Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-04-11
MANS BENEFACTORS.
How They Fare in Their Advoca cy
Of Human Rights and Ed
ucation.
Christ Was Crucifed and the Rab-
BILE Rejoiced, for They Knew not
What They Did.
Garrison Was Mobbed, Phillips Was
Hooted, and John Brown
Was Hung.

are opposing existing abuses. who
are striving to stir the masses to action
in their own behalf urging to throw off
that which is expressing them, aiding
them to acquire the knowledge to gain
and maintain better existence, that
their children may not have to encoun-
ter the difficulties and tyrrannits they
have or be in danger of being forced
into the miserable conditions that dis
grace our civilization on every hand
for none can with truth say that their
children are absolutely safe from them
are not the ones that are receiving
honor, encouragement or even respect
from those they would aid, and they
need not expect it. If any respect is
shown them it comes from those who
are the enemies of the masses.
Yet, it is to such unseIfish men and
noble woman that mankind owes all it
enjoys over the most despotic and bru-
tai conditions known to humanity. They
have represented the nobility of man,
followed the dictates of their conscience
often under the scOrn and taunts Of
those who are nearest and dearest to
them, sacrificing comforts that they
might have otherwise enjoyed, for men
and women with such minds and cour-
age, ii used purely for selfish ends,
would invariably fare better than the
rabble under any social condition. 1t is
not the weaklings that thus exert them
selves, or the inferior workmen, if the
latter ever do anything that appears in
that direction, or in its name, it is to
fortify class at the expense of others,
preventing others acquiring knowledge
and then hold them down because thew
have not.
Christ was crucified and the rabble
rejoiced, for they knew not what they
did. Garrison was mobbed in the
streets of Boston, Phillips was hooted
and despised, John Brown was hung
The signers of the declaration of indie
pendence and the leaders Of the revolu-
ton, that escaped death in battle, would
have ended life on the scaffold in dis
grace had they failed, and outside of
their comparatively small patriot fol-
lowing they were despised; tories were
on every side, yet what they did was for
all humanity that wished to accept it,
The descendants of those who despiscd
and did all they could to destroy them
enjoy the results Of their efforts, and
honor their memory VoItaire found a
cell III the bastile, vet France and the
world enjoys the harvest from the seed
he sowed and the older his memory
grows the more lasting will be the mon
uments raised to him. Time corrects
errors.
1t would seem from Judging by the
facts the past offers us, that if tbs mi
nority had always acquiesced in the ex-
pressed wish of the majority, whose
cry generally is "let well enough alone, !"
we would still be surrounded much as
original man was. While in things tenn
poral it appears necessary to consider
the majority right, it aIsc appears nee
essary that the minority continue to
urge their views until they become the
majority, or the fallacy of them be
proven. Advance is only made thus :
time must be had to prepare the way for
every step, or society would not long ex-
list, either in good bad or Indifferent CON
ditions.
Those seeking reforms in our present
social conditions are doing so for the
good of all, but they are in the minority.
and for that reason little respect is
shown them. BY the time Il majority is
supporting their views, they viii have
passed away, honor Will then be freely
given their memory. Yet how much
greater the satisfied consciousness of
such in ending lite to their opposites III
character, They pass away knowing
that they have done their duty; they
have done their best to leave the world
better than they found it. They have
but few abuses, they have unwittinglv
helped to establish, to regret for. In
persistently urging men to nubler pur-
poses in life they have often been
classed as ''cranks," peculiar people /"
eccentric" if not given a name with
more odium attached to it, and simply
because they did not agree with the
prevailing selfish idea that man ele-
Yates himself at the expense of those
around him-a specie of cannibalism.
Where the masses are held, by the fact
ignorance OF their rights as hui
man beings, i'll absolute subsection to
the will OF the few; little of this is seen
the ''crank is easily suppressed. Igno-
rance makes the masses docile and I'M
ambitious. at times little light comes
in and then often there is seen rush to
the other extreme, the right of each
other is disregarded or trampled under
foot; one condition is as bad as the
other.
Every social reform is directed against
such conditions to create brotherhood,
not to aid cannibalism. 1t is not to be
wondered at that the masses attempt to
check them. The prevailing idea is to
profit at some ones else expense. La
Dor organizations are necessity, sim
ply because society is as it is. They do a
permanent good only inasmuch as they
remove from men edisposition toward
nnbalism-exultant at the downfall or
misfortune of another-how well they
consider the welfare Of humanity, not