The evening times., 1900-10-19
The Price of Manhood.

DaFlu SldTT fftSiuSHl VI oldu-
ford University, made significant state
ment not long ago. He said;
There are four enemies that have stood in
the path OF man. These are aristocracy, militar-
ism, slavery and imperialism. There are various
other enemies, but those the four arch enc
mics in the political sense. They all spring
out of the idea that belongs not to himself
but that he belongs body and soul, to some
body OF something else which owns him.
This is in rather emphatic contrast to
the action of the trustees Of the Rockefel-
Ter University, where professors of politi-
cal economy are not allowed to teach any
thing which conflicts with the ideas of
their masters 1t indicates that there is
enc big university in this country where
the president is not the creature of some
money power.
In many educational institutions the pro-
fesSors and teachers persistently preach
this idea that a man IS not his own. that
he has been bought with a price Tech
nicaIly, this is according to the New Tes-
lament, but it may be doubted whether
the Apostle Paul meant that the price was
paid by a capitalist, or that the town Of
Corinth was under the control of a trust.
II he said that thing to the students Of
a different meaning from that originally
intended
In the true meaning OF the phrase, CT
course, a man IS not his-own, and he has
been bought with a priee-the price OF
all the great Gten and the saints of CEN
turies past, who have lived and died and
suffered for the good of humanity. Every
thoughtful and intelligent man owes ii to
himself not to nuilify their work, or re-
treat from the standard which they set up.
The man Of today has no business to go
backward, TO undo the work OF progress.
1t is his duty to add, if he can, to the
great work OF making the earth a habitable
and heaIthfuI place for men TO live in. He
may do this by preaching, or writing, or
caTpentering. or engineering, or painting,
OF manufacturing; in a hundred different
ways men can help TO further the inter
ests OF the community, in that sense they
are not their own. but must consider the
good of others and not allow selfshness
10 interfere with the general welfare.
But it is law, deeper than any arti-
fetal convention or man-made tradition
that no real good can come without inde-
pendent and intelligent action man,
in the last anaylsis,. belongs to himself
aud must decide what he owes to himself
before he can be of any real benefit to
others. He must not allow time-serving
aud prudc-t counseIors to deter him from
any action which he believes to be right.
What is right for the individual is not
uIcng fer the community, There are not
two standards, one for humanity in the
aggregate, the other for man as an indi-
vidual. When man is told that he must
not speak out his honest conviction lest
it do harm, and heeds this mandate, he
is doing more harm by his dishonesty than
any expression of his honest thought could
do, however i'll advised. 1t is time for
the world to outgrow the notion that it
is not safe fer the average man to think.
That man comes close to the realities
of life He grapp1es with the problems of
making living, OF supporting, unaided. a
family, of making for himself, if it be
in him to do so, the reputation of a true,
thoughtful. and generous man. Riches or
poverty makes no difference in char
acter. The problems of life and death
must be met by each man unaided. The
mistakes which have been made by the
masses are not the result of their be-
ing allowed to think. but of their be-
ing prevented from doing so. The intui-
tion of the people, when not cramped
and hindered by artificial circumstances,
can be trusted. The great man has al
ways found his following among the
masses