The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-10-26
nd industrious he may become lord

ne - stronger, cleverer, more pushing,
more persistent, or more lucky than
any other boy.
The poor cannot all be chancellors or
millionaires, because they are too many
OF them and not enough high places.
But they can all be asses, and they
will be asses, If they listen to such
perky and stupid men as Sir J. w. Ma
clure. e,z. - .,s.
You have 20 men starting for a race.
You may say, there is nothing to pre-
vent any man from winning the race. +"
but you mean any one man who is
I':ck1er or swifter than the rest, You
would never be foolish enough to be-
lieve that all the men could win. You
know that 10 of the men must lose.
So we know that in a race for the
chancellorship, only one boy can win,
and the other 1895, ,999 must lose.
1t is the same think with Temperance.
industry and cleverness. OF 10000 me-
| chanics one is steadier, more industri-
| GUS and more skillful than the others.
| Therefore he will get work where the
others cannot. But why? Because he
is worth more as a workman Don't
you see that if all the others were as
good as he, he would not be worth
more?
Then you see that to tell a million
men that they will get more work or
more wages if they are cleverer, or
soberer, or more industrious is as fool
ish as to tell 20 men starting for a race
that they can all win if they will all
try.
II all the men were just as fast as
the winner, the race would end in a
d Fad heat
There is fire panic in a big hall
The hall is full of people and there is
only one door. A rush is made for
that door. Some of the crowd get out,
some are trampled to death, some are
injured, some are burned.
Now, of that crowd of people, who are
most likely to escape?
Those nearest the door have a better :
chance than those fartherest, have they
not?
Then the strong have better chance
than the weak, have they not?
And the men have a better chance
than the woman, and the children the
worst chance of all, is it not SO?
Then again, which is most likely to
be saved-the selfish man who fights
and drags others down, who stands
upon the fallen bodies Of women and
children, and wins his way by force;
or the brave and gentle man who tries
to help the women and children and will
not trample upon the wounded?
Don't you know that the noble and
brave man stands a poor chance of
escape, and that the selfish and brutal |
man stands good chance of escape?
Well, now, suppose a man to have |
got out, perhaps because he was near
the door. or perhaps because he was |
very strong, or perhaps because he was |
very lucky, or perhaps because he did |
not stop to help the women and child
rem, and suppose him to stand outside
the door and cry out to the struggling
and dying creatures in the burning hall: |
Serves you jolly we'll right If you do |
suffer. Why don't you get out? I got |
out. You can get out If you try. There |
is nothing to prevent any one of you
from getting OUT
Suppose a man talked like that. what |
would you say OF him? Would you call
him sensible man; would you call |
him Christian; would you call him a
gentlemen? No, you would say, and
you would say truly, that he was as
stupid, as conceited. and as unfeeling
as Sir j. w. Maclure, NJ P.
You-w1ll say I am severe upon Sir
John. I am. l intend to be. Every
time successful man talks as Sir John
talks he inficts a brutal insult upon
the unsuccessful, many thousands OF
whom, both men and women, are
worthier and better than himself.
But let us go back to our subject
That fire panic in the big hall is a pic
ture of life as it is today
1t is a scramble of big crowd to get
through small door. Those who zet
through are cheered and rewarded. and
ew questions are asked as to how thew
got through.
Now, Socialists say there should be
more doors and no scramble.
compared the race for the chancel-
orship to a footrace of 20 men: and
howed you that II all the runners were
IS feet as grayhounds only one could
vim, and 10 must lose.
But Sir Johns crossing sweeper's son
las to enter race where there are mil.
ions of starters, and where the race is
handicap in which he is on the
cratch, with thousands Of men more
han half the course in front of him,
For don't you see that thu race which
he Sir John Maclures TIL Is we can all
vim is not fair race? The son OF q
rossing sweeper has terrible odds
gainst him. The son of a gentleman
as long start. and carries less weight.
What are the Qualitlk needed IN
ace for the chancellorsl a The boy
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