The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-03-02

MORAL FORCES GROWING STRONGER.
We see from history that brutal strife
is eliminated as man makes progress.
We used to go TO war because we want
ed to fight. We picked q quarrel and
when there was no excuse we found one
for the fun of it, We did it because of
the brutal powers that were unsubdued,
uncultured, untaught. We do just as
mean and bad things today, but we do
them more scientifically. We have made
progress in methods. We do not sharpen
our swords now; we have law against
it. We shoot man to pieces with q
gatling gun. We do not use poisoned
daggers, but dynamite bombs, and save
the trouble Of burying him. But in all
these things there is something to be
found called real progress. You cannot
get up war as easily now; there must
be a moral cause for it. AS we look
back we see 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-
tions Of his problems the heart aud brain
VI Lub ltlNC y AlON DHllls3 SDuItll-
trated.
Then we have made progress In tho
development of true religion. We used
to burn people at the stake. Now we
have our hcresy 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
progress. We have gone beyond the old
| days, when men were tortured and
racked with pain and cast out and sawed
asunder and suffered horrible physical
tortrres. While | rejoice in this and
am far removed from pessimist, yet it
| is q sad fact that we have much still to
do. Sometimes we think the millennium
is already here, and that the world is
good enough now. No, my friend; there
is much yet TO do.
The spirit of man still grOans beneath
an aovfm burden of brutal inheritance.
It is true of both the individual and
society.
THERE IS A SAVAGE UNDERNEATH.
First-Scratch a man today beneath
his clothes, and you will find a 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 principle:
that should animate and govern reaI
life.
am alarmed when l think how much
our civilization depends upon our tailors
went out the other day to Carlisle, Pa.
and studied those Indians. 1t alarmed
me-they are so much like our owl
folks, cut off the same piece of material
Why, | saw in that school magnificent
young men, who came there four yeart
ago dressed as their ancestors were 40C
years ago. | saw three young men whC
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 | have seen on Fifth ave
nue. Yet those men on Fifth avenue
are the favored heirs of centuries of civ
ilization, and those children of the for
| ests, of the plains, came down with thei
2 primitive blankets wrapped around tbei
= halfnaked forms but q fewyears ago. On
Of those boys had picture of an aunt an,
] acousin far out in the Indian Territory
; 0 mother and her baby. The little pa
{ poose was as handsome as my own chill
= ut home, and as looked in that India,
: mothers face | saw lines as delicate-th
] stamp Of Gods image cut as Clear-as
have seen it in thousands Of mothers
S faces in our own favored centers of life
| Vat t,,,s ID
. | ling guns on those mothers who sheltere
r those babes behind their backs as the
retreatad before the awful fire Of thos
4 | guns and fell torn and riddled with tn
+ bullets of civilized people. l tell yoU
] | my friends, the matter of the cut of you
4 | clothes-how much of your bOasted civ
= liZation really rests there! If you tax
0 | away the tailor and the SOAP, | do nc
s Know where we wouh be. Contrast tina
!! Indian world that yoI call a savage worl
4 and your ordinary "Bowery bum" TAX
y The Indian with his blanket, and afte
gou have cut his hlir, and washed hi
!, FACE, and put on him a decent suit {
S clothes. he rs far superior to the "bum.
: After all, our individual refinement
are often Int the fnesse of the brut,
. They are often the accentuations Of on
e .elfsh, personal tastes. We curse tn
l., nan who is opposed to our lilus and dil
/ likes, because we TINS differ from him i
3 this personal point of view. So we hav
: ; great many sentimental refnements
4 One man refines along certain line an
turns up his nose at the rest of the world
] out if you scratch him beneath hi
: ,lothes you will most likely find him dc
3 Veloped in brutality along another line.
4 soME POLITE HEATHEN.
t We turn up our nose at the heathen.
a leard q missionary from India say
S aever saw native smoke in the streets
: Too much of a gentleman! Too culture
+ and refined! l went into boat tn
s other day, in the ladies' saloon, and pres
t entity the only Lady there went ont, an
she had hardly gone before three or fOu
great burly fellows put their feet up an
began to fog the air, and had to hunt
z window or go out in the cold. | though
7 how many brutes there are in our civi
ization here who have just a little t.
/ hold them back, and when that is throw
off they do not care for any other man
feelings. Then l thought there is IN
gun; am just going to shoot some bird
, / like to shoot birds. l was on my wa
down to Chesapeake bay to shoot son
birds-QudiL-beautifu song birds.
AS beautiful a song as j ever hear
= the woods ring with is the song of til
quail-the love song of the bird in th
spring as from some hillside he calls
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