Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-02-28
NATIONAL.
LOS ANGELES, CAL.
Extract From j. Neubauer's Book THE
sabbath Era"

Extract From j. Neubauer's BoOk''T'he
sabbath Era"
Mr.. j. Neubauer, Of Los Angeles, has
published book under the name of ''The
Sabbath Era,'' or my Mission and the
Mission Of Our Time The book contains
several spiritualstic passages of which we
cannot approve; the remedies proposed for
the social ills are of somewhat problematic
character. But 1.-THE Sabbath Era' also
contains some excellent criticisms of the
existing capitalist conditions. The follow
ing passages are takeu from the book:
There is no neces sity for anyone to suffer
for the want of anything of which nature
has superabundance, if we are willing
and able to get it, and to deserve it by the
application of our physical and intellectual
activities There is an abundance of pro-
visions, of clothing, of all kinds of com
modities and Injuries stored up, which,
under present conditions, are doomed to be
wasted to n great extent, because the masses
of the people have been impoverished by
the application of mechanical productive
forces, which should be employed for the
supply of those very things they need We
have productive forces enough to repro
duce everything almost as fast as it is
consumed, if we only had rational systems
of control, systems Of administration, by
which all these things could be controlled
for the benefit of all
Since it is so evident that our individual
welfare is so closely interlinked with our
collective welfare, it must be just as evil
dent that we owe it to ourselves to work
and do all we can to create such collective
conditions, that will make this earth a
pleasant bone for every member of
the human family during the short span
of time we are allowed to live here. II
we do this and do it well, we will merely
do our duty, but we will surely reap rich
harvest of prosperity peace and happi-
ness. To do this WE'LL we must create a
basis OF platform on which humanity in
its endless diversity of thoughts, ideas, in
terests, positions and pursuits can unite
tremendously.
Arts and sciences industries and COM
merce, have done more for the civilization,
and more for the improvement of the moral
conditions Of the world than all the religions
together 1t is not true that man is born in
sin, nor that it is man S destination to suffer
either here OF hereafter; but it is true that
the highest and hottest principles in nature,
wisdom and love, with their ordinate
attributes, are inherent or Unborn quail
ties of human nature, which plainly mani
fest their presence in every human heart
and soul. All they need is cultivation and
guidance by those who are already further
advanced in wisdom, and have greater
abundance of love for humanity. If these
qualities are properly guided and cultivated,
they are sure to unfold into the most beauti-
full blossoms and flowers Of natures crea-
tions.
They tell us that kings and beggars, ty
rants and slaves, fiends and their victims,
are all in the position they made for them
selves in their former lives, but that they
are all brothers and sisters for all that. Is
not this a beautiful revelation? Oh. you
poor sufferers, how thankful you should be
to this universal brotherhood for this reve
lation of theirs; what Il relief it must be to
you to know that you have broth
ers who are kings and sisters who are
queens: just think of the glories
they throw upon you from their glittering
crowns, and the sparkling diamonds Of the
millionaries and their wives and daugh-
tiers. How it must do you good to be able
to call them you brothers and sisters, and
how they must appreciate it, too; and you
know they must be your brothers and sis
tiers, by the brotherly and sisterly love
they extend to you in considering the
products of your hands and brains of your
hard and incessant tolls so acceptable, that
they take them all, and pay you off with
the crumbs that may fall from their tables.
Isn't that nice of them; but, by and by,
when you reincarnate again, then you may
have your positions reversed: you may be
king and tyrant, and they may be
beggars and your slaves; that will be
nice and satisfactory adjustment to
the universal brotherhood who revealed
to you the beautiful laws of ''karma, -
and of course, it will please you, too.
Just think of it; the grand prospects
of becoming king OF millionaire
sometime or another, even if it should be
two to three thousand years hence; why it
y-ill be worth all your patience to endure
all the sufferings your "karmo'' may still
have in store fol you in this life, because it
would be such nice adjustment, would it
not2 Oh! it is enough to make me fee
very bitter, to think that these insidious
attempts are made only to delude unsoph-
istocated and credulous people.
A civilized State is the repository of all
the material, intellectual and moral wealth
knowledge and wisdom Of the human race
and as such, the laws of its own self preser
walton demand from it to take good care of
every new or additional member to its own
body, for it is from these members it
receives all its own possessions, its own
accumulation of physical, material, intel