Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 December 1889 — Page 5

A Terre Hau'e Lady's Caustic view cf the Much Read

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INCONSISTENCIES POINTED OUT IN SARCASTIC REVIEW.

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To the. Eillt/,r of the Brjtrcm: SIB: Mr. EJward BollmBy must have smiled wbeu be wrote his book. Did he ever, I wonder, read a very funny farce entitled ''Oie Hundred Years Hence?"' that a friend of mine used to see played by

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Sykes. A deDlidt gives the character, played by gan, chloroform, sod after extracting his tooth can not arouse him from his etupor supposing him to be dead the dentist puts him in sack and hides him in the underground vault of a bank then b^ing built one hundred yeara afterwards the bank is torn down

the body discovered. Aa the sack was opened "Old igan" would yawn, put his fingers in his mouth, and exclaim "Where is the man that pulled my wrong tooth?" Ha wrote the farce and was wildly funny iu the part. During his long eleep very many st.rnnge things had come to pass. Women were running for congrefp the air was filled with travelers in balloons, etc., etc. B, has enlarged upon Pourierism, advocated by Horace Gre'pley in '-12 and '43. New Harmony, lnd., is one of the offsprings of that doctrioe (expounded also by Robert i!e Oven). Tho whole scheme, however, soon "went to the dog?," leaving a quiet village that is still, I believe, without a church. He makes the race only a mass of slaves. They must work or be put in a cell and live on bread and water. Think of being harnessed to the industrial army and worked till the age of -15. Why, Gtates prison ia hardly patching to it. It would belike taking wild bird, clipping its wings and t.hen fastening it securely in a cage when at the age of 45 it should be freed, it might be able to waddle off but it woul 1 no longbr ba the wild bird with undipped wings, enger for the highest flights. It ia a species of servitude little less repulsive to the independent soul than the sort of bondnga that held the negro to his master in old slavery times. If a man be a slave, what matters it whether ho be slave to an individual, a corporation, or nation? There is much virtue in that word "Nation," and he has worked it for all that it is worth, but it does not alter the fact that it might become as corrupt, in some of its departments as unv government now in existence. Mr. B's stagH-o nch conceit id exceedingly happy, but it is eer that he comes jut eo spick, epan and cl^an after a long nap of a hundred or so year-- his olothiug seeim to havo remained intact,

probably that, too, had been mesmerized. He makes a virtue of the abolition of mon*y, an•' adopting the thousand-mile or meal ticket system.

Tne "card of credit" is, simply, money, and, though he, in various places, tries to impress on the minds of his readers the belief that all share alike, ve find that authors, artists inventors, snd certain other individual receive a royalty for thf-ir goods with a remission of service. Tne successful ones would eoon have a few thousand days' rest, in the shape of "cards of credit" in their pockets in other wordp, they would soon become "bloated bondholders" and be able to live in right royal splendor, or be off, "stranger countries for to see." Yet he leaves us in doubt as to hie full meaning on this score or whether the "cards of credit" are ieeued to the individual at hie birth or upon his entrance into tbB"grand army of the industrious.

We are told the children are nurtured by the nation, but whether they shar9 equally with adults, or only a portion of their cards of credit is alotted to them witness 6aith not. If allowed an equal amount, and the parents, as guardians, had control of it, a nice premium would thus be offered on the rearing of large families. On th9 other hand, the yount men who did not desire to be yoked in matrimony would be called up'm to holo support their neighbor' children. We'll say tha„ one-third of the people are s'ngle and the remainder married, the single men would have to work for the wives and children of those who were married to say that they were supported by the nation would not alter the fact, would that be sharing nlike? If the single men had not the wives and chil dren to h*lp maintain their hours of labor would be considerably less. In the eame way the "nation" builds school houses and educates-the children. Thrnt this may be done single men have t.o put in extra hours of labor. If ail wer*1 married and hud an equal number of children then the mass of workers would come nearer to sharing alike.

Further, he is intensely vague on numerous points he does not reach out and instruct us where most we need insrruction. He makes no effort to inform us how such a at-i of thi ga was or cou'd be brought about he shows us a beautiful airship filled with crowds of happy people, but the art of constructing or sailing the craft he conceals from us. AH it tijate by he points to it and save, how much better it is to travel through the air than over muddy roads. He has simply laid out for the race a eeries of impossibilities. In doing so he has said many cood, many brilliant, and many plausible thinge, and is doubtless in earnest in it all.

His second dream is a fine conception, and a vigorous statement of our present vices. There are serious problems to be solved in the near future, and he has said much that will cause people to think. On page 06 I find they draftany force needed, from any quarter. Further on I find that the idiot gets ju^t aa much as the president of the administrntion. A fine field for an ambitious race! Of course in those days the Giulda and Vanderbilis throw all their roads and money into the general fund, and go to work for their board. I f.incy 1 Bee them complying witn this foundation rule, "Ail must work as common laborers for three years, none are exempt." Oaecan imagine the lovely associates a man would mix with ir the first three years. Then think of Giu'd, and Astor, after being promoted, (•iort of civil service iden.) dressed in uniform and waiting upon the table with scavengers BP iijstp. When a ti-h fans the Gulf Stream into a cake of -ice t.he

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Bellamy system will be in full blast, There is nothing new lb the ides except the fuzzy details. With what coneum mate ease does be metamorphose human nat.ue. If Bellamy is correct Satan will be in a bad wsy. The cause and desire to sin are entirely -removed. If a man happens to do wrong he always 'coofeEses." What a quiet, subdued crowd it ie, to be sure one vast B»B of stagnant contents. Thei only lingering ambition seems to be the wearing for a short time of a "red rib bon." The great law of the "survival of the fittest" applied to Bellamy would disturb his sinless organization the weak in animal or vegetable life must always go down before the strong. If. strikes me if Bellamy had b?en born 2,000 years ago there would haye bjen no necessity for the coming of Christ, or his death on the cross. His birib, like the coining of Christ, was too lone delayed but now that he ia here Christ's second coming wiil be quite useless, as-in 2,000'all will be too goody, goody for anytning.

No doubt be has written his book in all seriousness, but he has ridden his hobby along a very narrow pathway, on a tight rope, so to speak. H-s does not state who was the instigator of tne revolution, or bow it happened that all the wealth belonging to individuals was thrown into the general fund. Neither does he tell us how the happy family sot on with the negroes, Indians, Chinese, etc. He carefully avoides all these elements, he could not handle them. He knew they would not, and could not, mix.

Such theories look well up to a certain pont when they are bound to bring up against some unforeseen obstacle. They all spring from the idea that the globe belongs to the human family that no one can rightfully hold an acre of land because it belongs to the people. That looks plauaible. Now let us apply it to what Mr. Goorge, the no poverty" man, says: "Every man has aright to what ho produces, no more if he takes a stone from a quarry and makes a statue out of it the statue belongs to him, but it does not follow that he owns the quarry." True, neither does it follow that he owns the single stone, that belongs to the people and he had no more right to take that t.han he had to take the entire quarry. Puge371, Mr. B. says: "For the first time in human history the principle of 'sexual selection,' with its tendency to transmit and preserve the better types of the race and let the inferior types drop out has unhindred operation." This oold, busi-ness-like "selection," this e'ock raising idea, is all right enough, and no doubt the proper thing, but it is hard on "Cupid." He is out in the cold entirely his mission was not to select any peculiar stock or brand, but to confuse the judgment of his victim, but now that he is out of the way the "selection" has unhindred operation. Mr. West and the doctor's daughter, strange as it may seem, did not apply the above excellent "principle" to themselves, but feil in love, and got married the good old nineteenth century way. You see, in spile of himself, B^llamv alowg human nature to crop out. Prfje 402: ''The ten commandments became almost obsolete in a world where there was no temptation to theft," etc. It does seem most ungent.lemanly on the part of Mr. B. to expose God'd ignorance in this public manner, ir, it is self-evident, had the Almighty known enouafh he would have given Ms^ B'a system instead of a «tring of laws that must sonn become "obsolete." When an organization can change the laws of rann'd creation it, or Bomn Bellamy, may turn the race into a oneminded ma98. The great central motive that spurs man to action is the desire to

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soar above his neighbor take that away, as B. does, and mankind would gravitate towards the table and become a herd of well-fed pigs. -I admire Mr. West's confidence in Doctor Loete. Of all the inhabitants of the earth in 2,000 the doctor's opinion of the pyetem is sufficient for nim. He does not deem it worth bis while to set the views of any other man. And though he has slept but one hundred years be has never thought to inquire about his ancautoraor the property be left. Neither is it recorded that he speaks to a single soul beyond the doctor's family. Fearing that be may be louked upon as a sponge, be propounds to the doctor the query of what be shall do for a living, stating, "I never earned a dollar in my life, or did an hour's work whereupon the doctor replies, "You will find an historical lectureship in one of our col eges awaiting you," forgetting all about the three years as a "common laborer" rule, to which there was "no exception." B. makes, poverty the worst, when, in fact, as compared to some o'h»r*, it is but a minor evil What of drunkenness, licentiousness, malice, envy, jealousy, and so on? According to B's theory, take away poverty, let men f-el and know tha1 they shall have plenty all their lirep, and all inducements to sin would be swept away, leaving man behind, standing in a halo of moral glory. In other words, an unlimited supply of bread and butter, beef, wine, etc., will destroy jealousy, licentiousness, drunkenness, malice, enw, sanity, and "all the ills that flesh is heir to."

What with .Bellamy and "christian" science, no doubt tbe world will finally be better than heaven itself was ever intended to be. We had b°en under the impression that idleness (B 'e people have much of it dail) is the parent of the above-mentioned vices. Before he places us in so fair a world as he depicts let him root out from the human heart these prime evils. No matter how the external conditions of man may have changed, his nature remains substantially the same now as in the old days. And there be those who, wearing the insignia of Christ and daily, with voioe, praising his name, would call out, as did the Jews of old, to have Him crucified should he appoar in heir midst. How, then, can we expect man to become so reconciled to his brother as to willingly share with him all his earthly possessions, lower himself, ntellectually, financially, and socially, that all may be on an equality, the president with the idiot, eto. And why did not Christ teach that there snould be a eq tare divide? He eought, rather to shun the burden of ichee. And what wonld become of John's Heaven? Were not "these" they who bad come up out of great tribulations? That there should be different types of man and different degrees of development seems as natural ae that there are different animals and various kinds 'f birds, and how is he, if a believer in the Bible, to get around this: "G 'od and evil, created He them." B-Ilamy should go at once as a missionary down into Kentucky and teach hi« doctrine of the "brotherhood of man." They ne-*d it, though it does not appear that poverty was in any sense the cause of the recant horrible butchering down there. Ic was a question of honor, or brute nature. And the temperance ppoDle should make him recant. This ha-d-workiiig class, who have imagined that the millennium was waiting upon the banishment of the liq'ior traffic, will be surprised, and not much encouraged, to ll'id that a new heaven and a new e'irr.h havo been created where "wine and cigars" are essentialf, and in no way detract from the moral atmosphere of the

JUST AS WE PREDICTED

The most successful overcoat sale in the history of the clothing trade in Terre Haute. Our store was packed with bargain seekers from early, morning till late at night, .everybody going away satisfied that_

OUR HALF PRICE SALE

IS EXACTLY AS WE ADVERTISE! Yesterday's overcoat sale being such a grand success we will continue this OVERCOAT SALE ALL THIS WEEK. Everything at half price.

SCHLOSS EXECUTORS' SALE

CORNER FIFTH AND MAIN STREETS.

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plaoe. He fails to post us ai to what he intends to do with the vaet multitudes that under his system would naturally generate. He not only does away with "sickness, sin and" sorrow," but death also, except from old age.

Through all her realms nature sustains an equilibrium in her productions through destruction. Anima's prey upon each other. Man is kept, in subj-ction (*s to numbers) by floods, fires, wars, plagues, famine, sickness, climate, etc., etc. Among B's people there is neither war nor famine, and the doctors are all good and no longer assist to dispose of poor humanity, (scientificially, of course) The support of families is made easy hence all can marry, and contribute their quota to swell the population. On this plan people would soon overrun the earth to such an extent as to turn our uivil:zed races into cannib»lr as tbe result would be universal starvation, Proctor eays, "If from a single pair for 5,000 years each husband and wife married at 21, and there had been nn Wea'hs the population would b9 2 199915, foj.-, lowed by 144 ciphers. In would require to hold this population a number of worlds the size of this, equal to 3.166,526, followed by 12J ciphers." Now if Bellamy and medical science com,bine to check Dame Nature in her course will not the result be as stated? The extreme individualism that he so complains of as being rampant in the nineteenth century is what makes us distinctively human, and the chief thing that stands in the way of the sui-c ss of such a system as he sets forth is human nature itself. There is no individual, no matter how humble, who would exchange his lot for that of another if the act involved the relinquishment of his identity. He talks of energies b^ing wasted in mistaken enterprises, etc. Well, what of that? Of course, in the aggregate it amounts to something, but man is an aspiring creature and likes to struggle for what is difficult to obtain. H-* d-ies not enjoy knowing beforehand ju*t what is going to happen, it is chasing the bauble that gives the greatest pleasure, what though it should burst on touching it, vanish like dead sea apples in our grasp, it looked very bright and beautiful while we were chasing it and we enjoyed the fun. Besides, "it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all," and even the bauble, after all may baas real as anything the value of a thing to us depending, as it does, on the amount of good we can derive from it. He colors and surrounds his picture with an air of dignity, yet nothing is plainer than that, unless human nature should change radically, a people BO situated would linally descend into debaucheries not less repulsive and degrading than those that held the Romans in thralldom during the last, days of the empire. Whenever man bfoomes effeminate and looks merely to the gratification of his material wants, just so soon he degenerates. Better a savage.

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rounded by all the paraphernalia of barbarism than a namby pambv man out of whom this sort of civilization has drenched all courage and manly vitality. To a close student, of him, Mr. Bellamy must appear genuinely iuconsislent.. Yet, notwithstanding this his book is good od for thought, and may, like Robert Elsmere, set some people to thinking on subjects that have not heretofore la:n very close to their hearts. Yours, E.

TETIRE HAUTE, November 27th.

At Midnight.

She (sweetly)—you believe in tbe single tax theory, Gaorge? He (angrily)—Not, by a jugful, especially when it is on the floor, point up, in the night, and I have this blessed kid in my arms.—[American Commercial Traveler.

Opera Glasses. Lockets, Bronze Clocks, Ear Rings, Charms, Silver Spooris, Silverwear, Napkin Rings, Silk Umbrellas, Seal Rings, Gold Head Canes, Bracelets, Onyx Clocks, Gold Spectacles, Gold Pens, Gold Toothpicks.

Everything neWj latest designs, finest quality. All goods warr.-m'-ed exactly as rep.esen'.ed. My holiday stock is now complete and ready for inspection. Prices guaranteed to bs the lowest.

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TALK ABOUT THE TROTTERS.

Ten thousand dollars has been refused for Prince Hal, 2:l6}£. Keokpe, by Ambassador. 2:21}^, has reduced her record to 2:21V(.

Mr. Henry Deming will driveMerreles 2:273^. on the road this winter. The Chicago Horseman is running a good editorial on the celebrated orood mares.

The Turf, Field and Farm will in this week's issue commence a continued article on "How to train the trotter."

Mr. Samuel McKeen last week sent L-icy Thonje and Lr»dy Almont to Glenarvnn farm, Liaxmgton, Ky., to be bred to Wilkes ^y.

Work on Axtell'a stable has been delayed by the inclement weather, and it will be three or four weeksb efore it will be in readiness fur him. js

Johnny Dickersnn put seventeen performers in the 2:30 li-»t this year besides reducing the record of all others he handled. Johnny, is "training oa" somewhat himself.

The wisdom displayed by Mr. Anton Ilulmnn in his first, purchase shows that he will be quite an acquisition lo the breeding interests of Vigo county. The best is n»ne too go d.

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Wnlnut Grove und Wabash farms are going into the winter in good shape. O ir ^breeders do not believe in the starving and rustling theory.

Julius Goldberg, Weissensee, Germany, has invented a paper horseshoe which, it is claimed, expands with the atural motion of the hoof, does not get brittle nor wear smooth. These all are adrantages not possessed by shoes made of iron.

Bulwer, formerly owned by H. M. -•eler, Cambridge Citv, Iod., has been ringing in the E IS'. He will, however, not be very dangerous. While bis record is near 20, his desire to "sit down" when pinched will prevent his got ing the money.

Butterfly, 2:19^4. by Young Jim, dam Tansy by G-*orge Wilkes, the Kentucky Stock Farm says, will be bred to Axtell. This is inbreeding with a vengeanre, but as it is all trotting instinct, the results will be a trotter, and ODO that will outthoroughbred the thoroughbreds in courage, Bnd have no "rata in the garret."

Gso. Wilkes is sire of seventy-one trotters and seven pacers, which have records of 2:30 or better. Forty-five of his sons are sires of one hundred and eight,y2:30 performers. Twenty-one of his daughters

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of his grandsons and six of his granddaughters. No thoroughbred foolishness there.

The nice condition in which the Mo-K-en aud Hulman purchases Brrived from New York stsle, being on the cars four dayo nnd nights, is a tribute to John Jackson's thorough judgment in th« care of horses. There were no bad f'fff'Cts in bringing the stock from the mountuins to our somewhat less rigerous climate.

Turf, Fi^ld and Farm: As we jog along lot. n5 keep thes9 facts before us: Guy 2:10?4« Axtell, three-years old record, 2:12,'Belle Hamlin 2:12^4, Nelson, etal lion record. 2:14, and Prince Regent, the bull-dog of four-years-olds, all eensa-# t.ional performers in 18S9, were reared in 'h enowy winter of the north. Not, one of them ever had the benefits of the climate of California. The lesson to be drawn from this grouping is thn' a mild winter is not necessary to the development of a high rate of speed. Cnam^ion

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trotters are bred east as well as west of the Rcky "intains. MaudS, whose record of 2:0S?£ has kept her on the throne for so many years, never breathed the air of the Pacific coast.

Kentuckv Stock Farm: W. R. Allen, Pittsfield, Mass., has been pa\ing a visit to the breeding farms of California, and also t-nking a look nt the seven mares and fillies which he bought from Wjil-nm Corbett last spring, at a cost of 560,(00. is particularly well pleased uh his put-chase, although they were taken unseen, and he will ship them Eist in a few days.

The good mare Lottie W., 2:23, by Clark Chieftain, will naes into the possession of Rndd Doble. Consideration said to be $3,000. The sale is conditional to the recovery a "game" leg. The mare was timer! in a race at Lexington this fall in 2:1

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not been in the oe-tof hands, and should ble get her she will be a great mare in her class.

Mr. Samuel Gamble has returned to California with a car 1 md brood mar^s purchased on this side of the mountains. We no'ic* that h- did not, pick them up at Brighton BeBcb, Guttenberg or other resorts for cast of thoroughoreds, but secured those bred in trotting lines. Here is one California brefder that, is not going to depend on frnaks for trotters, but is going to breed for them.

Mr. D. P. Cox hss constructed a sick stall at More Park, which proved of great benefit during the recent attack of distemoer on Mr. B. Cox's Nutwood Red Wilke's Jcolt.- The room isso built thar, while perfect ventilation is given from an air shaft leading to the roof nnd a side ventilation, yet. there is no direct. drBUght on the animal. om an adjoining room S'iffic'ent heat is given'o take tff the chill. Dr. Know'es pronounces it the best debignt-d invalid stall in the state.

N-»w York Spirit of The Times: W. Ijamo, the popultr president of the Terre iute driving park association, was in N-w York last, we-k anri gave us a friendly call. Mr Ij irns is one of the syndicate which bought, Axtell, 2:12, and the famous you'g stallion has a superb s'able specially limit for him at Warren Park, Mr. Ijnmb' stock farm. He is n'so the owner of Jers Wilkes, one of the handsomest^

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Wilkee. He reported the stock in first class condition and is cor fi lent that Axtell will lower his mark next year.

With the low prices for corn, wheat and cattle our farmers are having a very bard row to hoe, and to keep even is the queetion of the hour. Breed more horses. A good horse always has a value. It costs no more to raise a colt than it does a steer. A colt is worth on tbe market three times what a steer will bring. Do not.mean that every farmer shall get a sulky and commerce "honing" trotter. Ij»ave that to those who can afford it. Breed for tbe general purpose horse. Tbe oue that is secured by judicious breeding ou the trotter.

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