The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-11-02
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while amid rocky peaks Where, IL they
could not pasture, they could rest in
safety. Throwing his jaded self upon
the ground, nose downward, his sorrow
may have been further increased by the
thought of the comedy (primitively of
course) maiden Of the neighboring
camp, tent, cave or hole; who declined
to share his hole, cave, tent or camp.
Suddenly from crack in the rock there
CLEANS into his eye light so soft, so
sweet and yet so strong and piercing
that he is at once thrilled with renewed
life and hope. How he worked away at
the rock; how he tore, wrenched and
strained; how many finger nails he ru-
ined and how many thumbs he
smashed, if not matters of record are
matters for calculation. When he had
secured a hunk, perhaps no larger than
the ordinary blue pill the portals of
history flew open and civilization COM
ing forth, took her first steps in the
dance of progress. The Indifferent
maiden became the most doting of dar-
lings. The pellet she wore on her
snowy bosom at the wedding breakfast
fixed the eyes and fired the desires of
all the other maidens of the geological
stratum. Each swain must thereafter
have a pellet or no spouse. Man No :,
who knew enough already to keep the
secret of the rock to himself, made him
self enormously rich by rolling and sell
ing pellets. AS the demand increased
his price advanced From three hens
it rose to three pigs, then to three
sheep, and finally settled at one OK.
Here let the ordinary politico-economist
take up the story and follow it through
to modern history and modern money
When rival to the original gold pet
let man appeared with silver pellet,
he received but scant attention.
Though his pellets We're larger, they at
tracted but little notice. He had more
of them and offered them at bargain
counter reduction. He was satisfied
with one hen per pellet. But no swain
could get first-class girl for silver
pellet. In fact it took a great many
silver pellets to get any girl at all. The
very fact Of accepting a silver pellet
excluded her from the Glasses and
ranked her with the masses" This to
a Bryan girl was horrid. Besides she
soon found that the shine of her pellet
was fading. Think of her sad plight,
with silver powder still uninvented!
These primitive distinctions exist to-
day and are based on precisely the
same principles, showing that we and
primitive man are still a band of gold
bug brothers Gold Is valued for its
beauty Its use as a coin, as a stand
ard of value as a medium of exchange
for nations, rests upon its absolute,
paramount, Incompatible and indie
structible beauty
This being the present state of aes-
thetics, the duty of the silver men to
their cause is clear. They must recog-
nize this fundamental law Of beauty
and then upset it. BY direct appeals to
consciousness they must switch the law
around in favor of silver. Man must
be persuaded that he is all wrong: that
his eyes have been deceiving him; that
his sensations are awry, and that MS
boasted perceptions Of beauty need re-
pair. To bring this about, large band
of intelligent and skillful professors of
aesthetics must be employed to go
about the country and preach. They
must preach that gold is not beautiful.
but ugly; that man has all the while
been admiring gold by mistake, when
in reality he was admiring silver; that
silver Is the one ecstatic object filing
full every requirement Of beauty any
community or person Of sense, can pos
sibly formulate.
Can this be done? Can the corps of
professors be secured, and when Sc
cured, can they persuade the voters?
Nothing is impossible to the will power.
No one should be deferred from action
by the apparent hopelessness of an I'M
dertaking. 1t is very unfortunate for
Bryan that aesthetics should be so lit
tie understood and cultivated In this
country There cannot be many col
leges in the United States which have
professors of aesthetics to spare for
campaign purposes Then again those
who could be spared may have ideas of
their own, of which they are proud,
which would have to be overcome by
gold perhaps before the proofs could be
profitably utilized This requires time,
and time is getting to be quite an ele-
ment in the row. Obstacles, however,
were made to be overcome. If profess
sors of standing cannot be procured,
professors without standing can be ex-
temporized. The latter method is deci-
dedly preferable under the circum-
stances. But can they persuade? Why
not? An etico-metaphysical pro-
fessor who cannot persuade himself
and his audience to believe anything he
pleases to set forth is not worth his sal
airy. The way to start is simple. First
tell the crowd that beauty is subjective
and not objective. If anybody in the
gallery remarks, What y giving us?"
Have him put out Then explain that
by subjective beauty you mean that
anything is beautiful or ugly, just as
you choose to look at it. For instance,
a. man may think his wife beautiful
when all the rest of the world knows
that she is as ugly as the devil. This
will bring over at once all the men with
ugly wives, and will lead to the logical
conclusion that all you have to do in
order to admire the woman aforesaid is
to marry her. Uproar) Therefore,
dearly beloved, marry silver!" tGreat