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Chancellor MacLean.
Judge Dundy continued to the May
term all the criminal cases not other
wise disposed of.beforo the federal court
commenced its session in this city. So
I did not answer before Judge Shiras
this week to the charge of "impeding
the course of justice." Prior to this
Judge Dundy dismissed the order re-
quiring me to show cause why I should
not be attached for contempt. At the
outsot Judge Dundy was for packing
me off for Sioux Falls forthwith. Tho
extension of the tinio during which I
may enjoy equal privileges with Mr. Out
calt as a free man, is, it is needless to
Bay, most warmly appreciated.
THE EDITOR.
In the January Nineteenth Century
there appears by far the strongest maga
zine article of the month, "The Ugli
ness of Modern Life," by Ouida. The
article is marked by pessimism and even
hopelessness, but it is the pessimism
and hopelessness of a stern reality. It
draws vivid contrast between the life of
man today, and the lifo of man in other
ages. It shows him today as a mere
peg in an immense machine. the ma
chine of commercialism, of money-getting.
It tells how men, thousands and
millions of them live and eat and sleep
and die and nothing more. How they
live pent up in great ugly tenement
houses, with no sight of the clear sky
and green fields of smiling nature. It
tells how all aestheticism, all beauty,
all soul iB being bartered for a mess of
pottage, for pounds and shillings and
dollars and cents. It recites the hope
lessness, the slavery of the workman's
life, and tells of the tightening bands
which year by year bind him closer to
a life of subjugation.
All this it contrasts with the beauty
and color and animation. with the
naturalness, of mediaeval and ancient
life. It tells of wayside shrines and
bands of pilgrims, of spinning wheels
and oaken chests, of the cobbler sit
ting placidly in his doorway, independ
ent and free, in the glad sunlight com
muning with nature and loving the
world, all gone, and forgotten. Gone,
and replaced by the ugliness and hope
lessness of today.
I quote from the closing paragraphs:
"Is the end worth the means?
"Is modern trade in truth such a god
head descended on earth that all the
loveliness of earth and air, of sky and
water, should be sacrificed to its de
mands? "We hear ad nauseam of tho gains of
modern life, of what is called civiliza
tion; does no one count its costs?
It might bo well to do so.
It might act as a corrective to the inane
self worship which is at once the most
ill-founded and the most irritating fea
ture of the age. Perhaps other ages
have in turn adored themselves in like
manner, but thare iB not in history any
record of it. Its prophets, heroes, sages,
each age has either admired or exe
crated; but 1 do not think any age has
eo admired itself as the present age,
which has its prototype in William of
Germany standing between two sand
banks, and thinking himself greater
than Alexander because his engineers
have succeeded in cutting for him a
ditch longer than usual
"Every invention of what is called
science takes the human race further
and further from nature, nearer and
nearer to an artificial, unnatural and
dependent state,
"One seems to hear the laugh of
Goethe's Mephistopheles behind the
hi?s of steam, and in the tinkle of the
electric bell there lurks the chuckle of
glee with which he sees the human
fools take as a boon and a triumph the
fatal gifts he has given.
"What shall it profit a man if he gain
the whole world and lose his own soul?
What shall it profit the world to put a
girdle about its loins in forty minutes
when it shall have become
a desert of stone, a wilderness
of streets, a treeless waste, a song
less city, where man shall have
destroyed all life except his own, and
can hear no echo of his heart's pulsa
tion Eave in the throb of an iron piston.
"Tho engine tearing through thd dis
embowelled mountain, the iron and
steel houses towering against a polluted
sky, the hugo cylinders generating elec
tricity and gas, the network of wires
cutting across the poisoned air, the
overgrown city spreading like ascurvey,
devouring every green thing liko locusts
haste instead of leisure, miasma in
stead of health, mania instead of san
ity egotism and terror instead of cour
age and generosity, these are tho gifts
which the modern mind creates for the
world. It can chemically imitate every
kind of food and drink, it can artifically
produce every form of disease and suf
fering, it can carry death in a needlo
and annihilation in an odor, it can
cross an ocean in five days, it can im
prison the human voice in a box, it can
make a dead man speak from a paper
cylinder, it can transmit thoughts over
hundreds of miles of wire, it can turn a
handle and discharge scores of death
dealing tubes at one moment as easily
as a child can play a tune on a barrel
organ, it can pack death and horror up
in a small tin can which has served for
sardines or spotted herrings, and leave
it on a window sill, and cause by it
towers to fall and palaces to crumble,
and flames to leap up to heaven, and liv
ing men to change into calcined corpses;
all this it can do and much more. But
it cannot give back to the earth or to
the soul 'the sweet mild freshness of the
morning.' "'
In all of this, despite its pessimism,
there is food for wholesome thought.
For it is true. And more than that,
for all its horrors, it tells but a half
truth. It tells of loss of beauty and
loss of independence, but it only hints
of the awfulness of physical and
moral degeneration. It does not
tell how the festering evils
which were formerly but the
trade marks of "nobility" Heaven save
the mark! are today the common traits
of the common people. It does not more
than mention the spreadand awf ulgrowth
of scrofula and of that which is worse
and more shameful by far than scrofula.
The horrors of madness, paresis, steadily
growing, are but hinted at. The awful
sickening decline of manly strength
and vigor and of womanly fitness, the
"Mene-Tekel, Upharsin" scrawled on
the walls of humanity's Temple of Hope,
of this the article tells but little.
And of moral degeneration, worse
even than physical, because its cause,
more is hinted than said. Yet a sentence
tells it all. The purity which was once
the portion of young manhood is lost
and gone. All the imps of hell and
infamy are sapping the vigor and de
stoying the manhood of the future,
and in Lincoln, as well as elsewhere
they pay the people, or the people's
representatives for the privilege. Judas,
who sold his Saviour for thirty pieces
of silver and then had the good grace to
hang himself, was pure in the sight of
God when compared to the people of
today who sell their children's purity
and moral character and utilize the
proceeds to teach drawing and the mul
tiplication table. "Whit shall it profit
a man if ho gain the wholo world, and
lose his own soul."
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