The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-03-08

III not then nv observations and grand
discoveries are all wrong and one of the
master minds of this age lIalmsge) Is sad
IL mistaken. You were born subject to
certain rules and conditions. You were
not permitted 10 choose your own names.
nationality or place of nativity. Is there
anything free about that? You were not
consulted in regard to choice of parents.
Ii is barely possible that had you been
you might have selected q judge of the SUI
preme bench tor your father instead OF
poor John Smith. You had no choice re-
garding infantle diseases. whether you
would tackle the whooping first or the
meas es later on, or whether you would
handle Ethe mumps and the chicken pox
both at the came time. Is a man iree
who ia born with nose that in
cold weather demands his constant atten-
ton. With an anatomy that let's old
rheumatism draw on him at sight Does
carrying a nod, hammering an anvil. or
swinging an AK six days ia week strike
you as being particularly free? All men
are created equal, Ell? Here Is one indvid-
ual born a natural matthew atician, and in
infancy is an arithmetical wonder. while
it takes his neighbor fifteen years TO learn
the multiplication tables. and then he
couldn'tsquare the hypothenuse any more
than he could his store account One
man is born with an ear for m usic an other
has no more music in his ear than he has
in his boot. One man has a genius for
poetry, another has no more poetry in him
than a sixty-day bank note.
One is born q natural mechanic and
can make most anything, while his unin-
veutive neighbor can't make both ends
meet Is there anything like equality in
such creations? One child comes into ex
istence to develop into six feet of man.
hood another is born a hunchbaek and
must spend his days going through the
world with his back up. BY reason OF
the circumstance OF birth, one is enabled
to reciine in q guided chariot while his
neighbor must mount old pOverty's jacksl
and ride the raw boned beast bareback TO
hir journeys end. Does that hit your
ideas OF equality? One individual first
catches q glimpse q glimpse through the
plate glass windaW of e marble mansion.
another winks and blinks in the
dingy corner of an asylum.
All men are created equal. are they?
Well, when. where and how2 Our gov
eminent might remedy the financial iTreg-
ularities Of birth in o measure by giving
each incomer a mule, sixty acres OF land
and SO per month, but | have no faith
/ tllht IL viii 90 ~. Now Nv way VI n last
/ lv, / have not made these observations in
any i'll spirit toward the organizers OF this
grand republic. They were good men,
and no doubt lived in the full illumination
! of such inward light as they possessed
but from my side of the fence
how can 1 respect the 4th of July when
the great urouunciato of American lnde'
| pendence leads Off with the absurd dec a.
reton that all men are Gre
ated equal" Good men may
and so infer their statements can't al
ways be trusted. Many men in our day
il commercial way, by trusting toe
much, have busted.
The sum total of the inference and
deductions we have arrived at is thai
man is slave. is an object caterer &
oreeds and dogmas and detrimental to hi
eternal interests, and great attorneys who
| misleRd the masses with their guided
phrases and pledges TO devote their time
and talent to thu upbuilding of the state
and nation, but their mighty promises
never come to pass, and with all their su
peror powers of mind and unbounde,
resources of genius and power are in nu
merous instances the mere machines o
purse, proud lobbyists and slaves in
| carnAte. ''TUsCUAiBIA."