Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-11-19

feels IN q retrospective, ref1ll-
niscent mood, a sort OF sOmnambu-
listic languor favorable to a more
comprehensive view oftiie happenings
that crowded themselves into our life
during the week now closing. We feel
in a mood to take q broader, deeper,
clearer survey Of the GeedS and the
motives of their doors, than at the time
they occurred; and we feel more charit-
able towards Our fellow beings than
we did even a few hours ago. This is
because we are at peace with ourselves
and the world, and when men have a
peaceful mind the are able to be more
charitable and less exactipg, more kind
and less hard and caii1Ass and selfish
in their feelings towards the human
race.
And, do you know, the idea has oc-
cured to me tonight that this is a
pretty good world of ours after all,
only there is so much unhappiness i'll
it, so many, many heart-aches and
tears. | wish it was different. love
to be happy and love tosee Others so,
too. The great old masters never
painted such picture as that delinea-
ted upon the human face by the magic
brush of happiness. The wrinkled,
careworn face oftoil, suddenly touched
by a transient ray of happiness, is
TRANSPORTED, and in the play OF its ami
nation, all the glories of the dawn is
painted, reflected in the sparkle of the
eye and the ripple of smilinglips, when
the whole countenance speaks the Ian
guage of the soul within.
And why is not the world happy?
1t is not because ofselhshness, for self
ishnesS is the desire for selt-gratitl-
cation, and self qualification is only
another name for happiness. 1t seems
to me that men are mostly miserable
because they are ignorant, and lack q
proper understanding of those causes
that produce their unhappiness. Walk
ing along the highway this morning
Iobserved a fine Jersey mich cow, that
had been turned loose with a long
rope attached about her neck, and the
rope was wound round a small shrub
or bush the result of Flossey's having
first walked while grazing around that
same shrub, until the poor beast had
used up all the line and was standing
helplessly with her head held hard and
asst to the brush. Now, a little knowl-
fedge would>have induced that cow to
walk around the shrub i'll the opposite
direction, thereby unWinding the line
and regaining thus her liberty. And |
saw that the poor dumb, unthinking
brute was miserable all because of
lacking sufficient reason to discover
the cause and remedy other plight. And
| said, how like the human race. Poor,
blind, ignorant humanity has wound
itself up with the rope otcustom made
fast to the stump Of authority, and is
poor and miserable in consequence,
lacking the necessary perception to
enable it 10 free itself from the unhap-
piness OF it's environment.
Danish forever, kiudreader, chat old
superstition thai man is wholly bad,
that he is born with the taiGc Of
hereditary deprayity in his veins. Man
is not bad, but ignorant. Can we
charge his misdecds To evil desires,
when it is he alone that suffers from
the consequences of those very mis-
deeds? The world to-day is filled with
unhappiness and who, do you think,
are the gamers? 1t is true there are
III society classes tnat oppiess es,cn-
ether. The rich are to q very great
extent responsible for the misery OF