Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-12-30

that we have been using wrong terms.
Can civilization be defined in terms OF
industrial progress? Up terms Of ma
terial advancement? Can it be defined
in terms, commonly used by the rul-
ing classes. such as world power, .
export trade railroad mileage, ?
libraries electric cars Flying
machines" and SO on? No; so far we
are on the wrong track.
We find ourselves in the midst of a
state of society undesirable. We call
it civilization. It is sort OF disease
through which many forgotten races
have passed. Our present stage of Gull
ture has been reached and exceeded
by many nations now extinct.
There must be some supreme test
by which we can measure society.
Our present day is devoted to the de-
yeIopment Of coal mines, railroads,
steel industries, apork packing plants,
armies and navfes, cannons and
smokeless powder, grafters and affini-
lies. All this and for what? That a
Jew may have hfe's comforts while
The many starve mentally. morally
Ind physically!
No people have the right to call
themselves civilized until they learn
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ain of man. The perfect man is the
supreme need.
We know how to grown corn,
wheat, short-nosed hogs, hornless
,attle, two-minute trotters, sheep
I'll wool and a yard wide new
flowers, white blackberries, spineless
cactus, and so forth. We have our
Burbanks in horticulture, our experts
in agriculture, our scientists and
chemists working in natures labora-
tory, but human culture is a neglected
field. The farmer plants his crops in
the sunlight and avoids the shadows.
Human seed falls abundantly in
the sunlessness of the deathly slum
rhe horticulturist plants his roses far
enough apart to afford sufficient air,
sunlight and nourishment. Human
plants are stunted in the foul, airelss,
overpopulated cities; herded in small
rooms like cattle in slaughter PEN?
And all this we Gale civilization!
Man needs cultivation in three di-
rections, namely, physically, mentally
Ind morally. Is he developing as a
krfnitarian benig? What is he physic-
allya All authorities agree that in
stead OF impmroving he is in reality
degenerating! We are a nation. of
physical scrubs. When you remember
that in America there are $4,000 ply
sicians who are tinkering with us in
ternally, then you will readily see that
we must be in bad shape, More than
$4,000 drug stores are feeding us
dope of some kind. We are consum-
ing 10000 barrels of patent medicine
zach 365 days. +
lThis does not include doctors pre-
',cTiptions and pills. We probably use
oills enough to equip every vehicle in
America with BALI bearings. eYt, in
spite of all the physiciass, drug stores
and medicines, 100000 die each year
Of consumption Gall authorities agree
that 80 per cent OF these cases are
curabfe) and more than 2, 100000 af-
flicted.. 4s
What's the cause of consumption?
Poor nourishment, foul air and over
work. Wipe out the tenement dis
tricts, ventilate the mines and fac
tories, shorten the hours of labor,
and youhavesolyed theproblem. WKe
have abolished hog cholera, but not
consumption, because it costs more
money to buy. a hog than laborer.
One third of all the children of the
poor die prematurely from prevent
able diseases and undernour1shment.
J Thirty thousand men are killed and
1000, 1000 injured on our railroads
every year. This frightful slaughter
is almost entirely unnecessary and
consequently criminal, and If justice
were done the men responsible would
be declared guilty oy manslaughter!
This would put stop to it at once.
This much fog the physical man;
now what about his intellectual pro-
gress?
The average young man of today is
a cane-sucking sport, interested in
none of the great problems of the
day. He reads the Diamond Dick
stuff. the Police Gazette, or the sport
ing page of our daily papers. If he
lbuys newspaper he couldn't be in