Blue-grass blade., 1908-07-19
BLUE GRASS BLADE

minds and sermon with equal division"
for its text never lacks congrega lion. The
thirst to possess thing is not quenched by
the knowledge that another possesses it;
ire sanctity of ownership appeals mostly to
the owner
Man may reach that angelic state in
which mutual solicitude warrants consci-
entiousness and sense of duty crowds out
selfshness, but If he does he will be a
negative namby-pamby bepanted nothing
good through weakness self-sacrificing
through lack of ambition The world is
untitled for angels at present, and the
brother who has all the virtues, if you do
not watch him, is going to have something
else thai doesn't belong to him Canada
is largely peopled by runaway SAINTS whose
saintliness lacks sufficient alloy of deviltry
to keep it sweet Where individuality is
wealth is; where wealth is, security is;
there is little to reassure in a community
whose honesty is the necessary result of
its poverty. When l discover equality in
fcur-legged animals, I'll hunt for it in the
two-legged. Then why try to eQhalze arti-
ficially the naturally unequal? Socialists
complain that the present laws favor the
rich; under Socialism the law would i'm
partially coerce everybody and rerress alike
budding ambition and poisoning aspiration
whether prompted by money or science
marked trait in man is to consider some
thing new and unanswerable because he has
answering. What peases the vulgar con-
vinces them emotion is their thought;
Imagination their proof.
There is no real harm IN Socialism; on
the contrary it is a psychological question
of considerable Importance to the insane
socialist. Its harmlessness lies in it's want
of a definition; there is no. settled delusion
that the patients are enabled to find and
fortify, only variety of emphasized symp-
toms on fruitless hunt for a definite
disease, u mania whose 5ewitching con-
victions stimulate the ecstacies of the
fCeble-mnded to expect a heaven where
milk and honey will be free, sort of forty
acres and mule" rhapsody where house
rent will cease to trouble and the lazy be
at rest
1 have collected considerable data from
the afflicted, partly because, in spite of
my modesty, feel intellectual by COM
porison when talking with them, and
largely from the fact that a certain class
Of people insist upon finding H. me con-
genial company. Sometime ago man,
who had broken out of the Illinois State
Insane Asylum and started a paper before
h, was caught, wrote to me-. asking for a
contribution. He said that the "Lunatic
Herald" would be devoted to showing that
the only sane were in the asylums and the
only insane out He also said he was a
Socialist: in fact his call to the uncon-
verted was replete with superfluous infor-
nation. And yet, he came nearer defin-
ing Socialism than any of his confreres to
whom have gone for facts; ali of which
l attribute to the high grade he has at
tanned in his cult.
Only the ridiculous can be ridiculed;
nothing worth living need be hedged about
with laush-proof Notifications; every fraud
SHES instictively at sacrilege. The most
frivolous man grows serious when the
shafts of levity are launched against his
sanctified nonsense; for this reason l take
it the most benign Socialist contracts a
81 we're mein when confronted with the ir-