The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-11-25

household furniture and clothing. that,
by statute, are exempt.
Jones, in explaining this petition to
the court, declares that in 1897 he Dor
rowed 500 from H. B. Stewart, 4 San
Jose contractor, agreeing at the time to
pay 10 percent interest monthly, to be
compounded monthly until The princi-
pal was paid. He never has been able
to pay it, hence the bankruptcy petit
ton.
# you don't believe our figures, just
sit down and figure it out yourself. Ten
percent interest on 500, compounded
monthly for Is years.
Abraham Lincoln is credited with the
statement that ''the leading object Of
government is to elevate the condition
of man, to give all fair chance and
an even start in the race Of life" Few
will admit that, Judging by conditions.
either International, state. or local gov
ernments in America nowadays. have
this aim in view.
Vice-President Calvin Coolidge,
while governor Of Massachusetts. in
an Grafton delivered July 4th, 1916. at
the home of Daniel Webster, March
field, Mass, said: Democracy is not
a tearing-down; it is building up.
1t is not denial of the divine right of
kings; it supplements that claim with
the assertion of the divine right of all
Imen.".
Talk is cheap. of course, for the
facts prove that the government we
now have does not respect nor defend
1.-THE divinity of all men. neither does il
attempt to, or aim to, elevate the con-
EDITION of every man, and to give each
and all fair chance and an even start
in life, has never been contemplated by
lit. On the contrary, it has taken
over from the despotic governments Of
Europe and Asia all the privileges and
abuses that have wrought the destruc-
ton of ancient governments and is RAJ
pidly speeding Europe in the same di-
rection of ruin.
There is a way that seemeth right
to men, but the end thereof is death, :"
reads verse in The Bible. And the
way referred to, ana accepted as quite
legitimate by all political parties in
America, is the way of trickery. de-
ception, dishonesty, and violence. in
corporated in the maxim that "Mi gilt
/ is Right" IF might is right, what claim
TO kick can minority political parties
have in America, when they are rode
victims of such might or vioIence2
They acknowledge that it is quite the
proper thing, only are bitter about it
because thew are not in a position to
exercise it themselves.
This maxim means unceasing, per-
petuaI domestic and International war
fare, although the clash of arms may
be temporarily suspended, and makes
stable, friendly, peaceful, equitable,
reciprocal relations between man and
man impossible.
The statement that might makes
right is diabolic conception. It has
been a monstrous lie and falsehood
from its very inception, and is the
source Of all iniquity, crime, warfare,
wholesale murder, and destruction. 1t
is one of the traditions of man that
the Nazarene inveighed against, hand
ed down from an ignorant ancestry,
with which small group of insidious
exploiters of every subsequent genera
ton attempts to read the golden rule
of reciprocityand peaceful, harmoni-
Gus human adjustment out of court.
The natural law of human inter-
course and relationship is not one of
violence, but one of compliance and
coordination on the part Of each in
dividual with the life requirements of
each and every other human being; in
the light Of his own conscious physical
and social needs, and the treatment he
himself would prefer to receive at the
hands of other people when meeting or
dealing with them.
In dealing with other natural phen-
omena, entities or things, we have
learned by experience that we must
deal with them in accordance with
their characteristic qualities and ma
turaI constitution. All the useful and
beneficial work done and essential for
human existence, well-being, and per-
petuity is done in accordance with
rules and regulations discerned and
gained from the investigation and dis
co,,arv oF ;nnanent natural laws