San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-12

gobble-uns viii get US. Lille De-
comes living denial of itself and
we pretend to like it, for fear the
gobble-uns will get us.
AS a result there are none Of us,
at least not one who Is under the
gobble-uns' spell, who isl not de-
frauded of that right and proper
ownership of himself or herself
that our inalienable inheritance of
ourselves entities US to. We are
prisoned from our cradles in the
dungeon of the gobble-uns. We
think as we imagine the gobble-
uns wish usj o think; we act as
they would, or as we think they
would, have US act, and there Is
no naturalness in it. This fear
sets up a false authority in the
seat of personal government and
commands slavish obedience to
it. 1t reverses the whole order OF
procedure in the instructed hu-
mainly and turns the man anc
the woman away from themselves
for direction, control, guidance,
authority. They are eternally
confronted with the threat that,
the gobble.uns will get them IL
they don't watch out.
The watching is all right. But
the watching out for the gobble-
uns is all wrong. Wrong, because
1t unseats the man from the throne
of self direction and seats a COB
ble.un upon it. Wrong, because 1t
is as false and cruel and hurtful as
hell itself; is hell. Man was made
to bear rule, not to be ruled by the
gobble-uns; to know every line
and landmark of his nature; to
understand the real use Of his pas
sions, his desires, his aspirations,
his senses Of enjoyment, his de.
light in pursuit and possession; to
wisely use all Of these in their
place, without any fear Of the COB
ble-uns of foolish fears or inflamed
imaginations. Man is his own
devil and his own deity, his own
heaven and his own hell. His
only law is from within. His only
condemnation and his sole acquit-
tai, at the bar of his own instructed
nature.
The world has been in leading
strings and under the dominion OF
the gobble-uns until there isslittle
naturalness in it. Life is one con.
tinued effort to please or placate
the gobble-uns, by those who
would be good; or, to cheat them
by those who would be bad. 1t is
only the gobble-uns that are
watched out for and not the man.
kpod, the womanhood, the wealth
and grandeur of, individual char
acter. Men and \ omen are born
and bred and educated into all dis
honesty of life and inner unclean-
ness of thought, because it is not
them selves that they are to watch
out for but the gobble-uns, and
they would gladly run up a bill
with the gobble-un all their life,
If they could only cheat him out
OF it when it came paying time.
1t is not watching out, but
watching, in that is needed. Like
the Frenchman on the canal boat,
who as they were nearing bridge
heard the captain call out "Look
outw and Immediately popped
his head out of window, only to
have it raped against the bridge
timbers. Drawing his head in as
he rubbed his scalp he said, "Dese
English dey say look out when
dey mean look in" 1t is watch
in, not watch out, that is the
proper caper. This watching in
has more than one phase to it.
There is an individualism to it
that is not possible to those who
only watch out. 1t Is the greatest
insurance policy against minding
the business Of other people that
was ever written by the finger Of
humanity on parchment.
1t takes away from the gobble-
uns, and those who make it their
business to trot out the animal, all
control and direction of their fell
lows. 1t faces men and women
inward. 1t puts them in posses