The gazette-news., 1901-05-18

ousfriend across the river, who constitutes
aweleomeexception to thegeneralrule, by
helping me to his own. notorietyl When
science enters the field of faith, morals
and social order, there must be quak-
ing Of the dry bones of antiquity before
the Nation of Righteousness can come
forth from thesepulchre Brother Davis,
do you belong to the Pr@torean Guard
that auctions OF the American people
once every four years to the highest bid
der forcash? Politicians are on the wing
and hard to hit. The list Of pjeayune roos-
ters who crow loud and do little is most
respectable. In fact, it is too long. too
numerous, too highly respected, and too
respectable, to boot, for my good friends
in Daytona to take offence at being rated
in the goodly company of church, and
state, and science, and quaekery-al
marching in funeral procession under the
black flag of expediency to the suicidal
grave of the country.
The silly goose of capital sleeping over
a voleanoi is not SO foolish after all. Even
the almighty dollar is turning saint and
preacher. In the person of Schwab, Capt.
tai speaks the word Of wisdom unto
Labor, grasping at the millions with the
same sel6shness as that which amassed
them:
'1Organize, not on the platform of the
equalright of very man to make tyrant
of himself and claim what his merit does
not earn, and monopolize the universe, ifby
the cohesive power OF public plunder you
can take the pot and escape the halter
and the penitentiary. Puta premium on
brains and conscience, like the trusts.
II IL brains, brains, brains and conscience
that the people need to work out the gen.
eral welfare. Why should not the voter,
and the official, and all the contending
factors of society show their credentials
of character. capacity and competency
to mellow the bitter struggle of exist
encef The equality of universal license
in expediency is the long pole that in the
long run loses the persimmons.
This much OF an apology is due from
me to my editorial friend across the wa
ter for the brilliancy and the billingsgate
Of his insult
1t does look like presumption for an
obscure individual to attack universal
public opinion, but such is tie necessary
and unavoidable position of every one
who adds grain of truth to the sim OF
human knowledge. One solitary in
dividual, with the infinite uniformity
Of law at his back to vouch the new
truth, Outweighs in the new truth in
volved all the balance of mankind. Alb
solute science has come by the brain and
labor of C. H. Spencer. 1t has come to
stay and be O. social force i'm the land
The universe turns not on an axis of uni
versal necessity, or universal despotism,
but on a movable. axis of universal lib
erty, truth and justice, shared by a per-
iect Providence with mortal. The CON-
monwealth of God is in port to found
the republic OF man. Do you twig, Mr.
Editor, or are you blind from choice?
In so far as mental therapeutics is
gallant protest against the empirical
science and special revelation of evolu-
ton as not the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth, stand with
mental therapeutics. Iconoclysm is only
the preparation for reform. In so far as
mental therapeutics is a revival of the
antiquated fallaey of evolution, atheism.
expedieney, gOdlessness, rightlessness and
the cross of gold and the almighty
dollar, stand opposed to mental ther-
apeutics. Science cannot grow out of
nescience, liberty cannot sprout as an
iciclefrOm the glacier of universal necessity
or universal despotism. Universal neces.
sity and universal despotism are a dis
tinction without difference. They exist
only as the unholy ghosts that haunt the
superstitious dreams of unenlightened
men. In scientific content they are the
absolute nothing posing as the Lord of
the universe, ever and forever with uni
form and universal miraculosity evolut-
ing somethingness from nothingness.
Therefore l oppose mental therapeutics,
as opposed the more ancient errors.
With malice against none and charity
Tor all, let this unseemly controversy end
here. Let conscience on both sides be
the only spokesman, and let us unite to
lift the keystone to the arch of social or.
der. c. Il. SPENcER.