Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-05-06

we must tear down ct we cam what
we do not want as well as build what
we do want. Broad thinking, world
wide, taking in all nations, is what
we need; a survival OF the best ideas
ofjustice. J. w. Heritage.
Turn to the Right.
What one generation declares i'm
possible the next has not only accom-
plished but also accepted as common
place. Still men have hardly yet be-
gun to realize that not only in the
realm of science but also in morals
and ethics is this old world moving
onward and carrying us with it,
whether we would or no.. Our uni
verse has a timetable to travel by
and we may be sure it will pass every
station strictly Oh time.
Cain asked; Am | my brothers
keeper" and he asked it with the in
tention of conveying the impression
that he was not Though men down
through the ages have known well
enough what the correct answer to
that question was, they have sought
to evade the responsibility in various
-. rs. rhtN have 1nItc,, sac ttinl
"brother" to the members of their
own caste or nation or race. They
have loudly called for other people to
be brOtherly first. They have made
their Golden Rule read DO others or
they'll do you" And they have bold
Nv asserted that the imperfections of
men make neighborliness impossible
when the truth is that disobedience to
the law of love is the direct cause of
selhshness i'll others.
But out OF the midst of this babel of
apparently conflicting interests there
comes a cali, muifled, low and almost
unheeded yet sweet as from the choir
of some happier sphere-"Let us be
brothers, Down through the ages
the poets, the seers whom heaven has
given to every land and nation, have
spoken OF the time when war shall be
no more, when men shall not work for
fame or money "but each for the Joy
of the working" and imam to man
the world DER shall brithers be for a
that"
1t is useless for us to say that we
have been contented with the con-
ditions about us. The world rushes
on. Ii we would not be crushed be
Meath its wheels in our efforts to stay
its progress we must leave the old
way of living, must reach forward to-
ward a higher ideal We cannot ira
vel yesterdays pathway without go
ing back. What, yesterday, was ahead
OF us and was worthy of being StriVen
for, today is reached and ought to be
lost sight OF as we fix our eyes
farther in advance. TO say that we
do not profess to be travellers to-
a better country does not relieve us Of
responsibility. If all were Cf that
mind there would be no country
for mankind and ii might just as well
not exist Excuse ourselves as we
NAV we ire our brothers keepers and
for us to rclust to JOIN in the search
for light is TO keep our brothers III
darkness
But that is not all. Though we use
our utmost energies in the selhshstrl!e
for riches and loudly proclaim TO our
fellows chat such is the best that life
affords the moments come to each of
us when small voice speaks to our
self. Open thine eyes and see, for thy
light has come unto thee" Shall we
then when thus called to a life above
and beyond us, retreat, turtle-like, be
meath a shell of selhshness and cold
reserve Then 'tWere well said:
Sometimes the thing our life misses
is worth more than tie thing which it gets.
But il may as well be understood,
once for an. chat the larger life OF de-
votion to the cause OF brotherhood
and justice does not guarantee us
happiness We may expect at any
rate thal we shall have friends, but
even flat IS not likely. The pathway
of sci rcnuuciation is now, asalways,
strewn with thorns as well as roses
and IL who would travel that way
must remember that the Man who
first rod this road was murdered by
the pry men who needed most to be
led iata the light. IF they have called
the rAster of the house Beelzebhb,
hov uuch more them of the house
hole And vet such is the way OF