Show LAW OF PROGRESS SHAKE said truth in the line there is a soul of goodness in things evil nothing seems to have escaped that supreme aad universal genius evils are but the 1 lower rounds in the ladder of I 1 life fe but for the false we would ne never ver perceive the true every science has began by false premises something is supposed to be a cause or fact by inductions and deductions we slowly arrive at the truth man has been for long ag ages es working out the bea beast s t to let the ape and tiger tige r die we can see how the worst institutions have been necessary steps in our progress despotism church and state divine right of kings aristocracy slavery polygamy all ail these have been needed have served their times and must pass away still working out the beast in man just think of such a man as jesus christ appearing in in that cruel brutal materialistic age that knew no more of equality and the virtues of humanity than th an did the illiterate whites of the obscurest obscure st part of louisiana of the rights of black men to liberty nay dwir natives there had no idea of any adv j rights of slaves black or white the sole distinction in many laroe large Z districts had grown to be slave and I 1 free there were 21 black planters and mulatto planters in in I 1 louisiana Louis iua running slaves some of which were as white as the fairest anglo saxon seized seized and sold as i 1 slaves and on a far distant plantation freeborn free born whites or blacks surrounded by whips and manacle man acles guarded by armed patrols day and night the awful silence of terror palsied every tongue bloody 1 armed vigilant suspicion eyed eved every look and gesture the writer i lived in the midst of this very verv ay system ste m on red river whites and blacks were slaves and masters alike the very governor of the state walker had a quadroon wife and his bis heirs were all of mixed blood so far had the institution natu rahy developed amon among anglo i saxon populations even in our united states slavery was a wrong unspeakable and the sum of all the villainies villa inies under the sun yet what has it done it has created eight million black people into the highest condition of civilization the world has ever known in all the arts arms sciences industries religious religions and tendencies of the nineteenth century enlightenment they are the equal of any people on earth and so if we examine philosophically any other evil odthe of the past we can see the why and wherefore ot of it we are guided wiser wiser t than han we know now for this iri inequality equality advocated bythe by the republican party because a thing has bone done good in in the past shall we go i back wad worship it the wit evitte becomes damnable when it sta stand u drabo too long outlives its time weita wealth interests in unvested vested in it or po power lie rived from it would perpetuate I 1 the evil the old eld lyght oi of the many vs va the few fiam bared alred yeats years igat J chait to make in iahn hii a v 04 jigli c sf an e eternal 4 tru protest against ragan 1 agthe authe 4 s ution ta a 1 assy rev ancito i say 1 I i 1 it forever ore ver a standard au A 1 ra r y y UNS 5 Bs sw ef X aw mthm 1 5 1 al kau MC W el N LN b aff honor of this pure humble meek per personage so age splendid temples and in a thousand ways suave subverted arted and mistook his tea teachings ebing but bat still there was evet ever the g great reat authority for one appeal grand hierarchies dp despotic otic authorities powerful bishops with salaries surpassing the revenues of kingdoms were constituted in his name hut but there were the thousands thousand of lowly y half tred starved curates ccrates and petty priests fries tg imitating imitation z his example and of all his examples equality y waa wa A greatest t in fact he went so far as to sav say tho the lowest shall bp be greatest the last first what has inequality done it has certainly been terribly oppressive on the ma mass s of laboring 0 people it seems strange astran n C why they endured it so long in france for example even up to our day over three millions illions m 1 of ofa peasants peasant that is is countr country people eople lived in miserable huts hats not fit tor for cattle with no openings but a door and one or two little windows to evade window tax and 0 generally on ground floors sue and hugo 0 have given correct descriptions of their lives yet y e t the greatest virtue patience and highest m morality were developed among among such people for 1 example exa mple in one quite populous i commune briancon for over a I 1 century murder was unknown with us in in every every agricultural L community of from fifteen to thirty thousand people we have from one to three murders per year year A again M ain inequality has developed amonn among the rich some of the highest models of gentleness refinement deli delicacy I 1 cacy and consideration for others the world has ever known these must remain as models for al all I 1 the rest of us nor could they have been developed without the leisure and opportunities given to great wealth but the age age n of inequality has passed like that of chiva chivalry irv A new time has come invention has forced it upon us whatever ever stands in its way will wili be exterminated HOLT FT SMITH ark I 1 december 27 1897 julius F taylor editor broad ax salt lake City Utah DEAR sitt SIR 1 I take the liberty in in behalf of the military social and athletic club of fort smith ark in kindly asking you you to donate your valuable paper for the use of its members tatt military social and athletic club na M S A of fort smith ark has a membership of two hundred edana and fifty and continual continually lv increasing and is a i factor in athletic and bili military tary matters in this part of the country it has a fine reading room in connection and a great many of the leading papers have contributed the donation of your valuable le paper would be greatly appreciated ak and a valti valuable alyle zatter matter in the al SA S A reading room hoping to receive a favorable favorably reply I 1 lam am yours respectfully 1 I H R chairman |