The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-18
Individual of No Account Any
More, Says MyrOn Reed,
Unless He is a Member of a
Combination.
This is Right and Proper, Only Max G
the Combination Large Enough,
Says Mr. Reed


against his brother?"
The text is up to date. 1t is only
three or four thousand years old. Any
man at any time wonders why man
kind does not have the heart and sense
to be peaceful and prosperous.I read
the present outcome of the Greek and
Turkish war with sense of shame.
The net result is a good many graves;
nothing but blood and tears. 1 have
not even saved a good story out of the
whole wreck. Here are some Turks and
some Greeks. What reason had they
for killing one another? 1 could toler-
ate war if only the right persons would
get killed.
Years ago I went aboard a steamboat
going down the st. Lawrence. L was
at the extreme end of a long line of
people waiting for a ticket and a key.
A tall gentleman had compassion on
me and in some mysterious way Sc
cured in a minute what L might have
failed in in an hour. He introduced
himself as Colonel Strange of the royal
artillery. He had been through the IN
dian mutiny and was at that time gov
ernOr of Quebec And he talked TO me
deep into the night of the folly of war.
He had a plan. Let the English speak
ing people resolve themselves into
world police force and keep order on the
planet
SHAMEFUL CUBAN WAR.
We talk about the Apache warfare.
Has anything more shameful happened,
anywhere, at any IlIl6 on the laCG u
the globe than happens in these May
days in Cuba? And congressman and
senators and parliament sit and chew
the rag A bout the worst thing on the
face of the earth is "a Christian states
man" I have no doubt that Salisbury
and Nc Hinley have family prayers. l
am tired OF this Christian nation
fraud, and also of Clara Barton and
the Red Cross. If it is the business
of mankind to tear one another to
pieces what is the use of nurse and
lint and bandages? desire to see war
cruel and savage, so savage that 1t Will
become impossible.
OF course you have thought of it
two nations conclude to mutilate one
another and Clara Barton patches them
up. If war is the proper thing II
O11ght to be deadly the more CHASTITY
the better Let it be so Internal as to
make the whole earth sick at the stom-
ach. This shooting an enemy and
then giving him jam and flowers ana
a getnle white-aprOned nurse TO
read the fourteenth chapter of John to
him is senseless.
/ do not like any kind OF War-lndus-
trial war is as mean as any. NO week
but I read of an explosion somewhere.
Men in mines are blown to death. l
read that their families are left dest1-
tute. OF course they are left destitute
When labor is regarded as commodity
men buy it as cheaply as they can, and
this is war.
ones stomach can't loaf around. When
a. man is killed in any dangerous call
ing his family are not on the ragged
edge; they are over the edge NOW
the state comes in by the hands OF the
county commissioners and assists TO
keep that family alive. The community
is taxed to support the victims of COM
petition.
thyself" That may be tridescent but
it was said by a man who was care
full of his words. 1t is impossible to
pay any respect to Jesus Christ unoer
the present social system.
Competition is plain war, and 1t IS
cruel I can buy a cake OF Cutlcura
soap at drug store for 20 cents.
can buy it at a department store for
* cents can buy Heroes, by
Thomas Carlyle, at a book store for 81.
I can buy it at a department store Ior
10 cents That is what call war
[ perceive that the individual IS now
ada1s of no account except in comblna-
lions. About all the individual can do
is to make noisy the neighbOrhood and
sell bad bananas and take the temper
out of scissors and leave the temper III
the owner of the scissors.
The individual bee is of no account
R,1t a few thousand of them working
together accomplish beautiful result
A bee with the motto Every pee Lor
himself would be dead in a day Ihe
quarantine at the door of a BEEHIVE is
1-ar-v strict more strict than that OF
New YORK NOIIlIS dA4AC4A u
N, hostile passes the portal OF the hlVe'
Tba hoard of health is in continuous
session. Go to the ant, thou adVocdts
Of competition, consider her ways ana
be wise. -,,
MED. unused acres of land L have an
ahsolute natural right to occupy ana
use these acres, but forpeaf. All
do is to walk across them ana con-
sidAr the ant He and she are very IN
duStriOuS these days L lAS AlOt - s0~P
~ them. 1 see that an ant hill is
commonwealth wiser thah DehNer'
TThev work for one another.
Down in Arizona spent prontaple
Sunday observing a city OF RED ANTS.
I dropped a bit of hard-tack twenty
yards away, around the corner o. ItlS
corra1 red forager from the city
marked it down He did not put 1t In
a safety vault. He went back ana re,
Dorted to the commonwealth ms nho,
and directly came back with eleven OF
r. comrades. and went to work skill
fIIIv to get that hunk of bread into
ceTnn Some pushed and some pulled,
and soon they had 1t against a rainy
had a tarantu1a in a pickle bottle
and sunday afternoon dumped him
within easy distance OF these zouaEes
and made a combined assault on the
monster Six held his feet fast and the
others went up his legs to the hrst
iointss disarticulated these and dropped
him one story, anu - ~, u u y -.
1T-ae fat on the sand. Then they Sclen-
t;eoaI91- carved the body and in Is min
tIfes had the remains in the refrigera-
Even wolves know enough to hunt in
ma clxs- Hawks do not know enough to
Combine. and hence are scarce. The
hnnting dog waves his tail as flag, a
e1idon to his comrades. Wild horses
make a well of heels against common
enemy The beast or bird which selects
a selfish, lonely mode of existence is
short lived There are many sparrows
and few eagles.
A tree planter tells me that many
trees and plants can only grow and