Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-09-28
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the assumed interest Of any special
trust 80 concludes.
Now, II this restriction IL good per
sc the question Is relevent as 70 lts
value In other lines Of production say
that OF humanity. for Instance, inns
being the basis OF all society, Of nation-
al progress. Of a prophetic future 70
multiply and replenlsh the earth was
originally a divine command, but IL ~
hardly possible TO believe that this was
an Indefinite privilege, q positive IN,
diydual right without Jaw without
| consideration. without restraint.
Statlstlsians tell US today that the
Vicious the ignorant, the unprepared,
the poverty stricken are the most proll'
fc; that TO this IL owing the great pre-
| ponderance OF undesirable humanity,
and that this Is increasing beyond az
| precedent, invoking the serious thoughl
Of the scientist, the philosopher the
phllanthropist and the political eeonor
mist few, however have dared to sugr
gest the remedy Of legislation represr
sion or restraint, the ancient Greeks IN
their way may have limited Increase TO
the perfectly developed the Chinese
may have limited IN their way the IN.
crease OF the female sex, Malth0n OF
England may have shocked the world
by his suggestions as 10 the limiting
Of population. but statesmen hsht shy
OF a fundamental question and oTimln-
al methods flourish almost without
recognition or surprise among the So
called intelligent aud well-to-d0 OF
81 n
society, appear 10 demand this arrest OF
maternal function and suppression OF
Increase.
Probably some authority may yet
arise, or some individual suggest IN high
places that the ignorant, the depfaYed,
the untitled, the diseased, the criminal,
the idler, the drunkard the Immoral
shall be barred of this holy privilege OF
Increase. until authoritative decision
shall declare all barriers removed as
fearlessly as now we deny citizenship
and many civil Qr other positions, unless
the standard OF competency y estab-
lished by a tribunal governed by law
and II 10 correct this prep0nderanoe
OF the vicious some one should suggest
that under righteous central and SIM
liar examination and proaf the good,
the Intelligent, the worthy should have
extended privileges OF increase and
MULTIPLICATION sabjeqt 10 restraints
of law need the progressive, the nod
ern scientist, the philosopher, object 20
that II only AS an experiment IN a land
OF experiment. yet still anpreeiating,
desiring honing for an Increase Of all
the better elements Of social and Politl-
cal progress and the suppression Of the
lawless, the dangeFaus element which |
now bids fair to lead 10 misTule II not
to national degradation, anarchy and
ruin?
The spirit Of query Is In the air, there
Is nothing sacred 10 modern criticism
or beyond scientific and philosophical |
reasesreh, out Of agitation win come |
convictions, and truth glpriously re-
splendent will illuminate the moral |
mental and spiritual darkness, which |
like that Of Egyptian notorlety has |
long rested upon the mentality Of even |
the most enlightened nations of the
earth.
Some great congress Of intellectual |
and spiritual giants may some day as
semble In one or more OF the capitals |
of present natlonalities or this may be |
deferred until under the unified rule
of the great-the promised King, "the
aw may go forth from Zion and the
word Of the Lord from Jerusalem" that
VIII come with authority with power,
With penalty OF which present rule and
bower Is but "a shadow Of good things
20 come"
HENRY w, NAIsBITT.