The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-10-28

believe in at all
Not necessarily, tho l imagine it will
be a long W lie, even geologically
speaking, before poverty is obiterated
from the earth. As one race passes
out Of it another comes into it. Amer
ica has comparatively little poverty,
while Africa is just coming to the point
where 1t will make itself felt. The
tree hits itself higher and higher into
the air, but the roots are always be-
meath it ; it will require many metamor-
| phoses before the human race will be-
come an orchid And after all poverty
Is entirely relaule. Poverty 10 one is
comfort to another. Our workmen
think dollar day poor wages, and it is;
but IL some other countries half that is
inches. 1t is the elevation of the stand.
ard OF living, the development of wants
that makes poverty as it does wealth
for the man thinks himself poor who
can't supply his wants. He may desire
only food and shelter and be unable 10
supply these; he may desire leisure
and education, and he strikes in order
TO gain the means for them. Usually,
you know, it is those who have got
beyond mere necessaries that aim for
more. Strikes III the main are proof
of progress, and, if they are conducted
decently and in order, 1 believe they
always make for improvement.
The trouble is, they never are, said
Mr.. Walt, drlly.
o., papa isn't that too sweeping
a statement2 cried Ethel. OF course
there is imminent danger of disorder in
strikes, for it is form of warfare but
according to the statistics | have read,
there are hundreds of them settled ami
cably every year; only of course those
that the disorderly make are more
noise.
They are making plenty of it now,
with the militia out in three or four
states.
Etheps fair face clouded again, and
FordYce seeing it said, gently: Still
perplexed? Where is the tangle
now?
She smiled with deprecating glance
as she answered: You will think me
very stupid, but l can't get over my
feeling that there is injustice some
where.
OF course you can't, because there
is, he replied, promptly; bat it isn't
in nature, or as you would say, in the
plan of the universe. 1t IS in man and
his se'fishness. If each one OF US tried
TO 90 the best he could with what he
has, not alone for himself but for the
race, there would soon be an end to
these troubles. OF coL.--. the first
law is that of self preservation, becaus:
only by it can man be at all and then
he must look to the preservation OF
those nearest him-his family; and
then 10 his nation, and finally the race.
Each circle is of larger circumference,
and lncloses the others. If it weren't
tor the feeling that each one is to him
self the centre OF the universe, which
causes selfshness, individuality would
gone under at once, would never have
come to the surface in fact; it is abso-
lutly essential TO development. The
trouble comes in trying to expand this
hard shell that protects the individual,
SO as TO take in the rest of the world
but it must be done, or we die of
isolation, and through every throe OF
expansion comes greater freedom. To
go back to our tree, it is the same sap
that runs through root and branch, it
goes into the depths and rises to the
heights. That is what philanthropy
means, the best leave Their heights to
help these below; and the democracy
means that those below can lift them
selves 10 the utmost altitude. 1t is
only the form that remains OF root and
branches ; Individuals pass through the
forms from top to bottom and bottom
to top.
Now l see it all exclaimed Ethel,
her eyes alight. You have made it
shiningly clear TO me.
The mist had passed by; the wide
horizon was restored to them, enlarged,
bluer than ever, a crystal clearness On
which every island and craft showed
distinct as gem in the encompassing
circle of sea and sky.
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