Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-08
Prevention VS.. Remedy.

Editor henneDec journal.
AS thinking men and women let us
pause in our madness and think where
we are at. Energy without careful de-
liberation is goo wasted. Can any hui
man being endowed with a divine spirit
afford to do this with the few days al
lotted to us on this sphere, The contri-
button called for various purposes is be-
coming appalling. The tax upon the
average citizen for benevolence and the
maintenance of his or her existence has
reached a stage of almost suicidal ter
mination. What Is wrong? Nature has
done its work nobly. Natural laws since
the beginning of time have co-operated in
the interest of man. Men and women
were created TO conform to these laws
more than that they were made in the
image of God and made the supreme
master of the universe) Has he meas
ured up to his calling? He was created
with one trait, selishness, which was no
doubt in order that he might maintain
life This one trait has so developed
that his other faculties have become
dwarfed. When Christ, the great moral
philosopher. said, The Kingdom OF
Heaven is within you" he revealed a
great truth. Heaven is a condition, not a
place. You cannot conceive Of the soul
of the individual occupying fixed place
or locality. Mans duty and RESPONSE
bility is to work out that condition to a
higher state of development In order to
do this he must place greed and avarice
under subsection. Otherwise he has
wasted his substance and lost a great
opportunity
Getting back to the subject, prevention
and remedy. isn't it startling when one
realizes the vast millions that are being
spent to supply the remedy and without
any marked effect? There is the ocea-
sion for the remedy no one disputes but
does not all this indicate that man is
out of accord with nature? Does animal
life know anything of such conditions,
although organically they are CONSTRUCT
ed the same as we are. Does not every
thing go to show that we are working
at the wrong end? IAN ounce of pre-
vention is worth pound of cure" Ac-
cording to this it would cost 10000 less
to work on the line of prevention rather
than the cure We must admit that the
graft is in working out the remedy. But
let me state and you will honestly agree
with me it is a thousand times dearer and
is the greatest retard to human progress
vet known. The Kennebec Journal
would not allow me to go into details
which lead up to our present condition
and in your mad rush you would not
have time to read it. The Anti-Tubercu-
losis Society wants 100000 as starter
to take care of the incurable patients.
A worthy cause. Do all you can for
them. 1t is enough TO start one on the
road to consumption or tuberculosis 10
think of the conditions and how they are
going to be taken care of. Who will pay
the bills when we are all subjects OF
charity? In the name of humanity, wake
up, men and women, before you all per-
ish from the earth.
1.-The love of money Is the root OF all
evil" There is never effect without
cause. With all due respect to the won-
en- of this age but in the name of your
BOYS and girls, study the conditions.
Don't work yourself into a frenzy be-
cause you or they have not compiled
with all the frivolity of fashion. Don't
try to initiate some poor slave of fash
ion. Don't be trailer, be independent
don't be afraid to assert an Independent
idea because it might displease some one
Don't work yourselves into a state OF
nervous prostration because you haven't
the right of suffrage. The mothers OF
Christ and Abraham Lincoln ana the
mothers of thousands of great men and
women have done more for humanity
with their wise council and devotion
than had they been able to control
thousands of votes. When We reallze
the great duty and responsibility OF the
women we would pause to ask when can
you find time TO study politics, and DO
Justice to your many duties? The men
ar absorbed in commercialism and have
hardly time to work out problems OF
economics. The functions of government
are so vast In this scope that the small
est individual is seriously affected, either
favorable or unfavorably, according to
his participation in the universe develop
ment. The grave responsibility rests
with every individual to fill his place to
the best there is in him. Honor and
shame from no condition rise, act well
your part, there all the honor lies
Let a Carnegie, a Rockefeller, Morgan
! or some of our multi millionaires, made
so by the life and death struggle OF hu-
manity, spend some of their millions 10
work out the prevention rather than the
cure, and suffering humanity would not
be taxed to the last mite in order to
take care of our unfortunates. Remem-
Der there is a cause for every i'll but
not remedy. The sum total of human
struggles is advancement and happiness
AS rational beings endowed with immor-
tai souls let us work together towards
the great uplift of humanity. 1t is only
| by the asserted action of every man,
woman and child that this can be ac-
complished Remember that no man
liveth to himself and no man dieth to
| himself.
E. H. INGRAHAM