The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-04-14
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liable record OF human misery! Us
contemplation is unpleasant, no
one can read 1t and be inspired. y
lis depressing to the ego. Neither 40
1--we expect the reader OF this art4cle
Ito experience any of the novel es-
isentia1s Of the modern uphtt move
dment'' threat The sextant OF reason
las employed In determining our
whereabouts In the economy or ma
iture is not always agreeable to our
illxing maybe. It points mankind TO
1.-THE sloughs of despond hlled WITH
So rdonic skeletons or dead and van
lisaed hopes. In the lurid, misty glow
or receding ages, the race strives 70
lfncapicitate the category OF folly
lasts throughout the centuries en-
fbracing all the peoples of the Worlo
lin it's mad idolatry. The haggellant
!passions of the ancients and meole-
val fsts lash at the emotions today
with the same ruthless fury 1hs
vampires and .harpies of hate are
ientwined in the fabric of society Ike
1.-THE serpents 9th brow OF Meelusss -
These monsters of the mind anu
lheartAthe arch hypocrites OF piety
and virtue, lie perdue for human
toll, in. the streets, by the Preside, IN
the churches, stores, courts, every
where. Wretched pretense Is the
\ UNIVERSAL fashion. The business OF
life IS conducted on the shifting basis
OF dishonesty.
I Btt the world has never been so
Idepraved and benighted that rea!
would-be reformers have not inter.
posed their phylacteric Offices Al
The present day they have their rep
resent alton, among whom appears
the name of that superman and arch
enemy of hypocrisy and enlean = :.
4 George Bernard Shaw, OF England.
! This ouixotic and enigmaticaI gen
.ttleman IL, sometimes pictured by his
critics as being cornuted. FerhaPs
Shaw enjoys this attributiye com I sLI-
/ son to Lucifer, for has not Mary
McLane assured US in her lleeFdry
pasquinade a few years ago that the
devil has many OF the instincts OF
gentleman himself. In MS severe
arraignment OF mankind, Shaw mas
divided the sheep from the soaIs a aLta
when he has finished the Jon may ps
the Lord has smiled A shaft from rom
y the culver of his wit, barbed Win VIII.
his sarcasm, will rout any gather1ns
tof fIrawing-roomg reformers.
DESPITE the reformation OF the
middle ages and the employment o.
1.-THE glib word progress 10 dese El E9.S
1.-THE intellectual and ethical Status 7Ie 80 -
the race today, a comparison OF Uile
respective periods will prove thar
ma ma = Kind has not .evoluted at all.
with appreciation Of the stupendous
research of the great Darwin anu s
other eyolutionists. the cloutlsh
masterpieces OF their labors, their their
supreme subject, the genus horno'
reflects no credit on himself or daas
confirmation to their theories of pro
! sress;on. In science and in other
) artistrfes. the world is advancing,
nut the heart of man is Just as
stony as that which pulsed In tue
iNreast of his Simfan forbearer OF the
pleocene age. AS further commen a
tary of anthropological depraVlty y,
witness the pTesent-day drama
wars being enacted on our terrestF !dl
i. s tIrs and the base and cruel mo-
ttiyes operating back OF these sacrl-
i6ces to Mars; behold the destructive
methods employed by the Soc1a4is-s
la enforce their reign; behold the
insane acts of feminist fanatlcs
arson plots and their diabolic execa-
ton would turn Democratus' tne
iocund philosopher of Abdera mo
smortification and tears, and dero-
gate the refined. art of demonoioeS
as obsolete and passe!
Were Schopenhauer, disciple OF
pesssmism, contemporary OF our
thine he would find nothing to re-
tract No smile would change tae
limm oibilitp ofslhis SatuT n1ne 80 g =
with his mordant pen he could a 1l = Z
Ichapter to his mournful Works. tae
might devote a redolent chaptef 70
our journalistic quidnuncs and par.
graphers as being trouble 81. >
Ielwaye and thorns in the side OF tne
bo5 politic. And he would DEFY ana
iexecrate anarchy in the gu;se OF 90.
Ecialism and its viviperous retinue %
.soaD-box demagogues. Also, WIN
his ronsing pen, he would have goou
ero71nds to eyiscerate our statute
books and cause their yokel makers
ltojfIee to the aHboreal shades whence
thew came. Certain of our recent
legislative acts would particularly
come under the ban Of this tconoclast
LOT fraud and hypocracy and sell
appointed disillus: onfst, while per-
Iformfng in his role of tearing IN
telorious wreaths from the contracted
Ebrows OF would-be immortals. A
fellow who has recently by an act or
/ Con gress sought to unsex, whole
nation might be referred to as the
Ecountry's most colossal bigot. For
isooth If Schopenhauer could come
back he would be kept busy elab0r-
lating his famous studies In pesslm-
ism. 1t is q tenebrous subject, YET
fascinating. Witnal much OF the
folly and stupidity or human nature
( is iaughable.
world cry out for correction put
who are to hear and heed? the
| aural sense of mankind is blunted
by his mode of living and thinking
and. cannot hear. The postulate that
the people are paramount In every
| feene and crisis has been infltered