The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-01

THE TIMES : DISPATCH:
| which benefits the man who gives
! more than the man who receives, be-
! cause 1T comes from the heart and not
| from the purse. "Thercfore, when thou
doest thine aims, do not sound truil-
| pet before thee, as the hypocrites 90
| In the synagogue and the streets that
they may have glory Of men"
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MORE BABIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS.
! The Colonels lecture at the sor-
| bonne has been much hailed by people
| OF his lawless habit Of mind He sald
| a great deal lie had said before and he
said it as IL It were all entirely new.
| He renewed his demand for more ana
ever more and more children, having
| familiarized himself evidently with the
| Divine command under the Old Dis
| pensation: BE fruitful, and multiply,
and replenlsh the earth If we were
| asked to make IL guess as to the eH-
tent of the Colonel's Bible reading we
/
Genesis has received his constant
study and reflection. In this chapter
! is the book of the generations
| Of Adam, and in 1t VIC are told
that Adam bcgat Seth, and for eight
| hundred years was engaged in the
! same business, or, as the record reads
| "he begat sons and daughters" how
! many we do not know, or care. and
| the rest of the family followed his
good example. Those were strenuous
times, to be sure, and the pity is that
the. Colonel was not there to encour
age the infant industry. That would
have been so much more to his taste,
doubt less, than the arduous work of
telling the T'rcnchmen how many chill
dren they should have.
This was only one Of the points
which~the Colonel made quite clear at
the Sorbonne. He was almost equally
forcible in what he said about the
rich and the poor and the in-betweens.
For example: TN every Civilized socie-
ty property rights must be carefully
safesuarded. Ordinarily, and in the
great majority of cases, human rights
and property rights are fundamental,
and in the long run Identical. But
when 1t clearly appears that there is
real conflict between them, human
! rights must have the upper hand, for
| property belongs to man and not man
Property rights are human rights and
both of them are fundamental, what
ever that may mean, and, .in the long
run Identical" but whenever they dc
not agree, human rights must have
the upper hand OF property rights
? which are human rights. Jonathan
Swift. who waa something of fauna
: naturalist hi.aaelf. despite his ad
h diction to poetry, expressed the sam,
\ idea as that advanced by the Colone
i in these lines:
, 80, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller ieas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bit,
EN-;
And SO proceed ad infnitum."
Saint Paul also had some thought
= on the same subject. He did not, it i
true. speak English as readily as tn
: Colonel; but he had an idea tha
= while the body is not one member, blu
many, "there should be no schism il
the body; but that the members shoul
have the same care one for another
| a In tr ~, al
body We're an eye, where were TIL
hearing If the whole We're hearing
where We're the smellng?" There wa
; a greater even than Saint Paul VIII
laid down this proposition: "rhe THE
cometh not but for to steal. and t
kill, and to Destroy" it does not mat
ter in the least whether he come t
take the property of his neighbor o
to deprive his neighhor of any of tn
human rights he may possess. 9TH
thief cometh In, and the troop 0
robbers spoleth without"
, ALI the Colonel's talk about IN
position as regards the moneyed in
terests" was the purest punk. w
have in the United States a govern
:, ment of law. or at least that has bee
our proudest boast, and we have bee
broadening down from precedent t
= precedent until this disturher, with tn
: weapons of the demagogue and anal
chist and his unbrid!ed speech.S eS
cited the spirit of tho mob against
certain sort OF human rights instea
:. of making his appeal to the orderl
:. methods Of the law. Alas. and Xix,
! wise. as the French said about Dire,
~ fus. conspuez. NJ. lie Colonel,
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!, WHIsIs IN MUSIC.
= The operate stars are beginning t
n take flight across the Atlantic and til