Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19

quets. The highest use to which painting is put
Is to depict In houses OF il-fame scenes at which
60 man can glance without blusing, whose
senses are not paralysed by the fumes of wine
or blunted by beastly passion.
No, 1T is not for such purposes that man is
endowed with those higher attributes which dis
tlngulsh him from the beasts of the field. They
were not given to be turned into plaything for
the delectation of our bodies. By consecrating
we are employing, and emp Toying to the ighest
purpose, all those nobler gifts and faculties
which we have received from Cod
Yes, ~ julius answered. "all that would be
sublime, if only life were possible under such
conditions. But one cannot live SO. You are
only deiuding yourselves. You refuse to &C
knowledge our protection. but if il were not for
the Roman legions could you live peaceably?
You enjoy the protection which you refuse to
acknowledge. Even certain members OF your
own community you yourself told me defended
themselves. You do not recognize property and
yet you enjoy it; your brethren own property
and give 1t to you; you yourself take care to
sell then and you will also IN turn make pur-
chases. Now all this is a delusion. If you
carried cut what you say to the letter, then I
should understand your position, but, as it is
boot. s'' 1s'ei'i"s 0'Hef' anu yourselves 10
Julius wa1ed hot during the conversation and
gave expression to every thought that fitted
through his mind. Pemphilius remained SILENT
awaiting the end. When julius ceased speak
ing he said:
''You are in error when you say that we en-
JOY without recognizing the protection you
afford us. We have no need of Roman legions,
because we attach no Importance whatever to
those things which require to be protected by
violence. Our happiness is conferred in that
which needs no defense. and which no man can
take away from US. If ma:erial objects, which
you regard as personal property pass through
our hands, it should be borne in mind that we
do not look upon them or treat them our own,
that we hand them over to those for whose sup
port they are necessary. 1t is true that we sell
grapes, but not for profit, only in order to OBJ
tain the neccessaries of life for those who in
need of them. If anyone wanted to take those
grapes from US we should give them up without
the slightest resistance. For the same reason
we have nothing to fear from an inva-
to deprive us of the products of our labor. we
should yield them up at once; if they insisted on
our working for them, this also we should do
have no cause to kill us, but it would be detri-
mental to what they consider their own interests
to do so. They would soon get to understand
us, would even grow to love us and we should
have less to suffer from them than we now have
to endue from the enlightened people in whose
midst we live and by whom we are prosecuted -
1t has been frequently urged by you and yours
that it is only in consequence of the rights of
property being respected that one is enabled to
obtain all those articles OF food and clothing
with which people are nourished and kept alive.
But weigh the matter well, and then decide for
yourself: by whom are all these necsssaries of
life really produced? BY whose labor are those
are so proud: Is 1t by those who sitting com
fortzbly with folded arms, command their
claves and mercenaries to go hither and
thither, to do this and that, and who alone
possess property TO enjoy; or is it not
rather by those poor. necessitous workmen, who
to earn a crust Of bread, carry out their lords
commands while they themselves are
deprived OF all property and scarcely
receive for their share enough to
keep them arive for single day. And what
grounds have You for supposing that those
workmen who are SO lavish of their strength and
energy now when it is question of executing
orders which they frequently do not even under
md ,E1t civ a ava-v inn nF fs1r
moment it is made possible for them to under |
AXE Ineligible and moderate work, the results
)f which will benefit themselves and those WHOM
hey love and pity.
The accusations you launch against us are
mainly these: That we do not completely attain |
he end which we have in view, and that we |
actually deceive Others when we say that We do /
lot recognize violence or property, seeing that |
We enjoy the results OF both. Now, IL we are de-
sewers it is useless to waste words upon us; we |
Ire fit objects not for anger Or for accusation,
,ut for scorp. And the scorn we joyfully accept |
BECAUSE il is one OF our rules to contemn our |
'wn nothingness- But IL we sincerely and earn
stly istriye to reach the end toward
which we profess to be directing !
III our efforts. then your accusations
would prove unjust. If we aspire and strive as
nee with the law laid down BY our Master with
ut violence or property, which is OF its
ruits. our object in doing SO obviously cannot
e the attainment of material ends, |
he acquisition Of riches power hon.
rs, for we gain none OF these |
hings thereby-but something wholly different, |
We are quite as keen as you pagans are in the X
earch of happiness; the only difference between |
5 consisting in the opposite views we