The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-29
HUMAN RIGHTS
AND LIBERTIES
Are Entertainingly Discussed
By A. j. Kintz.
PRESENT SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Are Not just What They Might Be He Says
Justice is Divine and is the Supreme
Test From Any Point of View
For a Reform.
Editor News-Democrat.

Test From Any Point of View
For Reform.
Editor News-Democrat.
Everybody knows that social condi-
tlons are not just what they might be;
! everybody knows that the laboring clas-
ses are not getting their share of the
\ wealth they produce from the resources
of nature; and, everybody knows that
ninety per cent of the capital that is in
vested in the products of labor, for
profit, is lost to the investors; but why
these things are so, science alone will
tell. We find by natural science that
there are three ideal powers, that find
Judgement in the natural sentiments of
The human mind; the Divine, the human
and the demoniac. The Divine power
brings blessings to the human family;
xhe human sustains life while the de-
moniac increases sin and misery. For
instance justice is Divine, and in
communities where absolute justice is
the rule, sin and misery are the eXcep-
ton And in communities where in
Justice becomes the rule, sin and
misery is the result. The activity of
mind are constantly moving the morals
of men, and with men society, either
upward or downward, when upward
they move from human to the Divine,
when downward they move from the
human to the domaniac. The human
power is moved as rule by policy, and
policy may be based on justice and
principle, or, it may be based on injus-
tice, ignoring principle. Principle is Di-
vine, hence it is immortal and lives in
memory beyond the grave, and men who
immortalize themselves to do by their
strict adherence to principle, policy is
human and not always based on justice
and principle.
The morals Of society are moved up
ward by the promptings of the higher
mental sentiments, aided by intellectual
thought. They are moved downward
by the promptings of the lower mental
sentiments and propensities, in the
absence Of intellectual thought. When
the morals of society once get below
the human, injustice becomes conta-
gious, and every branch OF social life
becomes contaminated. Then we find
men of all classes, grades and callings,
gambling for wealth, regardless OF JUS
tice or principle. The cry is, do me If
you can, and l will do you If L can. The
Yfnental organ of acquisitiveness be-
' comes excited and carries with 1t all
the other mental sentiment, and the
same is true with any other mental senti-
ment; the sentiments that prompt piety
patriotism or beneVolence, will lead men
to wonders along the lines of educated
superstition, while they ignore justice
principle or anything else Divine, Oh
any intelligent idea of patriotism or hu-
hpOnPht front
scores of reform movements of various
kinds, while any reform movement
worth considering at all must have three
requirements. 1t must be just, 1t must
be expedient, and 1t must be In line witt
natural law. Justice is the supreme teS
from any point of view for reform tina
is not just is not alone unworthy but
it is incapable of producing any really
beneficial results. Post says: Absolute
justice demands that every man, unless
he has forfeited his claim by some
criminal act, has an equal right to life
and to liberty, with every other man
Materialistic doctors may chop logic
over different degrees of liberty, ant
atheistic pulpiteers may sneer at the
brotherhood of man, but the fac
remains, that no baby born to any kins
or millionaire, brings with it into this
world any better title in justice thar
the baby of the slums, to live it's owr
life and to enjoy it's own liberty" anC
Creator, and when the children of tn,
slumS have grown to manhood anC
find that the gifts OF the Creator are al
in the hands of the rich if their minds
have not been warped out of all shape
by education, they know and they fee
that they have been robbed, and If they
do not commit some act of depreciation
it will be no credit to injustice, and /
they do it will be no fault of justice
To every natural right that man has IL
this world, there is a correlative dut!
attached, and when man claims th
right he is supposed to assume the duty
for instance; every man has Alright t
life, and the duty attached to that right
is that he sees to it as far as in hi
power lies, that every other man enjoy
the same right
Again, every man has a right t.
liberty, and the same duty attaches t
that right; and, all will concede, tina
when any man claims and enjoys an!
natural right, and will ignore the duty
that that man is devoid of principle anC
.xjustice.
Again; land being gift of the Create
to the children, interest and tax systems
makes it impossible for millions of tn,
children of men to enjoy that right
r. Now, Brother Danner would have al
good christians, of all denominations
unite in suppresing the saloon traffi,
while the saloon traffic Is simply one O
the evil results of these unjust anC
vicious systems that are sustained b!
the same christian people. WheI
Brother Danner says that the 'salooI
traffic is curse to humanity, he Is righ
when he says to legalize the traffic by
a license, 1t is sin against God ant
humanity, he is right. But, Brothe
Danner must learn to know that tn,
saloon traffic Is a secondary evil, tn,
result Of some primitave cause tina
must first be abated and, we must al
learn to know, that when the morals o.
society once get down to the demoniac
D revolution is the only reform possible
it is natures remedy. When the atmos
phere once gets so full of foul air, tina
life becomes burden, there is reac
tlon of the elements which causes
thunder and tightening to come anC
purify the atmosphere, and, 1t comes re
gardless of consequences. Now 1 an
not revolutionist by any means, bu
If 1t comes I can't prevent 1T for the
course of nature will have it's way.