The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-08-05

ally termed revolutionary epoch. HUI
man society Is just now upon the verge
of such an epoch, greater and more
Ifarreachlng In its consequences to
mankind than any that have proceed
ed It, II will be accompanied by less
of violence and leave less of misery
and sorrow in It's wake If every man
bestirs himself to understand the ma
ture of the change that has been made
necessary by the Industrial develop
ment of the past The more wide
spread the knowledge of the impend-
ing change and the necessity for It,
the less the shock incident to It.
Man As a Savage.
Man. then, energies from the ranks
of the lower animals, adapting him
self. to the use of tools with which
to make his living and protect him
self against other animals. The fam.
lily, the community. the tribe, the ma.
ton, government, religion, etc, are
unknown quantities to him. His Ian
guage is as yet but the chatter or
speech of an animal; his code OF
morals and ethics Is that of beast
In other words, he Is savage, very
low down In the scale of being. BY
slow degrees he develops his means
OF living. He learns how to make fire
and obtain fish for food. He begins
to gather In communities alongside OF
ocean, stream or lake, where fish may
be obtained. The more fixed abode
and the learning of how to store food
for times of scarcity, lays the founda-
ton Of the family, which begins to
form from out of the former promiscu-
GUS sex relations This is still furth-
er FASTENED by the growth of the
spear, stone-axe and club into the bow
and arrow, thus adding the products
of the chase to the food supply. 1t
is needless to say that this develop
ment must have been painfully slow,
probably covering many thousands of
years. But it is beyond question that
the basis of our boasted present-day
industrial power was in this manner
laid by our savage ancestors of re-
mote antiquity.
Man As Barbarian.
Emerging from savagery man en-
tered upon his career as a barbarian
The art of making pottery was ac-
CURED The demonstration of ami
mails and the cultivation of cereals fol-
lowed. He learned how to make gar
ments from textile fabrics; how to
build of wood and stone; how to smelt
ores and fashion implements of iron
and copper The canoe of the savage
was improved upon by adding the sail
community grew into the powerful
tribe, taking on more and more the
character of the nation. The family
continued to develop towards the mon
ogamous form.
But the achievements of savagery
and barbarism can only be limited at
in this article. Suffice it to say that
mans power to produce wealth during
these periods had been greatly in
creased. His wants had no doubt,
likewise increased during the same
period. 1t remained for the closing
years of barbarism to bring his power
of wealth production up to the point
where human slavery was possible.
So long as it required all of mans
time to provide himself with the nee.
essaries of life all motive to enslave
him would be lacking. When the pow
er of production had passed that point
to any appreciable extent, the motive
to enslave their fellows would be act
ed upon by the stronger ones at the
first opportunity. That opportunity
came at last and out of the tribal
wars that arose over possession of
territory, as tribe crowded upon tribe
arose the custom of the conqueror en-
Shaving the conquered.
(To Be Continued Next Week.