The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1921-07-01
EDITORIALS
THE BRUTE IN US ALL"


the well known illustrator, j. N. Oar.
ling, which was headed, Excepting
Right UP with the Procession" The
picture portrayed the march of Civil.
ization- long line of marchers, men
women and children line winding
over the hills and disappearing in the
obscurity of the past.
And overshadowing the procession
were two hugh, brutal, beastly fig
ures, carry clubs. They were sketch
ed in cleverly- like ghostly shadows.
Across these figures were inscribed
the words: "THE BRUTE IN US
ALL"
j. N. Darling, in a simple, common
place pen and ink sketch, has portray
ed one of the greatest truths of life.
We of the present generation are at
the head of the procession of the
march of civilization. America is the
latest development of that march. 1t
was on these shores that freedom
loving people set up a free nation. 1t
was from the dark ages of persecu-
ton that they fled in a desire to
stand upright and throw off the hid
eous burden of suppression and tyran-
ny.
And yet, despite their earnest de-
sire to establish freedom, despite
their protest against tyranny, these
same people, in their overzealousness,
perpetrated brutalities that make US
shudder when we study them. Wo-
men who talked freely were ducked
like rats in the water; men were
publicly flogged with "cat O. nine
tails" until the blood streamed down
their backs.
IT REVEALED THE BRUTE IN Us
ALL!
Veneer piece of furniture all you
will. But underneath the veneer
there remains forever the or
iginal wood upon which the veneer
was placed. If civilization is nothing
but veneer, then the brute will re-
main within US forever. We called
the world civilized six years ago. The
man who would have disputed it would
have been called a pessimist and
fool. But when Germany overran Bel
GUM and Northern France, her SOL
diers perpetrated such Nervousness as
can be assigned only to brutes.
There exists in the Constitution of
the United States a statute which de-
clares it unlawful to manufacture and
sell liquors. And yet liquor is as
plentiful as it ever was, and in one
instance, the authorities in Trenton,
the Capitol of New Jersey, have said
there is more drunkenness than ever
before.
The Prohibition Amendment is a
veneer. 1t attempts to add a cloak of
supposed civilization to humanity. But
to the shame of the United States it
has created a visciousness more
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THE BRUTE is STILL IN US!
One has well said, "No man ever
reformed from outward influences
who did not first desire to reform
himself"
That is tn crux of the whole matter.
A man or woman must first deter
mine within themselves that they will
tear out the brute that they will
purify their souls. And even after
they have consciously accomplished
their own reformation and regenra-
ton, their sub-conscious minds will
continue to nurse forbidden desires
and yelled dreams.
Frued, a great scientist in his day,
claimed that the dreams of humans
are but the yelled and symbolized de-
sires expressed by the sub-conscious
mind in sleep when the conscious mind
is no longer in control. He was con-
sidered cratic and visionary. But today
the psychiatrist 1.-THE mental doctor)
is curing people Of mental ills by the
application of this truth.
The brute in US all is constantly
fighting its way to the surface.
Like Paul of Tarsus who said, az find
then a law, that, when 1 would do
good, evil is present with me-" The
veneer of civilization is not strong
enough to imprison completely the
brute that is within US all.
And so, murders are committed;
robberies are perpetuating the doc
trine of might is right" incendia-
ries burn down valuable properties
at the impulse of the struggling brute;
kleptomaniacs steal at the behest of
primitive greed that lusts for loot,
the beast that is within US all.
The way to eliminate the beast and
the brute the impulse of rape and
murder and theft and carnage is to
begin with the grandparents of every
child. The brute cannot be eliminated
in this generation, nor the next. The
babes of the coming generation must
have fed to them with their mother
milk the instincts of Righteousness
and truth. They must be imbued in the
plastic stage of infancy the principals
of purity and fineness. They must
be furnished with the INCENTIVE
to drive out the brute from them
selves. We cannot drive it out for
them. We can but furnish them with
the tools and weapons with which
they must fight for themselves.
In the meantime, let the parent
beware who says 81 cannot under
stand him he is so headstrong!"
Or Il cannot see what possesses her
she is SO unrulyw 1t is the brute
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