The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-04-12

fsudslity. They are even false and trsa-
sonAble to each other in the same clan,
selling each other for blood money and
Rvenging such betrayal, much as might
their prototypes OF the dark Bges A can.
nibal is a horrible thing, q monstrosity.
Did it never OCCUR to you that the man
who lives by another mans toll was much
the same sort of man as he who lives by
anothers fleshly growth and muscular
development? Is the speculative capture
and Fegalement upon the wealth or
wages OF fellow man so different after
all from smiting him with the sword and
deVouring parts OF his physical RnatomyP
Is the savagery of the teeth and hsndO
80 much more detestible than the saw
Rgery Of the ambushed and destructive
thought and the devouring mindP Even
the superstitions OF New York's 400 are
not so very different from those Of q Ma
layeeian aristocraoy Of successful piracy;
and when a millionaire endows q col
lege, he does nothing very different from
the conservation OF q monastery by some
conscience e-stricken baron of 800 or 400
years ago. He is only purchasing an in
0oA6chOo AAOuA VIC WOTlu lUE pA5l VI
prospective SINS by giving back a part of
his spoil in an unproductive form. He
is only letting 60 a little scapegOst into
the wilderness which is very heavily bur-
dened with the sins Of such a commu-
Dity. Even the more beRstial accidents
OF medieval conquest are closely par.
allied in every financial tour de force, and
especially in the licentious epoch RC-
companying every monetary war. How
much worse was the rape Of captive Of
bow and spear than the debRuohery un.
der the threat OF nRkedness and hungerH
How much worse was the massacre Of
the Huguenots than the extinction Of
half the working class " by insufficient
fOodp Yet that Ia what Huxley tells ug
happens; and it happens because they
must have an unemployed margin," |"
and thereby keep wages below their
worth in order to compel balance at the
other end called wealth. Such an un.
employed margin Is wrong. It Ia the
greatest social crime, and q man or sys.
tenn which demands it, or even ac-
quiesces in its existence, 10 the greatest
social criminal. II the modern system
of industry demands this aOrogatlon Of
divine law and commands this sum and
crown Of crimes, even IL it were only TO
the extent oeOne man compulsorally idle,
it is doomed, and its fate approaches
nearer with every sunrise. Neither il
this doom pronounced by any super
natural court, or to be enforced under
other than mundane laws, or in another
than finite sphere. The church pretends
to anticipate such thing as a deliver.
Rnce poslponed until the sea shall have
given up her dead 1t would impose
upon God the punishment Of the crime
and the reimbursement Of the victim,
and until that day even church MEM
Der has full license to serve mRmmon X
he pays tythes and refrRlns from bias
pbemy agalnet-his sect. This Is q mis-
taken idea, and is utterly without
foundation. Ii there is another life, it ia
an evolution from this one. Did ever evo-
luton advance q step until the existing
type had reached it's high tide, b ID done
its best work, thought its best thought,
lived its best life, until its thought real
izsd the absolute necessity OF o new gar
ment in which to dwell. new machine
by which to toll upwardP Never. The
scene Of our labors will endure until
the great drama is over, and mans self
must stand ranked by his own growthst
the highest level attainaDle TO manhood
before the end, before the curtain rises
upon the next act. The allied church is
the antagonist of progress in that it PRE-
tends to expect Of God and by miracle
what can only come through man and in
obedience to the progressive law which
has made man what be is from the Rour
bodylng elements OF possible life.
A 81 stem, then, which to-day, as Of old,
sends children throueh the tire to
Molocb, which offers part OF humanity