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Show EQUAL AND NOT EQUAL . Cardinal Gibbons denied the other day that all men are created equal, and said 'that "as long as the world lasts some men will be rich and others poor." . The St. Louis Mirror denies the first proposition, all of which it seems to us is unnecessarv. The great Cardinal was both right andVrong. In this country all men are born equal. At the same time no two are born alike. The theory on which fur Government was formed was that all men should be born with equal opportunities, and tjiat is as far as the Government can go. To say that all men are equal in this- race of life would be a crazy proposition. All birds are hatched equal, but to say that the robin and the lark have the same chances for making a living in- this world that the eagle, the hawk and the-cormorant have would be ridiculous. Nature has provided the eagle and the hawk with talons and beaks; it has provided the cormorant with a stomach that prefers the scavenger scaven-ger wagon to a meal at the Waldorf-Astoria. The eagle would deny the proposition that all birds are born equal and say that the lark and the robin can i ithout cultivating their voices sing exquisitely, hile all the eagle can do is to scream. The robin and the lark would deny the proposition from the manifest fact that the eagle could swallow a whole flock of larks or robins at a meal, and the singing birds have no protection against the eagle except in keeping out of his way. ' ' . ; ' |