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cludes only sufficient truth to render it plausible. An inspection of human character and environment betrays the fallacy. This man is shrewd and industrious, that man, stupid and thriftless. This man is deterred from labor by disease and accident; that man is advanced to riches by health and good fortune. This man maintains a large and expensive family; that one supports himself alone. This man develops and utilizes all his powers; that one wastes his life in indolence and sloth. Condition will eventually respond to character and culture. For, inequality of ability produces inequality of attainment. Furthermore, the theory is impracticable because not all occupations are equal either in duties exacted or interests involved. The difficulty and general utility of any employment determine the remuneration of its followers. An inmate sense of justice claims premium for superiority.
But a doctrine declared false by history and by reason demands fertility in expedients. The charm in the discovery of this Elysium must not be broken by the cold logic of facts. Seeing that their empire of equality is not yet established, the upholders of this theory suggest an annual re-distribution. This plan would destroy all incentive to labor. No man would distribute the fruits of his honest toil among the idle and vicious. Ardor of enterprise would no longer characterize our commercial system. For commerce admits of but one equality—that of honest competition. Human nature presents an insuperable barrier to the progress of this reform. Is it eagerness to uplift humanity that has led to this idea of a division of wealth? Is it the fancied ignominy of poverty that has stirred hearts to their depth, and incited the promulgation of this view? Or is it malicious envy that has overcome the instincts of the nobler self and demanded wealth that has been gained by the sweat of others' brows? Whatever the motive, the result is invariably the same. Although these pretended reforms have been rendered attractive by rhetoric beauty; although powers of vivid description have presented the moral and social advantages of this glittering empire; yet common sense the preventive of continual revolution, has overcome its flashy rival and fancy has surrendered to practical truth. The deceptive currents of imaginaion have whirled men into this channel "of appearance where naught but fallacy reigneth." Enthusiasm, unfounded and unbounded, has caused bold statement, reckless conspiracy and desperate attack against existing institutions. The scaffold and the guillotine have changed imaginary into real ignominy; centuries will not obliterate the sad memorials of man's folly. The hopeless experiment has merely displayed the monumental ignorance of those who detest, denounce, defy the Providential order. The tempest of impulse is at last stilled under the calming influence of cool judgment.
He who properly respects himself, now asks nothing more than a hearty recognition of his manhood. Men wisely conclude that a ship with a nobler device upon her streaming banner will never plough the waves of the dark and dreary social sea.
We study mankind by comparison and by contrast. We begin by discovering resemblances and end by contemplating diversities of character. This fact is conspicuously illustrated in our own America. The profound German, the vivacious Frenchman, the strong-minded Euglishman, the witty Irishman and the honest Scotchman—all have contributed to the composition of the national character. Every American audience is a world of miniature. Often in the veins of one person flows mingled the blood of the five great races. The qualities that distinguish men and those that distinguish nations combine to produce inequality in human endowments and acquirements. This inequality is as prophetic as it is historic. In one there burn fires of sparkling imagination; in another there surge powers of resistless argumentation. In one there glows the genius for music or art; in another, the genius for invention or handicraft. Whence arises this state of inequality? Equalize conditions, it is said, and you will equalize character. The answer is—condition is rather the product of character. The true, divine philosophy of inequality is bound in the fact that the varieties of opportunity or individual activity and the interaction of diversified talents supply the only conditions under which human progresss is possible. Behold now the results of that innovation which establishes equality among men. Let a capable power issue this decree—All men shall be equal. There shall be no poor, no rich; no weak, no strong; no ignorant, no learned. What would result? The outcome would be the creation of individual independence. No one can be dependent upon his equal. In fact the extent of our dependence upon any one is determined by his relation to us and by his superior power and means. Our dependence upon the infinite is, therefore, absolute. Independence among men gives rise to universal brotherhood. Establish equality and you sweep away influence, the grandest agency in the world's amelioration. Influence implies inferiority. One cannot influence him who is in all respects his equal. Upon this condition friendship's foundation is laid. Love is the result of the soul's influence. Not even this divine principle could exist under the dominion of equality. Ordain independence and you destroy sympathy. There could be no excitent of sympathy if there were no inequality of suffering and hardship. The breaking of this golden band would mark the dawn of an era of supreme selfishness and stoicism. Equality would expel from the minds of men all thought of laudable enterprise; for under its reign there could be no greatness. No name would shine with the lustre of renown. No heart would thrill under the commanding influence of any historic character. Providence being merely general, there could be no men whose marked genius and splendid service in times of emergency seem to indicate providential dealing. The regime of equality would annihilate many practical moral virtues; for the possibility of evil gives to righteousness the coronal glory. If there were no penury, no pain, what would become of fortitude, patience, resignation? If there were no greatness, no wealth, what would become of benevolence, charity, human pity? If there were no luxury what would become of temperance? If there were no power what would become of justice? Under the proposed system hearts could never prove their sterling coinage. The withering breeze of selfishness would blast forever pure generosity, noble self-denial and heroic devotion. Under the present system the surface of character may seem chilled by worldly cares, or etiquette may cultivate the art of pleasing, yet the warmth of human sympathy lives in the depths of the coldest heart and at times the dormant fires blaze forth and betray the sympathetic nature
The perversion of the principle of inequality arouses opposition to the principle itself. It may be said that inequality necessitates power and that power is often misapplied. True it is that "Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn." But equally true it is that gravitation ceases not her operation even when life is imperilled.
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Ah! True it is that power is not always indicative of merit. True it is that misguided power has baffled reform, prevented education, neutralized morality, stifled conscience, silenced the pleading tones of religion and given fearful force to ignorance and vice. Yet let it be remembered that power, although the father, is yet the conquerer, of persecution. For when the legions of evil have been routed and the emblems of victory have graced the banners of right, then have been aroused the energies of strong souls and power has become the ally of truth.
What, then, is the proper deduction from the existence of inequality Not that any man should be enslaved, but rather that all men should be free to exercise those "inalienable rights" to which nature entitles them. Plato may write of the model *Republic*, Moore may find in "Utopia," a political and social paradise; Bacon may describe a "New Atlantis"—but society will never be regenerated until the dawn of the joyous morn when the heralds of peace shall proclaim the universal equality, rot of accident, nor of artificial conditions, but of moral privilege and of enlightened conscience and shall announce as the criterion of every man's conduct
"To thine own self be true,
And it must follow as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
These moonlight nights are just the time for boating, take your best girl up the river in one of G. A Graeber's boats.
All the dailies for sale at Smith's.
Bromelsick sells ties as cheap as any body.
Andy Reed gives twenty baths for $2.
Daily and weekly papers and monthly magazines at Smith's.
Smith has light rattan canes fo 25 cents.
Smith keeps the finest line of ball goods in the city.
Oh! go and see Bromelsick's new spring hats.
For fine straw hats call on Abe Levy.
Graeber has steam boats, sail boats, or row boats.
The purest and best is our motto.
We have soaps that merit your approval at Raymond & Dick's.
Go and see Bromelsick's new stock of party shirts.
Andy Reed gives you a good shave and also a chance to draw a diamond ring, a gold watch, or a sil ver headed cane.
Sun umbrellas at Abe Levy's.
Go to Smith's news depot for your choice cigars and tobacco.
Go to the Delmonico for a good meal.
Nice summer underwear at Abe Lovy's.
Bromelsick has the nobby line of hats.
The best assortment of straw hats can be found at Abe Levy's.
Boating is one of the most healthful exercises that has been found. G.A.Graeber has good,safe boats to hire.
Scott's Electric Ideal and Langtry Hair Curlers at Raymond & Dick's.
Cummer underwear is in demand at Abe Levy's.
Clara Louise Lellogg will be here on Thursday, May 23, at Bowrrsock's opera house.
Bromelsick keeps the most delicate tinted flannel shirts, as well as darker ones.
If you are lazy get a sail boat, if you need exercise get a row boat of G. A. Graeber.
Get a good shave and hair cut at Andy Reed's.
Nice summer flannel shirts at Abe Levy's.
Patronize those who patronize the college papers. Smith is one of these and he has everything for sale that is kept in a first class news depot.
Andy Reed gives the best shaves of any man in town.
If you want a new hat procure it of Bromelsick.
Weidemann has on hand all of the delicacies of the season.
Abe Levy says he is selling straw hats very cheap.
The Delmonico is making the boss ice cream. Try a dish.
Bromelsick can fit you out with a hat of the latest style.
Buy your new spring bonnet of Mrs, Orme & Engle.
Abe Levy can show you an elegant line of straw hats.
Chris Epley has a cow that has the chills and is going to give milk shake all the summer.
Go to Bromelsick's for your fine shirts and party ties.
Bromelsick has the agency for Coon & Co.'s celebrated Collars and Cuffs.
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Lawrence, Kan.
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Topeka, Kan.
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Lawrence, Kan.
Base Ball.
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THE AXLE TREE BAT IS THE BEST. FIELD & HARGIS HAVE THEM.
MRS. ORME & ENGLE,
Proprietors of the
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Dealers in all kinds of Millinery Goods. The latest fashions always on hand. Student's patronage cordially solicited and carefully attended to.
Willis,
DALEE'S PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY
South Tennessee Street,
First Class Work Done
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Special Rates to Students.
I have the handsomest, the best selected stock of Sultings Pant Goods &c., that has ever been seen in Lawrence.
McCONNELL.
The Merchant Tailor.
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