The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-29
says UNCLE CAV

If you feel that you don't belong, it will
do you no good to complain The rules
world of ours may seem cruel. but there
is little probability that they will be rad
1Ea s5 berEe eGy is are the the rea9 aw e
nator, beside whom the most merciless
trust ever planned by human brain is as
Make no mistake about it-you must do
| or die. The two basic processes of nature
are production and elimination-really
they are one, for she, is constantly chang
ing her visible forms to render them use
! full. That which has ceased to serve its
purpose, which can no longer hold Its
own, changes and passes and is el1mi-
mated from particular group organization
no appeal from this law, no staying of its
operation 1t is as certain as death, which
is its most easily recognizable manifesto
ton. You do or you die-you belong or
you get off the earth to be resolved into
your primal elements for the fashioning
of some more efficient organism. That Is
the cruelty and the supreme tenderness
and the final wisdom of Mother Nature.
1t takes the human race long time to
catch up with the laws of nature. 1t will
take it longer to outgrow them. You
may dream your dreams and plan your
plans and conspire to refashion the world.
but you can't get away from the two
great facts of usefulness and death when
your time in complaining about the evils
of the competitive system. In one form
children's children to the end of time
That which is fit survives; that which IS
no longer lit perlSheS. L on may soften
the abuses of competition, you may save
from the dump much that goes to waste
in our modern free-milling industrial pro,
cesses, but when you have distributed
your mite in this direction you have done
all that you can do.
You can never make this world place
for weaklings. 1t will never be a realm
of rest. Peace and ease are Idle dreams
The struggle is always with us and al
ways will be. The strong live, the weak
die his is the merciless. tender physical
salvation of the earth. If you don't be-
are unable to make yourself strong
enough. If the latter is the case you are
ono of earth's rarities. The mere fact that
you have in you The seed OF the
supermen of the past. The unfit have
died You are mostly fit or you never
would have seen the light of day. You've
got a chance-a fighting chance-and only
a fighting chance. No man was ever born
to another kind of chance. Develop your
strength-get into the game. Fight or die.
If you think the under dog IS getting the
worst of it, help him. But don't weaken
him and spoil his ability to snap in
the process If you do you eliminate
Rim. The most CHASTITY joke of history Is
the uplifting of savage races by the
civilized. The effort has been made ever
ing, kindly solicitude to the one that 1t
considered its unfortunate neighbor. The
end has always been the same. The up
lifting process has succeeded only IN
killing off tie ''uplifted." This is the
story of the Vanishing races of the earth
Here at home it is the Indian. A little
later it may be the negro.
Don't kick because you don't or some
body else doesn't belong Every oody pc
longs who is big enough Ihose VINO
1913, by the Mcclure Newspaper syndl-
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