The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-07-15
NATURE, A PHILANTHROPIST,
AND A REFORMER


PJThD RI observation-disclosures
contrast between centralized wealth
and centralized poverty are narrowing.
and he ras touched deeply the sore
that is threatening our lie as a ma
ton
Pity and compassion must Of course
be felt for the wretched,- pity and |
compassion i'm trimming measure; but
there remairse something else to be
said. Something that j. hard to say, |
and hard 70 bear; a suggestion that !
viii NOT be ~tilled. but which knocks |
al the door Of the brain mistakenly, |
even though we may try not to rear
it,
The suggestion is a question wheth- |
er or not it is wisdom and mercy to
humanity L. seek to save this multi
tudc of infants which yearly die Of ne
glcct and want in the slunIs OF our
great cities Should this "promiscu-
Gus and finally cruel and horrible re-
production be fostered and encour-
aged' May the death OF an army Of
undceircd and undesirable children
each year not be the mercitulIy mer-
ciles- provision of all wise Nature for
her own protection and ours
Throughout the creation a prime
law appears To be restraint For every
form OF life some provision has been
made To prevent its undue increase
The species is nothing to the great
mother. The type $50 long as She
chooses that II shall endurc) Is all. So
many types Of so many spcciec. This
would appear To- be the rule she first
lad down Humankind have broken
law and multiplied themselves at the
expense Of other and presumably
eG ally valuable forms of life which
they have rlthlessly swept out Of their
way All other created species are
kept within the prescribed bounds bv
natural enemies; but the superiority
aud Shrewdness Of mankind is SO great
that nature must resort To other
means 10 compel this one of her Gre
ations to conform to her law. In
natural or primitive state, when men
lived in tribal relations and knew moth
existence which we call national, the
warlike instinct suf6,ced
The natural enemy OF mankind was
man; and the wholesome strife left
room Tor equal individual enjoyment
of The provisions OF nature and for the
existence of thos, other forms Of life
with which the Creator. for hrs own
inscrutable purposes had peop5ed the
earth The history OF humanity. since
tie ,cg;nuins OF our knowledge-sinc, :.
the rise of communal life-has been 3,
struggle on the part Of nature to
keep the balance Through wars.
through plaques. through famines. and
lastly through the conditions OF our
triumphant civilization and boasted
conquest of her. we find her still SUI
preme-not taking revenge for her
broken laws in our consumptive cities
with their wholesale child-murder. but
only seeking. now as ever. to protect
the type she has created against itself
A recent work-the dream OF q
noted teller OF fairy tales of science
-comolacently predicts future in
which all the problems OF life WI, b,
settled by system which he denomi
mates "shareholding'. The inhabitant,
of the earth will each be shareholders
in it. and will live in vast cities stree,
ing from New York to Chicago. an,
from Switzerland to the Lakes o
Killarney. each containing from TWEEN
ty to forty millions OF inhabitants. who
viii each own shares in the common
property. and will do. rclieiou,lv
morally. intellectually and beliticallv
c<actly as thev-please The anthor
pet word applied to almost all exist
inc conditions. i "delionescent
take Il thai ne simalv means ..,hang
ing. Bv some aforementioned nro
cess.of ,eestion. tb, word .eb.lia,,.s
Gene" CONVEYS 70 The nr~sent ,vr,,er.