Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-15
THE LAW APPLIED.

the Los Angeles 11eTdiu, III SoPy "
an article which recently appeared In
the New York Esening Journa'
We may summarize the argument OF
the Journal article as follows:
/. The idea that men ought to win
because they are fighting for liberty
is erroneous.
2. The best thing in the world Tor
nation is a licking.
8. The Gauls were thrashed by Gaze
sar, and it was good thing for Gaul.
4. The Goths and the Vandals over
ran Europe and wiped out entire poru-
lations, but. in the long run, it was
fine thing for Europe.
5. In this country the whites
thrashed the Indians, taught them to
drink whisky and wiped them out. It's
a good thing for all concerned.
6. Aguinaldo will have to take his
thrashing, and the Filipinos must take
what they can get. 1t will be great
thing for civilization.
Z. 1t is not the abstract idea OF lib
erty that wins.
LET Garner, the monkey man, teach
our apes in the zoo to repeat the dec
laration of independence with slight
variations. Will that get them out OF
their cage?
mo.
"And Mr.. Aguinaldo's feeble para
phrases of Jefferson will not make him
rule where Jefferson's descendants
have raised their flag.
1.-THE weak must go to the wall or
stay there-it's better all around that
they should.
Our time may come. 1t probably
will come. But it has not come yet.
Before it comes We'll rule in Asia as
we rule at home.
"There will be much injustice, much
exploiting of the poor by the rich
all our unpleasant home features.
But we shall establish in Asia a
branch agency of the true American
movement toward liberty"
1t is rarely in our day we see the
idea that might is right" championed
so brazenly-set forth so categorically
and in such cold blood. The Journals
statement, we apprehend, is calculated
to make some people vince. Even
those who are ready to appeal to the
hard, natural law of the survival OF
the fittest for the adjudication Of NOR
a, questions do not generally put the
doctrine SO bluntly, and they would
hasten to repudiate 1t If presented to
them with such brutal directness.
BY way of illustration, let us see how
the Journals line of philosophy might
be invoked to justify tribe Of South
sea cannibals in slaughtering and eat
ing missionary:
l. The idea that mankind is any
creation is fallacy.
2. The best thing that can happen
to a missionary is to be killed and
| eaten.
3. A great many missionaries have
been killed and eaten. 1t has been a
good thing all around.
4. THE blood of the martyrs is the
seed of the church" Our tribes have
been we'll fed, and the Christian re!-
gion has flourished. The world is bet
ter for it.
5. Let us kill and eat the mission
airy before us, because 1t will carry on
the good work.
6. We will give him chance to
pray if he wants to before we knock
him on the head, but it will not avail
him anything. The law of the survival
of the fittest is in supreme command.
We are the strongest, and, therefore,
the fittest. The weakest must go to
the wall Cor the boiling pot); it's
better all round that they should. Our
time may come to be cooked in the
same way. 1t probably will come. But
it has not come yet. Before it comes
we'll eat all the missionaries we can
get.
Ergo-The missionary must die. It's
better all round that he should.
/