St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-11-06

by the industry and thrift of the parent,
of some.
BY that same law explain hospita
where suffering creatures, manned il
many cases beyond all hope OF futur,
utility. are kept alive by the most expen
sive appliances of science; where even tn,
slightest neglect OF the poorest patient
ii that neglect becomes known, arouse.
an uproar. You cannot by any possibl
ity see from such place that the fit alone
survive or are deemed worthy to survive
Endeavor to understand how, by the
rule OF "every man for himself" youl
little country church came into existence
Your task will be hard one, for into il
are built the widows mite, the farmers
| hard.earned dollar, the mechanics Gift
saved out of some perlous employment
all given up gladly without hope Of
personal gain.
Again, tell me or yourself whence come
public libraries instead of the private
aggregations of the middle ages" pub.
lie parks instead Of enclosures prohibit
lively walled against all that are Common
or unclean;" public art galleries. where
the connoisseur needs mustjoste against
the poor and the threadbare?
In all the foregoing examples, the chief
benefcaries are those who have succeeded
in doing least to gain such pleasures.
From the well.to-do have been distracted
the advantages they or theirs have
earned and these advantages are given to
Others who have not earned them. Yet
not voice of protest is raised, though
this is all manifestly in favor of the "un-
fit" at the expense of the Eft"
law that has ruled even human beings
through many dark age of the past,
because the great advancing common
sense of civilization is superior to any
such british, beak-and-claw method Of
making progress. You and belong to
society-to some one government, if you
willard we are no longer regarded by
it as individuals. We are members of
that government, much as your fingers
are members of your body, and, as men,
bers, are to be protected, guarded, cher
ished as part and parcel Of your own
life By our social instincts and our gov
eminent, which, after all, is more for the
protection of the weak than the strong,
an end is. put in some degree to the inter-
individual struggle for existence, and the
strength and advantage of all is in a
sense given to each one. In fact, an I'M
hindered struggle for existence would
break up government, society, everything
that now surrounds us, the defeated and
the weak, with pleasures that would
have been unreachable by us in the days
OF Magma Charta, or even in the days of
the Declaration of Independence.
This principle of government explains
the theory of our courts of law, where the
most feeble represented by "the State" as
plaintiff, may bring to his knees the
most naughty and wealthy criminal. If
you are enjoying any of the mental, legal,
physical, spiritual helps that surround
you on every side, you may set it down
as certainty that some one somewhere
has given up something for you, whom
he has never seen, just because you are
member of the same society or the same
body polite. 1t amounts in all to this,
that we are coming more and more to
recognize the value of human beings as
brothers of ours; that the interest of all
is best subserved by throwing the best
products of high civilization unreserv.
eddy before those who, in their individual
struggle, are least able to attain to them.
You may possibly say in your heart,
but what is all this other than the old
principle DO unto Others as you would
they should do unto you'll" Possibly
you are right. Ilso, then the fact that
the Great Social Reformer uttered words
which we are only beginning to fully
after 1900 years oil crab-like
devouring OF one another, ages ofslaugh-
ter and sel6shness, proves Him to have
been teacher whose spiritual insight
most of us are tar from equaling.
Hyou are thinking reader, you will
recognize the incompleteness OF the line
OF thought in this one column. Very
well; then think further for yourself. 1t
will do you good for most of us are in
too much of a hurry to think. If you
are an unthinking reader, this is quite
enough for one week; it may startle you
to faint understanding Of your rela-
tionship to your fellows, and your mu.
tual responsibility. Let us break together
here week by week the bread of good
sense and helpful hopefulness until, on
paper, we become more firmly acquainted.
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