The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-21
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The martyr, like the inventor, is the
best investor. Pallissy, the Huguenot
potter, burned up his furniture to keep
his kilns going; Goodyear, impoverish-
Ing himself to win the secrets of ruber.
Garrison, giving his country the free
man who can do twice as much work as
the enslaved laborer; George Smith,
causing men and women to grow where
were far better economists than the
men who derided them. England's s
maltreatment of her children, George
Smith said lis tampering with the very
seed corn of the great after-harvest of
our national life!"
The world has advanced to the point
where it hunts for inventors and waits
respectfully for the revelations of divine
truth made by Morse, a Stephenson
and a Tessla. A little more social sci
ence, and instead of prosecuting them,
we shall similarly hunt for reformers
and shall cherish as our most precious
social functiOnaries, the geniuses who
can tell us how to make better machines
and run them better. The martyr, the
pioneer, the hero, is the genius who
sees first and who does first We have
only to read our histories to know that
we can always be sure of men who will
throw themselves, like the white cor
pusces Of the blood, where they are
needed, as George Smith did, and as
all the company of martyrs have done,
and to know that we cannot prevent
them Fire, hanging, torture, crucifiX-
Ion, nothing will keep them back from
giving up their lives for the greater life
of which the news has reached them.
or all the facts to be reckoned with in
this world of facts they are most real.
The martyr-the pioneer of welfare. The
martyrs, the Socialists, the labor agi-
tators, the strikers, the anarchists, the
profit sharers, the co-operators, who are
teaching us the industrial conscience,
are the precursors of the joys and pros
perities OF the cooperative common
wealth.
The advantage of all is a greater
good to the individual than any divi-
dend he can get from his own poor
seltishness. The martyrs have been the
leaders who saw this truth so clearly
that they had to live it though they
ic,
tyr, then a millionaire.
The Quakers and the Shakers re-
nounce the world and all it's pleasures
only to find themselves overflowing
with riches in few generations. The
Pilgrims and the Puritans turn their
backs on the treasures of Europe and es-
tablfsh in poverty and humble spirit
an empire which soon comes to out
dazzle all others. 1t is one of the para
doxes OF human affairs that new well
fare always has to be thus ushered in
by new woe
The survival of the fittiest" is our
doctrine. The one fittest to the enyir-
onment will survive in that environ
ment In an atmosphere of carbonic
acid gas, cOrpses are the fittest. In an
atmosphere of degeneration, degener-
ates are the fittest. Among the Thugs
OF India, or the trusts of America, the
best Thug is the tittest.
There is power in nature called nat
ural selection which can produce new
kinds Of plants and animals There is
q power in society of social selection
which can create new environment and
make over again men and communities.
Social selection is already at work in
the world everywhere OF organized hu-
manity.
Arthur Young, travelling through
France on the eve of the French revo-
luton, has left in his Travels in
France" descriptions of the misery of
the people that have been quoted for a
hundred years and have become the
picture OF the degradation of the peo-
pie under the old classical regime. Ev-
cry one has heard of his woman Of
Mars la Tour, who, standing by the
hard times were and how heavy the
taxes and dues to the lords and
seigneurs. He took her for so or 20.
her back was SO bent and her face so
furrowed and hardened by labor: but
she was only 2S!
TO what are we to attribute, he asks,
the misery that crushes these poor peo-
pie? TO government" is his stern an
swer. Wherever he goes through Sun
ny France" Arthur Young has to tell
OF fields and houses of misery Wastes,
wastes, wastes!" he cries-"a country
possessing nothing but privilege and
poverty" He had hardly written the
words when the privileges were swept
away by the revolution which Wendell
Philips called the greatest the most
unmixed, the most unstained and who'll
ly perfect blessing Europe has had in