The Sunday globe., 1901-05-05
THE EQUALITY or MANY.

The Post denies that "all men are Gre
ated free and equal, the Declaration of
/ Independence TO the contrary, notwith-
standing, and proceeds to logically re-
flute the assertion by demonstrating that
no two men are endowed equally alik
by nature. Some are gifted in one par
ticular and some in another, Barbarian,
Indian, and Caucasian, etc. What has
all this to do with the fact itself that
all men are born or created free and
equal2" Are they not2 Are not all
men the sons Of Adam, and are they not
the creations of the same God? If gov
! ernments and society, environments and
hereditary or acquired endowments sep
arate them into classes after birth, how
does this fact disprove the fundamental
principle-the equal creation2 Are they
not propagated in the same manner, the
peer and the peasant? VIII not the
prick of pin draw blood from the edi-
tor OF the Post and the individual who
runs the elevator2 Are not all men des-
I tined to the same end, death for the body
and Immortality for the soul2 Every
function of nature is alike in lord and
servant, and ii an exchange of children
is made at birth between civilized Cau-
! casian and a savage, will not each grow
up in his respective sphere a typical rep
resentative of the people and the society
who raise him Does not this fact prove
the contention Of the Declaration, that at
birth, at least, as in death, men are cre-
ated equal and destined to the same
equality-the grave.
Tho Dngf 10 AZ To milf In ite f,,Hpn4f,.o ror
soning, and Bacon, the father of the.
science, would likewise fail to establish
the contention that because some men
are rich, some intellectual, and some
physically perfect, therefore all men are
not CREATED free and equal.
The equality defined by the Decl ara
ton is not equality OF fortune or the
equality of physical or mental endow-
ments, and the Post is purposely Obtuse
in deducting such an inference upon
which to predicate its argument.
The equality to live and die, is estab-
lished PER Sc, as all men Ii re and all
men die The equality to live, however,
without interference from, or the eoppres-
sion Of the rich, the powerful, the un-
scrupuIous and the tyrranical, is the in
~
ated in the image aud likeness of the
God of all. Jesus i'm person and by hls
teachings and death typiied this imper-
ishable right or principle. II is because
of the violation Of this right or prin-
ciple that men do not live as they were
created-free and equal,
AT one period the physically superior
invaded and crushed the physically in
ferior, hence the creative equality was
destroyed-thati is the right of the infe-
rior to the equality of living and enjoy
ing the earth, and the fullness thereof
In a succeeding age the intellectually
superior became the aggressor and in
vaded likewise the right OF the inferior
to the creative equality conferred by
birth, and to-day, this intellectual supe-
riOrity, tempered with hypocricy, cum
ming, and disbelief in Genesis, invade
and crush their inferior and equally Gre
ated fellow man.
The Post will observe that il does not
establish its assumed proposition of the
inequality of creative man at birth, but
does clearly demonstrate that in his
development into manhood the physic-
ally or mentally superior man-in other
words the successful man-oppresses or
deprives his inferior or unsuccessful fell
low Of his creative right-to the earth
and the fulness thereof
And why should an intellectually and
physically deficient man be classed as
inferior, when the spirituality OF all men
is the gift of the grace Of God? AMI
when the probability exists that the in
ferior physically and mentally may be
endowed with superior spiritual graces?
II we concede the immortality Of the
soul we must acknowledge the creative
equality of man ;if we deny the soul,
and it is because the existence of the
soul is denied or disbelieved in that the
point of view of our es-
teemed contem porary is tenable in its
declaration of the inequality of man.
Then the animal religion of survival of
the tittest takes the place of the immor-
tai doctrine of the Nazariue, and Pagan
ism with its gods dethrones the Holy
Trinity.
The Declaration Of Independence
asserting that "all men are created free
and equal" iorcibly and clearly epito-
misses the ten commandments, and
simply declares the purpose, design, and
work Of the ighty--it is THE essence
Of christianity. Notifications or denials
are alike Pagan, and of human inspira-
ton, desire and accomplishment.