Might Is Right
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From whatever side we view him, the average hireling is a shameless contemptible being. He cannot be classified among “men,” any more than a capon can be classified as a gamecock. Continuous drudgery stiffens his body — ossifies both his hand and brain — makes him an idiot in fact. Even when women (indulgent though they be) regard him as a disdainful object, incapable of either great thoughts, great deeds, or of providing them with a home. Hirelings are nearly always on the verge of pauperdom — always praying, howling, and weeping before their taskmasters, crying out with a loud voice like spoilt babies, “O don’t hurt us — don’t hurt us — we are so ‘good’ — so law-abiding — we love Jesus so!” Capitalists, kings, and presidents never take these servile hounds into consideration — nor do sensible women. In grand affairs hirelings are merely inventoried as so much raw material or so many head of cattle; and in sexual affairs, they must of necessity, mate themselves with second-rate women — who cannot possibly find anything more to their taste.
What woman in her senses desires to be a breeder of drudges, lunatics, and sans-cullotes?
The very idea of “Labor” is in chains and yokes. There is no dignity in a bent back — no glory in a perspiring brow — no honor in greasy copper-riveted rags. There is nothing very delectable in picks, shovels, and calloused paws. ‘Dignity of Labor!’ — Dignity of hell!
What is grand in a horny hand?
What is free in a bended knee?
What is brave in a pauper grave?
What is bold in a lack of gold?
O ye generations of Christ-deluded imbeciles! Ye swarms of moonstruck meeklings! Ye burnt out cinders of men! — ye bleeding lambs! One day! One day! ye shall be flung to the lions! Behold! I spit upon your Idols — your Opinions. Now would I pour molten hell through the ventricles of your soul.
“O wretched minds of men! O blind hearts! not to see in what darkness of life, and in what dangers, is spent this little term of human existence.
For as children are frightened of fancied objects in the gloom, so we in broad daylight, often fear what deserves no more to be feared, than the shadows the children dread in the dark, and fancy they must exist.”
END OF BOOK I
P.S. Book II will be issued when circumstances demand it.
CHAPTER VI: THE LOGIC OF TO-DAY
Might was Right when Caesar bled
upon the stones of Rome,
Might was Right when Joshua led
his hordes o’er Jordan ’s foam,
And Might was Right when German troops
poured down through Paris gay;
It’s the Gospel of the Ancient World
and the Logic of To-day.
Behind all Kings and Presidents —
all government and law,
Are army-corps and cannoneers —
to hold the world in awe.
And sword-strong races own the earth
and ride the Conqueror’s Car —
And Liberty has ne’er been won
except by deeds of war.
What are the lords of horded gold —
the silent Semite rings?
What are the plunder patriots —
high pontiffs, priests and kings?
What are they but bold master-minds,
best fitted for the fray
Who comprehend and vanquish by —
the Logic of To-day.
Cain’s knotted club is scepter still —
the “Rights of Man” is fraud.
Christ’s Ethics are for creeping things —
true manhood smiles at “God”.
For Might is Right when empires sink
in storms of steel and flame;
And it is right when weakling breeds —
are hunted down like game.
Then what’s the use of dreaming dreams,
that each shall “get his own”
By forceless votes of meek-eyed thralls,
who blindly sweat and moan?
No! A curse is on their cankered brains —
their very bones decay:
Go! Trace your fate in the Iron Game,
is the Logic of To-day.
The strong must ever rule the weak,
is grim Primordial Law —
On earth’s broad racial threshing floor,
the meek are beaten straw —
Then ride to power o’er foemen’s necks
let nothing bar your way:
If you are fit you’ll Rule and Reign,
is the Logic of To-day.
You must prove your Right by deeds of Might
of splendor and renown.
If need-be march through flames of hell,
to dash opponents down.
If need-be die on scaffolds high —
in the morning’s misty gray.
For “Liberty or Death” is still
the Logic of To-day.
Might was Right when Gideon led
the “chosen” tribes of old,
And it was right when Titus burnt,
their temple roofed with gold:
And Might was Right from Bunker’s Hill,
to far Manila Bay,
By land and flood it’s wrote in blood —
the Gospel of To-day.
“Put not your trust in princes”
is a saying old and true,
“Put not your hope in governments”
translateth it anew.
All “Books of Law” and “Golden Rules”
are fashioned to betray:
“The Survival of the Strongest”
is the Gospel of To-day.
Might was Right when Carthage flames
lit up the Punic foam —
And — when the naked steel of Gaul
weighed down the spoil of Rome;
And Might was Right when Richmond fell —
and at Thermopayle —
It’s the logic of the Ancient World —
and the Gospel of To-day.
Where pendant suns in millions swing,
around this whirling earth,
It’s Might, it’s Force that holds the brakes,
and steers through life and death:
Force governs all organic life,
inspires all Right and Wrong.
It’s natures plan to weed-out man
and test who are the strong.
The Higher Law
From Sandy Hook to London tower
From Jaffa to Japan,
They can take who have the power
They may keep who can.
This is the law of Heaven and Hell
Stupendous and divine
The highest, holiest law of all
That governs “mine and thine.”
The law it is of Sun and Star,
Of President and Pope —
It is “the prisoner at the bar”
The gallows and the rope.
It is the lawyer and his fee;
The shearer and his sheep —
The eagle soaring swift and free;
The dreadnaught on the deep.
It is the Bond; it is the Loan —
The profit and the loss —
The usurer on his Bullion Throne —
The Idol of the Cross.
It is the Goth; it is the Hun —
The tyrant and his prey,
And flame and saber, club and gun;
O, taxes that we pay!
It is the law of all the climes,
And all the things to be;
And all the bold tremendous times
That you and I shall see.
From Sandy Hook to London tower,
From Greenland to Japan —
They will take who have the Power
And they may keep who can.”
— Redbeard’s Review
Pax Vobiscum
Fill high your vaults with booty,
Bid evolution cease,
And chant Belzchazzar’s ant
hem —
“O, Baal preserve the peace.”
Примечания
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Ancient Norse Saga
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These terms are used in the strict Darwinian sense.
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"The ethics of Socialism are identical with the teachings of Christianity." Encyclopedia Brittanica.
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Walt Whitman's "Ode to Death."
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A mythical airy being who roams about Eternity manufacturing Things out of No-Things — A fable.
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"Have we not shown that Government is essentially immoral?" — Herbert Spencer
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Mayhap, Franklin (who had a comic vein), wrote them as grinning jokes. By the way every signature, attached thereto, represents a slave-holding, slave-trading constituency. All the colonies traded in niggers.
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Isben
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"The brave man may fail sometimes, but the coward fails always." Angelo Mosso.
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When the Roman Empire was tottering to its fall, the worship of the State was an established cult: just as it is to-day. Better to adore blocks of wood or stone, than to bow our hearts, our heads and our knees, before those troops of Unclean Beasts — Politicians!
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"Man has a right to subsistence", wrote Thomas Paine. «Yes» replied an observant reader, "he has a right to live one thousand years, IF HE CAN." It is not a problem of Right but of Ability & Strength.
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P. Luftig. — «Bulletin», Australia.
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"Taunts and blows the portion of the slave." Macauley.
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Henrick Ibsen. - Adapted in the translating.
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St. james Gazette, Т96 cablegram from Mashonaland.
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"To nuptial bower he LED her, blushing like the morn."
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Admiral Walker, U.S.N., in Forum, Dec., 1896.
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"All wounded in front; not a man taken alive; Catiline himself gasping out his life, ringed round with corpses of his foemen." — Sallust.
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"The muzzles of the repeating rifles pointing at their heads, had a quieting effect on the miners"; daily paper.
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Latin root-word of servant. Applied indiscriminately to mules, eunuchs, slaves, philosophers, historians, scribes, prisoners-of-war and working-cattle generally.
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Henry lawson. Angus & Robertson, Melb. Australia.
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M. Anatole L. Beaulieu, Revue dex deux mondes Т96
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Wilson, Financial Editor, Investors Review, Lond.
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Emperor Napoleon the First — Quoted by Presense.
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"The Hireling and the Slave" — W.J. Grayson, 1856.
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