Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-05-06
10 McDILL'S MUSINGS.
WILD OATS.
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| THOUGH tIdLSLlltlcu VICE.
| A nation may recover lost ground from thu
work of boodiers and mergers. A people nigh
lose their manufactures and inventions. The
| cities might be burned and their farms lait
waste, but, given strong, clean men and pur,
women, all these things could be restored with
out any serious setback to civilization; but
| steep any people in vice, and the end is perd
ton. In all history, not one nation that wen
| down to hell through vice has been able to re-
arise.
With the right kind of men and women, al
| things are possible to the human race. With
out men and women, nothing is certain, unless
it be destruction.
President Roosevelt has been ridiculed fol
his remarks upon raising families. He neve,
| made a truer remark than that our nation and
our civilization rests upon the home and chill.
dren.
To "make life, the boon of Heaven, DEVILS
game" is execrable to the last degree. To ell
evate the human race through our offspring is
more laudable than any undertaking that falls to
the work of man. Many of the common duties
How much less the transcendent. Those who
expect to transmit life should have life to
transmit. The body should be healthy, the
mind vigorous, and the impulses should be
noble. If we give for the qualification of pres
ent desires, what prominence have we over
swine? Shall we have any more honor? How
much higher shall be our destiny?
Washington's and Lincoln's greatness and
honor are ndissolubly linked with their mothers.
The impulse and power to be and do, to reach
up to high destiny and achieve great work
through some great occult law, is connected
with something in the past of our existence
That something came down to us through our
progenitors. In Lincoln, that something over
came environment, and so mighty was the i'm
pulse that it bore him to the skies.
Our children have right, if life is the boon
OF Heaven, to clean heredity and wholesome
environment. Otherwise, we mock the Deity
and trample His best gift in filth below beast.
illness. And the Bible declares that God will
not be Knocked; that they VINO sow the wind
shall reap the whirlwind.
wind, in some respect, and continually has
reaped the whirlwind; sowed to kings who
were tyrants and devourers of the peoples SUBJ
stance; sowed to warriors, who deluged the
earth with blood sowed to priests, who befog-
ged the peoples minds with superstition and
turned religion into devil worship; sowed to
lawyers who cast the precious pearls of good
government into the mire, and rent the people
through the power that was erected for their
projections; sowed to Mainmon here and there
and everywhere.
Government, religion, every power that could
be invoked has been used to build up and pro-
tect property. Everybody has boosted the
dollar. We assembled no higher than our ideals,
and our ideals are men and men-given-mean
men, cruel men, grasping men, We barely
tolerate our teachers. We let our inventors die
in poverty. We execrete our reformers. If
we were not ignorant, we would not be weak,
and if we were not weak, there are thousand
things, now tolerated, that would be cast into
outer darkness in the strength of wisdom.
We don't even raise fiue stock because we
particularly uSoliC SAGCIiCut uCVCOpuCut. ~
pays" Why would it not pay to raise fine
boys and girls? Why is it we cannot set the
human race above fine cattle and thoroughbred
swine? Is it because we cannot immediately
convert boys and girls into money?
Why are the man and woman who rear fam
lily of sweet, clean boys and girls, by daily toll,
not heroes as we'll as "wizard" of Wall street
or warrior of bloody battles? When we are
so lavish with money in stamping out disease
among cattle, why can we not use money to