The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-08-02

in order to win prizes. This is one OF
those forms of amusement in which the
entertainment of the spectators results
from the danger TO life and limb in
Cured by the competitors. IT can exist
only in a society in which people are
divided into masters and slaves. All
our modes of life have been made what
they are because this division exists
Acrobats, tavern walters, manufactur-
ers. factory hands. manufactures. and
factories of every sort owe their ex-
istence entirely to this division OF
society into masters and slaves.
And yet we would have fraternity in
life. while maintaining all the servile
forms OF life,
1t has been decreed that children
twelve years old may take an oath. Do
these people think that children can be
bound in this fashion? Exacting oaths
from children is even more immoral and
despicable than exacting them from
men.
1t is thought that autocracy, which is
drowning, may be kept up and preserved
by linking it with orthodoxy. But au-
tocracy will first drown orthodoxy. and
Will then be drowned itself Immediately
afterward. meeting even speedier fate.
man is supposed TO be dishonored
when he is beaten, when he is accused
OF theft, cheating his creditors. gambI-
ing, etc. But If he has signed a death
warrant, If he has taken part in the
execution of the capital penalty. if he
has read letters belonging TO others. if
he has condemned men to prison. he is
in far worse condition.
Men engaged il a warfare with faIse>
hood and superstition are often satisfied
with the quantity Of superstitions they
have destroyed. This is not right. They
should rot be satisfied as long as they
have not destroyed everything which IS
contrary to reason and rests on faith
alone. Superstition is like a cancer. l.
IL is operated on at all. everything must
be cleaned away. Let the least particle
be left behind. and the disease is sure
to reappear in a gTaver form than ever.
II you strike a very hard log. the first
stroke sounds as family as If you had
only struck the air. and you think you
will never do anything-that it is useless
striking. This is misfortune you must
be on your guard against. You mus
strike again and again. Soon dull
sound will be heard: IT Is a sign that
you have made cut in the log few
more strokes and il is split in pieces.
The world is IN the same situation
when facing Christian truth; and l re-
member the time when the strokes fell
and I thought the case was hopeless.
The same, too, with men. We must
do as that man did who sought to drain
the sea. II a man gives all his life to
a work. whatever that work may De. il
will be realized. and realized the more If
it is the work of God.
II is said: One swallow does not make
a summer. But although one swallow
does not make summer ought not the
swallow who feels already the summer
to fly, or ought she TO stand still and
wait? Then IL every bud, every blade OF
grass is to wait also, there will be no
summer.
A series of thoughts has occurred TO
me in connection with the blindness Of
the men who carry on the struggle with
the anarchists by destroying the anarch-
lists and not by reforming the social
order, that very same social order whose
horrors the anarchists invoke as the
source OF the conflict
As the result of an enormous amount
of labor devoted 10 thinking and speak
ing, reason is gradually making it's way
among the human beings who conform
TO it, Under the most diverse forms. and
by the strangest methods. IL is subjugat-
ing men-some by means of fashion or
by vanity; others under a show of liber-
alism, science. philosophy. religion-ani
becoming their distinguishing charac-
teristfc
Men now believe that they are broth
ers, that ii is wrong 10 Cypress ones
brothers, that progress and education
must be aided, and that superstition
must be grappled with. Reason is be-
coming public opinion, when suddenly
comes the terror OF the French revOlu-
tion, the LIST of March, the assassination
of Carnot and all the labor is lost in
vain-just like the water which has
been gathered drop by drop and confined
within dikes, and which suddenly bursts
across its bounds and flows profitlessIy
over the fields and seed.
Why is IL that the anarchists cannot
see the prejudice which violence arouses
against them? How I should like TO
write TO them on thfs subject
Their arguments, the propagate N OF