Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-26

genuinely discouraged genuinely pes
nc that gone wrong develop
OF social system is too
The fact is that the kind of civilization which
about the best that WE capable Of We building upward
slowly through the dark We shall improvement
future past great
subject which labor mercifu andse allowed
little progress east-ahough qGs imagine
we are going backward AND NONE OF US I%CAPABLE OF
REALIZING THE GREAT ULTIMATE RESULT
To any man who feels pesmistc about America and about
civilization in general offer these of
A great of humanity has been drunkenness DRUNKEN
NESS HAS SYSTEMATICALLY DIMINISHED EVERYWHERE
OUTSIDE OF THE SAVAGE RACES.
The greatest of all this world has been ignorance
IGNORANCE HAS DIMINISHED IN THE PAST HUNDRED
YEARS AMONG THE INHABITANTS OF THE WORLD TO AN
EXTENT UNKNOWN IN A HUNDRED CENTURIES PAST
The printing has done for the brain for education
greatest conceivable work work far superior that
transportation by the engine No has right
pessmstcay when he realizes that for the first time the worlds
history the WHO CAN NOT READ Is AN EXCEPTION
Another dreadful feature of life been poverty
Poverty still have with and only much of it BUT Pow
ERTY is DIMINISHING Mems wages within the lives those
struggling have been doubled and quadrupled
The long hours of work that deadened the brain
progress impossible have been very much diminished
No has right talk pessimistcay sees about
him hundreds of thousands MIONS-of working men and
earning least decent livelihood able feed their
AN EMPLOYER IN THE FACE
Superstition and brutality and cruelty bred by have
HAS NO GOVERNING POWER AMONG US TODAY There are
bonfres where human beings burned alive "TO THE
GLORY OF GOD"
No has looked past has seen the rack
the burning fire the wretched nge-
nuiy that superstition could devise any right pessms
ticaly about the present.
AS for it that any means
tanned perfection But have escaped
brutality this country and nearly everywhere
have vile kings breeding degenerate called princes
ting the power Threats by the thousands and set
country fighting another
We Do fight las the dogs fight are not yet civilized
but we at least fight more or less of our accord
We have at this the United a money
Money which organized for
it DOES Cypress the people
But how superior it the superstols government of the
heather world the dark How superior eua
eminent by dsoranzed armed bands How superior
lutte monarchy that succeeded feudalism!
1t is that the people ARE FOOLED while the pcople
have their votes and while within their them
selves and better their conditions they THEIR
MINDS TO, no man has right to talk pessimistcaly
There day when the prisons of country cost HIM
dred times much all the libraries put
Think how that has changed How splendid thing when YOU
into American the biggest finest the costest
building, FREE AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOL, This country
has congratulate itself upon
AND UPON THE POSSIBILITIES BEFORE 1T ESPECIALLY
All that required from the citizens is INDEPENDENT
THOUGHT AND INDEPENDENT ACTION past they have
been much taken with their individual supplies money
They have taken government too much for granted
They better that, AND THEY WILL There is no ground
for pessmsm.
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