The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-03-25
Conscious, Purposeful
Economic Reconstruction

nent If erroneous ideas and conduct.
The better everywhere is eliminating
tbe less desirable and less efficient in
production and it will also expel the
less useful in distribution and in every
other activity and relation Of mankind.
The motives that dominate the indi-
vidual are determined by the plane OF
CONSCIOUSNESS, the degree Of intelll-
gence and the character OF the emo
lions to which he has evolved. When
greed predominates, no consideration
Of sympathy for the well-being Of his
fellows is experienced or manifested.
And such people are exclusively ma
teriaIly, and selfishIy determined. The
power-Iusting. domineering and AFRO
CANT are obsessed by this diabolic IN
clination and are chiefly responsible
for the largest measure Of ills, deprlv-
alton, war and want that have afflict-
ed the race.
Among the victims of this Unsuitable
greed and arrogant tyranny the feeling
or sentiment Of fellow-feeling, compass
sion, sympathy. love. first manifested
itself. The welI-being of others be-
came matter Of considerable concern,
and this interest in the well-being of
others in course of time became strong
er and stronger, and by further growth
and increase will become so strong and
all-powerful that the exploitation of the
humblest human being will no longer
be tolerated and greedy selfishness will
be spurned and execrated by the ma
jority Of mankind.
Just think of It'll Those who, thru
the instrumentality and by the means
of unjust laws that they themselves
have cunningly enacted. have wrong
fully and criminally taken posses
sion Of the wealth that by every prin-
ciple of right belongs to all, boast Of
their stolen loot and swag, as if it were
a highly meritorious achievement But
the very fear for its security is an I'M
conscious confession of guilt on their
part. And this fear has induced them
to take recourse to the infliction of the
most monstrous cruelty and the de-
struction of human beings by mil
liones and millions in murderous war.
And they brazenIy boast that Might
is right" i.e., that the infliction of
cruelty and violence is right, provided
one is in a position to indulge himself
in such infliction of violence upon 9TH
er human beings. If in harmony with
the constitution Of nature and right
when imposed upon the under dog at
the present time, then it will also be
right for the under-dog in his turn in
reprisal to visit the utmost cruelty of
which he is able upon his tormentors.
And there are hundreds of millions of
those under-dogs, and in comparison
with his numbers the Might is Right"
champions are but mere handful
Reigns of terror, inaugurated by other
oppressors and despoilers in the past
have always ended in a reign of terror
of which they themselves have become
the victims.
The ability to inflict violence is new
er right and never will become right,
and those who indulge themselves in
that /mischievous foible will have
dreadful awakening some day, if they
do not come to their senses and stop
before it is too late. what a man
soweth that shall he also reap" 1t
is a law in nature that no one can es-
cape. Beware!
Men who would be builders of our
thought to-day must have a great mis-
sion in their souls when they write or
speak to US. They must have firm
faith in humanity. Truth is in too great
a demand to make anything justifiable
short of an honest attempt at full re-
alization of the vision caught of her.
Real men write or speak, not for mon
ey or tawdry fame. but from honest
motives alone. Yes, the full conviction
of his soul. Such was Lincoln. And
less than this is worse than nothing.
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