Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-01-12

ul food nmd uultiyHtiUg our minds IL
Il sign Of superiority. But If certain
needs exist by right and are desirable,
there are others whose effects are IA
tai which, like parasites. live at our OK
Icnsc. Numerous aud inucrlous, they
rugross MS completely.
Could our fathers have rrrcacpn that
we should some day huyC mt our dis
pOsll the means and forces we now
Use in sustaining nnl defending our
material life, they would have predict.
ri for us an increase of independence,
and therefore OF happiness, aud II dc.
crease in competition for worldly goods,
They might oven have thought that
through the simplilicatlon of life thus
ipudc possible higher degree of mo-
raiiiy would be Ht,"inCd. None Of
these things tnn "a % f. pass: neither
happiness nor brOtncrly ipyG nor power
for good has been increased In the
first place. do You thil. Your fellow
citizens. taken as ~ whole. are more
cunlcntcd than their forcrathcrs and
loss anxioUg about the future? | e.
not ask II they shpud lind reason Ia be
So, bur if they really are 50. 20 see
them live it seems to me that majori.
ty of them are Disseminated with their
1t and, above all. absorbed IN material
needs and bCSct with cares for the NOR
VOW, Never has the question of food
ana shelter been sharper OF more all
sOrhing than EiucC we are better nom-
ishcl, better clothed ana better housed
than ever. lie errs greatly who thinks
that the query, What shall we eat
and what shall we drink and where
withal shall we he cluthedf" presents
Itself 10 the poor alone, exposed as they
are 10 the anguish of morrOws without
bread or a roof. With them the qucs-
ton is natural, and vet II Is with them
that ii presents itself most simply.
You must 90 among those who are be,
ginning to enjoy little ease 70 learn
how greatly satisfaction in what ono
las may De disturbed by regret for
what one lacks, ana if you would see
anxious care for future material good
material good in all its luxurious de.
VelopmCnt, observe people of small for,
tune and, above all, the rich. 1t is not
the woman with one dress who asks
most mistakenly how she shall he
clothed, nor is il those reduced to the
strictly necessary who make most
question OF what they shall eat tOmor.
row. As an inevitable consequence of
/ }hc law that needs are increased by
their satisfaction, the more goods man
has the more he wants. The more MS,
sured he is Of the morrow, according to
/ the common aCcCptutlOn, the more eX,
| clusiyely does lie concern i@lSclf with
how hG shall live and provide for his
children aud bis childrcns children
Impossible 10 conceive of the fears OF
Il man established Ia lifr-thGlr num-
Der, their reach and their shades of re-
! hnemcut.
From all this there has arisen
throughout the different social orders
modified by conditions and varying II
Intensity, a common ugitntlon-u very
/ complex mental state, best compared
10 tho petulance Of a spoiled child, al
once satisfied and discontinued
/ If we have not become happier
neither have we grown more peaceful
and fiaternal. The more desires ant
needs u man has the more occasion III
/ finds for conflict with his fellow men
and these conflicts are mOre bitter il
proportion as their causes nre less Just
1t Is the law Of nature to tight fol
bread, for the necessities. This Law
may seem brutal, but there Is an eX
cuse in its very harshness, and II Il
/ generally limited to elemental cruel
/ ties. Quite different is the battle fOl
/ the superhuous for ambition, priv
ilege, inclination, luxury. Never ha'
hunger driven man to such Dasenesi
as have envy, avarice and thirst fOl
pleasure. Egotism grows more malef
/ icent as il becomes more refined.
Do not the very sinews Of virtue
lie I'm mans capacity 10 care for some
thing outside linself2 And VIVA
place remains for ones neiglbOr Ia 1
life given over 10 material cares 10 ar
tiaclal needs, 10 iio Satisfaction Of am
billions, grudges and whims2 The MAJ
who gives himself up entirely 10 tn
service OF his appetites makes then
] grow aud multiply 50 well that thel