Nebraska Newspapers

    HARRISON PRESS-JOURNAL
CEO. D
HARRISON,
CANON. Editor.
- NEBRASKA
NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES.
The spring term at Doane culks
peaed.
ha
Work has been begun on the
depot to be erected at Waterloo.
Judge Brandon, who resided at Te
cusnaeh for many years. Is dead.
The Niobrara presbytery held its thlr.
tieth annual session at O'Neill.
la a runaway at Ainsworth George
small boy, had bis arm broken.
The recent rainy weather has done
wonders for crops throughout the
Mate.
The congregation of the Methodist
huxch at Humboldt raised $10J for In
dia's famine sufferers.
George Kendriek, proprietor of the
atendrick hotel at Odell, died of neu
ralgia of the heart.
The Union Pacific surveying gang is
t Chapman laying out the , double
track to be built this spring.
SHUTDOWN
ACTION OF AMERICAN STEEL &.
WIRE COMPANY.
METHODS OF A TRUST.
I Estimated That the Loss to the
Workmen Will Reach the Sum
of $1 10,000 a Week.
The supreme court has declared un
anatitutional the free high school law
by the last legislature.
Mr. Caroline A. Woodruff, aged S2,
Who has lived in Nebraska since 186a,
fct dat Tecumseh of old age.
The republicans of Brown county met
at Long Pine and selected delegates to
Uks state and district conventions.
A new paper has been started in
Owmsburg. It will be called tb
Stroma burg Journal and will be repub-
la politics.
special election was held at Mad
easa to decide the question of issuing
CM bonds for a new school house.
'She hoods were defeated.
City has raised $180 for the
people of India. The amount
Jill he invested in corn which, will bt
from New York.
"The large barn of Matthias Lund,
tear miles southwest of Fort Calhoun,
"san struck by lightning Wednesday
'Xagbt. aad burned down. Insurance, JiOO.
evening a fire broke out if
that composing room of the office 01
the Osceola Independent. A type casi
"was ruined and the floor burned thro'
The whoie loss was about
Word has been received in Nebraski
f the killing- of Miss Jennie Palmer is
Wisconsin while out riding. She waj
sue of the best known and most pop
alar school teachers of Cass county.
Oovernor Poynter has been In Sal'
Lake City attending the meeting 01
western governors who were consider
hag the matter of the disposition of arid
tad semi-arid lands.
The Plattsdeutscher Vereln. whlct
was organized at Gretna about threr
Months ago, expects to have a big
time about May 5. The occasion will
he to celebrate the arrival of the $111
banner which was ordered some tlux
Co. Neighboring societies will be invited.
Cabela Y Semin, the general mer
chandise firm at Brainard, has dissolv
ed partnership. Mr. Semin succeeds the
eld firm. Ma. Cabela will at once erect
h brick building and open up with a
aew stock of merchandise. This means
three new brick buildings for .Brain
ard this spring.
Johnnie Bleck, .15 years old, son ot
Martin Bleck, who lives eight miles
worth of Axtell. was wounded by the
accidental discharge of a shotgun. He
1 out herding cattle and had the gun
with goose shot near him. In
way he caused the gun to be dis
charged, tearing away the muscles of
the forearm and Injuring the bone.
The parents of Ture Sutton, a 18
year-old girl of Nebraska City, are
greatly alarmed over her mysterious
fit tun Iran ce from home several days
go. No trace of her can be found by
Ver parents or the police. The police
sure Inclined to believe that she has
litn a young stranger, with
she recently became Infatuated.
ejaeation of establishing an elec
tric light plant for lighting the city,
the plant to be operated in connection
jrtth the city water works, was con-
it the council meeting at Grand
The majority of the council and
yor are favorable to the project, and
thai amsuuit seems good for Grand Isl
and to he lighted by Its own electric
tight plant at no distant day.
Bmm Omaha
Chamberlain, aged 17 years,
M at Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Chamber
asn, and George Murphy, aged 12, sun
t I. P. Murphy, both of Stanton, left
h limes during the rain Monday
far parts unknown. Both were
ey and clothing except
they wore. They were seen In
on Tuesday. They had
aad 00 reason Is known for
It Is supposed the older
the younger one away.
sbsstousky of Brainard, while
stepped inside of Bpahl't
He baa only got Inside the
he fell to the floor. Dr.
called and was at hi side
t eould do nothing, as he
hastaatly. The doctor pro-
It heart disss. He was a
af the Modern Woodmen of
mm Bohemia lodge. In the
r mmm la -- a aoMr af St at ---
:'. UC MMr Ifo toavea a wife
CM mall children.
Chicago, III., April 24 A day or two
go the American Steel and Wire com
pany, a trust which has made its ex
actions felt most cruelly by farmers
who have to make much use of Its
product for fencing, issued a peremp
tory order closing down twelve of its
mills sitlated in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio
and Pennsylvania. At the headquarters
Of the Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers In Pitts
burg, it was estimated that the lima tn
workingmen would aggregate about
1110,000 a week. The Chicago Times
Herald a staunch republican newspa
per, gathered reports from the mill
towns themselves, which indicate that
about 6.K0 men were thrown out of
employment and a loss of JiS.WO In
w&etes each week is Incurred. Colonel
John W. Lambert, one of the directing
officials of the trust, explained the shut
iown with the characteristic insolenci
ind brutality of the typical trust mag
nate, thus: "Our company Is running
its business without any need of ex
plaining. We shut down and open our
mills when we see fit."
No well regulated mind nor any con-
iclence not completely ossified by per
iistent pursuit of money-making to
!he exclusion of all other ideals, will
for a moment accept the theory that
1 business which employs nearly 7,000
men, a business upon the continuance
it which the livelihood of probably $5,
00 people is Immediately dependent, is
the sole concern of a few Individuals
who, by methods familiar to corpora-
ion managers, have seized upon its
control. The people as a whole have
lome rights in these premises. The na-
Uon cannot honestly remain silent and
lupine while the domination of a cor
poration over the lives and happiness
)f a great body of Industrious men and
heir dependents is thus wantonly and
irutally abused. In this specific case
lifferent explanations are given for the
shut-down. It Is said that it was caus
sd by overproduction, but that la a He
'or all through the went farmers and
mechanics have been stopped from sat
sfying their wants for the products of
his monopoly because its managers
lave repeatedly increased prices until
Jiey have reached almost tUe problbl
ory point. If there is any over-supply
f its product In the market. It Is be
:ause the prices put upon it are such
hat the ordinary consumer Is driven to
til sorts of expedients to avoid pur-
hasing. It is said by others that the
ru reason for the shut down was that
he ruling spirits in the trusts, one of
hom by the way. John W. Gates, is
republican aspirant for a lnlted
states senaiorship, have certain plans
'or manipulating the Mock market
hkh the shut down will further. This
possibly true, but it only lays em
phasis upon the folly and the criminal
ly of permitting the control of a great
nd necessary Industry in the I'nlted
states to pass into the hands of a
small body of men, men who would
aot have gained control of it If they
lad not possessed the Instinct of gam
olers and who naturally utilize their
jontrol to further their gambling trans
let ions.
We have said that a business of this
ort is not a private business, and that
o individual can rightly make such
statement a Colonel Lambert Is
juoted as having made, and that the
eople as a whole must not sit quietly
y and allow his position to be main
tained without a protest. But In say-
ng this It Is not necessary to go to
the other extreme and hold that be-
ause the business has attained such
ualities of monopoly It should be con-
ucted by the government according to
the socialistic idea. The reason the
000 employes of the American Steel
and Wire company are suddenly and
arbitrarily thrown out of work Is be-
ause one single governing board con
trols the employment of all of them and
controls the Industry in which all are
engaged. If the twelve mills Involved
were operating as corporations should
operate, independently, one of two
might shut down, but the others would
continue. Indeed, it Is most unlikely
that any would shut down, because the
mill so doing would be In danger of los
ing Its trade to those which remained
In continuous operation. If, therefore,
the existing anti-trust law had been
enforced against this monopolistic cor
poration, not only would the farmers
not be compelled to pay extortionate
prices for their fencing, nor the me
chanics mulcted of extortionate sum
for wire nails and metal rods, but the
workingmen now out of employment
would still be lit enjoyment of their
wages, their families would be living In
comfort and the tradesmen dependent
upon their custom would not suffer. It
Is probable that Mr. John W. Gates,
the president of the present monopoly,
might be unable to lose a hundred
thousand dollars at poker, as he was
reported to have done a few weeks ago
at one of New York's gorgeous hotels,
but the country at large could strug
gle along even though Mr. Gates' sport
tin Inclinations might he restrained.
WILLI" S. ABBOT.
PROCLAIM INDEPENDENCE
ONCE AGAIN,
On the fuming Fourth of JuH,
or n the pr-t e.lir.g day,
cry (rue Armrit.in newspaper in
the rnlted Stat-s publi.-h in full
the lw !aia:iun of Independence.,
It is the charter of uur libertl..
and it Is being sneered at and
treated with contumely as eflcie,
by those who aspire to destroy ;t
underlying print ipW jf hu'm.in
freedom by a return to ini-ri;.-ism
and the destruction of a peo
ple's government.
Thousands are familiar with its
spirit, but have never read it. and
by proclaiming It once again .in
the coming Fourth of July, it w fll
surely bring about a revival of 4
palrior-ism similar to that expert- ,
enced by our forefathers on Jury
4, 1776. when they repudiated tin-
perialism and tyranny.
There is all the more need of Its
proclamation because we shall 4
then enter a political campaljm
which means life or death to the
republic.
6A6E JUGGLES FIGURES.
One of His Own Officials Exposes
Cross Inaccuracies.
Washington, D. C (Special.) Secre
tary Gage was today convicted of jug
gling treasury figures on the war reve
nue receipts by one of his own officials.
This official corroborated the state
ments made In the press, and expressed
his amazement when the letter of the
secretary of the treasury to congress
on Apt II 2 was laid before him. In
which Mr. Gage fixes the war revenues
for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1S3,
at H5.724.510.94. '
"Those figures," said this official, "are
notoriously Inaccurate. A careful est!
nunc was maue 01 tne proposed war
taxes before the bill was introduced In
congress. We estimated the annual
revenue at about $100,000,000. We did
not miss it by ten million dollars.
"The war taxes for the fiscal year
1898, which ended June 30. 18S9. aeere-
gated $35,000,000. The books of the
treasury show it. How any other con
clusion can be reached is more than 1
can comprehend.
The revenues derived under the war
tax alone will aggregate during the fis
cal year ending June 30 next between
ninety and one hundred million dol
lars. The figures of the denartment.
If they Include every item of taxation
Imposed by the act of June 13, lts.
will show that the secretary has either
been misinformed by his subordinates
or that congress has been denied the
accurate Information to -which It Is entitled.
In the tobacco schedule there Is
probably an annual Increase in buLlness
of 5 per cent. Everybody knows that
the tax on manufactured tobacco was
doubled by the war revenue act, and
that the increase of $16,2,000 in tax
for 1W3 means that at least $15,000,004
of that sdm was due to the war tax;
"The annual lax on beer, at tb old
rate, was about t"3.0K.00. The rate of
7i per cent under the old law wss In
creased to Vt per cent, so that the ad
ditional $30,004,000 collected on beeer
represents the war tax.
'Both these Items have apparently
been Ignored by the secretary in his let
ter, and both of them are due solely
to the war revenue act. r.'n matter
what other mistakes' may have been
made, there is no excuse for cutting ofT
$44,000,040 from these two Items alone."
The New York Journal's exjKisure of
the Jugglery created a sensation among
men who are searching for abwlut
facts upon which to base future legis
lation. It was said that If all .Secre
tary Case's communications to con
gress were as Inaccurate as this It
would be well to have. a congresslon ii
committee appointed to ascertain
whether or not the treasury department
can be depended upon to ci.rret lly
transmit to congress Information which
congress is entitled to receive.
FINAL VOTE,
BRVANS MAJORITY IN CONVEN.
TION FIGURED OUT.
THE MAN WITH THE HOE.
APPEARS TO HAVE 742
Under the Two-thirds Rule He WW
Require Only 606 Votes for
the Nomination,
Total number of votes In the con
vention 9o
Necessary for a choice 6M
Probable vote for Bryan 7J
The Influences that Induced Admiral
Dewey to announce himself as a can
didate for president are so far un
known, but the elements which have
very recently made his candidacy con
splcuous and lent to it an air of rea'lty
are said to be those which antag n
ized the democratic candidates In IstiS
A few of those persons who bolted
he iarty four years ago. without sv-
rlng their connection with It, are now
aid to be on the point of organizing
the Dewey strength. This strength, so
far as ascertained, will be el(tht votes
n the national convention.
These votes will come from Vermont
although there is some doubt of the
admiral's ability for getting more than
four of them. This Is the practical
measure of his strength as a presi
dential factor.
After the admiral's declaration that
he would accept a nomination for pres
ident the democrats cf Pennsylvania
met In convention and pledged their
sixty-four delegates to Kansas City to
Bryan, The program arranged months
before was put through. This gave Hry
an 118 votes pledged to him by state
conventions held this year.
INDORSED BY MANY STATES.
Enough other state indorsed him for
renornlnatlon In earlier conventions to
give him a big majority. With the
national committee practically solid for
him the absolute control of the con
vention Is sure to be In his hands.
There has been a good deal of talk
about changing the rules so as to re
quire only a majority vote Instead of
two-thirds vote to nominate. The
making of rules rests with the national
committee, and It takes only a majority
vote of the convention to adopt them.
This is acknowledged to be one diffi
culty in the path of Dewey, even If his
friends succeed In securing more than
one-third of the delegates for thlr
candidate. ( The following Is a table
showing the practically sure votes for
Kryan In the convention.
SUIIB FOR UK VAN.
Mark!, am s wonderful poem, entill' d. uais
The M.in with the Ho-." still .i:itin-
Ues to attract attention fn !hi country
and Europe. The critics hae dlwected
It, the plutocrats have denounced It,
and economists have studied It. In
last Sunday's New York Journal there
ap-ars an article from the pen of W.
J. Bryan, a;ong with others from Jus
tin McCarthy and I'.ichard LeGallicnne
concerning It. Head these words of
Bryan's and then reflect that there are
men calling themselves populists who
organize to defeat him for the pr'-sl
dency where he would have the oppor
tunity to make these principles potent
In the government of this republic:
"It Is not strange that Edwin Mark
ham's poem entitled "The Man with tlic
Hoe," created a profound sensation. It
Is a sermon addressed to the heart, and
Its lesson Is not limited to any nation,
race or clime. It voices humanity's
protest against Inhuman greed. There
Is a majestic sweep to the argument,
and some of the lines pierce like ar
rows: Is this the thing the Ird God made
and gave
To have dominion over sea and land;
To trace the stars and search the heuv-
ens for power:
To feel the passion of eternity?
ADVICE TO DEMOCRATIC CLUBS.
Bryan Advises Clubs To Celebrate
the Coming Fourth,
Washington, D. C, April 23. W. J.
Bryan, now In California, in replying
to an Invitation to attend a Jefferson
dinner In this city, has sent the fol
lowing letter to W. . McKean, secre
tary of the National Association of
Democratic Clubs, under date of April
1900:
"My Dear Plr I regret exceedingly
that engagements made bef re your In
vitation was received will prevent mv
attending the Jefferson dinner. It is
especially titling that in this centen
nial year of the party's first victor
e should commemorate the birthday of
the party's founder and patron saint.
"In 1SO0 the genius of Jefferson or
ganized the democratic party and led
a successful fight against the aristo
cratic Ideas of Hamilton. Today, when
democracy Is engaged in a life and
death struggle with plutocracy, we can
find Inspiration In the teachings of the
sage of Montlcello.
"The doctrine of equal rights to all
and special privileges to none, applied
to present problems, would restore an
equitable financial system, deprive na
tional banks of the power to Issue pa
per money, destroy private monopolies,
remove the menace of militarism am
imperialism, save the nation from en
tangling alliances, make It an example
to other nations, and Its flag an em
blem of peace. Justice, liberty and pro
gress, .
'( hope that the National Associa
tion of Democratic Club will urge each
local organisation to celebrate the com.
ng Fourth of July.
"Those who assemble throughout th
country csn listen to the resdlng ot
the Declaration of Independence, heat
patriotic speeches and then learn by
wire that the nstlonsl convention of th
democratic party, meeting on that day
has reasserted the party's faith In th
principles set forth In the Declare tins
and embodied In the constitution of the
United Btstea Tours truly.
"W. J. BRTAN "
Pledged this year
Pennsylvania .4
Nebraska 3?
Kbode Island 8
Massachusetts 30
Illinois H
Colorado h
Connecticut 12
Indiana :,fl
Kentucky , -j6
Michigan 2
Nevada 6
New Hampshire 8
North Carolina. 2j
Houth Dakota
Ten nestle 24
Texas :w
Virginia 24
Washington
West Virginia n
Alabama 22
Utah S
fieorgia 20
New Jersey 2')
Iowa
Minnesota ih
Idaho 6
Kansas 20
Mississippi 1
ioiai 74
This Is 120 more than a majority vote
ind only 32 less than a two-third vote
Ohio has been left out of the total
tlthough last year the Association of
Democratic Clubs declared tor Bryan
ind shortly before then Bryan met the
itate central committee and helped It
organize, tt Is, therefore, certain that
Ohio's it votes will be cast for Bryan.
Maryland will surely follow suit with
her 16 votes, and such states as South
Carolina. Wisconsin, Louisiana. Mon
tana, Missouri and Oregon will un
doubtedly swell Bryan's vote In the
convention to 742, which Is 134 more
than enough to nominate on the two-
thirds basis.
No mention has been made of New
York for the reason that It has been
classed by many shrewd politicians as
"doubtful." It Is the opinion of David
B. Hill, however, that the resolutions
adopted by the state committee pledg
ing the "love and loyalty" of the demo
crats to Bryan binds the party to him
It Is also the opinion of Hill that the
only state that can be properly classed
as "doubtful" Is Florida. New York
sill have 72 votes In the convention:
r"lo rll a will have S. U is practically
?ertain, therefore, that the vote In the
ionventlon on the first ballot, even If
a much severer storm attacks Bryan
:han now seems probable, will be:
for Bryan ....' $14
icatterlng 91
New York Journal.
A firm of rlgarmjikers, In whose
welva factories 2,000 union and non
jnion hands are on strike, has sudden
y discovered an opening for pugilists,
now that the Lewis antl-prlae fighting
law has been passed. The plan Is te
rmploy them ss "bouncers" during la
Mr strikes, Morris Brown, secretary of
New York Ctgarmakers' union No. 114
has reported to the Centrsl Federated
anion that Kerbs, Werthelm aV HchlrTei
have employed a prise lighter known sr
Bill Bennett to act aa "bouncer" foi
Che .liken' picket
Through this dread shaie the suffering
ageg look;
Time's Tragedy Is to that aching stoop;
Through this dread shape humanity be
trayed. Plundered, profaned and disinherited,
Cries protest to the Judges of the world.
Is this the hanoiwom you give to God?
How feeble. In comparison, have been
the answers to It!
The poem deals with the condition,
the cause, the remedy and the warning.
The condition Is set forth In the lines:
Down all the stretch of hell to its last
gulf
There Is no shape more terrible than
this
More tongued with censure of the
world's blind greed
More filled with sighs and portents for
the soul
More fraught with menace to the uni
verse.
It Is not an answer to the Indictment
to say that the ioet selects his type
from the middle classes, but from the
lowest level. He Is dealing with the mill
whjch takes In, as raw material, the
man made In the Image of his Creator,
and. If It Is allowed to complete Its
work, turns out us the finished pro
duct, A thing that grieves not and that nev
er hopes,
Sometimes it is a tyrant who oppress
es fur the benefit of himself, his family
and the warriors upon whom he relies
to enforce his authority; sometimes It
Is an aristociacy which gathers In the
fruits of power and throws upon the
mascen the burdens of government;
sometime it Is a plutocracy which
openly exalts money and debuses flesh
and blood; but eveiy where it Is the
siime brutal (spirit which ignores the
brotherhood of man and violates the
commandment: "Thou Shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself."
The extremes of society are being
driven further und further apart.
Wealth Is being concentrated in the
hands of a few, and tenacity Is on the
Increase. At one end of the scale lux-.
ury and Idleness bre' d effeminacy; at j
the other end cf the s.ale want ami 1
Restitution breed desperation.
Civilization cannot be measured by
the refinements and the enjoyments of
the rich; the tollers who produce the
nations wealth In time of je-ate and
constitute the nation's strength In the
time of war muyt participate In every
forward movement of the race. In fact,
they are so Important a factor that the
real advancement of the race Is mens,
ured by their advancement. Improved
machinery and Inventive genius have
multiplied the productive power of th"
Individual, but the producers have not
rtcelved their share of th Increase.
The capitalistic clays and the Hpeculat
Ing class have enjoyed anil are enjoy
ing, too large a part of the proceeds
of labor.
What Is the cause?
Who made him dead to rapture and de
spair? The literary sycophants who strew
rhetorical flowers in the pathway of the
successful, without Inquiring Into the
methods employed for securing success,
complacently throw the responsibility
for failure In life upon Ood, or Nature,
or upon the man himself. Is It the
'suit of God or of Nature that children
ire drlv.t Into factories at so early an
age t,mt their bodies are stunted, their
minds dwarfed and the strength and
usefulnes of future generations lessen
ed? Is Ood or Nature responsible for
lass which permit this Impairment of
innn-power snd the woman-power
of the nation? The labor organizations
have done much to mitigate the evils
of child labor and to shorten the hours
'if adult labor, but what encouragement
have their received from those who fa
vor government by Injunction, oppose
arbitration and denounce as disturbers
of the peace all who criticise existing
conditions?
Is It the fault of Ood or of Nature
that our tax laws are so made and our
tax systems so administered that the
poor man pays more than hli share of
the taxes, and the rich man less than
his share?
Is Ood or Nature responsible for s
financial system which raises the pur
chasing power of the dollar In the hand
of the money changer, while IMncreaa
es the burden of debt' to the man who
owes, and decreases th vslue of prop
erty In the hands of the wealth pro.
durtra?
Is Ood or Nsture responsible for a
paper money trust that makes the peo
ple at large victims of private Individ-
ntrufted with the control of tt.t
vluin" of 1 111 rency ?
is ; d r Nf.ture res v.nsble t'.r pri
vate pi', it. ip-ill-n that ccrri-r Die rrnir
kets, eit nt ftorn the 1 mple and dis
burse the pim-eeds among the holder!
of watered stoi k ?
Is God or Nature to blame for the
substitution of force for reason anl
niiKht for right In Government? Is t;ol
or Nature responsible f-r the nation's
entrance upon a career of conquest, en
tailing upon the many the burden anl
menace of militarism and conferring
upon the few the benefits 6f exploita
tion? The United States supreme court hat
coined the phrase, "larceny by law,"
and compared with trdinary stealing
thin form of theft may be called gr.mtl
larceny; and yet wholesale wrongdoing
is never taken Into account by those
who assume that all who are poor de
serve their poverty, and that all who
are rich earn their riches, if one em
ploys another to commit robbery he is
as guilty as If hecommits the act him
self; does it change the moral charac
ter of the act because the Injury la
done Indirectly Instead of directly?
Does It change the moral character of
the act becasue the Injury la done thro'
legislation which he has secured or it
the absence of some righteous law the
passage of which he has prevented?
The accumulation of wealth by hon
est means Is to be encouraged, but the
line must be drawn between honest
wealth the reward of brain service or
muscle service rendered and predatory
wealth which defies the law or turn
government Itself into a machine for
the plunder of the public.
The Indolent cannot expect plenty
under any Just form of government,
neither can the vicious expect happi
ness, but under bad laws those who
work the hardest may enjoy the least,
and those who labor least may have
the most:
But the remedy:
How will you ever straighten up thin
shape.
Touch It again with immortality?
Give Justice to every creature Jus
tice In the methods of government, Jus
tice In the making of the laws. Justice
In the Interpretation of the laws, Jus
lice In the execution of the laws. Jus
tice first and charity afterward.
Justice will not eliminate distress
entirely, but It will greatly reduce the
number of those who come within the
description of the poet. There will still
be some poor and destitute, some d
perate. Generations of vice will trans
mit tendencies toward vit e, which must
be reformed.
Some will be the victims cf unavoid
able misfortunes they will need the aid
of the more f irtunate. The orphan win
need a foster parent, the widow wtil
treed a friend, the aged without 'rela
tives will need a ben factcr. The v.. it
must be encouraged by the strong;
those who fall must lie lifted up.
I-ove is the antitln-sls f gr eed; it will
Inspire both Justice and mercy. Ive
and love alone can regulate th rela
tions between man and man and plint
a hope In the breast of every child tro
Into the not 1I.
When every man-msde wrong Is rem
edied there will be suffering nioug;i to
enable every person to prove hi l.ve
toward Gtid by manifesting his com
pussion toward his fellows.
Hut the poet ali-o presents a warning:
How will the future ret ken with this
ma n.
How answer his brute question In that
hour
When whirlwind of rebellion slrike
the world?
How will It be with kingdoms end with
kings
With tlintte who shaped him to the
thing he In
When this tlmb terror shall reply to
God
After the silence of centuries.
In monarchies revolution is the only
weapon of the oppressed; under our
form of government wrongs are righted
by the ballot; but even here the longer
a necessary reform Is delayed the mir
disturbance Its accomplishment causes.
Vlitor Hugo has described th. mob
as "the human race In misery." We
cannot afford to make people inls.-rable
Ufe U secure and property rights a;
rcxpe. ted in proportion as the p.-oplij
find life worth living. Happy will be
the lot of all when each member .f
society make to society a Just, and
adequate return for that which he
receives from sot lety. Happy will i
(he Jot of all when each member of so
ciety reco-nizeg tne indissoluble tie that
binds together the highest and the low
est, the strongest and the weakest, the
rb het and the poorest -when f
member of society aids n cording to his
ability to give bat k to the poet's sub
Jest :
-the upward looking and the llgfcf
iehuild In It the music und the drei;
?.fUW t-(ft,t Ik.. 4 . . . .
ii Vi 1, miuiemorini intAin
1 e, 1, .," wrongs, immedicable
woe.
Plans for the first Itusslan 'Orthodoa
church of Kt. Nicholas to be built Irt
New York have been completed. The,
-oet will b 170.000. Work will be
started In May on the return of the
Kev. Father Hotovlsky from Russia.
In the ba.rnent will be Sunday school
room and a printing office for the
Russlon church paper, edited by Fath
er Hotovlsky, The main congregation
hall on the first floor will contain ne
seats. The Russian fongregatlont
stand on the level floor during worship.
There will be a atnall gallery fur th
choir, but no organ.
Count Ofcuma'of Japan fsvora th
adoption of . ( W ,of ,
a religion af .decile character whirl
shall Include the ot feature. f But
uhlam, Confuclsnism and Christianity