slightest action of body or brain, the small
est thought or movement was shown by rise or
fall in the liq uid in the narrow neck of the YES
sell With large balance on which the horl-
zontal human body may be poised, he
be literally weighed, and that dreams or
the effect of slight sound during slumber turn
the blood to the brain sufficiently to sink the
balance at the head. When the brain OF the
balanced person is relaxing from thought the
flow is towards ths feet, with corresponding
oscillation. The investigator has continued his
studies of the circulation until it seems that he
may almost read ones thoughts and sensations.
A tracing from single pulse beat shows him
whether the person is fasting or not: two beats
serve to determine whether the subject Is a
thinking headess one, whether asleep
awake, cold or warm, agitated or calm. The
changing pulse even told him when profession
al friend reading Italian and when Greek
the greater effort of the latter duly affecting the
blood flow"
approaching
a man cannot even have his thoughts to himself.
Professor Mosso is doing much in his mistaken
and ill-adviSed endeavors to bring this about 1t
ia in our home life especially that this new and
appalling so-casd advancement in science is be-
ing most felt feel justified on behalf of many
citizens, in asking the world to its influence
in calling a halt. 1t has already arrived at that
stage where large, powerful can call
her husband aside after evening prayers and
confront him with phonoeraph that
he has been unconsciously talking into
I1v and fpa aid Of ccion 40
breath-tester, which will assay fragment Of
mans breath in five minutes and tell
what he has been drinking consecutively for
twenty four hours, together with the pedometer.
which has been far perfected that whom sur
reptitionsiy attach ed to mans leg it will rep
resent every revolution he has made around the
billiard table and every time he has raped
the floor with the butt of his cue, no man Is
safe
1 simply arise and softly ask in low, passion
ate tones whittier are we drifting!
Now comes man. who. in the name of
science. proceeds to pry into the great unknow-
able. and proposes to set automatic register
whose morbid curiosity is going to get him into
trouble unless my good right arm has forgot her
cunning The trouble in our country is that
when a man declares himself to be SCIENTISTS
we Just give him the key to the 'front.' and tell
him to help himself. That should not be the
case. Let the scientist keep to his own legiti-
mate field. Here talking about the tariff,
talking on both sides with equal fuency, in fact,
while a is sitting MP nights to perfect
n machine winch can De HGteQ TO an
entire congregation in FIVE minutes 80 as to
show that many of those who humblv put
ting mp a gentle petition asking to be delivered
from pride, vainglory and inordinate desires,
really trying to figure how to map out
the turkey when they get homo as to give each
ono of the family some of the light and some Of
a scheme by which to put now running gears to
the old gros grain, jerk new pair of sleeves in
to it. draps the overskirt another way, and fool
the most critical member Of tho congregation.
i ma AFT h0 nk of IA
in America should be sacred to himself, and am
willing to so before its people on that platform
in 1888.
For what did Patrick Henry speak piece
stating that the war was inevitable, after which
he gave it permission to come? For what did
Washington cross the Delaware2 Did he do it
simply to get the other side2 No! He did it
in order that every American citizen might be
free to saw what he thought, or better STILL that
the people of this country might be absolutely
free to say one thing and think another!
Away with the matter of ad valorem and
specific duties Away with the question of
whether as a whole We are to be benefited
injured by tariff reduction. Allow every local
demagogue to use the thing in his own school
district a stuffed club to knock the wavering
in to line, while rise and tackle the great
question:: Resolved, That it is not advisable
aid encourage the efforts now being made to
atoms is leveled at the iraienable rights of ev-
cry man in religion, politics. social ethics and all
pu bile private matters whatever to say one
thing and think another
am not eloquent man. I came from
among the common people, and am a man of
but few thousand words. cannot construct
beautiful sentences, but can be earnest am
a plain man, oh, plain / am SO plain that
sometimes it worries the artist to make . carca-
ture of me. Nature made plain that I
have to get MP nights and battle my features in
camphor. do not deny that / am plain
the tin. anti-caterpillar overskirt by the
elms in Boston Common, but / love liberty. I
am the greatest hand for liberty that you ever
saw.
But fear that have already detained you
too long. Let me close by saying that am in
favor of false issues. Do not be deceived,
fellow citizens. by the camor over this, that or
the other neighborhood question of tariff, q
question which has been before every debating !
school, and settled con by every debat-
ing school except Congress. twenty years ago; |
but rise and ask that your think be protect |
ed from foreign interference. Insist that |
your infant Thinker shall not be compelled |
to compete with the old and pauper Thinks |
of Europe. Above all, vote in that direction |
which will insure you the right while you |
i've, to preserve in the safe deposit of your soul
, comfortable opinion of your own, which it |
would not do to expose TO the nipping and eager |
air Of popular disapprovxl perhaps. a tender |
md beautiful memory of some one whom the |
Misguided multitude has sat upon.
AS said, am willing to go before the people |
n 1883 on the platform that man party of |
men can ever successfully pry into or embezzle
ny Think BILL NYE.