Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-26

very Quickly fa.l to eiecss and its members r
turn TO their prestine savarery. Living in
| state, you preach the destruction OF the so
| state; you, whose very existence Is depende
| on that of the state. II the state did not exis
| you and your brethren would never have bee
heard Of; we should all be slaves of the Scyths I
| 1.-THE hrst savage tribes who discovered u.s.
You are like a tn or which destroys the bod
and vet live solely upon the body. The livir
| Individual body struggles with and annihilatt
the tumor, and we act and cannot but act
| precisely the same way towards you. Hence
IN spite OF my promise to assist you to reali7
| your wishes. look upon your tenates as exceed
| lngiy pernicious and vile. Vile, because hol
that to gnsw the breast thai nouri he'd you
neither honorable nor just, and this is what 20
| are doing who are willing to profit by the ad
vantages offered BY the Commonwealth and w
| refuse to move finger in support of the orgaui
zatlon by which 1t exists, and actually endeavo
to pull il to pieces.
There wouli BE- much truth in what von al
vance. replied Pamphilius. eff our life CORE
sponhed to your description of it. But VOL
nave no actual experience of the life we lead
ana your notions OF i are false and misleading
The means Il livelihood which we make us
OF are readily obtainable without recurring t
any FORM OF violence whatever; and man is s.
constltu ed that SO long he is in normal healtI
ne can obtain by the work of his hands NOR
imam he requires for the support of his life
Living together IN common. we are able by thu
WORK OF our hands to maintai our children anC
old Iolfs. our sick and infirm.' -
- GU assert that your rulers protect men from
i tnelr IorelSn ano domestic enemies. But we
You contend that we, Christians arouse IL
the breast OF the slave desire to be Castr In
truth we do to the contrary; by word and deed
we preach patient humility and work-work Of
what is considered the lowest kind-the WORK nj
the common day laborer.
ABOUT affairs OF state we know nothing, un.
derstand nothing. We know but one thin in
that sphere, but that we know thoroughly. be-
yond the possibility of doubt namely that our
happiness lies there where the happiness of
other people Is to be found, and it is there that
we alway seek it The happiness of ali men
consists in their union. and their union must he
Drought about, not by violence but by love- The
VI az, OF nlshWsyman towards wavfarer is
70 our thinking neither more nor less abomna-
bic than the violence employed bv troops against
their prisoner or by the Judge against the con-
denned culprit. and it is impossible that we
should deliberately consent to have hand or
part In one or the other. Violence is reflected
IN us, but our share in it consists not in &C
lively applying it to Others but in submitting to
1t without protest
Yes, interrupted Julius, s'but Won ONLY
SEEM 10 oe tnartyrs and to be over eager to Law
Gown your lives for the truth. In reality truth
Is not on your SIDE. you are proud madcaps en-
gagged IN sapplng the foundation of social life
IN words you preach love, but it needs no very
searching lnalysls OF the results thai flow from
tnat love OF yours to discover that it sh ould be
called by a very different name; for the results
IN questlon are saVagery, retrogression to the
p ltnltlVe state OF nature, murders. robbery,
violence OF all kinds, ETC., which according &,
your doctrines must not be opposed or shocked
in anv way
No; that is not so,' rejoined Pa,nphilius:
ana If you will only consider carefully and i'm
PARTIAL what results from our teaching and
our living, you will see without any pointing it
out, not only that murders, violence and rob-
tray, crimes of nature cannot be successfnlIv
rooted out otherwise than bv employing thu
means we advocate. Murder, robbery and
every kind of evil existed in the world long he
tore Christianity appeared there, and peopIe
grnppled with them in vain, employing these
r Tery means, the efficacy of which we deny
! nese expedients, which all consist in meeting
7iolence with violence do not. cannot cbact
rhine, hut they provoke it by arousing in in
ii y..i1 feelings OF anger and bitterness
Just look at the mi yhty Roman empire limo
'ther country have such pains been taken 70
!pply the laws in Rome The studv and
ieiicate adjustment of the legislation to the
,IsTying want OF the people have been raised to
he rank OF special science there. The laws
re taught in the schools. discussed in the sem
tie, reformed and administered by the most
itted cltlz ms Legal justice is regarded as one
i the noblest human achievements and the
ffice of judge is held in the highest esteem.
md yet 1t is known to every one that there is no
lty e1ls'ins at the present moment throughout
he length and breadth of Gods earth which
ss sunk so deeply in the ooze of debaucherv
nd crime as Rome. Call to mind the history of |
.ome and you VIII be struck by the fact hat the
ioman people were distinguished BY m INV yir- |
1es IN remoter times, notwith standing the cir |
Gmstance that the laws then were neither so |
umerous nor drawn up with such careful eye |
} the end in view as at the present time Now |
days, side by side with the study, adjustment |
nd application of the laws we observe a steady
eterioratlon IN the morals OF the Roman peo-
lie, the number OF crimes continues to increase
nd the species of criminal offenses grow more
lrious and artificial every day.
10 graphic success fully with crimes or with
ny description of evil is possible only by en-
Dying the means which Christianity places
thin our reach, viz. love; the PAGAN |
eapons OF vengeance, punishment violence, !
,urself would like to see people restrained
ON doing evil, not from fear of punishment
1t from a lack OF desire to do what is wrong
rely you would not wish mankind to resemble
2 wretches confined in prison. who abstain
ON committing crime only because they are
ntinuaily watched and kept in order by their
ID punishments in the world will not root ont |
ople's propensitfes to do wrong and put a de-
re to do right in its place. This result can be
only when you deal with the root |
the evil which you seek to eradicate. and the
OF lies inside the individual. And 10 do this |
our aim and object, whereas you confine your- !
u to the outward manifestations of the evil,
u can never hope to reach its source because |
u do not seek for it, you do not know where il |
hidden.
The most common and prevalent crimes. sucb |
murder, robbery. theft. fraud have tn cir source
mans desire to neresse their stock of this
rld's goods. or simply to obtain the bare me-
;slties OF life, which for one reason or another
~ cannot procure in any other way. Some OF
use crimes are punished by the law, although
use which are the most complicated and wife.
aching In their effects are committed under
IL.
lance, as huge commercial frauis and the
LESS method ways of stripping the poor of /
IL possessions which are constantly prac- I
ed by the rich. Those crimes which are pun- t
ed by the .aw are to certain extent checked c
rather made more difficult, ana the criminals | i
driven by fear of mourning the penalty TO set
work more prudently and cunningiy than S
uld ne otherwise necessary, devisng new t
cles of crime which the law cannot punish e
practicing the teaching of the Christian re- 6
on man keeps clear OF all such crimes
arise either from the scramble for p
1es or from the unequal dis b
'ution of wealth, great quantities of which Z
accumulated in the hands of q few We b
e away all motive 10 crime, to robbery and
rider. solely by refusing to take for ourselves o
re than what is strictly indispensable for the h
port OF life and by giving up to others all 81
ee LABOR; thus it ID that never tempt ii
ers by the sight of accumulated wealth. for e.
ary for our days support. Hence, if man II
} is driven 10 despair BY the pains of hum n
and is ready to commit crime in order to | it
cure crust OF bread, comes to US, he will | e.
what he Is in search of, without having re- h
rse TO crime or violence, inasmuch as we n
for the purpose of sharing our last 1norsel ia
BOD, our last shred of C othes with those who
suffering from hunger AMI cold. And the Il
III Is that our class of criminals avoid us al ia
yher, while the Others colde over to u.s. find n
alton, abandon their criminal life and little VI
little become useful workers. toiling like the &C
RS for the common good of all mankind.
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