The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-03-02

ture among the races and people run |
along certain lines Of individual prefer
ence and development, and our very cul-
ture is but the finesse Of self and selfish
desires. Passion and appetite beneath
our clothes! Yes. Cut by the best tailor!
know.
THE DOG KNOWS A DRUNKARD.
A man that gets drunk goes right down
with a dog can prove that. Some
men were talking one day on the piazza
Of a country tavern about fierce dogs,
and one fellow said, "I am not afraid Of
any dog" Another man said: "I have
dog out there under that shed sleeping
Suppose you go out there and sit down."
The other man said he would. So they
all gathered around and went out TO
watch him. But the owner Of the dog
said, II warn you not TO go; you will
get hurt" So they all went out to see
the fun. This man started out toward
the wagon, and he kind Of loosened out
his joints and began to stumble along
and sing drunken songs. He fell against
the wagon and sang and made two or
three loud, idiotic remarks, stumbled
over the hind wheel into the wagon and
fell over on the seat where the dog lay,
singing all the time. The dog looked
at him, seemed 20 take in the situation,
then got out Of his way, and finally
jumped off the seat No dog will bite
drunken man, because the dog knows the
man is on his own level, and he does not
want to eat dog. Yet how many men
in this world would believe they had in
them the clements Of dog. In the graf
itication of appetite, pure and simple,
man thus shows his kinship to the brute.
Second-Scratch society beneath its
veneer, and you will discover the brute
element. That is the reason why we
| have saloons. The state says, "NIen are
killed, but we need taxes" And the state
goes into partnership with the devil and
runs them, because the state is willing
thus to come down to the level of the in
| dividual who is determined to make his
bread out Of his neighbor's blood We
| have these tenement evils in our city be-
cause the landlords who own them do not
care about those who live in them. They
want dividends, and they will never tear
those shanties down or improve them
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throat and makes him do it.
They used to hang witches in the olden
times because they threw over people a
spell. But here is q dime novel that
threw a spell over your boy and sent him
to Jail. Here is your modern newspa-
per that throws its spell over the life Of
him who reads its daily tale Of crime and
murder and villaiuv until the children
from your home O. . ny one are snatChed
from your heart aru ljfe and murdered,
and they do not hang anybody for it.
No MERCY IN TRADE.
Today, in our society, scratch be-
meath the surface-deep down some
times, shallow sOmetimes-and you will
find there these elements of the brute
that still survive. We have it illustrated
in our commercial world. Men cut each
others throats in commerce without
mercy. In martial war they show some
mercy. They do not fire on hospitals
or women. But in the world of com.
merce men wreck and kill and destroy
and crush lives without mercy. 1t is
the strongest man who wins.
Years ago you had hundreds of shoe
dealers. Where are they today? Great
commercial establishments said, "W;
can hire men cheap to sell shoes, and W,
have space" So they strangled theso
shoe dealers to death, and they ar
now out of work. In our great dr.,
goods stores these magnificent men 0
brute power open their grocery estab
lishments, and your little corner grocer,
, is perishing. 1t is the great power tina
says, Il have got the muscle, tn
strength, and might is right, and if yOI
do not like it, then you can shut up you
shop and apply to me for work, and
will give you So a week" In the worlt
Of commerce and trade we have thus to
p day the brutal developed higher than i
was 100 years ago. Advertise bargain
in store and see how women fight eaCI
! other to get to the counter. Every bar
gain thrown on the counters of a world
commerce means broken hearts an
homes and blasted lives Some one toile,
day and night and failed with broker
! heart, and the sheriff came and sol
them out, and we rush to get the bar
) gain!
Scratch beneath the law, and you vii
r find the brute there still. Take woman
, position today. She has not her equa
= rights in any position. She is underpaid
/ underfed. Why? Because man has NOR
} muscle, because man has the muscula
power, the brute poweE-for that is wha
muscle is. Hear those big judges tai
those great old fellows that lived 10
) years ago-about precedents in the past
p as though it should bind this genel
at10nl II CanEot blMu us unless it bt
longs to the eternal veTities Of Gods Law
Look today into our penalties fixed.
. man was burned to death in Texas latel,
Nightmare of civilization we say. tt
soul of civilization stands aghast at Il
, horrible scene, and words fail. And y,
while thatiis true, what is the ditferenC
between mob burning n man to deaf
: and the state burning him to death2
man had hog to be killed, but he woul
not kill it himself, so he got a neighbc
to do it. And just when the man WI
about to shoot him with rife he sai
, to him, Kill it easy" Oh, yes, we al
refined and delicate and cultured. kno
it. But it is question of method,
, finesse, of just how it is going to be don
TFTE TEXAS TRAGEDY.
, A life is life, and to burn man I
, death by electricity is no better than {
burn him to death by ordinary fire. On
I is little quicker; that is all, How lii
! savages we all arel l said somethin
! about this last week, referring to Harri
, and / got a letter from woman i
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