348 ANNUAL REPORT 



Thus it always has been, the order of society ever the same, and with 

 that order the results could not be otherwise, and it now devolves on us 

 to say what shall be the future, whether the waste of luxuries and of 

 morals shall go on, or that waste stop, and more and better be given to 

 the full of all needs. 



Certain nothing less will do if we would have true civilization advance. 

 Individual persons and individual nations have made strides forward, but, 

 in the process of time their standstill surroundings drew them back 

 again. A snake may stretch, but can't advance without bringing up its 

 tail, and so with the human race, so nearly onf , that no one can be left 

 out in a successful forward march. 



The whole planetary system moves in harmony, the motion of each 

 helping to move the others, and to knock one out would be to throw the 

 whole into one mass of ruin, and so runs the history of mankind — a 

 lesson a thousand times taught but never heeded, the tumblings and 

 bumpings going on as heedless as if ruin never had befallen men or 

 nations. Philanthropists have dotted all ages, but ever too unpopular to 

 sway the masses, it is creeds that have swayed and run the world, all 

 closely akin, each grasped for power, each swayed a bloody sceptre, each 

 rose as crushed victims were piled beneath them, and each fell as the 

 rotten mass swallowed them up, and to-day the rotten mass is an open- 

 mouthed vault, and its prey certain. 



The Arab was first that we have data, to mount the fast horse, and with 

 songs and prayers and great zeal, has rode down a few ages ahead of us, 

 but as fast as speed can carry, with the same routine we, as a nation, are 

 after him, with a supply of whiskey and tobacco that will carry us below 

 and beyond where any depravity of his could damn him, and all that can 

 save us is a firm stand on a true moral, that to be prosperous is to be at 

 peace, and to be at peace is to have the needs of all supplied, the goodly 

 things grown in profusion, every available roadside should be set with 

 fruit bearing trees and vines, free for all to gather and eat. To civilize 

 we must make the waste places glad, the deserts to bloom, with none to 

 molest or make afraid— each enjoying the fruits of his own labor. 



But why the world is where it is, is evident, desolating zealots have 

 dotted all ages with their ruin, and desolate it yet, the most oppressive 

 rule at this age being that of Great Britain in her conquered provinces, 

 breeding famine and pestilence, twice set cholera over the world, and a 

 third time in motion, to ruin again wherever debauchery and poverty 

 f urnisn victims. 



To-day Great Britain is a fast horse nation, all else stands still to see 

 the Derby races and as zealously pious as is the Arab, and as with the 

 Arab, where'er she rides, war, pestilence, famine and death follow in her 

 wake, with the point of the sword she stuffs her religion down tender 

 stomachs, at the cannon's mouth, opium and rum included, with the 

 Bible on top to keep all down, and as a natural result where'er she lets 

 off loading the land puffs with pride, groans oppression, and sinks with 



