The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1909-05-14
Let the Nation Own the Trusts.
(By H. II. crabbe.,

@ 'fonA WIG otupc CiohblOus IL HAS
enabled him to build our world 1t
has explained many natural phenom-
ena. He can throw its inconceiyable
force countless billions of miles, with
aCuracy weigh star, and with certainty
tell its composition. With it's wonder
full help he can in minute participate
IN q process that has lasted forever, and
in which worlds have been formed, de-
stroyed and formed again. inuumerable
times.
Yet how little do we know2 From
whence came the UuiverseF What are
the secrets of our development? What
is the purpose of our existenceY Why
are we here? Does our being here
carry with it any right of possessionS
The mind Of man is great big inter
rogation point. 1t is never satisfied
until it has offered some explanation
for every mystery.
Before the days OF science these ex-
plantations were naturally very ridicu-
lous, for man attributed to some occult
orsupernatural cause all things be could
not understand. His unframed mind
could not say, Il don't know" it must
have a remedy, an explanation for every
thing.
He placed the age of the earth at
5000 years. Its shape was fiat. 1t was
created by divine hand in six days.
1t rested upon the shoulders of giant
or the back of a turtle. These are some
OF the many ridiculous efforts that were
nude to explain the phenomena of ex.
istence.
But facts are irresistible, and the
truth, when found becomes a tangible
thing that can never be lost as long as
Jul SA'AhAatAOu idoto.
Kant, the great philosopher, adj
vanced the theory that the universe
was created from nebulous matter,
aud since then the spectroscope has
been invented, which demonstrates the
correctness of his nebular hypothesis.
The lowest scientific estimate of the
age of the earth is 26,OOO,UOO years.
Lamark and Darwin have proven
that animals and plants we're not given
to US already created, as they exist to-
day, but that species have been conlin-
ally changing since the first life APP
peared upon earth, and science shows
that all things that exist are the pro-
duct of evolution. But with all our
science we are only on the first rung of
the ladder of knowledge. Who can
tell why a blade of grass is green2 Why
rose is red or yellow? Why sun
flower will turn it's face to the light?
Who can give the causes of variation
or heredity?
1t does not do to answer these ques.
tions by giving some mystic reason, OF
saying it is the will of God, for that
would preclude investigation and pro.
gress would cease. 1t is only through
the most ardent desire and efforts to
understand the phenomena Of nature
that we gain mastery over her forces.
After all is said life is only a matter
of living, of finding the most perfect
methods of self preservation and of
gratifying our desires of happiness, and
politics is the art Of producing the
things that we eat, use and wear.
AS mans power to control his food
supply increase, his dominion over the
forces of nature becomes more complete
and as civilization moves up the bill Of
progress its pace quickens With an
ever accelerating rapidly
The centuries that passed between
the time animal life was first developed,
and that later period when our savage
ancestors first tied stone to the end
of stick and used 1t as battle.ax to
Stay his fellow savage, are as numerous
as the leaves of the forest.