The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-07-22
YENEERED sAVAGERY

California BY ons Of our coIonists, ex-
presses yiyidly the state OF mind ,devei-
oped IN many intelligent people by the
present disorder Of affairs in the world
al large, and we publish it because Of
the lesson that it may teach:
Dead Friend: III seems Is IT il has
been ages since you and have discus
sed BIT Of social reform. Of disagreed
as 70 the best mode Of putting our
clay hands on the kingdom Of heaven
and yanking il down here on the terra
firma for q change Even making i
bare existence, let alone living, is in
creasIngly getting to be heroic accom-
Iplishment. When one is not working,
then he is looking for work, or throw
ing little of what passes for fuel into
his wearied and overworked power
plant, Of stepping aside that his sympa-
thetic system may get a chance to patch
up bits of repairs IN his much-abused
anatomy. Ia any case, every days
stretch Of twenty-four hours are more
than frittered away between these pet
ty rounds of tweedledee and tweedle-
dums and the questions Of improve
ments are ever and endlessly postpon-
ed. 1t seems strange to my own self
that should NOT have had time ID mail
you long ago mere line Of thanks
for your very kind and comradely call
to my one-time ram-shackle shanty,
leaving a copy Of that newspaper which
| enjoyed reading; and | assure you
this delay has not been a case of out
of sight, out Of mind. AS / ponder
over the amazing amount Of oppression
and abuse the people will stand with
out SO much as a murmur, my mind In
yariably, as if wheeling in the rut Of
steel tracks, will automatically come to
the cynical observation, the people.
ever deserve the government they are
having | can easily visualize the
helpless and disappointed reformer in
white rage hurting this Bit Of almost
primitive sin to which the human flesh
seems TO be heir to, at the face of an
ungrateful people. | may be mistaken,
but | am convinced that the people III.
more or less free countries deserve that
dictum much more than others.
It may sound paradoxicaI, yet to my
mind it is clear as the day, that free
dom is both. good and bad to people.
and just where the psychological point
is where a balance may Be struck is a
task worthy of the skill Of the gods.
Almost every community of Western or
igin has now enjoyed what they are
fond to call freedom for long time.
And yet, man would indeed be fook
hardy 10 put his hand on his heart and
testify that we are the better for it than
ANY of the pagan races of the East.
Would civilization really worth while
have permitted for brief moment the
awful catastrophe of the Great WARP
Could anything true to nature be self
destructive, as, for instance, the laws
of gravity or the suns light waves
reaching us, or natures any other laws
and arrangements which 60 on like
perfect clock-work from eternity to IN
finity? No. But, as | observed to a
celebrated Harvard professor three
years ago: 1T is a sad commentary in
our much-boasted civilization, that on
the slightest provocation its very best
fruits can turn upon their own selves
and completely destroy themselves.
Of course, he couldn't offer any de-
tense, much tho he liked.
All these things prated about as
freedom. civilization. and so forth, and
so forth, are the we'll conducted snares
Of the few Extraordinarily in society
10 exploit the rest. Do you think for
a moment that man has put the halter
on the wild horse out of the consuming
love he had for the brutep No. three
times. and any number of odd,times
NO. And yet, in very pathetic sense
mans so-called advancement has been /
pretty much Of the same nature. And |
| will go much further, if you please to
make this astonishing yet perfectly true
statement: Halter the animal. alter
its nature-Original. At least physi-
cally. we are infinitely inferior to the
cave man.
Coming back to the work-a-dayl
things Of life again. | have gone thru
a world of experience since / saw you
last, from building house and selling
It TO not having the price Of meal in
my pocket. But, what is the use Of #
wasting more breathe That runs the
whole gamut Of the days sordid rounds
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