The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-02

when a universal upheaval is the or.
DER OF the day, when racial dist;nc-
tons are lost sight of and class nri-
Vlleges ignored in the mighty strug-
gle for self-preservation.. then T
say all our prurient pride and self
glorlflcatlon come tumbing down
like castle of cards which thu,
merest breeze blows about our
ears Then it becomes d question of:
The Race to the Swiftest, "Tba
Spots to the Strong" "The Surv;
val OF the fittest.' And the fttest
to survive in that fierce struegIa
are those who from childhood bava
pfactlced economy, who know how
to keep soul and body together with
ilttie or nothing. who have learned r.
be satisfied with the common necessis
ties OF life, and who would consider
themselves very fortunate and roll
ING IN luxury, could they lay hands
on what the Wastcful masses of
Americans discard as undesirable NJ
unit for use. Our junk piles and
garbage pans are entirely foo ~
pensive. This is nothing bu. tba
truth stated in common terms and
we challenge contradiction. Note
for example how in the war between
Russia and Janan some tvaI,o ,.aar..
ago, the Greatly uaderrad Tana,,
. ese armies whose diet AZ evar,, aoo
knows consists of q ncra b,,,df,,1
Of rice, oaJ-nanoelwred and co.
pletcIy defeated the Russian orn,;0.
even though now we know
may have been some ex+emM II
cause for this defeat. Shall we -
tinuc to live in Fools Paradise nm
til we are banished from # hv tba+
Pride which Scripture saws "Coo+h
before the fall" Remember tba aid
pagan axiom: tWhom tho Gods
would DESTROY. thev fh.s+ roo1.a
blind" The time of national nori1 i
upon u. The world is stirred &c i
never was before, The ,oassos ~
every country are driftiro tou.ords
I Democracy, because they are beoip
ming to perceive in spite of +bair
. seeming Ignorance. that tbrein lies .
their only hope OF bettefinq their
material conditions Of passing from
abject serfdon to at least eomnara-
tive poverty, and from this on. I'M.
to comparative ease and wealth
I Imagine millions Of human heinos
/ beings imbued with this idea-tba
same that you or | NAV nurture in
our bosom as our legitimate birth
| rigf.-and YOU immediately see how
the competition is going to be keen
and how necessary it will be for
each one of us to, arm himself with
the weapon of Economy for the
coming conflict of the survival of
the fittest.
We read of the Rise and Fall of
the Roman Empire; Of the Mace
DOMAIN under Alexandw the Great;
of the Persian under CYRUS the
/ Great, the Eyvpti4D under the
Pharaohs, the Sssyrian under Minus
and Semiramis, and finally hte
! Babylonian. the oldest of all: each
of which preceded one another in
inverse rotation until we reach far
back to the very dawn of civiliza-
ton. They fought each other savage
] ly, one succumbing to the other in
bloody wars which devastated coun-
tries and depopulated nations. But
we doubt whether those mighty en-
pires, great in the pages Of history,
with all the glitter and glamour of
Antiquity which, like Distances
the poet Campbell says: "lends en-
chantment to the view," ever equal
led in magnitude of armies and IN
tensity of purpose the gigantic
groups of races, doggediy facing
each other today on the bloody pat
! tlefleldS of EurOpe, The German