Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-25

machinery to supply the place of man
ual labor, so that for every thou>an
mems product one hundred years ago
less than a hundred will be require
to produce the same amount now
How are these people, whose labor i
superseded by machinery, to maintain
the means of existence? So long a
every man could get I60 acres of Ian,
free, that question was easily answered
Even ten acres Of good land will max,
man Independent, but where there i
no land to be got, and no one want
ii's services, what is he to do? Their
are only three Things Ia ean DO, j,
such predicament, fight, steal o
starve. A few would starve and die il
secret, rather than blazon their misery
to the world; IL larger number woul,
steal, but the great mass would wan
to fight. And who would they wan
to fight? Those who had been thu
cause of their being in such condi
ton. Especially will this be the cast
in the United States, for the people
there have been taught from theil
childhood that they have right tC
their living in this world, and that il
they cannot obtain it through theil
own industry, then their government
is responsible for the failure. A cen
tury ago there were neither million
aires nor paupers in the United States
Every man who was willing to work
could find plenty to do and the sociaI
gulf between the richest and the poor
est was not very broad. To-day there
Is us great gulf between United States
citizens in the city of New York, a.
there is between Queen Victoria and
the beggar in the streets of London
How futile to think that the doctrine
of equality would be recognized where
such Il condition exists.
Those who have never known d
want can neither realize nor sympa
thize with those who have never been
without a want. Competition anl
over-prOductiOn force men TO work fol-
remuneration that cannot procure the
actual necessaries OF lie, while the
knowledge that our political system
has enabled the masses of our popula
ton to acquire, enables them to un
derstand that there is something
wrong that ought to be righted, but
how to right it they are unable to dis
cern, and in this condition of uncer
tainty they often become the tool.
and victims of designing and unscrup
ulous men. We see in different part.
of our country to-day some of our COR
porations and large property owner,
employing bands of armed men to pro
tect their property against the depre
dations of lawless men, system once
tolerated will soon increase, and the
numbers of purposes for which the
services of these armed men will bt
required will also increase. This will
be the Inauguration of a state O.
anarchy similar to what existed in
Rome during the days of Marius o
Sylla, and the two Triumvirates. Thi.
will continue until some Napoleon o.
transcendant genius will fasten the
shackles of supreme power upon a peo
pie, who, wearied with the horrors anC
misery of war, are willing to accep,
peace on any terms. This is dark
picture. but it is a true one, and unles.
we can change the law of cause and
effect, there is but one way of prevent
ing it, and that is the development o
our moral natures. 1t may be toe
late; humanity may again be doomed
to pass through the fiery furnace, and
through long ages of probation before
reaching higher, purer and a hap
pier state than we now enjoy; but il
is the duty of those who see the com
ing storm to warn others to be pre-
pared for it if they cannot avert it.
Our moral nature can only be devel
oped by evOlutions in accordance will
Natures law, but unlike the develop
ment of our physical and intellectual
nature, the development of our mora
nature must engage the minds an.
hearts of the mothers of our race, or i
cannot be developed. That process il
the work, the result, of love and of low,
alone. No matter what the feeling
OF parents may be to each other, ou
physical and intellectual nature ma,
be developed to \ transcendant stand
arl through natural selection, but n.
matter how high the standard of hu
manity from which man and woman
may be selected, unless the divin
essence of love flows from the one +
the other, the moral nature of thei
offspring will not be what it might o
ought to be-morality as the personif
cation of the golden rule, the desire
the inclination to do unto others a
We would like others to do unto u,
Children of Love will people the worl
with angels, children of Hate will fl
it with devils. Which would be tn
best to have? From the dawn of til
human era to the present day. tn
privilege has been denied to woman
choosing who should be the father {
her offspring and denied the privileg
of controlling her own destiny, of earl
ing her own living. Through all agt
she has been reared to be the toy, {
slave, OF man and that the only chant
of the great mass of woman being ab
to procure tie means of existence W;
by becoming some mans wife, no ma
ter whether she loved the man or nc
! We daily read of husbands killir
their wives, of wives poisoning the
husbands. The moral nature of
, child is implanted mainly by IL
mother, while it is yet part of her
: ing. Now imagine and compare Il