The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-08-18
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.
THE WORLDS DRUDGERy

THE WORLD'S DRUDGEHS
One of the signs of the advent OF
another period of prosperity and big
business in the United States Is the
singular absence of radical agitation.
Not In years has there been such
quiet among the folks who are all
ways wanting to turn the world upside
down. As a matter OF fact, most peo-
pie appear to be unusually willing
just at present to quit talking and go
20 work. That is certainly good
sign, for, no matter how much we
talk, we have all to go to work at
last, each in his peculiar way.
So long as mans mastery OF the
forces OF nature is incomplete 1t will
be necessary for the vast majority
OF human beings to spend their lives
in either supplementlng those natural
forces which are partly under control
or In opposing those which are still
unleashed. The business OF tilling the
soil, for example, is still largely a
matter OF muscular exertion, despite
the great improvement in farm i'm
plements, and 1t will probably remain
SO for centuries to come. All the in
ventions OF science have not driven
drudgery out of the world and in some
cases have increased 1t and built up
great laboring populations where none
existed before. Tens of thousands Of
negroes are now at work all over
South Africa who in the old days be-
fore the British began to build rail-
roads did practically nothing. The in
crease OF the worlds wealth brings
with 1t larger leisure class, but -
also brings vastly larger class who
do all sorts OF drudgery. There Is no
escaping hard work in the world, If
any progress is to be made.
Such considerations induced Fried
rich Nietzsche to declare that since
so much OF the most necessary labor
IS necessarily mere drudgery, and In
consequence unpleasant, 1t Is plain
that 1t should be given over to men
whose realization of its unpleasantne
is least acute. Going further. he as
epted tnat the work will be done with
less and less revolt and less and less
driving, as we evolve a class whose
ambition TO engage in more inviting
pursuits grows smaller and smaller. In
a word, the ideal laborer is one who
has no thought of anything higher
and better than drudgery. Therefore
argued Nietzsche. the proper perform
hnce of Dhe manual Tabor of the
world makes 1t necessary that We
have a laboring class, which means
a class content to obey without fear
or question.
AS might well be supposed. this
doctrine brought down upon Metz
sche's head the wrath OF all the
worlds humanitarians. But in a
country so essentially aristocratic as
Germany he was not without his de-
tenders who asserted that Gmpiric
experiment has more than once provd
its truth. The history OF the effort
to improve the negroes OF our South
ern States by education was adduced
as an instance OF hopelessly futile
and fatuous beneyolence. II Is appar-
ent. on brief reflection that the negro
no matter how much he is educated
must remain, as a race in condition
of subservience: that he must remain
the inferior of the stronger and more
Intelligent white man so long as he
retain racial characteristics. There's
fore. the effort TO educate him has
awakened In his mind ambitions and
aspirations which, Ia the very nature
OF things. must go unrealized. and so,
while gaining little materially. he has
lost all his old contentment. peace
OF mind and happiness. Indeed, say
tho followers of Nietzsche, 1t Is
commonplace OF observation In the
United States that the educated aud