TRUSTS IN ENGLAND.
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HOW COMBINATIONS FLOURISH
UNDER FREE-TRADE.
They Thrive More Luxuriantly in British
Than in Ainerlrun Null, anil All the
Ilelter Because of the Absence of a
l'roteetlve Tariff.
Writing to the New York Press from
London under date of July 26, Mr. II.
Curtis Brown, a staff correspondent of
that paper, presents with much force
and distinctness the subject of trusts
in England. Such a presentment Is
„ most timely. It comes at a moment
when facts arc important in order to
accurately determine the extent to
which trusts abound in a country
where protection Is unknown. From
Mr. Brown's article, which appears in
the current Issue of the American
Economist, it is learned, among other
things, that in free-trade England the
modern trust had its origin and has
attained to its most complete develop
ment. To-day, says this well-informed
writer, "there ate more trade combina
tions to the square inert In England
than In the United .States, and it will
not he long at the present rate before
every trade In the tight little Island
will he in a position to rpgulate compe
tition.”
In aplte of the fact that the tendency
toward monopoly in England in the
last, year has been significant and al
most startling, the average English
man will tell you, "We have no trusts
t in England.” Mr. Havemeyer evident
ly had that Idea when he declared that
"the customs tariff fs the mother of
trusts.” How mistaken is this belief,
and how firmly the trust movement,
under another name, has taken hold
upon English commercial life, may he
convincingly Iparned from the facts set
forth In detail by the Press corre
spondent. According to this well-in
formed writer,
"Organizations which In America
would be popularly called trusts now
control in England the fine cotton spin
ning, »he dyeing, screw manufacture,
salt manufacture, newspaper manufac
ture, cotton thread, chemicals, the
crushing of oil seed, bedstead making,
glass bottle making, manufacture of
electrical fittings and the cased tube
trade. There is no open market in pe
troleum, nickel mercury, antimony,
lead pipe, and fish. The National Tele
phone company now has a monopoly,
and the number of trades in which the
leading producers have combined and
have begun to squeeze the smaller pro
ducers to the Inevitable end of estab
lishing what is tantamount to a trust is
almoet infinite.”
in one respect the trust idea lias
been carried In Kngland to an extent
thus far unknown in the United Statps.
The combinations operating separately
in different lines are engaged in com
a binlng themselves into still larger and
* more comprehensive trusts. At last
account’s the dyers were thinking of
going into the chemical manufacturing
business, making their own drugs and
dyestuffs, and establishing what would
amount to a practical monopoly in that
direction. Likewise the retail chem
ists, themselves combined Into associa
tions which regulated prices in many
districts, froze out the manufacturer of
mineral waters by building a factory
themselves and practically controlling
the market.
One of the latest combinations is that
of oil seed crushers, whose chairman is
Hugh Cullen .Smith, late governor of
the Bank of Kngland, and the manu
facturers of the paper used in making
newspapers are said to have formed a
monopoly. Twenty-four leading firms
In the engineering tradp have consoli
dated with a capital of $70,000,000.
Vickers & Co., armor-plate manufac
turers, have been buying up com
peting firms until they control the
trade. The Beffast linen yarn spinners
were lately reported to be organizing,
and also the Scottish floor cloth manu
facturers, also the bleachers, who are
reported to have a capital of $30,000,
000.
All this In free-trade England, where,
if Mr, Havemeyer and his demo-pop
admirers ure correct th their conten
tion, trusts do riot and cannot exist.
It appears. however, that they can and
do exist, and that they thrive wonder
fully well In that non-prote ted <oun
try—thrive all the better, It would
stsm, because of the absence of protec
tion and the a live and always increas
ing competition which protection pro
motes and Insures. Such. U will he
found. Is the truth concerning trusts.
They flourish with or without a pro
tective tariff rather better without
than with it.
IIsWim nor mi>l i ru»u.
Protection Is * Republican policy;
the |»em«w-r,»ts have fo.hied a hahtt of
denouncing It. and they think they
niuat keep It up, with or without rea
son and sense knd so. with the aplen
did rec«»rd of protection s'arms them
In the face, and being unable to point
In a tingle fact, that Is w it to tl« credit,
they wildly re e ho Have merer a flip*
paat utieran. e with some such scheme
ea this In their head* I he people tike
the protective is iff let u» try to make
them hate It tiy circulating the ah-cued
lie that tl la the nsksr of trust#
the nypocrisr of all tits is quite as
r«asl. at as It la re* oil mg It ahwsr*
what a poverty atrl* hen oi l concern
th# Itemocrattc party |« Pi*e silver
la dead. V 'ag hauling aa an lw*Ue la
w>>rae than no issue at at' i‘itiaau>
varna about trust* and the tariff a#»
• he ante remaining tee»ut_ The tn>
m«e »*. p grab* at this grotesque Imp
h*r and flwwrteaes It frentbellv hopina
to r alt W voters and muddle lhe«r think
hi <ritu « the i.',,. n m*t
work. It Is a confession of weakness
and a proclamation of stupidity. The
people see through the game and will
coldly keep out of it. preferring to re
tain their prosperity, their open work
shops, their 100-cent dollars, their
sterling Americanism and (heir to
spert for the flag of their country.—
Rochester (N. V.) Democrat and Chron
icle.
Where Shoulil We He?
Forty years ago we were far in the
rear as a manufacturing nation. To
day we occupy the first rank. Forty
years ago we were dependent upon Eu
rope for all our bc*t manufactured
products. To-day we are independent
of the world. Forty years ago the no
tion that we should sell iron and ma
chinery in large quantities in England
would have been laughed at. Now tills
kind of traffic is a familiar and grow
ing fact. In short, tho protective sys
tem for which our economists and
progressive statesmen strenuously con
tended for so many year*, often against
heavy odds, lias triumphantly vindi
cated itself; making the nation rich,
powerful, self-contained and able to
supply its wants from its own re
sources. \v« have a right at. the close
of the century which witnessed the
great struggle between free-trade and
protection to congratulate the men who
made the fight for truth, and who have
been so magnificently vindicated by ex
perience, Suppose the free-traders
had won the battle? Where, then,
should we be? Philadelphia Textile
Record.
Shoulil Take » llol.
The Indianapolis correspondent for
a trade paper reports that there has not
been a year since 1892 when the out
look for fall and winter business in
that section along all line* has been as
Mattering as it is now. Jobbers are
confidently expecting to see the record
of 1892 passed before the, season closes,
it is stated that there is a healthy busl
1 ness confidence among all classes
which fully justifies the placing of
large orders. Anticipating a rise in
prices, early buyers have stocked up
heavily in order to take advantage of
market conditions, and jobbers have
laid in large supplies.
And yet Mr. Bryan and Mr. Belmont
profess to think that the people of the
country are laboring under heavy bur
dens. If these talkative gentlemen
would give their tongue* and their
pens a rest for a few days and would
give even a cursory attention to the ac
tual state of affairs in the country they
would perhaps realize the folly and the
nonsense of their blatherskite talk
about the present heavy burden; .if the
people.
The Astonished “Knblierneck."
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« WEALTH II,
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Nothing KIrv to Hoivl About
The Democrats dare not go before
the people on the question of tariff for
protection—they repealed protection
and plunged the country into hard
times and poverty, and they dare not
go before the people on that issue.
They are afraid to raise again the cry
of free silver and dishonest money—
they were beaten out of sight on that
issue in the last campaign, and they
wish to get up some new issue. What
shall it he? Why. say the Democrats,
let us howl against the trusts. True,
the Republicans have legislated against
trusts, and the Democrats, when they
had the power, did not. but we can fool
the people and get into power if we
howl loud enough and long enough
against the trusts. At any rate we are
going to try it, for in these blooming
times of Republican prosperity and
plenty there Is nothing else left for the
Democrats to howl about.—Freeport
till.) Journal.
MltS Not Mnlte Votes.
For the present, and with the cur
rent rise of wages making the work
ingmen contented with their lot, it
would not be possible to rally a large
part of the labor vote against the tar
iff on the ground that It is the parent
of trust*, even if that contention were
true which It I* not Mr Havemeyer
| i,f inadequate authority to quote on that
side, in view of the fait that our worse
trust- He entirely notable the range of |
prote< ted Industrie* and that these :
organisation* have I teen shown by !
Kngllwh writer* to Nourish in that
tt,unity under f»*e trade n i !«•*»* than
i in America under protection. Hut
whether true or false, it will not make j
votes for the I* mocrat-y in the quar j
ter where they mat want them and !
the patty can make no gravei mistake
than to run after Mr Ha**m#v*r a red
herring Hubert Kllu l'h <utp< >n in '
! the Irish World.
HVh Ike Ittril Ms* *nk
Mr Havemeyer liiuairntee in a new
wav the t*id rhyme that When the
4* «i| naa hie it. the devil n monh was j
n* In the days Of the Cleveland ad> I
wt >niat muon Mr list erne* et ntuv«d
heaven and earth t« wot# prMeetton [
tut hie iMgst hot having failed to gat
na much na he deaired he how d*
nuoneee the Mill wa the mother of
treat* Rorllaftoh Mt*k If*
WORKMEN WANTED.
Tlie Hill ply Not KnlDrlral to Meet I lie
Oetnmiil for ImluMrial Helper*.
Assistant Commissioner of Immigra
tion McSweeney, in his testimony be
fore the industrial commission at Its
recent sitting In New York city, stated
that applications for 10,000 unskilled
workmen had been made upon the im
migration authorities since the revival
of business last spring, but these they
could not and had no authority to fur
nish.
In 1893 an army of workmen, out of
work, started out to march to Wash
ington to demand employment. There
were many hundreds of thousands
more workmen in the country who had
no work, but who did not start out on
that fruitless and foolish march. In
1899, when immigration has swelled
the number of laborers in the country
by many hundreds of thousands above
w hat it was in 1893, employers of lubor
are* so in need of laborers that they ap
ply to the immigration authorities for
10,000 workmen. In 1893 we had for
president the so-called "Moses of Free
Trade," the man who in his search for
an Issue with which to make good his
leadership tiad gone back to the dead
past and had brought forth a bygone
and discredited policy and made it the
policy of his party; the man whose
election meant, above all, that this
country was again to make a trial of
same old policy which history showed
had wrecked its Industries more than
once. In 1899 we have for president
the great apostle of protection, whose
election meant, above all things, the
restoration of protection to American
Industries, whose first official act was
the calling of a special session of con
gress for the purpose of enacting a
protective tariff law. In 1893 the pros
pect of the immediate adoption of
free-trade and workmen seeking In
vain for work; In 1899 a protective tar
iff law and work seeking in vain for
men to do it. It is an instructive pic
ture.
I'rotprrlty I'olntfl*
Corn in Kansas this year will win
over calamity by the largest majority
ever known.- Topeka Capital.
It is gratifying to observe the stead
ily increasing volume of our transac
tions with ail of our Latin-Amerlcan
neighbors. -Troy Times.
Even tlie numerous strikes are in
dices of the country's prosperity.
Workmen know better than to strike
when the times are hard.—Buffalo Ex
pi ess.
The Kansas corn crop is estimated at
300,000,000 bushels, and the most ardent
of Populists concede a Republican vic
tory In the state for at least two years.
Good times and Republicanism go hand
in hand in Kansas.—New York Press.
Prosperity is evidenced in the earn
ings of the railroad, which for June and
the first half of July increased from 14
to 10 per cent over the corresponding
period of last year. There is no better
gauge of the improved business condi
tions.—Syracuse Herald.
Pennsylvania papers announce that
marriages In the state have Increased
decidedly during the last two years,
and one editor remarks that “there is
an intimate relationship between mar
riages and tlie markets.” Another
pleasing result may be credited to
prosperity. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Making I'p for 1-out Time.
A Pittsburg dry goods dealer re
cently stated that his firm could not
keep their trade stocked sufficiently
from the time their traveling men vis
ited towns until their return to them.
Orders by the score came in unsolicited,
most of them being "hurry-up” orders.
He declared it to be practically impos
sible to keep their stock of standard
goods up to a normal condition. Dry
goods dealers throughout the country
are having similar experiences. The
people of the country have reached
that pitch of prosperity where they are
able to indulge in the gratification of
their tastes, when they can pay some
thing for beauty and for style. They
are making up for the miserable years
of 1893-189*5. when they had to put up
with "any old thing.” Now that pro
tection has brought hack prosperity
they are making up for lost time.
% FoolUli I.usury.
Champagne importations to this
country have largely increased. It's
another bumper for McKinley times.
Hack lit the (lorman-Wilson days the
thirst haunted aristocracy was lucky to
get beer dan Francisco Chronicle.
Champagne a- a luxury, and In pro
lection times there Is always an In
crease in the use of luxuries. Foreign
champagne, however, belongs in the
category of foolWh luxuries foolish
because sparkling wines In every way
equal to those sold under foreign labels
ate now being produced in our own
country. It I* no longer true that
• hampagnes of the ftrst quality are
only to In- had from Frame Vnurl.a
has made splendid ad van*** along this
line, a* along man) other line* of auc
ceaaful competition
frmMoss** I'lixwoi).
When the Wilson I lorman bill was
getting in its deadly work nearly all of
the railroads In tha t«>uairy were In
lb* hands of receivers, now that the
agent of prowperlly is on da> h they are
troubled tie 4os# of their Inability to
I*, alts alt th* freight a hi. h oft. ■ it
self dan Fran* !**<» t'hroni. I#
I elites
atanaiy l*tS*« Mow yer ilk* lie
Man »M da Mae Hilly ’
Hilly I'wtlgtb I >• last time I mat
da ms a wtd da hoe ha made a vary
d-cp Imp** *»t**a on m* aa* I X u fwal
>1# ta>prest r «H
A Matter of Vital Concern to Every Citi- '
zen of Nebraska.
lltt SINS Of SI HOI COMB.
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tVor«ft Than IChllnc; on Pameii or Stenlini; |
II(mih«‘ Kent —'|>nfortuntil<** of ill#* M«N‘
I nut It n l Ioiih Muni AUo HufTrr Uchoolii I
Turned Into Fulltlcal MmcIiIom uutl
Children ICoIiImmI of i lirlr IUkIi!*.
Tim Trull of (lit* S#rp*i»t,
The following letter Is worthy of ;
publication, heeause it touches upon a \
matter of vital concern to every citi- |
zen of Nebraska:
OMAHA, Nell.. Sept. 8.—To the Edi
tor of the State Journal: I am a deaf
and dumb boy, and I want to tell you i
why people should not vote for Mr.
Holcomb, lie hut done worse Ihiugs
than to ride on passes, or steal house
rent or change the ballot boxes. Ac- I
ceptlng passes Is no crime, most any- i
body would gladly ride on passes and i
consider It no harm. Stealing bouse
rent isn't half so bad as stenting time ,
from the unfortunate deaf children of
our state. He turned our fine school I
for the deaf Into a political machine. ;
He turned out our fine corps of in- !
structors. and put there instead a num- j
her of politicians and ward heelers i
with no conception of their duties and j
no knowledge of their work. The older |
hoys who resented their inefficiency
were "fired” until only the small chil
dren were left with no language to ex
plain their situation to their parents.
I represent a number of the educated
deaf of the state. We get no redress. ,
Friends tell us we must wait till the
school Is out of “polities." What busi
ness hail Mr. Holcomb to put it in
politics? Don’t everybody pay taxes
to support it? Why should the little
children lose this time, when at most
they have scant time for an education?
I call upon every deaf mute and every
parent of a deaf child to vote againsl
this man who is so unworthy of his
trust. Anyone familiar with our in
stitution when it was a school would
shed tears to see Its condition now—
with no thought for anything but Jobs
for the party, and Mr. Holcomb is re
sponsible for its condition. Must we
submit indefinitely to this man's plun
der and un-Christian demeanor?
We had the best school In the coun
try until Mr. Holcomb killed it. 1
would like to talk for uw hile so 1 could
tell everybody. I know enough never
to vote for a man who has done so
shameful a deed as to destroy our
school just to get tils friends into
office. C. P. JENSEN.
Now tiie facts concerning Governor
Holcomb's treatment of this school are
indisputable. They are matters of pub
lic record.
The infamous Mutz "investigating
committee” made an examination of
the books of the school anil pretended
to discover a shortage of a few hundred
dollars.
Holcomb took this report, and with
out inquiry as to its accuracy, removed
Superintendent Gillespie and turned
the school over to the small beer poli
ticians of his own party. The most
shameful part of the proceeding was
bis refusal to tell Superintendent Gil
lispie what the charges were upon
which he was removed. What those
charges were Mr. Gillespie does not
know to this day.
Here was an educator of national
reputation. He had been in charge of
this school for twenty yeai i and was
considered an eminent authority on ail
matters connected with th> education
of the deaf and dumb. His place was
wanted by fusion spoilsmen and Gov
ernor Holcomb removed him, putting
a stain upon his name without giving
him an opportunity to defend himself
or even to know the nature of the
charges brought against him. An as
sassin who steals upon a man in the
dark and stabs him in the back com
mlts no more grievous wrong upon bis
victim than did Silas A. Holcomb when
he stabbed the reputation of Superir
tendent Gillespie in this dark and dis
reputable fashion.
Hut behind this injustice to Gillespie
is another one. the injustice to the
state caused by removing an eminent
specialist from the place of superin
tendent of the school and putting in a
swarm of incompetent and quarreling
J Ith-lans. As this deaf and dumb boy
says. Holcomb has "killed the school"
by bringing it into politics. The people
of the state will hesitate a long time
before they elevate ho notorious a
spoilsman, puss-grabber and house
rent absorber to the supreme bench.
Tin Viipmim J«dgeslilp.
Omaha Met* Tho principal state j
IHce which citixena of NehruKka will!
till by choice at the polla the coming
November la that of Judge of the Mti
preme court. While the conteat In
voIvch the aupremacy of contentling j
political purtlea In the atute and alao
hua great national hearlnga the Import
am* of the atipreme Judgshlp to the
Kreat tuua* of the people must not he
overlooked.
t lifter the constitution of Nebraska
the auiircnie court, made in of three
Jimtiffa, la the highest jiidlelal trlbu
ii•<I of ihe tomnionwealth To this
j eourt He appeal* direct from all the
j dlalrict eourt* In the state, so that It
j '* !•* leallt) th** iourt ftf last resort
j f"r prut lb ally all the lltigalloti arising
I under Ihe »ute |u*. It ha* urlginal
j p. tied lit ton tu several dlreeihtns. al
| though nntler present practice of the
mart it la exertIslng original powera
more anti mwr sparingly It |* fat.
Ihrrtnore the court of inipea. iiuienl
i« fore whom derelict state oflhera are
‘tied and therefore the ultimate sate y
valve against tlth tat iHshoueslv and
> or i apt mg.
t'f*» ihe position «f atipreme judge
j gl-ove all libera lei on* shiruht he I lOI
I si let* it elgtbie a Ho has nut shoen by
• vperieme not ouly professional a HI I
lit and Waruiiia in Ihe las hut also
the H us II lies Ihst make a judh la I
miml lib Ihe tremeadooa «m<h>ii
of work devotviaa upon a court of
only three judgee without even toe as
•istaave of the >oarmisatoaere who for
merly divided Ihe labor, each la. war
heal of the supreme bee. h should he
**i* rp*d t«f» *th nod yet a*, i urate
determination of the controversies
before him and co-operate witfc his
associates to give all speedy as well
as equal Injustice.
To many people then, the question
what party the candidate belongs to
subordinate itself to the question. Will
he answer the demand for a safe, hon
est and reliable Judge? The fusion
candidate Is already chosen. If the re
publicans will keep these suggestions
in view in selecting their standard
bearer, they will present a man so
superior in point of legal ability and
judicial qualifications that he will have
the undivided support of all who want
a serviceable and efficient supreme
court.
Hr.viiiTft ltluit<l«*r*.
New York Sun: Mr. William T.
Bryan sometimes talks about things lie
does not know, makes statements that
are not so, and suggests policies to
whose simple meaning and obvious
result he is blind. A case in point was
his recent assertion that there were
more business failures and bank fail
ures in tlie country in the six mouths
after McKinley's election than In any
other similar period of time before.
Another illustration is his proposition,
made in an oratorical hurst before the
democratic state convention of Ne
braska, at Omaha, on August ZZ, that
the proper way of “limiting trusts'
would lie to prohibit any corporation
from doing business outside of the
Htate in which it was organized, save
under a license from the federal gov
ernment.
We have been unable to find a ver
batim account of Mr. Bryan’s speech,
lint the Evening Bee of Omaha puts
what he Hald In this way:
“Mr. Bryan then paid his respects to
the trusts and declared that when a
law is passed that will prevent a cor
poration from doing business outside
the state In which it is organized,
without a license from the federal gov
ernment. the trusts can be effectively
regulated."
The World-Herald of the same city
says:
“The speaker declared that the
trusts could be destroyed when the
federal congress would decree that no
corporation should do business outside
the state where it was organized, ex
cept by securing the license of the fed
eral government."
Think a minute, Mr. Bryan! What
kind of a government would it be un
der which no concern could do busi
ness outside the state where its chief
office was without securing the per
mission of somebody at the seat of
federal power? It would be the great
est scheme of imperialism, the most
absolute system of centralized power
that the world has ever known.
How llnlroinb (Sot the title.
The only argument the republican
press of the state can advance against
the candidacy of Silas A. Holcomb *s
"Slippery Si."—Shelton Advertiser.
The Advertiser mistakes nil epithet
for an argument, says th“ Lincoln
Journal. The title was one given to
Mr. Holcomb because of his btiooth
ways whereby he has been title to fool
till of Ihe democrats some of the time,
some of the democrats all the time and
• all of the populists all the time. Is
not the Advertiser aware of the fact
that In early days the fusion nominee
was unable to derive a living income
from the practice of law ami added <o
it the avocation of a chattel loan
broker, extorting, as such, rates of in
terest that would make nil honest
man’s hair curl with horror? Do kindly
disponed men, who harbor within their
souls a love for their fellow men and
a high regard for Justice, ever pnguge
in the business of taking advantage of
the necessities of the poor in order to
metaphorically "skin them alive?"
When Silas A. Holcomb was made gov
ernor didn't he stand upon a platform)
j that spoke in unequivocal terms*
against the use of tree transportation
! on the railroads? And hasn't he travel
ed tens of thousands of m*!es since
without paying a cent of fare? Every
man in a position to know anything
about it knows this to lie true, and yet
the Advertiser says that “Slippery Si"
is tlie only argument republicans can
| advance. It is well known that M".
] Holcomb ns governor countmaneed, it
he did not directly assist in an at
tempted rape of t ballot whereby a
defeated amendment to th° constitu
tion was to he declared carried In order
to seat two fusionists on the supremu
bench.
A Itldlrtilotm S|>€*rta«*l*.
Central City Nonpariel: When Hol
comb atood up before the populist state
convention and said he indorsed tlm
j anti-pass resolution and that if elected
1 supreme judge lie would not accept any
' more passes, it was by far the most
ridiculous Spectacle of that spectacular
gathering. When liolcoinh was gov
ernor he was noted even beyond his
own state for th** lavlshnos wltn
which he provided passes, special curs
and other railroad favors fi r himself
and friends. He was elected governor
, by a party advocating the anti-pass
principle, tint It did not restrain him
I from the most flagrant abuse of his
| party principles. "When *he devil is
sick, the devil a saint would be." Just
now ,\lr. Holcomb Is very tuk or at
least very badly scared and attempts
to assume saintly opposition to the
practice of free pass corruption, which
was never more vividly liliiMlruted j
than when he occupied tin guhrtna- I
tot til ( hair
,% t o»r l.«lmr t h Msiilun.
York Times Colonel lit‘an Is , j
proper mail to lepreaen. "h .hep," He;
never did a day's wora In Id life nor
*‘••1 furnished a da vs employ meiil »o '
any one ela* lie ways he |* worth I
iSWtl.umt U i MM I he pot ht« money 1
into some hoalnesa that Will furnish
employ mem a' good wages to some of
the laboring men h* seenta to f««l u ,
ni'ii h sympathy for* If every owe 14!
kmeiha • hong hi and a< ted like Hrymt |
• very iwawufat In Mil article we u*u
»*wild he bowghl abrund ami there
would Ire wo work st nil for American
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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON XIII. SEPTEMBER 24
QUARTERLY REVIEW.
From the Toil "The Angel of the Lord
I! n rum pet li Bound About Them That
Fear Him. and IFellvereth Them—
Hook of realms. Chapter 'M. \er«« 7.
Extent of Tim#.—Leaving out Lesson
L, which Is a prophecy of an earlier pe
riod concerning the kingdom of Israel,
though It Is applicable In principle to the
period we have been studying, the period
extends over about ninety years, from
the beginning of the exile, H. C. 006, to
the completion of the temple, H. I'. 516,
(iml dedication In March, 515. Places.—
Babylon, the river C'hebar, near Babylon,
Jerusalem. Prophets.—Hosea. Jeremiah,
Daniel, Ezekiel, liaggul, Zecharlah, Isa
iah 40-68, belong In effect to the exile,
whatever view we may take of the date
of their authorship. Connection with
Secular History.—Their contact with oth
er nations made a marked Impression up
on the Jews. The Oriental tnonarehs,
Nehucliadnezztr. Cyrus and Darius Hy
staspes, ate well known In secular his
tory. In Italy Tarqnlna were reigning
at Itome (616-510). The rape of Lucretla.
by Sextus, son of Tanjuln the Proud, B
C. 510, live yenrs after the completion of
the temple at Jerusalem, led to the ex
pulsion of the kings and the formation of
the republic at Borne. In Greece, the
seven suges nourished B. C. 500, during
the siege and destruction of Jerusalem.
Monuments.- "Nine-tenths of all the.
bricks brought from Mesopotamia liear
the stamp of Nebuchadnezzar.”—Bishop
Walsh.
In the British Museum I was shown a
bronze doorstep, weighing tlfteen hun
dred pounds lately brought from the tem
ple of El Haggll, at Borslppa, near Baby
ion. On It Is an Inscription saying that
It was a vbtlve offering In commemora
tion of Nebuchadnezzar's recovery from
sickness. This confirms the account In
1>Hidel of Ills severe sickness with a kind
of Insanity. Leuormant also has direct
ed attention to "n strange hiatus which
appears lit the history of Nebuchttdnes
zar, which coincides with the period of
the king's Insanity." There are a num
ber of other Inscriptions by Nebuchad
nezzar. .
A cylinder discovered at the nnclent ITr
mentions Belshazzar, the son of N»
honldus, the hist king of Babylon “We
now possess the account given by Cyrus
himself, of the overthrow of Nabonldue,
the Hubylonlun king, and of the conquer
or's permission to tnc captives In Baby
lonia to return to their homes. The ac
count Is contained In two documents,
written, like most other Assyrian and
Babylonian records, upon clay, and late
ly brought from Babylonia to Kngland
by Mr. Hussain. One of these document*
Is a tablet which chronicles the event*
of each year In the reign of Na
bonldus, the Ih«I Babylonian mon
arch, and continues the history
Into the first year of Cyrus, as king of
Babylon. The other Is a cylinder, on
which Cyrus glorllles himself and hla
son Cambyaes, and professes Ills adher
ence to the worship of Bel-Merodach, the
patron god of Babylon.”—Prof. A. H.
8a yee.
The Past. From small beginnings the
kingdom of Judah had been growing to a
kingdom of power In the moral world.
But Instead of keeping In the steady
flowing stream of God'* will for them,
they kept turning toward the rapid* of
disobedience and Idolatry.
Note bow much God did to save them
from thu threatened ruin. He warned
and entreated and encournged them by
Ids prophet*. lie sent punishments for
sin. He gave prosperity that his good
ness might leud them to repentance. The
wreck of Israel was a solemn warning.
But In spite of all, they went on to
their own destruction, as a boat In the
rapids hastens over the falls of Niagara.
The Kxllo Discipline.—For seventy
years the kingdom was a wreck, float
ing on the stream of time, with only
sandy wastes of hopelessness on every
side But all this time God was disciplining
and training them for better things. The
prophet* were their teachers. The people
learned to hate Idols, to appreciate their
religious privileges, to long for the pres
ence of God The warnings were every
where. Hopes were held out before them.
They saw I he need and blessing of new
hearts and new lives.
The Fresh Start.—At the end of seventy
years, when they had learned In some
incasuro the exile lessons. God's provi
dence made a return possible through a
change In the nations.
About fifty thousand exiles returned to
Judea. They slowly built up the city.
They Instituted religious services. They
began to build the temple. The begin
nings were very feeble and small. Amid
poverty and opposition they went on till
the temple was again Dullt. Prophets
came to them and opened visions of hope.
They saw down the uges the glory that
was to come. They saw the sun rising
above the horizon, which should flood
the world with glory. They saw the
great tree which was to grow from tho
tiny mustard seed they were planting.
The Inscription on the rock of Behls
tun. near Bagdad, Is by Darius Hystas
pes,, giving an account of his reign, In
three languages. The rock rises seven
teen hundred feet high, nearly perpendic
ular. The Inscription • Is on a polished
surface three hundred feet above the
bu se.
Practical Bessons.—This quarter’s les
sons Illustrate by historical examples
many Important truths which art' us use
ful for our day and generation as for
those ancient times.
SAID BY CHILDREN.
I.lttle Mis* Dorothy came dancing In
out of the yard one day, her blue eyea
sparkling with glee, and ran to her
mother, saying. Oh. mmaiua. mamma,
there'* *uch u Joke nn God!" "What do
you mean?" u»ked her parent, who. to
te|| the truth, wa* aomewhat *hocked
by the unexpected statement. "Ob,
mamma. God ha* hung out the sun
*nd ha* forgotten to take In the moon. *
A little girl told a friend who wa*
visiting her father that her brother
i set trap* to catch birds, says the New
York Tribune. He asked her what ahe
did Mb# replied: "I prayed that tne
traps might not catch the birds."
| "Anything else?" "Yea," she said, "I
> then prayed that God would prevent
; the bird* from getting Into the trap*,
and a* I had heard about faith and
worka, I went and kicked the trap* nil
to pietea."
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