The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-09-07

He Estimates the Conditions ol
Life In 1893
POLITICAL AND SOCIAL REFORMS

yh~, Are Necessary TO Perfect the Race
and increase the Sam Of Human Hsppi-
n~..-s~ua,or CuIIom on Interstate C"m-
meree-The Future Of Aasie and ihe
Drama
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Who can speak with any positiveneSs OF
anything in the time to comet Who can
Look into the seeds Of time
And ray which grain viii grow and which VIII
nog
There are seeds 70 which divinity seems
10 give especial and prodigious frucilnca
ton. and Others which, even "a they sprout
GREEN and abundant wither and disappear
from the affairs Of men Who could have
fc-eseeII 800 wears ago that the little seed OF
aiin-rty would expand into such vast bar
ve--t aud fill the world. or that the Immense
bunfres of religious Intolerance which then
blazed in all lands, with the blood trucking
ont from among the ashes, would subside
into few emherS> splitting spiteful sparks
whil.. kicked aside by the foot OF intelli
.nce2 And there may be obscure seeds
among rs to-day whose growth 100 years
iron, now shall embower the nations
The greatest event which has happened
was the discovery of America We have
no nIetn4 of estimating its farreaching
consequences which will spread down the
au.-s Iur ten thousand years, constantly ex
panding. intermingling with each other and
creating u million unexpected cornblna
tious. II means the transference OF the
highest civilization and the greatest races
of men to a continental arena better lifted
than any other on the globe for their I'M
| limited development
First we had strip of settlements along
| the cos,St nearest to the parent source; then
| All ont break growing out of abundant food,
| high spirits and a semiwild hunter condl
| ton, then the creation of a nation, a copy,
| TO n large extent, of the institutions OF the
country which gave US our language and
| laws, then all the fountains were opened
toget Their, and every land in Europe poured
continent streams of population into the
vast stomach of the woods and prairies, and
we are digesting it all and creating race
and people unlike anything that has ex-
lsted before in the history Of the world.
| Our civil war was but a temporary Incl
dent growing out of local and temporary
causes, which stirred up the mental &C
| tivity OF the population to a high pitch
and made manifest, on both sides, the war
"a
| race.
| Everything that is past is, however, in
significant compared with that which is to
come. When we have SOC, 200 900 inhab
itants our civil war will be little more than
Jack Cadets rebellion is to the Englishmen
Of today.
or one thing we may be sure-that OUR
will be a vast world, whether existing IN
der one government or many. Edmund
| Burke said that men 'breedby the mouth,
signifying that the population Of country
will he in proportion to its food supply
And as we have the greatest agricultural
area in the world, it follows that we viii
have a tremendous population unless every
thing is swept away by social commissions.
1t is one of the astonishing puzzles 81 the
past that the Indian race. f1anked on thu
south and southwest by a comparatively
high civilization, setting up their tents
amid the ruins of the race that built the
mounds and forts of the Ohio valley, and
dwelling on the most productive soil OF
earth, nevertheless were arrested In mum
bers- and development, SO that after thou
almost uninhabited. 1t would certainly
seem as if some extra mundane power hat
held the red man in check and reserved thu
continent for the use of the white man.
The government will grow more com
pick All Development is away from sim
plicity toward complexity. Man has mor'
organs than the oyster. Nature began will
a single cell and expanded into human civil
liZation
The first government was probably thu
simple and gentle patriarchal system. Whel
the grandfather ruled, by the ties of low
and duty, the group of his posterity assem-
. bled around his central tent. The ancen
kingly government gave nothing in ex
change for the plumber it took from tn
people save protection from foreign hos
tilty. Every step in the march of develop
ment made government more complex
The rights of the multitude had to be pro
tected against the rights of the tyrant
hence customs, parliaments, laws courts
: police, etc. Men object to 'paternalism
i'll government, and yet they themselve
share i'll the fatherly intervention Of tn
state in hundred particulars.
: Government is simply the aggregated In
/ dividuals protecting the individual 1t no
only enforces taxes from him as In the oil
time. il lights his streets, carries his letters
protects his person, watches over his prop
erty. securely keeps the title deeds to hi
real estate. furnishes him with water an
light in his house, erects his schools, edu
: Gates his children. builds his highways
assists him to move by rapid means Of Ii
comotiol, protects him on the ocean, look
after him in foreign countries, exclude
contagious diseases from his shores O
j stampSthem out if they secure footing
, inoculates him against pestilences, estat
fishes parks for his entertainment in tn
great cities, creates botanical and zoologica
gardens, hires musicians to delight his ear
7 with pleasant sounds, secures him In tn
possession of liberty. counts his votes, pun
ishes those who wrong or injure him, help
him to collect the money due him, and, i
2 short, watches over him as no father in tn
: world ever watched over his sons
And there is not one of these particula
aids that the citizen would vote to reli1
, quish. He would as soon think of strfppin
of his clothes on a winter day as give a
these advantages and comforts Henc
when men talk against 'paternalism i
government" or echo that threadbare soph
ism. THAT country is governed best whic
: is governed least" they pirate against civ
hZation and would turn the shadow bac
on tie dial OF time In other words, tina
progress to increased enjoyments for tn
many which mas been the marked featur
t OF these later ages has built up multftud
of new rights of which our barbarous ar
cestors knew nothing, and every one Q
these rights has to be protected by La,
? against the brutality and rapacity Of on
fellow men, and hence with every increas
E of human happiness there has got to be
further reaching out of human governmen,
Many Of the evils of which we complai
) today are simply due to the fact that man
ingenuity has invented new forms of injus
, tice. for which Is yet no remedy has bee.
devised BY government. You can recon
strlct the history of the race out of tn
statute book. Read the laws against mur
der, ADD they bring before you that ancien
5 day when manslaughter was honorabl
. and the highest accomplishment of, tn
leading citizens of the community consiste.
In expeditiously dispatching their fellow
creatures. Read the law against larceny
and you recall the time when all propert,
Y was In common Read the law agains
adultery, and it carries you back to the er,
before the establishment of the ins4itutio,