Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-01-26
MAKES HIM TIRED.
THE tATIGUING CANT OF CIV
lLlZATION.
A California Journalist Compares
Man Killers and Man Eaters.
Economical Cannibalism.
The Price Of a Gentle.
mans Board.

Some Of our journals are lament
ing the impending commercial
crash" in Brazil, brought about by
abolition of slavery. 1t is explained
that the wants of the freedmen be-
ing few and simple and nature pro-
ducing abundantly without urging,
they will not work. am unable to
see anything in this to lament.
The man who can live well enough
to suit him without working
ing is fool to work and the men
who cannot live in a way to suit
them without his work are entitled
to no compassion, even if they are
willing to pay for the work.
If the civilized races find their Or
nate system unadapted to a country
which brings forth abundantly y with
out labor--if they cannot supply
their own artificial wants in such Il
country as well as they can in less
fertile one where those who "Want
but little here below" must work
for them or starye, what is the mat
ter with emigration ?
This cant Of civilization fatiguos.
Civilization is fine and beautiful
structure. 1t is as picturesque as a
Gothic cathedral But it Is built
upon the bones and cemented with
the blood of those whose part in all
its .pomp is thai aud nothing more.
1t cannot be reared in the generous
tropics, for there the people will not
contribute their bones. The propo-
sition that the average American
workingman or European peasant is
"better off, than the South Sea
Islander, lolling under palm and
drunk with over-eating, will not bear
a moments examination. 1t is we
that are better off.
1t is admitted that the South Sea
Islander IN a state Of nature IS over
much addicted to the practice OF
eating human flesh; but concerning
that | submit: first that he likes it;
second, that those who supply it are
mostly dead. 1t is upon his enc
mics that he feeds, and these he
would kill anyhow, as we do ours.
In civilized, enlightened and
Christian countries, where canDl-
balism has not yet established itself,
wars are as frequent and destructive
as among the maneaters. The un.
titled savage knows at least why he
goes killing, whereas the private
soldier is commonly in black ignor-
ance of the apparent cause Of quar-
rel-of the actual cause, always
Their shares in the fruits of victory
are about equal the Chief takes al
the dead, the General all the glory.
Moreover, it costs more human life
TO supply Christian gentleman
with food than 1t does a cannibal
With food alone-board. If yor
could figure out the numtyr O
lives that his lodging, clothing
amusements and accomplishments
cost, the sum would startle. Hap
PLY he does not pay it. Consider
ing human lives as having value
cannibalism is undoubtedly the mor'
economical system.
| like civilization. I ought.
enjoy many of its advantages with
out doing anything that is useful tt
those whose toll and suffering hav,
gone into the harvest. lodge in
small but comfortable enOugl
apartment of the fabric that is build
ed on their bones. My hands ar
SOFT am horny-headed son 0
toll.
Men toll with their heads from
choice, with their hands only from
the direst necessity.
Among the other benefactions 0
civilization is this: it enables som
at frightful cost to a thousan'
times as many others-to achiev
intelligence. | am indebted to j
for enough of that quality to Sc
that tho svstnm Ia q murdar0uS i'm