The herald., 1895-10-26
The NATIONAL OUTLOOK
The Subject Discussed at the
Sunset Club
EVOLUTION: DEGENERATION
Our Scncol Boards Should Be Divorced
from Politics
The Foundation of Confidence Is in the Per-
sonal Integrity of the Members
Of a Community
EVOLUTION: DEGENERATION

| the club called tho meeting TO order at 6
60 ~ 49, III. ,ho fol-
p u Soa'eu AZ .he 'aoi' "eio '"0 III
lowing members of the club:
| Charles Dwight Willard, vice president;
Fred l.. Allies. secretary: Louis T.. Vet,er,
treos,ror and Mos,rs Cbor,es Il LINN
~, AZ.
mis-, MAJOR II. /. Lee jugs o. W. MI
! Kinney. l.. II. Mosner, George a. far-
sons, W. c. Patterson, r. w. Poindex-
ter. Professor p. w Search. Judge Lucien
| ch -. oi. m q W. nrko
on" w. James Ola ueon' o. an Nv,
~ II. wade, II. U. Whitehead Dr' VIII
| lam LeMoyne Wills, DR.. II. B. Wing. ABB
bot Kinney Frank W, King, Professor
Charles II Keves Maior T. w Jones.
g.. ~. D.. r.tos uov
| summer I. Huht, hev. Du'S He'es NV"
ard, Judge l.. A. Croft Frank "A. GIBSON
| Colonel Dan Freeman,J j. Bond Francisco,
| Cbarles ] Ellis Mai w A. Elderkln. T.
E;.or Dr II Dovi,son II A. Rur-
"' ~ :, -,
het'' non' hooeit N'nulia' marry Drook'
dinner over and cigars lighted, speeches
were in order. The principal paper of
the evening was read nv Major II. It.
- .,h.aa 4 a., ter
Nee' "hoae "'uieSs was ii''en'o ~ WV"
marked degree OF interest. lie sElliully
| handled the subject, The National Out
| look-Evolution or Degeneration. and in
part said:
Wn;Ie Lord pa,meratop WAS nrimo min.
lister. having occasion in parliament to
| alIude IN the nrovince of Uemsrrara. he
| c,1Iod i, on jstand Wh.rounon n Thor
| ouahiv wsIl informed yonn, It. tesmar NJ
the onnosition. anyious IA Yin his parlia
| n,entarv unur. urno.edad 10 r6ast the
prime minpster for b his disaraosful irnor.
ance. Palmerston made answer with CON
temntuaus honesty: How the devil was
| ~ know that Demarar, wasn't an
!
ali futnre generations Nv his nduacious
| aS,or,;or and ;ilrstr.tion of 4La sound
and comfortahla dontrina thar M man
can no oynacted to inv evarrtbiro and
| that IN such case frank confession Of ig-
norance is oood not only f,r the soul hit
| 10, "a ,onTt,t;on Sr.ta;ned 40 have
ho.n hofo,a hv tb;s iilustrinns and tam,l.
| a. vor,rio frari,iu nontess that + d.,
nor now pt tha mi neaninc and scone NJ
tho Farms rs ..evoIntinn' and .deeepera.
| turtber bnmblv confess that from nv
/ somawbat oosrol rean;no 7 do oot he.
| I've tha,. oil on;ta aa,as ar,ono tnem.
soluos ' as - i ,, 80 .~,ot me,n,no 81 Ihoso
tsr,,s put iootino at Tho snhiect from
ths iovman's mint of view We nil can
| unda,stanJ that .s ali matter nnst he
sithsr n, rast ar in motion so ali thinys
immataria1 Tlet ma cali than sniritual as
| ,.,Lsn, tI,a hast oud r,ost ror,nreI,,n
sive aptnnvm If materially, must he in a
state of resi- which the pbilosopbers call
balance or Of motion: and the upward
muvcn,eot. the motion towafu better
and bi,ber life we call evolution. while
the doWnwurd movement we call desen
eration whose end is destruct,on and is
solution.
..The one remains: the many change
and nassU
Now. upop the main proposition.
whether we, as nation, are today mani
testing the essential elements of true and
.permanent growth and i'm provement, or,
US it has been forcibly expressed, are
"growing rotten before we are rips"
TIE field of Investigation IS so vast. the
| conditions are SO complex, and the stu.
alton consequently so unique iD The
worlds HISTORY that we will do wisely to
follow the example of the most illus-
trius scientists ana publicists VINO have,
as specialists. c nsidered the proposition,
and again saw frankly, we do not know,
we cannot with certainty decide; for on
the ts,e of the problem, that man is
'very rash who prorounces broadly
about the conditions Ct his age.'
But surely une Of the most hopeful and
helpful signs OF the times is that the
thinking word is awake to the subject
more thoroughly, conscien sciouslv and
universally than ever before. In all
| countries. among all classes. nv writing
and by soeecb-in the senate. in the oul.
| MT. from the pIaitorm. in the caucus and
| DDlilical convention, from the study of
the poitjcal pb,losonher and the jabara-
to1y of the scientist, in pondeIous vol
umes and in the current Manganese and
the colunns of our uewsnaners, tne voice
nj n nronhet and the reiorm mar is heard
and ina neonle hear them gladly and
| listen w,th eaper instinc. We do not
| inst now we.rv of on, Ieremiahs mr. ID
wa hu,n our SovonoroIas re- wo N
shooting N,arara wa will ot Ieost tako
the ninSps with our ewes wide omen
II, snsskina ~ tho orave danoers of tho
not;on ha ssid. '"'
discnss:on of tho out,oot FOR tho
nat;an from the st.ndnnint ind;catad
nscassarilv ana nrimarilv ;nvoives th.
charnctsr No Wing at The fonndati,n r of
social and noliticai reIations and ne lov-
erniue and dstermin,no in H.. aoSrsroto
| rho nresent actnal cnndt;on and the
fntu,e late Of the natinn Ava ~ tn;s si Is
ssnecialIv and es.ntiaiiv 90 ;n .I1
| naitnns wbere lilo ours n. no,ornnt
is nj tho rsonIs hv ths naopIo ana t.,r
the mamie where ooch c}t,gan n' COZ nv
ere,5n' 'o'
Now the two ne,sonoi moral opoIit;es
| mr. claimants ~ cb.rontor With H., ~
em,nence NAV he caiIei tho civic Dirt p.s
| ara nersopal riohtaon.ross ond .,,r,:r<
| The good c,tiz.n mist he inst ma mo-
c;fn, IN othsrs. mat and r,sarc;t,'i - W.,
self. Il must be 40 in the natnra a''n Of
| things No agnrecat,on ~ mnn ~. "
common nurnos, whether Tor NOT, So.
social or for Political nurnoses can ion,,