The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29

NnHE had been discussing Prof.
WhW Gamers scheme for the ele-

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WW walton of the monkey by
grating human speech upon
the buoyant life of the jungle, and I
was much diverted by Col. Gabster's
remark that the plan would be nipped
strenuously in the bud because, as he
put it, the lack of speech was 1.-The only
thing that kept the monkey from be-
coming perfect ass"
1T is only because he can't talk that
we find the monkey amusing" said the
Solonel. "Once give to him the powers
of speech and a gibbering idiot will be
a marvel of intellectually alongside of
him.,
Numerous dissenting opinions were
advanced by others in the group, but
found neither side of the argument
convincing, and resolved to leave the
whole question to the Spectrophone for
settlement in so far as was concerned.
am glad I did, for found it's revela-
sions interesting, and extraordinary.
With the lenses fixed upon certain
section of Africa made famous by the
explorations of Stanley, Du Chaillu and
Emin Bey, wherein the simian tribes
might be expected to reach the highest
stages of their development, and in the
year 3063 = far enough ahead of the
present to expect some reasonably pat
ent results from the efforts of civiliza-
ton on their behalf was amazed to
find, in an apparently f1ourishing con-
dition, nation of strength and agility,
in which the monkey had come into a
full realization of his destiny. Found
ed upon the cardinal principle, bor-
rowed from an earlier republic, that all
monkeys are born free and equal in the
pursuit of life, liberty and happiness,
our simian cousins had developed
national existence that in 1868 had
made of them one of the powers of the
world. OF the details of the govern
ment machinery it would be useless to
speak here at any length. Suffice it to
say that the whole Congo region had
been gradually absorbed by them, and
that at the moment of my discovery
the citizens of its cities and the deni-
Zens of its isolated places were enjoy
ing we'll ordered freedom and inde-
pendence which one would naturally
expect of monkey if his energies were
directed along reasonable lines. The
republic had it's executive congress,
courts and tribal minor officials similar
to our own in the United States today.
1t had its laboring classes, its rich and
its poor, it's statesmen, it's politicians
and its leisure class, just as we have
today. His capacity for self-govern-
ment, while not visibly greater than
our own in the individual, was in the
mass very marked, and, specifically
observed, his very weakness, strange to
say-inability to take conservative
view of any subject no matter what it's
gravity, and inclined to impulsive ac-
ton irrespective of prudence, and in
tolerant of red tape methods = had
proven a source of strength, since in
itiative was not smothered by pro-
longed periods of inactive reflection.
Once possessed Of an idea, the monkey
acts upon it regardless of consequences,
as a result of which, the development
of 1868 Indicated once he begins to
move to a higher plane his strides will
be enormous. 1t was not, however, the
economic or political, or even the COM
mercial growth of the monkey that in
terested me. 1t was his social side that
I had come to study, and 1 must con-
fess to considerable surprise at what
the Spectrophone revealed.
Turning the glasses upon the social
center of Zootopia, as the future re-
public is to be aptly named and letting
my eye roam in and about the byways