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The Commoner.
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"And a Little Child Shall Lead Them"
One page of the April issue of a;
Chicago periodical edited by one of
the ablest newspaper men is devoted
to the following:
Jn Memoriam
Born March 20. Died March
24. His coming was a joy to his
mother and me. His going has
helped us to understand some
things we did not know.
To some this language may need
translation; but it will bo understood
by the loving parents of living chil
dren and it "will be self-interpreting
as it strikes a holy and sympathetic
chord in the hearts of those who have
loved and lost.
"Language grows out of life out of
f its agonies and ectasies, its wastes
and its weariness. Every language is
a temple in which the soul of those
,who speak it is enshrined." How
many, many, fathers and mothers
whose souls are enshrined in the tem
ple where was spoken this eloquent
memorial to a little one, wnoso com
ing revealed the very heights of love
and whose going showed what death
' really is! Jv
The boy in his teens thinks he loves
when for the first time he makes bold
to go "gathering the myrtle with Mary
Mary whose heart he knows;" the
youth thinl:s he loves when he presses
the engagement ring upon the finger
of his sweetheart and seals it with a
kiss; the young man thinks he loves
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when he leads his bride to the altar.
And they all do love in their own
way and in the way of the moment.
But wait until the baby comes!
There is love! There the love for
the bride Is increased a thousandfold
and consecrated in tho love for the
mother, while in the new-found affec
tion for a little child portals seem to
have opened upon new and strange yet
holy ground. How tho world laughs at
tho antics of a man who for the first
time finds himself to be a father! But
who cares for the good-natured laugh
ter of tho world? Certainly not tho
man who, after hours and perhaps
days of keen anxiety for the fate of
his sweetheart, who has gone into tho
valley of death's dark shadow in re
sponse to love's stern call, has been
assured that "all's well." He has ob
tained a glimpse of real life; in his
horizon there is not one single cloud,
the birds are Binging, thero is music
everywhere. Ho breaks from his work
and finds himself hurrying to the bod
side of tho old love and to tho cradle
side of the new love. As a rule he is
undignified in his haste; but what
does a new-made father care for dig
nity? He knows there'll be ample
time for that when he is dead. Ho
rather enjoys the jests of his asso
ciates; for just as the young lover
likes to talk about his sweetheart, the
older lover likes to talk about his
babe. It is a striking fact that al
though history may repeat itself, as it
has in many homes, though ch'ild after
child may be born, it is the same old
story. The same birds are singing, the
same music everywhere for the father
who finds himself hastening to his
home to greet one of those who have
been likened to God's apostles sent
forth day- by day to preach of love
and hope and peace. Wait until the
baby comes and that is love! Wait
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mother as they anxiously bont over tho
sick child's bed: "He's just at tho
ago when It will bo hardest to loso
lura." But it is bocauso the parents
love best the child that is sick that
thoy think that death at that ago
would bo tho "hardest." At any ago
and at all ages, from babyhood oven
unto manhood, the death of a child
calls into tho parent's heart and the
parent's heart, alwnys on guard in tho
child's interest, makes prompt and
grief-stricken response.
Let those whoso hearts do not yet
wear theso scars imagine what they
would do if ask-d to choose one of
their children whom they could: best
spare. There Is an old story, told in
homely verse, that illustrates this
point well. A father and a mother
had been offered a houso and land
if in return from out their seven chil
dren one child should bo given to tho
donor. Poverty seems to have pressed
heavily upon that homo and seven
mouths to feed brought great respon
sibilities. The mother suggested that
they chooso among the little ones as
they slept; so walking hand in hand
tbey surveyed the inmates of their
household. First to the cradle where
the baby slept; then "beside tho trun
dle bed, where one long ray of lamp
light shed athwart the boyish faces
there, in sleep so pitiful and fair;"
and then from one to tho other, from
the first-born to tho "Benjamin" of
the flock, tho father and mother went,
declaring beside each sleeping form:
"Not this one, no, not this one." Then
turning even to where "poor Dick, bad
Dick, the wayward son, turbulent,
reckless, idle one," slept in spite of a
conscience bad, they asked: "Could ho
1,9 spared?" and answered "Nay, ho
wto gave, bade us befriend him to his
grave; only a mother's heart 'can bo
potient enough for such as ho." Tho
homely verse tells us that when tho
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But if you would learn even more
than that of love, wait until the baby
goes! There is the voiceless grief
that "whispers the o'er-fraught heart
and bids It break." But thero is the
grief that makes the tie that binds
two hearts closer than any marriage
words yet spoken by a priest; the
thing that "knits two hearts in closer
bonds than happiness ever can," for
"common sufferings are far stronger
links than common joys."
Do we not know that a grave can
not be so small that it fails to find In
the parents' hearts" the place which In
God's infinite wisdom has been set
asM6 'for the memorial to every child
of love? The parent obtains new in
terest in every day's development of
the child from birth to the limits of
babyhood; ho obtains new interest in
every year's development of the boy,
whether it be from kilts to knee pants,
from knee pants to long trousers, or
from smooth face to the first touch
of downy beard; and every turn car
ries a new sensation to the parent's
heart. How often, also, has the sen
tence passed between father and
tbey could not drive one child away."
There is, indeed, not ono to spare,
until thore comes the, command to
which all mortals must in sorrow bow.
Keen though that sorrow, large though
tho responsibilities which the child
bi ought, great though the sacrifices it
required, we would not, if wo could,
part with tho sorrows, if by doing so
wo must blot out tho great fact that
a little child came into our lives to
teach us the way to lovo, to show us
the way to live and. to tell us the'way
to die.
And there a little child shall lead
them! There many a little child has
led them. There the boasted know
nothingism of tho agnostic or the
rroud declamations of the infidel leave
men helpless and hopeless where tho
faith of the mothers points unerringly
to tho stars. There, "as the disciples
found angels at the grave of him they
loved, we could find them, too, but
that our eyes aro too full of tears for
seeing." There oven in the darkest
night of death "hope sees a star and
listening love can hear the rustle of
a wing."- Richard L. Metcalfe in
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Rhode Island's Debasement
Robert Grieve, private secretary to
Governor Garvin of Rhode Island, has
written for the New York Independ
en an interesting and instructive art
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cal Debasement." Through the cour
tesy of Mr. Grieve The Commoner is
able to present this article to its read
ers, it is as ioiiows:
The so-called republican landslide
in the nation and the concurrent elec
tion at the same time of democratic
governors in Massachusetts, Missouri,
Minnesota, Montana and Colorado,
with pluralities for Roosevelt in those
states, have so engrossed public at
tention that the peculiarcondltions ex
isting politically in Rhode Island have
not received the notice their import
ance warrants. For two years Dr.
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democratic governor of Rhode Island,
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