Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-09-28
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EVIDENCES OF CIVILIZATION.
This is great country. 1t is q Christian
country, and it is civilized country. We
pride ourselves especially upon our civlli-
cation and our Christianity. We have
made q Worlds fair and we have invited
people from the nearest and the uttermost
parts of the earth to zee 1t and to ses US.
human rses and we spend much time and
many words in Dragging about ourselves.
We look back to the time when there was
not 60 much civilization and Christianity
az we have; when there were no electric
lights, no telephones. no telegraphs and
no railroads; when the ages were
dark and 1t was not cafe to
bs anything but very poor man or
robber baron. We say we have made great
progress since then, and that the human
race, as illustrated in us, has moved on
ward and upward at great rate. Welook
at such countries as India, where organized
bands of thugs are at work. We look at
Italy and Greece, where bands of brigands
make occasional raids and captures, and
we pity the people of such countries be-
cause they are not so far along IN the way
of light and progress as we are.
Perhaps we feel little too big and too
good. 1t Is true we have Q good many
things that the people of the dark ages
didn't have. We have some things that
they don't have in India, Italy or Greece.
But we also havo gigantic and organized
schemes of robbery, compared with which
the plundering done by the robber barons
want a circumstance. Some of our rail-
road and stock market barons couldn't
learn anything about robbery from the
fellows who used to live In castles and go
out and steal something when they were
short. Our robber barons steal all the
time, and they are not contented with COCA
sional plunder. They plan to rob the
whole country and to make such arrange
ments that all the people shall pay tribute
to them. They pile millions on millions
and are like the two daughters of the horee
leech. And they are slso like the three things
that are never satisfied. The robber barone
of our bright and electrically lighted civil
ization were never excelled in rapacity by
the robber barors of the ages called dark
They have much better opportunities for
plunder, and they are more respectable.
We have our thugs aud our brigsnds too.
Our thugs are perhaps no. as plons and ss
we'll organized as those Of India, but they
can do what passes for good work in the
thug tribe. AS for brigsrds we have first,
class ones. They make themselves feared
by whole communities ard they get good
deal of admiration too. They know how
to rob bank and kill the cashier with
neatness aed dispatch. They know how to
attack and plunder one of the grsndest
illustrations of our civilization, an
express trsin. Just now they are par
ticularly active in this direction, aud our
civilization Is actively looking about for
ways to cope with them. The latest
proposition is to arm all the train hands 80
that when in this civilized and Christian
land train is held up there may be a
somewhat adequate fight and resistance.
Add to these evidences of our high
state of civilization and Christianity the
lynohing bees, the white cape, and all the
| various kinds of toughs and criminals
| whose activities make up such a large and
prominent part of the daily record, and it
will be seen that 1t is possible tina. we feel
too big, and that while other ages have
been much darker than this and while
other peoples to-day are not as good and
grand as We are, We are not as good and
grand as We might ba.