The Republican journal., 1914-05-07

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machine. The engineer becomes an es-
sential part of his engine. 1t is said that
it requires no more nerve to reverse en-
gine and set brakes at peril of life than
It does to perform the most trivial affairs
of life. Man becomes accustomed to do
ing certain things under certain circum-
stances. and does them automatically
He takes his place as part of machine
in all the walks of life. perhaps his task
is but to replace the spool of thread
when one is used up, or replace bar of
iron when the machine has worked up
the former bar. In the training of INTEL
lects he seeks to rasp them all down to
fit the pattern, and there is often an at
tempt to turn out human product as
similar as the castings from foundry
or candles from the mold. The teacher
acting on this principle has lost his hui
man identity and become machine. The
rising generation of humanity should be
treated as nationally as animal or vege-
table products.
Nature should be aided, not forced.
People sometimes say nobody was ever
injured by overstudy. The more one
learns, the easier 1t becomes to learn.
While these statements may be true OF
most people, because they DO not come
up to their natural limit in intellectual
growth, there is limit to mental endur-
ance as we'll as physical. Those who
push intellectual research to the exclu-
sion of every other instinct of body,
mind or soul, become as truly freak OF
nature as the hermit. The social instinct
is an attribute of body, mind and soul.
Ali animals seek the society OF their
kind.
Intellecls have succeeded only as they
have combined their efforts. No inven-
ton has come into the world through the
sole efforts of single individual. Man
beholds in the countenance of his friend
the image of the creator. In the Bible
we see the germ of all human thought:
Both nature and society are there beheld
in miniature. During the coming century
the nations may grasp the meaning of
the Mosaic command, to give one-tenth
to the Lord, not to build costly buildings
with or to support retinue OF servants,
but to help the needy.
If one tenth of the earnings of all la
boring men and one tenth of the income
of every business were paid to the State
for the benefit of those who, from any
cause, were unable to supply themselves,
human misery from preventable causes
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said that ninety-five per cent of the bus
mess men in cities fail to succeed. and
doubtless ninety-fve percent of the labor
ing men fail to store up sufficient to sup
DIV their needs when health fails. Some
of these men who fail to succeed, have
for years had an income of thousands of
dollars each year. If they had been
compelled to deposit one tenth with the
State they would have respectable lit
tie hoard of their own earnings from
which to draw in time of need.
H. The State of Maine paid last year In
fire insurance premiums nearly three and
one half million dollars, while the losses
paid were less than two million dollars.
AS there is similar profit IN life and ac-
cidenl insurance business there would be
a powerful influence against any State
or government insurance business. But
the masses should not be sacrificed to
the few. 1t is said there are today a
third of a million men in New York City
alone out of employment. 1t is prob
| lem with which private enterprise is IN
able to cope. 1t must be government
affair. Ii these men handle their own
earnings many of them will have moth
ing when out of employment. Everyone
can well afford to give one tenth OF his
income to obviate the possibility OF man
suffering need. This fund might pro-
vide small pension for every Individual
unable to work from any cause, either
age or otherwise.
A quarter OF century ago the biblical
| idea of the domestic relations was taught
in our schools But today Mrs. Pank
hurst and her retinue have scattered 1T
! to the four corners Of the earth. 1t re-
mains for the present generation to
demonstrate whether common laDoring
man can 1aise family and have every
thing just like his more fortunate neigh
bors. Is there any significance in the
fact that formerly one Judas was found
among twelve of the most carefully Sc
lected friends? And further, Jesus re-
ceived his only kiss, with one exception,
from the betrayer. Is it true today that
those apparently most true are false at
heart? While there will be in future, as
in the past, an occasional Judas, the ma
iority will ever strive to aid the blind to
see, the deaf to hear and the hungry to
be fed. Many inventions are the result
of necessity. The extreme poverty of
European peasants has forced them to
combine in securing capital and thus Sc
cure lower rates of interest. The power
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them to compel every citizen to contrib
ute to fund for pensioning the aged.
When the one third million of New
York City's idle men get to work they
should earn two thirds of million dol
lars every day. If the government took
one tenth of it they would have a little
bank account from which to feed them
when from any cause they could not
work. The little 1.-THE of the laboring
man would be considerably augmented
by the 1.-THE of the millionaire. This
would be slight leveling. as each would
contribute according to his ability, but
each would alike receive his penny to
buy bread when past labor. The govern
ment does not find it bu1densome to care
for the peoples savings in the form of
postal savings, neither would it find it
burdensome to care for these insurance
premiums.
The 1.-THE collected from the rich is
something that they do not need and can
not use. The 1.-THE collected from the
laboring man is something that in most
cases would be wasted. The average
laboring man will go to the city and en-
Joy life as soon as he has earned fifty to
one hundred dollars. That is the reason
the unemployed have nothing to live on.
1t is not because they have not had op-
portunity, but because they have squan-
dered their money and neglected to earn