Show LIVE QUESTIONS I 1 A series of articles Artic lei i contributed tj by advanced thinkers 1 fundamental LIVE QUESTIONS A ih e question presents an idea or theli theory essential to social existence abich A hibb way may bo be chi discussed cussed pro and con in so BO far only as it co coi ceicil actual life ii it alive a live question life is m nhat hat wo we leel it to bo a sentient solli something ething n N itil itla a purpose oil nil activity moving toward na in end unman life we le 1 cognize us as an incarnate purpose and will reach reaching illg toward an ideal end is in mental development and character live questions concern liberty they are because human life requires a tazi tai freedom in ia reaching its goal of cf development or end and this freedom in society is interfered with by natural obstacles and nd other human wills from these conditions ariso arise social fric tiou opposition effort enterprise achievement the idea of liberty nd and 11 out of all these rights and duties T the lie pur pow poke of life efe in its ita instinct for greater freedom demands the removal of obstacles r st or the strength to overcome them or the transcendent vision and su EU force to harmonize them fundamental live questions are thosa thoo winch which include tile tho end as well its as tile the present conditions of existence they do da not stop with surfaces they do not heed tile the boundary houn claris a of individual selfishness thoy do not limit themselves to those thosa agitations which present questions merely of more wages merely of moro morat capi in s 1 6 5 7 I 1 I 1 I 1 TV I G tonii TODD tal tall istir power in exploitation merely oi of partisan domination in social legislation merely of ac supremacy in moral and development they ask first of all what is the true end ud aai aim of life and then seek to present conditions which may enable 1176 lives to attain to that end this was the aim of our foie forefathers fathers in ia del filling their views as they sought to establish and organize the american republic ic in ili seeking for those rights which were by the very natzio of man inalienable they were obliged to consider the end and aim of his life ind and they stated it in our celebrated declaration of american independence mans chief right they emphasized via as tile the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness ne 11 lifo life was tho the acting subject t liberty the required condition happiness the hie end but time changes even cur cm view of the ends of life and consequently our statement of fundamental livo live questions since the french there have come darwin and haeckel since sinca the mental atmosphere out ont of which were evolved our declaration of independence and the french bill of rights two documents which show tho the same psychic parentage there has surrounded sm us ns the mental atac atmosphere sphere of evolution and philosophers now tall talk of the rights righta of man maa to his development the rights of man in ill growth and the duties of society in removing obstructions to that growth 1 social the theories ores most alt adapt themselves to this change the age are not stationary the live qu questions egions of today loday must mast use urethe the language of tile lie last decade of the nineteenth century they must base their arga arguments ments on its eione the end of man is not chappuies it is development growth individual evol evolution lation and liberty at present demanded is liberation from that social eco economic nondo bondage which curtails and even threatens to destroy individual freedom and develop development in this new relation the word liberty attains to it its true meaning it is longer capri no longer a aniie individual impulse it is philosophical il in m its bearing and relations it lar anfu ludes acs duties as well as rights does docs any oua one doubt the philosophical change r the now new social meats let him ask anat is happiness Is it not more than animal it more what more happiness Hiippi Happi neha we may de define fineas as the sensation we feel when vital bolc 4 within us ua move in harmony to their legitimate ends in expression it is the senor which accompanies the process toward the end and not tho the end in itself the delightful sensation of harmony rno uy in music as comp camp cd with the mere nois noia of one repeated note illustrate the seijas ion ct cf hap pl the individual man is an all organic whole each fu fuerle erly and org morgn u han ilg to wry other they can play times of 0 harmony ly or they can call make only a di discordant an t noise tho the bounding child silts organic physical hina ony the n joy went of tile arnall is the tha harmony 0 cit f the physical and the mental the c hango change tr childhood to adult years reveals a change in tile ilia perception cf lifes cuda ends Ilar harmony mODY Is 13 our consciousness of ct t the lie union of to an all end music ic rap iian gilless is 19 our consciousness of the union of vital forces lowa to I 1 it an end cad development growth is i the true c end 11 1 of man happi 1 biess the accompaniment but not lot only is individual man an organic whole society Is 13 ill the 0 same that 1 is normal nor inal society there is socia boci 1 happiness as well is as individual happiness aud and both carric by the same means and and me ale obedient to the same law the individual cannot stand alone nine tenths df at himself Is 13 submerged in the r social 0 c i a 1 the most of liin hira self is iq keyed to the vibrations of social conditions and aca scarcely acely a note can call he independently strike that is not painful most alost men are not scally brally happy liappa hard work is tho the waters of litho they drink to dull the haunting visions of their real selves pelves what means social it is the social dalcord ari arising ing from individual selfishness islin it is the dominating inAuen Inn nence ce of boci soci social al warfare in predatory trade in place of social operation cooperation co in production and distribution vv what hat can hal monize social forces and neutralize the power of selfishness plainly a clearer perception of the ends of life the ilie perception that ends are higher and more authoritative in their demands than means the perception of true social ends in place of material means to an end which so often misrepresent themselves to their possessor as ends the unrest and unhappiness 0 of f the world are arc the source of social discord among economic forces no one is happy in the best sense of tho word the cat eais s of both the slayer and the slain arg ar pic pierced bcd with noise the ric rich h man trembles before tho the poor mans gestures gestured of pain both classes waste their energies both Doth have disobeyed the laws of harm harmony amny both have naturally been impelled to exercise their strength but the conditions which sur surrounded thain were different and the philo philosophy ophy of neither was lit bicad oad enough to enable haia to comprehend pre lind the position of the other or to dream that together they could shape the conditions of life to meet its ends and bring happiness to both when the world perceives the true social end of man in development then will this perception disarm selfish impulse and social forms forces gradually gra dailly fall into harmony hammy to that tune amie of arher order which the morning oars sang together and which unsell tient forces have continued to sing to this iny T W G TODD monson kansa ait aih kau kan THE EARTH CORNERED we have much of late years of coiners conners in most all of af the commodities of life but the announcement by z i eki or ous and competent writer that ill the earth is co cornered is a sensational statement that ought to challenge the serious senous sanity and prolonged prolong cd meditation of all mr J T J mccann of st louis has bas published a book the bli name nam e and he proceeds to piave piove that his bis seemingly romna romantic tic title is is a sad fad aud and sober fact Hema lie makes keshis ins appeal to stati statistics ties and other facts and I 1 hall dball s subjoin Lili join a s few of them for they are arc pertinent end present one of the gravest problems of the age there are in the united states landless people the are compelled week by week to pay for the pr an iligo of living ou on I 1 he earth a condition that is as unnatural as if they should pay for breathing the air or basking in in the sunshine and yet our land area is is not overpopulated it could support 20 tiney times as many people in plenty on the one hand we ani untilled edland land anthe on the other idle people who are willing to work with this state of affairs the following stat statement teme nt taken at random from tho the boo book is nant u it all wealth comee conies from and all work is done on land only anait and it is the primary ban bank of all riches and the sole employer of all labor again we a arc brought face to face with the fact that of the i auls in the country are comfortable in pinching frugality and s settled despondency are arc and very poor band and destitute in 1886 thare wele v cie 1449 choini homicides ides in this country for 11 months in 1895 thero there were all other crimes increased crease d w with ith oven even a greater grater ratio and insanity is rapidly multiplying of the upward of families famil ies assisted pis td c by tile tho association in st louis in over 70 per cent wanted work find aud could norget it these are still chronicles but every on one e wants want g the truth the facts must be faced manfully as aa they furnish furnis it to tho bar basis is of solution there them are in chor certain t ilin quarters feeble und and fruitless attempts to overlook the situation but this spirit is manifestly find and puerile and deserves the tha pity of all sensible men there thera are sumo grave wrongs find and we can and must right them those choso who refuse to come to the light give evidence that they are afraid of investigation the times are past for dodging real issues sues or tor for wholesale denunciation but CT 7 day is r for it c ierard anti forcible for cililo lit ot of fact al awl rl ar argument tile the earth cornered Corn ercil is ii a th thought oil gt provoking and fact arraying arra yint brinl annb J NV CALDWELL L |