Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-27
HAVEN'T EVEN HORSE SENSE.


For you to compare us ''divine" crea-
lures of these most glorious U. S. with
100000 horses in fine pasture, with
grass as high as their knees, is not fair,
at all, at all.
OF course we know these U. S. is
fine pasture, but since horses have
evolved to a higher state of brother
hood than man, how can one of them be
so foolish as to dream of 10,000,000
human animals all living in the same
pasture, round, sleek and fat? 1t has
always been the nature of wild horses,
even, to associate in communities. for
the purpose of eating and drinking and
giving thanks to Mother Nature for her
bOunteOus gifts and for defense against
any foe.
And don't you know, on the other
hand, that wild men used to do like
wise, but that tame" men isolate and
withdraw from the association of each
other for the purpose of, by some
sneaking game, slipping around and
getting control of some one Tor DOZEN
of the many good gifts of the old Dame,
so that he can deprive other men of
their use except they pay tribute?
Don't you know horses have all
reached that degree in evolution which
places them all on the same plane: that
'all horses are created equal" and have
the intelligence to maintain their
equality? Then why think of hossify
ing man?
Don't you know that if "all men are
created equal (which does not appear
true with modern mani it follows with
out question that they have not yet at
tanned that intellectual development
which would enable them to retain
their primitive equality?
Don't you know that SO per cent of
the wealth gravitates into the hands of
10 per cent of these 10000, 600 human
horses, making them painfully akin to
Cod and this means that nine out of
10 human beings are left so woefully
impoverished that they feel the impos-
ing superiority of the favored one,
which feeling the said one is wont to
foster?
And don't you know that the nine
have become so overwhelmed by the
hypnotic influence that the one can
handle them as the lion tanner drives
span of the king of beasts with ribbons?
Don't you know that said one is more
fit to survive than the nine, and that
We must bow to the divine" law of the
survival of the fittest"?
Don't you know capitalists say 1T
always was so and ALWAYS will be so''?
Don't you know this state of affairs is
absolutely necessary to perpetuate this
beautiful, God-sent "Christian" civili-
cation we now enjoy?
Don't you know that we must have
clothing and shelter, and that nine men
must labor constantly to supply one
with these comforts?
Don't you know that one cut of nine
of our genera has evolved to the horse
plane, leaving the nine asses, and that
asses do not need anything fine, much
less refined, hence laborers do not de-
serve any nice or warm clothing?
Don't you know that it is very tanta-
lizing to these asses, and it creates
wants they are unable to satisfy? In
view of this fact don't you know there
is nothing strange that asses kick and
bray, and that we name the two-legged
kind calamity howlers"?
Some asses don't kick, but are at
tracted by the higher" order and
strive and strive and pinch and save
with the vain hope of some day being
one among the glittering few, and with
n lordly air and sauctimonious smile be
able TO look back upon their struggling,
writing brothers (once but not now,
with sense of refined self-approba-
tion of their achievements.
Don't you know this is the reward of
modern christian civilization, and
that it is so fascinating to us 1900, 600
asses that we can never think of aban-
doning its hallucinating inducements?
Don't you know that Jay Gould was
once poor laboring ass, but by his pa
tient and constant toll and superior
thrift became railroad magnate?
Oh, this horse story won't go. Men
must starve, toll. wage war, grow up in
ignorance and vice and squalor in the
slums and novels that few may be-
come highly civilized.
This distinction of classes is what
furnishes the incentive" to higher
achievements. and this socialistic horse
pasture story cuts no ice with Peleg