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Show HO HNMAN LIBERTY. 1 Mankind Helpless Slave of Many Mas- ters Subject to the Passions of the I Heart Civil Laws the Effect of the Di-I Di-I vine Violation of Natural Laws Pulverizes Pul-verizes the Lawless Remorse, Despair, De-spair, Sorrow Appalling Nemesis Object of Society to Preserve Liberty Governments Always Existed. (Written for The Intermountain Catholic.) There can never exist absolute human liberty. 1 "i ;ii:r of men ever witnessed it and no race of men . :i earth ever will. From the inception of life we ;.vt' slaves to laws beyond and above us. We have jin s.iy as to the manner our bones shall be knit i i.ifri'ilier in our mothers' wombs. We must obey the i It-polk- laws of nature or be ground to powder. Sorrow will make us weep, or at least moan. Wear- in'- will compel us to sleep, or go mad. Our in-X in-X it-tines command us to eat or die. If we cannot j vii lnic a law without suffering a penalty, then are we involuntary servants of that decree. The Au- ih..r of natural laws, laws which we find in the vo iM al our birth is, according to the operation s of i'lo-n laws, jealous regarding their observance, j V.' cannot violate them and escape punishment. I '' ' " numerous potter's fields, insane asylums and I ) ! itnitiaries infallibly demonstrate that. It would I 1 journalistic madness to devote space, effort and I i;i)f to prove these self-evident facts. We know i'hat if we eat, drink, satisfy our sensual nature .'!!'! keep our brains and bodies from nocturnal re-yoaa. re-yoaa. excessively, we do so at fateful and unerring 4 prn to our happiness and reason. The ensuing i punishment is dreadful, swift and certain. Remorse is not man-made, but is a real appalling nniicsis that has hunted men into their graves in , fory age and will do so until the end of time. It X i- as sure as death, as pitiless as rage, and as tire- 1'ss as a demon. Nothing earthly can stop its . cliase. We have, even after all this not enumer-j enumer-j a ted ihe masters of men in nature. The human j lieart itself contains a thousand arbitrary rulers. ,i Melancholy, despair, regret, sorrow, shame, anger, i envy, mreed. inordinate ambition and lust. These I eh- all dreadful taskmasters who come and go at I will, take full possession of us at periodical times, j and for which we have no permanent cure. No! I tint even in religion. We may by the exercise of the I hutcr soften their rigorous sway, but never banish I tiicin forever this side of the grave. Away, then, I with t he doctrine of unlimited human liberty. It is a lie. a dream, a fleshy vanity, an hallucination, I a matlnos. There is no such thing. There never 1 was and never will be. Why? Because of evil. "What is the first principle of temporal governments r what causes them to spring into existence ? N The cK-ire for individual preservation. The I it-s,re to enjoy the maximum of liberty lib-erty and happiness without molestation. "testation from whom? From fellow hu- i i J : m 1 1 beings. How is this brought about By a i number of men forming themselves into a society. ; pi'ointing a king or a president with congressional I jii'iK-ial and executive departments. How, then, are ; i:!w enacted!1 By majority vote. Then this ma- jonty vote is the society's" master, it must be t "hive,? Yes. but that is inevitable because of the i:ih( rent depravity of human nature. What always J 'M-t urred in ancient times among all races that had li'i governments! The strongest physically ""ruled '!:'! injustice was enthroned. Men lived like the of the jungles. .Were all known portions of ! ; globe in any age without government? No, 'i!' always existed a government among the Jews 1 -me kind either by prophet, judge or king, and ! ! i!"vernmenis are derived from the seed of the Iei-ii Mate. Can self-government in its extremest : "!;-! ever be enjoyodby mankind, each individual 1" so ,' own way without restraint, thereby doing-!!" doing-!!" ;,.v with all collective government? No. Why l'" ".M!-e in a condition of that kind we could have - -iii.oK. no laws, and without schools and laws v "'tiM relapse into barbarism, and besides, the )':!,!.,.. of men to evil deeds; their terrible un- the passions of the human heart enumerated . i . v. uhj, h overpower them, make it impossible to '''Jimjukii government and its laws. Ian ha always asserted that if a new-born child v'"' l'h'ccd among animals, allowed to grow up v 'iieni. it would be like unto them to a great ex- i Almighty God admits that also, so he in his iKi'vt i)(.-.)vity and divine love ordained for it a M ! t.'.othcr's heart and that it should be taught , . 1" v. nt ii from growing up like a beast. Far , 1 "' "i-'ny since the sixteenth century have grown I ur hko hta.-ts. But that child reared among the I 1 6im,a, in ilf jungle would dominate them in time ' l,r"Vi.jMlS. ;iwavs tiat thCy did not kill it. It would i manhood's or beasthood's prime, whichever , r,rf'T. on the stars and the visiWe creation. It j .,. 1C u,x. 0f a great white Christ or i J a-hr.. f,,r ( h,.; wa5 truiy a father. The child ; ! r 1111111 beat whatever form it might develop f s ""' be at complete liberty to go on playing ; ,.,i,1"l- were jtaws. It would be enslaved by a i I j'iUvii!M; ,v j,n iU(jc.finjte longing, by a vague lack, I 'in ;i.iov( all this, it would have a conscience, a ''""'tirk implanted in its heart by its Creator, j -v 'logs lamed and given the instinct of right Iii'l wrong y their contact with man know when lo wrong, ihat is. at certain times, and there-ii there-ii 'In they condemn their masters. But we are di-fitmo di-fitmo child could n?ver live and prow up (.Continued on Fa ye 5.) i i i I . . NO HUMAN LIBERTY. (Continued from page 1.) among monkeys or any other animals. It's God never intended that it should. That is merely a "strong" argument of various brands of disbelievers. disbeliev-ers. It is really damnable rot without any basis in nature. Besides, if the reader will pardon another an-other digression which has just occurred by this argument, men like Darwin and Spencer turn the tables on themselves. If a child placed in infancy among animals will be like to them and the first races of men were animalistic whence came civilization, civili-zation, even that of pagan Rome? Persons of mediocre medi-ocre intelligence know that no savage tribe can advance ad-vance one step in progress, social or otherwise, without a higher race to teach it. The Indians of North America never went a step higher until they came in contact with Europeans. That is all we will say on that point. What concerns us now is Christianity. For 4,000 years the whole world lived, battled and prayed under the eyes of gods of stone, excepting, except-ing, of course, the Jewish people, and many of them j often followed the pagan worship. Now, according I to the history of Israel, all their ages expected a j Redeemer. Every great prophet that paw the light ' of day among them told and sang of his glorious ; advent. But during all this time the ' Jews were under the law of Moses. Every violation of that decree, every temporary aberration from Mosaical Christianity to the savage gods entailed dreadful chastisements upon the people in the nature of banishment, captivity and death. Where, then, was the liberty of the Jews? There came a spiritual spirit-ual human freedom on earth when the Messias es-pired es-pired on Calvary. What body of men would go forth into strange nations and take upon them-selves them-selves the herculean task of teaching and civilizing complete strangers prior to the time of Christ ? The Romans would not do it. They were solely occupied occu-pied with material grandeur. But these proselyt-er3 proselyt-er3 felt themselves under a law which they dared not disobey. And this stern law of inspiration and j conscience which told men in no uncertain tones that they were their brother's keepers would brook no denial. Herein is a marvelous phenomenon that this law. was not in the world or in the hearts of men until after Christ died! Previous to his birth it never entered into the minds of men as it did after af-ter his death that they should trouble themselves concerning the destiny of alien races. But apart from all this whence came the birth of divine law on earth? It came forth when God said to the woman, "I will multiply thy sorrows and thy conceptions: con-ceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee." And to the man he said: "Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof where-of I commended thee that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work; with labor and toil shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee. And thou shalt eat the herbs of the earth. In the sweat of 1 thy face shalt thou eat' bread till thou return to j the earth, out of which thou was taken ; for dust thou art and into dust thou shall return." At least if this was not the inception of divine ! law it was Ihe beginning of punishment for its violation. The origin of the law began when God commanded the first man and woman not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The real and amplified divine law, meant for a whole nation, was promulgated on Mount Sinai, when God gave Moses the ten commandments. In fact the complicated laws of the whole Jewish peopie came direct from the Creator and from them to the whole world, for we can trace the civilized Christian history of man through the Roman Catholic Cath-olic church, the Jewish synagogue to the tower of Babel and from the tower of the confusi?n of tongues and the consequent beginning of barbarous apostatized races to the very dawn of creation. To sum up, men and women might be accorded the greatest amount of individual liberty possible, even that of impractical theories ad still be shackled shack-led by the law of Genesis. Women must bring forth the human race in sorrow and travail, and mankind cannot eat and live unless it toils. The fields must be plowed, stately ships must cross the seas, the mills and factories must pour forth their products, the huge monsters of the rail must wend their way from city to city, across continents, and colossal machinery keep on its ceaseless revolutions while men by just measures contend for the maximum of justice, freedom and happiness possible until the dreadful convulsion of the heavens, the roaring of the seas and of the waves tell us in thundrous tones, time is no more. RICARDO. |