Evening journal., 1919-01-28


! delighted in the naivete OF this sympa-
thetic story, when evening came the
paymaster gave each man a penny for
] his DAYS work without regard 10 the
number OF hours he had worked, and
each OF us has shared the righteous in
dignatlon OF the men OF the early morn
| ing who cried out saying "These last
! have wrought but hour and thou
| hast made them equal to us which have
| borne the burden and heat OF the day.
Every man can make his own appl-
cation OF this parable. To the man
who thinks, however, the following
] question arises inevitably, viz: Is q
/ social condition possible wherein the
] man Of the eleventh hour shall rank
equally with the men Of the early NOR
4 ming. or is 10 conceivable that society
could attain 10 such a beatlhc condl-
! tion that the loafer should share on
! the same basis with the toiler ana tne
ignorant and shiftless with the edu-
Gated and ambitiousP
Yet Bolshevism demands this, de-
mands it with the Tngenuous insist
ence Of childhood, and either raves
when its foolish proposals are rejected,
or strikes out savagely with its animal
strength to acquire by brute force
what IL cannot gain by idealistic
sophistry.
II has been revealed within the last
six months that Bolshevism boiled
down TO a substance leaves nothing
but a slime. Even the new oil flota-
ton process for extracting the last
grain Of metal from the ore would fail
10 find anything in II which would
! float on a bubble. In sentiment 1t is
an appeal that Lazarus shall be fed at
the rich mans table, but in practice
IL Is a brutal savagery which, like
wild beast, kills and tortures to vent
its bestiallty.
Now that Bolshevicm has lit up the
sky with its lurld flames, men will see
more clearly, and IL Is hoped, give
themselves up TO a little serious
thought. They should know first that
"isms" OF this kind Of the men Of the
eleventh hour are merely indlgestive
gas. a complaint. however, which de-
mands the services Of an intelligent
physician. not a quack. They should
also realize that the visible regulator
OF not only material, but human des-
tinv in this world is our good old
friend. Mother Nature, that she has
been on the job many, many millions
Of years before men appeared on this
planet. that she is most decidedly not
fckle in her purposes, but continues
10 work along well-delned lines, and
that the broad highway Of natural de-
velopment is lndividualism demanding
expression in every living thing, and
constant TO itself in every chemical o.
substance. The law Of the survival OF
the flttest is in many ways a harsh
law but 10 is the law Of nature, con-
ceived 10 be her fundamental law by
the first man who reasoned.
The law Of natural selection Is ex-
ceedingly unsentimental Nature wastes
no tears on the individual. or the spe-
cies OF plant or animal which she dis
cards for unfltness, and yet no one has
been so absurd as to apologize Tor her
severity. Mankind has existed long
enough 10 appreciate that natures
laws are wise But many men OF an
imaginative intelligence diferentiate
man from nature, put him In a place
apart and maintain that all OF natures
laws do not apply to him; that he has
by reason Of his mental development
become a social being, and not an in
dividualist as are the trees and rivers
that International brotherhood and not
individual development should be the
Mecca Of his social aspirations. They
fancy, or as they dignity it in the
terms Of their philosophy. consciously
believe" that a social position is pos
slble in which the men Of the early
morning and the eleventh hour men
shall share alike, when the strong shall
bear lovingly the burdens OF the weak.
and when the man bursting with in
itiatlve shall sit in the public park
with his brother the loafer and glorify
Karl Marx.
Justice and truth are as pitiless as
they are honest. Individualism is 9
natural law, cold and stern. Bolshe-
vsm appeals 10 men because Of their
weaknesses, their purely human in
consistencies. II Is seized upon by some
as an instrument to create delusive
melodies. II expresses desire
to place men in high offices who viii
make ever so often a general jail de-
livery of wealth, a Kitchenistlc blood
letting OF those men Of the early NOR
ming who are so hated because OF their
lntelligence and their love OF lsbor
II Is so good 10 feast UP the fruits OF
the other mans vineyard. 1t Is so de-
lightful and so sweetly sentimental to
be able, by the power OF office. to say
TO the man of the early morning: "It is
not lawful for me to do what | will
with mine own?"
Russia, a land red with murder. a
State writhlng like a sorely wounded
python under the stsbs Of dreame"s
gone mad, self-s.yled lovers OF man
kind come into sovereign power, 4
country where intelligence hides In
the most secret places to escape the |