The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-03-09
OWMANKIND GROWS


q that which Is its inferior.
MORAL FORCES GROWING STRONGER
We see from history that brutal stiff
( Is eliminated as man makes progress
. We used 20 go to war because we want
ed 20 fight. We picked quarrel, ant
Z when there was no excuse we found ont
j. for the fun Of il We did ii because o
the brutal powers that were unsubdued
uncultured. untaught. We do just q,
J mean and bad things today, but we d.
/. them more scientifically. We have mad,
progress in methods We do not sharper
; our swords now: we have law agains
0 it. We shoot a man to pieces with &
4 Calling gun. We do not use poisoned
daggers, but dynamite bombs. and save
the trouble of burying him. But in al
Z. these things there is something TO bt
q found called real progress. You cannot
get up war us easily now: there must
be moral cause for it. AS we look
t back we sec that the drift Of the ages has
been toward peace and life and civiliza-
; ton. The eyes of literature today are
| on the underworld, the weaker man In
the battle of life, and toward the solu-
, tons Of his problems the heart and brain
Of the human race are now being concen-
T trated.
Then we have made progress in the
development OF true religion. We used
to burn people at the stake. Now we
have our heresy trials, but we have taken
! the literal fire away, although we ex-
pect to burn them in hell forever. But
even in this we recognize remarkable
| Un hox he al
days, when men were tortured and
racked with pain and cast out and sawed
asunder and suffered horrible physical
fortunes While l rejoice in this and
am far removed from pessimist, yet it
is a sad fact that we have much still to
do. Sometimes we think the millennium
is already here, and that the world is
i good enough now. No, my friend; there
is much yet to do.
The spirit of man still grodns beneath
an agful burden of brutal Inheritance.
1t is true of both the individual and
society.
THERE Is SAVAGE UNDERNEATH.
Frst-Scratch a man today beneath
his clothes, and you will find savage
You need not go deeper than the cut Of
his coat. the mere outer makeup Of the
man. In our present civilization, after
all, we depend apparently more upon
| mere clothes than upon the principles
that should animate and govern real
| life.
am alarmed when think how much
our civilization depends upon our tailors.
went out the other day to Carlisle, Pa,
and studied those Indians. It alarmed
me-they are so much like our own
folks. cut off the same piece of material.
Why, | saw in that school magnificent
young men, who came there four years
ago dressed as their ancestors were 400
years ago. saw three young men who
came to that institution in the primitive |
blanket Of the savage dressed in magnif- |
icent uniform, and they were hand |
somer, brainier looking men than doz- |
ems of dudes l have seen on Fifth ave-
nue.. Yet those men on Fifth avenue
are the favored heirs of centuries of civ
Iization, and those children Of the for
ests, of the plains, came down with their |
primitive blankets wrapped around their
half naked forms but a few years ago. One
of those boys had a picture of an aunt and |
cousin far out in the Indian Territory
mother and her baby. The little pa
poose was as handsome as my own child
at home, and as looked in that Indian
mothers face l saw lines as delicate-the
stamp of Gods image cut as clear-as I |
have seen 1t in thousands of mothers
faces in our own favored centers of life.
Yet remember how we turned our gat-
ling guns on those mothers who sheltered
those babes behind their backs as they
retreated before the awful fire of those
guns and fell torn and riddled with the
bullets of civilized people. I tell you,
my friends, the matter of the cut of your
clothes-how much Of your boosted civ
ilization really rests there! If you take
away the tailor and the soap, do not
know where we would be. Contrast that
Indian world that you call savage world
and your ordinary 'Bowery bum" Take
the Indian with his blanket, and after
you have cut his hair, and washed his
face, and put on him decent suit of
clothes, he Is far superior to the "bum."
After all, our individual refnements
are often but the finesse Of the brute.
They are often the accentuations of our
selfish, personal tastes. We curse the
man who is opposed to our likes and dis
likes, because we thus differ from him in
this personal point of view. So we have
great many sentimental refnements,
One man refines along certain line and |
turns up his nose at the rest of the world,
but If you scratch him beneath his ,
clothes you will most likely find him de-
veloped In brutality along another line.
SOME POLITE HEATHER.
We turn up our nose at the heather. 1
heard missionary from India say he
never saw native smoke in the streets. |
TOO much OF a gentlemani Too cultured / |
and refnedl went into a boat the i
other day, in the ladies' saloon, and pres .
emily the only lady there went out. and 8
she had hardly gone before three or four :
great burly fellows put their feet up and ,
began to fog the air, and had to hunt a I
window or go out in the cold. thought
how many brutes there are In our civil ,
hzatlon here who have just a little tn ]
hold them back, and when that is thrown q
ON they do not care for any other mans I
FEELINGS. Then thought there is nv t
gun; am just going to shoot some birds. '
IKE TO shoot birds. was on nv way Y
Town to Chesapeake bay to shoot song i
0irds-quai-beautiful song birds. 7
-. AS beautiful song as I ever heard Z
Inc woods ring with is the song of The t
Iuail-the love song Of the bird In the d
spring as from some hillside he calls tn Z
a p mate across the meadow. The first
.hlng l did In boyhood was to initiate
Inc loved call Of a quail. have heard {
wood and field ring as with chorus d. {
Glne, ring with the wonderful song Of q
ove-and yet I like quad ON toast. One e
nan Will turn up his nose at another be- O
'ause he thinks he Is so much better. c
whereas, as matter Of fact, we are de. {
'eioped from the same material. and our y
differences and peculiaritiAs ve haze am +
.hssized and believe that thew are the &