Blue-grass blade., 1908-07-19

relief, unconditional surrender setting UP
the drinks, or asking him IL he has paid hts
poli-tax. Every age has been fertile In
dignifed tomfooleries, and when lazy brains
cease to plan work for the brainless muscle,
selfishness and enterprise VIII have left this
planet. Jealousy is vulgar emulation, and
without jealousy among the great un-
washed, there would be no hope of rising,
for, sad though it be, aspiration is born of
covetousness. To be satisfied is to be am
bitionless and before We commend a man
for his contentment, let us find out whether
he is above worldly ambition or whether he
is below it.
! CONF now to the most painful phase
of Socialism, its utter lack of piety, and
which, | grieve to say, is apparent to the
most casual observer. l have never met
a Socialist whose future welfare, l feel
does not rest upon the utmost stretch of
divine prerogative. He is of the earth
earthly; too enthusiastically turning this
world into an earthly heaven, and its in,
habitants into flesh and blood angels to
waste a thought on his immortal soul. In
f;ict, under Socialism, from all can learn,
salvation is the only thing thai will not
be free. Nothing portrays this spirit more
than the answer given a clergyman by
prominent Socialist of this CITY, Being asked
Nv the clergyman of he thoughtlessly had
ever committed the objectionable sin, he re-
piled that he didn't care damn whether
he had or not"
After all, perhaps the most bizarre theory
OF Improvement is preferable to abject and
resigned misanthropy that considers the
present merely the warmed over past, and
the future only what is left over from the
present. A comforting mistake IL to be en-
Couraged If its correction be not roo abrupt.
The moo has been fed ON fasehood so long
that 1t Ands truth as unpalatab.e as indi-
6estible. Such people are naturally i'm
.eati Of Nd ic
only by degrees that they can be taught
that the specious is not necessarily the
truthful. The curse of a republic is, every
body ont of the lunatic asylum is en-
couraged to think himself a statesman in
embryo. The most fiamboyani, spread
eagled advocate for popular Government
cannot fail to see that what was good for
the country seventy-five years. ago is not
Sufficiently restrictive now We seem to
think that, because a European peasant
has been given the franchise, that his graft
tude will do the rest as if sudden. liberty to
slave was not an invitation to license.
The franchise to the vast majority of our
immigrants is a newly-found htoxication
ferment.ng into delirium One extreme is
mighty lonely till it finds another: the slave
is not satisfied with his own freedom and
the man who has been delivered from one
,yrant, If given the chance. will. not stop
Snort of being another. Was there ever a
man or woman governing who die not need
the eternal vigilance of the governed?
What is there in oppression to fl man for
anything but revolutions?
Witness the present howl for the REF
erendum." Before trying it with the country
at large | think we should test it at San
Quentin and Agnews; safety is found be-
tween TWO extremes; liberty between
dCspotism and license. nation is an ag-
eregation of individuals, and / shall not
believe IA the angelic nature of the many |
don't know until the few do know begin
to sprouI wings. Woman has been sucked
into this maelstrom of Socialism and under