Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-25
10 McDILL'S MUSINGS.
MORE POODLING.

MORE POODLING.
The poodle-dog aristociacy has again broken
out. A dog belonging to one of the Letters
died the other day. 1t wos placed in costly
coffin and consigned to the earth with imposing
ceremony. An ordained priest of Satan offici
ated.
The millionaires are pagans. They would
have done credit to Rome in the days of Nero.
Another poodle.dog aristocrat gave a supper
at which monkey was chief guest.
There seems to be an appropriateness. Some
people think more OF men than they do of ami
mails. The people who think most of men
spend their time and energies in some work
that tends to the advancement of the human
race. Other people think more of dogs and
monkeys than they think of men. Is it kin
dog aristocrats more nearly related to animals
than human beings? If Darwin were alive, he
might possibly find the missing link somewhere
in the realm Of the poode-dog aristocracy.
The Kansas City World publishes an article
in which it says that ''there is little place in
city life, todav, for babies" In substance,
the article goes on to say that landlords do not
want babies in their tenements. Domestic
servants and widows with children find it harder
to find places than if they were babyless. 1t
is the people who let houses or live in mansions
who object to babies of the poor Dogs are
preferred. The article also says that poor par
,ns are. forced to desert their children or place
them in charitable institutions.
Here is another of the sins of the rich that
de serves severest criticism. The poodle aristo-
cIa,s have created conditions that menace soc-
ETY. from The direction of increasing population
with fine, we'll bred children. 1t is here, more
than anywhere else, that civilization is threat
ened. The young life is more valuable than
the life af the old.
Here is another of the dark blots upon COM
petition. Competition breeds conditions that
assai the children in The cradle, and that Grip
pie them III youth.
Stand by the babies. Protect the young.
The poodle.dog system is damnable! Down
with VI,
Ii is not to be inferred that hold all rich
pt.,p!s in contempt 1t is actions of rich peo-
pl.. lrlest l never condemn & ,od actions.
would give the Devil credit for good action.
would not care if Morgan owned the whole
earth il in that owning he gave the human fam
ily it's greatest happiness. | delcst certain
co, diions, and fight men only as they stand in
the way of making conditions better. feel
vast contempt, aud some anger, people who
prefer dogs to human beings.
The lowest human being can be made more
loveable, amusing or desirable companion than
auy dog or monkey, from my standpoint.
Ever, body to his Cor her) taste; but it is a
low taste that lips the nozzle of dog or an ass.
But the taste has little to do with It. 1t is that
other phase of untold human misery that, tc
q me extent, be relieved by the wealth lavlshed
uoon animals, and that does not even make the
animals any happier than the ordinary treat
,nent accorded animals by sensible, humane
,,e,nle. 1t is the utter heartlessness and indif
ference, along with the supreme idiocy, not thu
mtncy. that slirs my soul. have WORKED
hard for hall a century--lived on plain fare
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