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B 'MONOPOLY AND COMMUNISM
SB STRUGGLING FOR THE POSSI
SESSION OF THIS COUNTRY."
I Text: "The Lord delighteth in thee anil
thy land shall be married."?Isaiah, lxii, 4.
' As the greater includes the less, so does
the circle of future joy around our entire
world include the epicycle of our own republic.
Bold, exhilarant, unique, divine imagery
of the text So many are depressed
by tne labor agitation and think everything
in this country is going to pieces, I preach
this morning a sermon of good cheer and
anticipate tne time when the Prince of Fea e
and the Heir of Universal Dominion shall
take pos ssession of this nation and "thy land
hall oe married."
In disc-u&sing the final destiny of this na- |
tion it makes all the difference in the world
whether we are on the way to a funeral or a
wedding. The Bible leaves no doubt on this
subject. In pulpits and on olatforms and in
places of public concourse, I hear so manvof J
she muffled drums of evil prophesy sounded,
as though we were on the way to national
interment, and beside Thebes, "and Babylon j
and Tyre in the cemetery of dead nations j
our republic: was to be entombed, that I wish |
you to uiiuersiauu it is uoiuo uo ouse uuu
nuptials; not mausoleum, but carpeted altar; j
not cypress, but orange blossoms; not re-!
qniem. but wedding march, for "thy land |
nail be married." I propose to name some |
f the suitors who are claiming the hand of |
this republic. This land is so fair, so bdauti- .
Cul, so affluent, that it has many suitors, and ,
it will depend much upon your advice
whether this or that shall be accepted or re- '
jected.
In the first place I remark: There is a
greedy, all-grasping monster who comes in j
as suitor seeking the hand of this republic, [
and that monster is known by the name of j
monopoly. His sceptre is made "out of the iron
of the rail track and the wire of telegraphy.
He does everything for his own advantage
and for the robbery of the people. Things
have gone on from "bad to worse, until in the
three Legislatures of New York, New Jersey
. and Pennsylvania, for the most part,
monopoly decides everything. If monopoly ,
favors a law it passes; if monopoly opposes a j
law it is rejected.
Monopoly stands in the railroad depot put?
ting into his pockets in one year two hundred |
millions of dollars in excess of all reasonable j
charges for service. Monopoly holds in this !
One baud the steam power of locomotion, and I
in the other the electricity of swift commu- I
nication. Moncp ly decides nominations I
atd election-?city elections, State elections, j
national elections. With bribes he secures ;
the votes of legislators; giving them free |
passes, giving appointments to needy re!a- j
lives to lucrative ]X>sitions. employing them
as attorneys if they are lawyers, carrying ,
their goods fifteen per cent, less if they are :
merchants, and if he finds a case very stub- i
born, as well as very important, puts '
down before him the hard cash of bribery, j
But monopoly is not so easily caught now I
as wnen,aunng tne term or Mr. tsucnanan, i
the Legislative Committee in one of our {
States explored and exposed the manner in
which a (trtain railway company procured
& donation of public land It was found out
that thirteen of the Senators from that State
received $175,000 among them. Sixty members
of the lower house of that State received^,000
and #10,()00 each. The Governor
of the State received $50,000, his clerk
received $5,000, the Lieutenant-Governor received
$10,000, all the clerks of the Legislature
received $5,0?)0 each, $50,000
were divided amid the lobby agents.
That thing on a larger or smaller
scale is all the time going on in
some of the States of the Union, but it is not
?o blundering as it used to be, and therefore
not so easily exposed or arrested. I tell you
that the overshadowing curse of the United
States to-day is Mcnopoly. Ho puts his
hand upon every bushel of wheat, upon
very sack of salt, upon every ton of coal,
And every man, woman and child in the United
States feels the touch of that moneyed
despotism. I rejoice that in twentv-four
States of the Union already anti-monopoly
leagues have been established. God speed
them in the work of liberation. 1 wish that
this ouestion might bo the ouestion of our
prosid ntial elections, and that we compel i
the political parties to recognize it on their i
platforms.
I have nothing to say against capitalists. !
A man has a rieht to all the money he can
make honestly. There is not a laborer in the i
land that would not be worth a million dol- .
tars if he eould. I have nothing to say against ;
corporations as such; without them,"no great I
enterprise would be possible. But what I do i
ay is that the same principles should be ap- j
plied to capitalists and to corporations that j
i are applied to the poorest man and the plainest
laborer. What is wrong: for me is wrong I
for great corporations. If I take from you j
your property without any adequate compensation
I am a thief, and if a railway !
damages the property of the people without j
making any adequate compensation, that is
a gigantic thief. What Ls wrong on asmall j
scale is wrong on a large scale. Monopoly in i
Englaud has ground hundreds of thousands
of her best people into semi-starvation, and
In Ireland has driven multitudinous tenants
almost to madners.
Five hundred acres in this country make
an immense farm. When you read that in
Dakota Territory Mr. Cass has a farm of
15,000 a res and Mr. Grandon 25,000 acres
and Mr. Darymple 40,00.) acres, your eye;
dilate, even though these farms are in great
regions thinly inhabited. But what do you
think of this which I take from the Doomsday
3ook, showing what monopoly is on the
other side the sea. I give it a? a warning of
what it would do on this side the sea if in
aotne lawful way the tendency is not resisted.
In Scotland J. G. M. Heddle owns
60,400 acres; Earl of Wemyss, 52,000 acres;
Sir J. Riddell, 54,500 acres: Sir C. W.
A. Ross, 55,000 acres; E. H. Scott,
69,700 acres; Mr. J. Baird, 60,000 acres;
Sir J. Ramsden, 60.000 acres; Earl of
Dunmore, 60.000 acres: Duke of Roxburghe,
0.000 acres: Earl of Morav. 61 700 acres'
Countess of Home, 62.000 acres; Lord Middleton,
63,000 acres: Earl of Aberdeen, 63,50)
acres; Mackenzie of Dundonnell, (>3,000
ere.?; Mr. J. J. H. Johnston, 63,000 acres;
Earl of Airlie (55,000 acres; Sir J. Colquhoun,
7,000 acres: C. Morrison, 67,000acres: Duko
of Montrose, (58,000 acres; Meyrick Bankes,
70,0J0 acres; Grant of Glenmorriston, 74,600
acrrs; Marquis of Ailsa, 76.000 acres; Baroness
WiUougby d'Eresby, 76.000 ar,res; Mr.
J. Malcolm, HO.000 acres; Marquis of Huntly,
80,000 a res; Balfour of Whittinghame. 81,
000 acres; Sir J. O. Orde, 81,000 a'res; Marquis
of Bute, 93,0!X) acres The Chisholm,
94,500 acres: Mr. E. Ellice, 99,500
acres; Sir G. M. Grant, 103,000 acres;
Duke of Portland. 106.00) acres;
Cameron of Lochiel, 109.501 acres:
Sir C. TV. Ross, 110,4<>0 acres; Earl of Fife,
113,000: The Ma' kintosh, 124,000 acres; Lord
Macdonald, 130.0X) acres: Earl of Dalhousie,
136.000 acres; Macleod, of Macleod, 141,700
acres: Sir K. Mackenzie, of Gairlock, 164,1
680 acres; Duke of Argyle, 175,000 acres.
Duke of Hamilton, IS3,0:)0 acres; Duke ol
Athole, 194,000 acres; Duke of Richmond,
255,000 acres; Karl of Stair, 270,0X) acres
Mr. Evan Baillie, 30 .000 acres; Earl of Sea
field, 300,000 acres; Duke of Buccleugh, 432,183
acrcs: Earl of Brea lalhane, 437,696acres
Mr. A. Matheson, 220,433 acres, and Sir J.
Mat he son, 406,070 acres; Duchess of Suther
lonH 11(1 S7Q ttrrfli nnrl OnUtt nf SiithftrlftnH
1,1(6,853 acres.
iSuch monopolies imply an infinite acreage
of wret hedness. There is no poverty in tht I
United States like tbat in Englaud, Ireland
and Scotland for the simple reason that ir I
those lands monopoly has had longer and
la'ger sway. Last summer in Edinburgh
Scotland, after preaching in Synod Hall, ]
stood on a cha:r in front of tha hall anc
preached to an audience of 20,000 people
Standing in one of the most prosperous parts
of the city, and reaching out toward the cas
tie. as fine an array of strength and health
j and beauty as one ever sees. Three hour
after I preached to the wretched inhabitant)
of the Cowgate and Cannongate.the audien"?
exhibiting the squalor and sickliness andde
pair tbat remains in one's mind like one o!
the visions of Dante's Inferno.
Great monopolies in any land imply great
privation. The time will come when our
government will have to limit the amount
of accumulation of property. Unconstitutional
do you say? Then constitutions will
have to be changed until they allow such
limitation. Otherwise the work of absorption
will go on and the large fishes will eat up the
small fishes, and the shad will swallow the
minnows and the porpoises swallow the shad
and the whales swallow the porpoises, and a
thousand greedy men will own all the world
and 500 of these will eat up the other 500 an
one hundred eat up the other 400, and finall
there will be only 50 left, and then 40 an
then SO and then 20 and then 10 and then tw^
? and then one.
But would a law of limitation of wealth be
unrighteous? If I dig so near my neighbor's
foundation, in order to baild my house, that
) I endanper his, tbe law grabs me. If I have
a tannery or chemical factory the malodors
of which injure residents in the neipbbor,
hood, the law says: "Stop that." If I drain
I off a river from its bed and divert it to turn
my mill-wheel, leaving the bed of the river a
r/iolorio tha lntr cava*
1-1 piatu i itiuiM* ??, -w- ? j ~.
"Quit that outrage!" And has not a
i government a right to say that a few
men shall not gorge themselves oa tbo
comfort and health and life of g nerations ?
Your rights end where my rights begin.
Monopoly?brazen-faced, iron-fi ngered. and
vulture-hearted, monopoly?offors his hand
to this Republic. He stretches it out over J
the lakes and up the Pennsylvania aud the j
Erie and the New York Central Railroads, |
and over the telegraph poles of the continent
and says: "Here is my heart and hand: bo
mine forever." Let the millions of the people,
North, South, East and West forbid
I the banns of that marriage, forbid them at
j the ballot box, forbid them on the platform,
forbid them by great organizations, forbid
them by the overwhelming sentiment of an
outraged nation, forbid them by the protest
of the church of God, forbid them by prayers
to high heaven. That Herod shall not have
| this Abigail. It shall not be to all dovouring
monopoly that this land is to be married.
Another suitor claiming the hand of this
| Republic is Nihilism. He owns nothing but |
a knife for universal blood-letting and a !
nitro-glvcerine bomb for universal explo- i
gion. He believes in no God,no government,
no heaven, and no hell except what he can
make on earth! He slew the Czar of Russia, !
keeps Emperor William, of Germany, practically
imprisoned, killel Abraham Lincoln,
would put to death every King and President J
on earth, and if he had the power would
climb up until he conld drive the God ot
heaven from his throne and take
it himseif, the universal butcher.
In Fiance it is called Communism; in thj !
United States it is called Socialism: in j
Russia it is called Nihilism, but that last is |
the most graphic and descriptive term. It ;
meaDS comp.'ete and eternal smash up. It !
would make the holding of property a crime j
and it would have a dagger through your |
heart and a torch to j-our dwelling and turn I
over this whole land into the possession of !
theft and lust and rapine and murder.
Where does this monster live? In St. Louis,
in Chicago, in Brooklyn, in Nww York, and
in all the cities and villages of this land. The
devil of destruction is an old devil, and he is
to be seen at every great fire where there is
anything to steal, and at every shipwreck
where there is auything valuable floating
ashore, and at every railroad accident where
ffcoro opo nroiwint.e nnrl wat-hns to ha nur
loined. On a small scale I saw it in my col- !
lege days, wheD, in our literaiy soci- j
ety in New York University, we hatf
*n exquisite and costly bust of i
Bbakespeare, and one morning we
found a hole bored into the lips of the marble
and a cigar inserted There" has not for the
last century been a fine picture in your art
gallery or a graceful statue iu your parks or
a fine fresco on your wall or a richly bound
album in your library but would have been i
despoiled if the hand of ruffian'sm could have j
got at it without peril of incarceration. Sometimes
the evil spirit shows itself by throwing |
vitriol into a beautiful face, sometimes by |
wilfully scaring a horse with a velocipede, ;
sometimes by crashing its cartwheel against
a carriage.
The philosophy of the whole business is
that there is a large number of people who, j
either through their laziness or their crime, j
own nothing:, and are mad at thi?e who ,
through industry aud wit of their own or of
their ancestors are in possessions of large resources.
The honest laboring classes never j
had anything to do with such murderous en- j
terprises. It is the villainous classes who l
would not work if they had plentv of |
work offered them at largo wages. Many
of these suppose that by the demoli- I
tion of law and order they would be
advantaged and the parting of the ship of ;
stato would allow them as wreckers to carry j
off some of the cargo. It offers its hand to i
this fair republic. It proposes to tear to j
pie?es the ballot box. the Legislative hall,the j
Congressional assembly. It would take this j
land and divide it ud. or rather, divide it I
down. It would give as much to the idler as I
to the worker, to the bad as to the pood. Nihilism?this
panther?having prowled a?ro?s I
other lands has set its paws on our soil, and I
it is only waiting for the time in whi-h to !
spring upon its prey. It was Nihilism that
massacred the heroic policemen of Chicago
and St. Louis a few days ago and that
burned the railroad property at Pittsburg I
during the great riots; it was Nihilism that I
slew black people in our Northern cities dur- i
ing the war; it was Nihilism that again and |
again in San Francisco and New York |
mauled to death the Chinese; it is Nihilism !
that glares out of the windows of the drunk- |
eries upon sober people as they go by. Ah!
its power has never yet been used. It would,
if it had the power, have every church,
chapel, cathedral, school house, college and
home in ashes.
Let me say it is the worst enemy of the I
laboring classes in any country. The honest
cry for reform lifted by oppressed laboring
men is drowned out by the vociferations for
anarchy. The criminals and the vagabonds
who range through our cities talking about
their rights when thoir first right is the penitentiary?if
they cc uld be hushed up, and
the downtrodden "laboring men of this
country could be heard, there would
be more bread for hungry children.
In this land riot and bloodshed never gained
any wages for the people, or gathered up any
prosperity. In this land the best weapon is
not the club, not the shillelah, not fire arms,
but the ballot. Let not our oppressed laboring
men be beguiled into coming under the
bloody banner of Nihilism. It will make
your taxes heavior, your wages smaller,
your table scantier, your children hungrier,your
suffering greater. Yet this Nihil- J
ism, with feet red with slaughter, comes forth j
and offers its hand for this republic. Shall |
the banns be proclaimed? If so, where shall l
the marriage altar be? And who will be the I
officiating priest? And what will be the !
music? That altar will have to be whi.
with bleached skulls, the music must be the
smothered groans of multitudinous victims,
the garlands must be twisted of nightshade,
the fruits must be apples of Sodom, the wine
must be the blood of St. Bartholomew's massacre.
No! it is not to Nihilism, the sanguinital
monster, that this land is to be married.
Another suitor for the hand of this nation
is infidelity. Mark you that all anarchists
are infidels. Not one of them believes in the
Bible,and very rarely any of them believe in
a God. Their most conspicuous leader was
the other day pulled by the leg from under
a bed in a house of infamy. cursing and blaspheming.
The police of Chicago, exploring
riono nt tVm .iTiqrMiist-.e fmind rlvnamite
and vitriol and Tom Paine's Age of" ReasoD
and obscene pictures and complimentary
biographies of thugs and assassins, but not
one testament, not one of 'Wesley's hymn
books, not one Roman Catholic breviary.
There are two wings to Infidelity. The one
calls its?lf liberalism and appears in highly '
literary magazines and is for the educated and j
refined. The other wing is in the form of
anarchy and is for the vulgar. But both
wings tielona: to tin same old filthy vulture.
Infidelity! Elegant infidelity proposes to
conquer this land to itself by the pen. An- |
archy propDse3 to conquer it by bludgeon
and torch.
"When the midnight ruffians a ?spoiled the !
grave of A. T. Stewart in St. Mark's church- '
yard everybody was shocked But infidelity '
proposes something worse than that?the rob- j
| ^ing of all the graves of Christendom of the
hone of a resurrection. It proposes to chlsa J
out from the tombstones o; your Christian
dead the words "Asleep in Jesus" and to sub !
| stitute the words "Obliteration, annihila !
tion." Infidelity proposes to take the lettei j
from the world's Father inviting tho nations .
to virtue and happiness, and tear it up iutc
fragments so small that you cannol
read a word of it. It propo*e? 1
to take the consolation from the broken j
hearted and the soothing pillow from I
the dying. Infidelity proposes to sweat |
in the President of the United States j
and the Supreme Court and the Governors of j
States and the witnesses in tho court room
with their right band on Pains's "Ageof Reason"
or Voltaire's "Philosophy of History." ]
It proposes to take away from this country
I the book that makes the difference between
the United States and the Kingdom of
Dahomey, between American civilization and
Bornesian cannibalism. If Infidelity could j
destroy the Scriptures it would in 200 years I
turn the civilized nations back to semi-barbarism
and then from semi-barbarism into
? -'J-I-l-i- ?WArnle nf Q 1
miuDignb savagery, uni-u ma muiuU menagerie
of tigers, rattlesnakes and chimpanzees
would be better than the morals of
the shipwrecked human race.
The only impulse in the right direction
that this worlcl has ever had has come from
the Bible. It was the mother of Roman law
and of healthful jurisprudence. That book
has been the mother of all reforms and all
? charities?mother of English Majna Charta
and American Declaration of Indendence.
Benjamin Franklin hold that holy book in
his hand, stood before an infidel club at Paris
and read to them out of the prophecies of
Habakkuk, and the infide's, not knowing
what book it was, declared it was the best
poetry they bad ever beard. That book
brought George Washington down on his
knees in the snow at Valley Forsre, and led
the dying Prince of Wales to ask some one
to sine "Rock of Aces."
' I teii you that the worst attempted crime
i of the century is the attempt to destroy this
book: yet infidelity, loathesome, stenchful,
! leprous, pestiferous, rotten monster,stretches
I out its hand, ichorous with the second death.
I to take the hand of this republic. It
stretches it out through seductive magazines
and through lyceum lectures and through
caricatures of religion. It asks for all that
part of the continent already fully settled
and the two-thirds not yet occupied. It
says: "Give me all east of the Mississipni,
with the keys of the church and the Christian
printing presses?then give me Wyoming,
give m? Alaska, give me Montana/give me
Colorado, give me all the States and Territories
west of the Mississippi, and I will take
those places and keep them by right of po^ession
Ions before the Gospel can be fully entrenched."
And this suitor pi e seshis case appallingly.
Shall the banns of that marriage be proclaimed!
"No!"'say the home missionaries
of the West,a martyr band of whom the world
is not worthy, toiling amid fatigues and
malaria and starvation, ''no! not if we can
helo it. By what wo and our children have
suffered, we forbid the banns of that marriage!"
"No!"savall patriotic voices, "our
(netifiifinne woro hontrht. at. too dp?r a nrice
and were defended at too great a sacrifice to
be so cheaply surrendered." "No." says the
God of Bunker Hill and Independence Hall
and Gettysburg, "I did not start th's nation
for such a farce." "No," cry ten thousand
voices, "to infidelity this land shall not be
married."
But there is anothersuitor that presents his
claim for the hand of this republic. He is
mentioned in the verse following my text,
where it says: "As the bridegroom rep;ceth
over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over
thee." It is not my figure, it i< the figure of
the Bible. Christ is so desirous to have this
world love him that he stops at no humiliation
of simile. He compares His ern-e to
spittle on the eyes of the blind. He compares
Himself to a hen gathering the chickens,
and in my text He compares Himself to
a suitor begerlni a hand in marriage. Does
this Christ, the King, deserve this land? Behold
Pilate's Hall and the insultinc expectoration
on the face of Christ. Behold the Calvarean
massacre and the awful hemorrhage
of five wounds. Jacob served fourteen
years for Rachel, but Christ, my Lord, the
king, suffered in torture thirtv-three years to
win the love of this world. Often princesses
at their very birth are pledged in treaty
of marriage to princes or kings of earth, so
this nation at its bii th was pledged to Christ
for divine marriage. Before C Rumbus and
his 120 men embarked on the Santa Maria,
the Pinta and the Nina, for their wonderful
vovage, what: was the last thing they did?
They sat down and took the lioiy sacrament
of the Lord Jesus Christ. After they
caught the first glimpse of this country
and the gun of one ship had announce!
it to the other vessels that laud
had been discovered, what was the song
that went up from all the three decks?
"Gloria in excelsis." After Columbus and his
120 men had stepped from the ship's deck to
the solid ground, what did they do 1 They
all knelt and consecrated the new world to
God. What did the Huguenots do aftnr they
landed in the Carolinas? What dii the
Holland refugees do after they had landei in
New York ? What did the. Pilgrim Fathers
do after they landed in New England ? With
bended knee and uplifted face and beavenbesieging
prayer they took possession of this
continent for God. How was the first American
Congress opened ? By prayer, in the
name of Jesus Christ From its birth this
nation was pledged for holy marriage with
Christ.
And then see how good God has been to us'
Just open the map of the continent and see
how it is shaped tor immeasurable prosperities;
navigable rivers, more in number and
greater than of any other land, rolling on all
sides into the sea, prophesying large manufactures
aud easy commerce. Look at the
great ranges of mountains timbered with
wealth on the t">p and sides, metalled with
wealth underneath. One hundred and eighty
thousand square miles of coal, 160,000 square
miles of iron. The land so contoured that
extreme weather hardly ever lasts more thau
three davs?extreme heat or cold. Climate
for the most part bracing and favorable for
brawn and brain. All fruits, all minerals,
all harvests. Scenery displaying
an autumnal pageantry that
no land on earth pretends to
rival. No South American earthquakes. No
Scotch mists. No London fogs. No Egyptian
plagues. No Germanic divisions. The
people of the United States are happier than
any people on earth. It is the testimony of
every man that has traveled abroad. For
the poor, more sympathy; for the industrious,
more opportunity. Oh, how good God was to
our father and how good He has been to us
and our cnildren. To Him?blessed be His
mighty name!?to-Him oficross and triumph,
to Him who still remembers the prayer of
the Huguenots and Holland refugees and the
Pilgrim Fathers?to Him shall this land be
married. Oh, you Christian patriots, by i
your contributions aud your prayers hasten
on the fulfilment of the text.
We have during the past six or seven
years turned a new leaf in our national history
by the sudden addition of foreigners.
At Kansas City I was told by a gentleman
who had opportunity for large investigation, I
that a great multitude had gone through
there, averaging in worldly estate $S00. 1
was told in the city of Washington
by an officer of the Governmenl
who had opportunity for authentu
investigation that thou ands and thousands J
had gone, averaging $1,000 iu possession ol
each. I was told by the Commission of Emigration
that twenty families that had arrived
at Castle Garden brought $85,000 with them.
Mark you, iamiues, not tramps. nuuinuur ;
to the national wealth, not subtraction;
therefrom, I saw some of them reading theii
Bibles and their hymn books, thanking
God for his kindness in helping thoir
cross the sea. Some of them had
Christ in the. steerage all' across th<
waves and they will have Christ in thi
rail trains which every afternoon start for
the great West. They are being taken by th?
Commission of Emigration in New York
taken from the vessels, protected from th<
Shylocks and the sharpers, and in the nami
of God and humanity passed on to their des
tination; and there they will turn your Ter
ritories into States and your wilderness int<
. gardens, if you will build for them churchei
and establish for them schools and send t<
them Christian m;s nonaries.
Are you afraid this continent ii going t<
be overcrowded with this population? Oh.
that shows you have not been to California
that shows you have not been to Oregon,
that shows tnat you have not l>een to Texas.
A fishing smack to-day, on Lake Ontario
might as well be afraid of being crowded by
other shipping before night as for auy
one of the next ton generations of
Americans to bo afraid of being
overcrowded bv foreign populations
iu this country. The one State of Texas is
far larger than all th9 Austrian empire, yet
the Austrian empire supports 35,000,0J0 people.
The oae State of Texas is larger than
oil Pfamo onfl Ppnncfl sunnnrh* oU.OOO.OOJ
p?oplo. The one State of Texas far surpasses
in size the Germanic empire, yet the Germanic
empire supports 41,000,0.M) people. I
tell you the great wautof the Territories and
of the We .torn States is more population.
While some may stand at the gates of the
city, saying: "Stand back!" to foreign popalations,
I press out as far beyond those
?ates as I can press out beyond them and
beokoa to foreign nations, saying: "Come,
come!" "But," say you, "'I am so afraid that
they will bring their prejudice* for foreign
governments and plautthem here." Absurd!
They are sick of the governments thai have
oppressed them and they waut free America!
Give them the great gospel of wel:*om?.
Throw around them all Christian hospitalities.
They will add their industry and hard
earned wages to thi< country, and thoa we
will dedicate all to Chr.'st, "and thy laud
shall be married."
But where shall the marriage altar ,be?
Let it be the Rocky Mountains, whan, through
artificial and mighty irrigation,all their top
shail be covered, as they will be, with vine
j vards and orchards and errain fields. Then
let the Bostons aud the New Yorks and the
I Charlestons of the Pacific coa;t come to the
marriage altar on one side, aud then let the
J Bostons and the New Yorks and the Charlestons
of the Atlantic coast come
I to the marriage altar oa the
! other side, and there between them let this
| bride of nations kueel; and then if the
organ of the loudest thunders that ever
shook the Sierra Nevadas on the one side or
moved the foundations of the Albghauieson
: the other side, should open full diapason of
I wBildiner march, that organ of thunders
could not drown the voice of Him who should
take the hand of this bride of nations,
saying: "As a bridegroom rejoiceth
over a bride, so thy God rejoiceth over thee."
At that marriage banquet shall be the platters
of Nevada silver and the chalice3 of California
gold and the fruits of Northern
orchards and spices of Southern groves
and the tapestry of American manufacture
and the congratulations from all the
free nations of earth and from ail the triumphant
armies of heaven. "And so thy
land shall be married/'
PATENTS.
ENTERTAINING TALK WITH A
PATENT OFFICE EMPLOYE.
Mow Money is Made and Lost l)y
Patents?Some Patent Lawyers?Railroads
and Inventions?Queer
Patents.
A gentleman standing very high in the
Patent Office at "Washington said in the
course of a conversation with the Cleveland
Leader correspondent:
"The extent of i;he work of the Patent
Office is wonderful, and it increases
every year. There were 8,000 more patents
granted last year than there were
ten years ago, and the applications filed
for patents last year numbered 35,000.
The Patent Office is the only office of the
government, I think, that more than
pays its expenses. It has a surplus of
over $2,000,000 in the Treasury Department,
and It made clear $140,000 above
all of its expenses last year."
I "Do inventors cenerallv make money
out of patents?"
"No, as a rule the money is made by
people who buy or swindle the inventors
out of their rights. Inventors are nearly
always poor men. They work their
brains for their bread and butter. They
are a visionary set of fellows, and have
not the money making sense. They get
in with business men in order to develop
their patents, and these euchre them out
of the profits. The man who invented
the elevated railroad in New York died |
a poor man, and while he was alive the j
people laughed at his idea. It is so with i
hundreds of other patents, and if you :
will look over the history of the Patent J
Office you will find it is the business men
who make the money, while the inven-1
tors do the work. Some patentj
lawyers make a great deal of j
money, and there are a number i
in Washington who have grown j
wealthy in the practice. There is a man I
here named Pollock who has made a ,
fortune in the patent law. He had seme- I
thing to do with the Goodyear rubber
patent, and he has been prospering ever
since. He owns a fine mansion on the
corner of Seventeenth and I streets, J
and tried the experiment one time of j
making a stable for his horses in the '
basement. All the modern improve- '
ments, however, in the shape of water |
would not do away with the smell, and
he finally gave it up as a bad job. Many
patent lawyers, when they see that a
man has a good thing, contract with him j
to get out his patent for a certain amount
of money and some shares in the stock
of the patent. They get paid for their
work with the money and have a fair
chance of making a fortune out of the :
profits of the patent if it turns out well.
There are hundreds of patent lawyers !
in Washington. Many of them are smart j
fellows and all of them are making
money."
"I see they talk about having cable ;
street railroads here. Is there much ad- !
vancement in this line of patents?"
"Yes, indeed; there is a great deal, j
rnU? ?AV1A in n A/\mnorofit'oln rnr^nnf I
JL J1C L'auiv luau io <t U'yHiUMiuuivij IWV41V
invention, and there are hundreds of
patents filed for grips and other things
connected with it. You would be surprised
to know how many patents are applied
for for railroad inventions. New
ideas for rails, switches, and ties are being
put forward every day. The railroad
tie of the future is yet to be patented. It
requires very good hard wood to make a
tie. and this class o:f wood is being fast
I cut out of the country. Railroad building
has reached such a point that there is not
enough wood to supply the ties, and a
new invention has got to be made. There
are now something under 300.000 miles
of railroad in the world, and about 120,000
miles of these are in the United
States. Ties wear out, and the time
will cvme when there will te no wood to
replace them. "VVe have already patents
given on glass ties, i:ies of iron, and ties
made of paper and wood pulp. Another
set of articles that has been patented
largely of late y< ars is fences and fence
posts. The old wooden fence has.
seen its best days, and the win
fence is rapidly taking its place. A
great many inventors devote them
selves solely to maKing patents ior kucuen
utensils, and others work upon machines
relating entirely to water. A
great many of the railroads and machine
shops and factories of various kinds keep
inventors who do nothing else but work
upon the specialties of the factories in
which they are employed. Women make
a gieat many patents, but these deal <
chiefly with household matters, or with I
their own work. There has been a great I
deal of electrical invention during the
past few years, and it is perfectly wonderful
how rapidly the patents come in [
after any success in any particular branch j
of invention. A great accident always
brings in patents to prevent its occurrence
in the future, and when a big fire
occurs at any of the big hotels with a
great loss of life the fire cscapes roll in
by the hundreds."
"Have you many patents for perpetual
motion?"
"Yes, hundreds are applied for, but
they are not granted. I remember once
a m:in walked from Kentucky to Washington
to patent a perpetual motion, and
one of your Ohio newspaper men, not
long ago, telegraphed to the Associated
Press that the invention of perpetual motion
had at last been conceived somewhere
in Ohio. I should think that
"Washington would be a good place for
an inventor to work. By going to the
Pateut Office he could see all that had
been done in the line upon which he was
working, and he might see where a cog
here or a wheel there would perfect some
patent which would be worth tens of
thousands of dollars where it is now
worth, nothing.*'
The Lion Throne.
Few of our contempories made any
special reference to the throne upon
which her Majesty was seated at Ihe
opening of the Colonial exhibition. As
a matter of fact, it was none other tl an j
the royal seat of the Lion of Punjaub,
Runjeet Singh himself, the chief of the
trophies sent home from Lahore after
the glorious campaign on the Five Rivers.
Th:it some of the morning papers
spoke of it as a chair may be due to the
fact that a cushioned lining, specially
moldeil upon one of the royal chairs at
Buckingham Palace, had been fitted
into the famous throne. It was a curious
coincidence that at almost the ss.me
moment the so callcd "heir" to the Sikh
sovereignty should have been soliciting
the sympathy of his compatriots in the
Punjaub, while here in London the Empress
of India should have been seated
upon the veritable lion throne of that
once potent nation-?St. James 8 QuvAte.
Transplanted teeth are recommended
as possessing many advantages or?c j'alse
teeth.
RELIGIOUS READING.
Uod'i Own.
"Call all who love Th?e, Lord, to Thee,
Thou knowest how they long
To have these broken lays ana aid
In heaven's unceasing song!"
Earth is theplaca of severance,
Sin, danger and defect;
A,ll ?11 ?.1.A T nn^. TUaa
V/<U1 Oil VYUU 1UVO iUCO. JJU1U, 1U 1UW,
Accomplish Thine elect!
Father, the whole creation groans,
Till in Thine own abode,
Complete in number and in bliss,
Shme a!l the sons of God;
Let them be manifested, Lord,
One countless sacred host
From every word and bygone time,
Prom every clime and" coast.
?G. Rawson:
Thord's Better Fart.
The man of whom I am going to tell was
the big man of the parish; his name was
Thord Ovcraas. One dny he stood proud
and solemn ia his nastor'sstudv. "I have
got a boy," he said, "and I waut him
christened."
"What shall be his name?"
"Finn, after my own father."
"And who shall be his godfather?"
lie named several, great people one and
all in the eyes of their neighbors, and relation:?
of his own.
"Anything else?" asked the pastor,
looking up. The peasant hesitated a
little. "I want to have him christened
by himself," he said.
"That means on a week-day?"
"Next Saturday, at noon."
"Anything else?" repeated the pastor.
"Nothing elsn," the man took his hat,
and turned to go.
But the pastor rose. "Yes, one thinjj
mere," lie said, and roing up to Thord
he took his hand, looking him in the face
? "please God that this child become a
blessing to yourself I"
Sixteen years later the man again stood
in the pastor's study.
"You arc little changed, Thord," remarked
the pastor, "a^c deals kindly by
you." "There is nothing to trouble rac,"
replied Thord. To this the pastor had
no answer, but presently he asked,?
"and what have you conic for this evening?''
"I have come to speak about my son,
who is to bo confirmed to-morrow."
"He is a. fine fellow."
' I did not want to pay for his instruction
until I knew what rank he is to take
to-mnrrow at church."
"He luu, got the first placc."
"So I hear; and I have brought ten
crowns for the teaching."
"Anvthintr else?" inQuired the mstor.
looking at Thord.
"Nothing else;1' and Thord went his
wnj\
Eight years had passed, when one day
thero was n great commotion outside the
pastor's study; a number of men had
come, Thord at their head. The pastor
looked up, and recognized him. "You
arc well attended," he said.
"It is to ask you to put up the bands
for my son; he is going to be married
to Caren Storliden Gudmund's
daughter, whose father is here beside
me."
"Why, she is the richest girl in all the
country-sidc 1"
"People say so," returned the peasant,
pushing back the hair from his forehead.
Th? pasto:: sat silent, as though following
his thoughts, and then he entered
the names on his books. Thord put
throe crowns upon the table.
"It should be but one," said the pastor.
"I knew; but he is my only child,
and I want to do it handsomely."
The pastor took the money. "This is
the third time, Thord, that you hare
come here on account of your boy."
"And I have done with him now,"
said Thord, putting up his pockct-book.
He took h's leave and went, the other
men following slowly.
A fortnight after this, father and son
in fair weather were rowing across the
lake to Storlidcn in order to arrange
about the wedding. ' 'The board on which
I am sitting seems loose," said the son,
and rose to fix li. But the plank on
which he rested slipped; he opened his
arms wide, and with a cry foil overboard.
*'Catch hold of the oar!" cried iho
father, rising and holding it out to him.
But the son?struggling twice, thrice?
felt numb and stiff. "Wait, I ain coming,"
cried the father, pulling with all
his might. But the son, on his back,
gave a long look into bis father's face,
and sank from sight.
Taord could not believe it; he sat, oar
in hand, staring blankly upon the spot
where his boy had gone down, as
though waiting for his reappearance. A
bubble rose; another, and yet another,
and then a large one which burst on the
surface?and "the lake lay smiling a9
before.
For two days and three nights the
father was seen rowing about the spot
without taking food or sleep; he was
* * V*. A? i.1.. i
seCKTOg ior ills son. un uic iiiurunig ui
the third day he found him, and carried
him in his arms across the hills to the
homestead.
A year might have passed, when one
autumn evening, late, the pastor heard a
sound in his ante room, as of someone's
hand on the latch. He went to open,and
in came a tall man, but bowed, wasted
and white. The pastor had to look close
before lie recognized him; it was Thord.
"Is it you,coming so late?" said the pastor,
and stood silent,
"Oh, yes, I have come late!" said
Thord, and sat down. The pastor also
sat down, as though to wait; lie waited
Icuig in silence. Then Thord began. "I
have brought something I want to give
to the poor; it shall be a trust fund bearing
my son's name," Tie rose, put the
money on the table, and sat down again.
"That is a lar^e sum" an id the pastor,
examining the gift.
"It is the half of my property; I have
sold it th:s morning."
The pastor sat very still; wncnncspoice
again there was a tremor in his voice.
"What will vou be thinking of for yourself
now, Thord?"
"The bettor part."
A long pause followed, Thord's eyes
were on the ground, the pastor's searching
his face. And then the pastor said
slowly and softly? "I think, Thord, that
your son has become a blessing to you at
last."
"Yes, I think so," said Thord, looking
ap; and two bi/r tears ran heavily down
his face.?From Bjornnoii's "Tell* of NtfVtiy,"
translated by Julie SutUr.
Boston, which has had a laudable pride
in its schools, how has seven liquor saloons
for every school, eight liquor sellers for
cvt ry teacher, and spends annually $0,000,000
more for its liquor than fpr its
schools. It has one church to every 1,757
per-oni, one preacher to every 878
persons, but one liquor saloon for every
thirty-six persona.
Tho Massachusetts Total Abstinence
Society offers liberal prizes for essays on
tho subject of temperance by pupilg in
the public schools.
TEMPERANCEJEPARTHENT.
No Drunkards Are There.
There is a beautiful land, we are told,
With rivers of silver, streets of gold,
Bright the beings whose shining feet
Wander along each quiet street;
Sweet is the music that fills the airNo
drunkards are there.
No garrets are there, where the weary wait,
Where the room is cold and the hours are
late;
No pale-faced wife, with looks of fear,
Listers for steps she dreads to hear.
The hearts are fre2d from pain and careNo
drink is sold there.
rawer, iook aown irom xny tnrone, i prry,
Hasten, oh, hasten a better day,
Help us to work as a temperance band,
To drive the demon *xom the land. '
Help us to wipe away every fear
Which drink brings here.
The Irrepressible Conflict.
While there is evil in this world to '
war on good, to threaten human happiness,
to lie in wait till the peace of home '
is broken and scattered, there must be
conflict, in some prominent shape it
presents itself in an unmistakable way to ^
every generation. Nothing is more certain
than that every land and people has ,
its principal task and commanding duty
in the raging battle between good and
evil. It is too plain for debate, or denial,
that our contest, one that has in it
the destiny of our civilization, is the
mighty issue between temperance and intemperance.
Indifference cannot long
relieve any unthinking citizen from his
share in this matter. The cause is too
universal to be winked at?too terrible (
in its consequences to be ignored. While
a saloon exists to tempt youth to ruin, i
or to invade the happiness of human
homes, we are traitors to our age and our 1
fellowmen, if we shirk our task or evade
our responsibility.
On one side of the line that divides
the home interest and influence from
the saloon habit and power, we must all :
stand. There is in this warfare no neutral
ground. "We are forced to be upon
one side or the other. Our personality
cannot be taken out of the contest, for
the irrepressible summons to act either
for our habitations, or for the business
that menaces them, compels from us
some decision. As we cannot serve God
I ana Jlammon, we cannot oe loyai at tno
same -time to our firesides and give aid
and comfort to their natural enemy, the
place of public temptation. In the forces
organized throughout the country to
reoist and combat the evil of intemperance,
we fall into line as anti-saloon Re- .
publicans. And we have yet to see any
other social clement that has been, or can :
be more effective in crushing the monstrous
vice that desolates society, than
the gveat body of Republicans, who, by
example and by votes apainst license, and
by legislation against the liquor interest,
l.ave to this date scored the best
results in the irrepressible conflict.?T/u
State.
Strong Drink and the Labor Problem.
The seventh annual report of the New
Jersey Bureau of .Statistics of Labor and
Industries has a chapfer concerning the
condition of wage-earners, and how it
can be improved, from which the New ]
York Independent has collected the following
suggestive sentences from letters
of individual workmen and others:
Whisky and beer are the great obstacles
here.
Intemperance is the cause of very much
wretchedness in our families.
The greatest evil is strong drink.
Our morals here are low on account of
rum.
a P fliA linmlo f A AT/>AM
I iuau j vi tuu uauu^ uiuin w o^v.?ga.
The liquor traffic has a bad effect on our
trade. i
Strong drink injures a great many of us.
Morality would bo good except for drunkenness.
Too large a portion of our wages go to the
sellers of rum and beer.
Drunkenness is the bane of the working '
classes.
Many of our men lore beer more than their !
families. 1
Drink is the workingman's curse.
Tobacco and liquor are a great injury.
Except for beer and whisky we are very 1
moral.
Rum does much to lower us.
Workingmen drink too much for their own
good .
rtum ana oeer are our grtrai/ euemiro.
Our condition is much lower than it should
be. This results principally from the use of
liquor and from ignorance.
Much immorality?whisky is at tha bottom.
Ignorance and intemperance are the chief
causes which prevent us from improving.
Intemperance is the great vice of the painters.
How He Found His Room.
A young fellow from the South, after
some office, told me that he had fallen in
with a gentleman, who was among the
first rewarded under the new regime.
This gentleman, being of a social turn,
at nightfall asked his companion to take
a drink. Several times this invitation
wa3 repeated, until the jolly fellow
thought it time to go home. He had
forgotten where he lived exactly, but he
knew the street. After vain attempts to
locate his boarding-house,he remembered
there was a butcher's shop opposite his
place and that the butcher knew hira. ]
After trying numerous shops without
success they hit upon the right one. '
Having found the house and entered ('
with difficulty, the jolly fellow did not )
recollect his room's number or position. ]
At last he said to his soberer companion: j
"If you can find a room with a man j
asleep in his boots on the sofa and an .
empty whisky-bottle on the tabic, that's (
my room. Every Saturday night my 1
room-mate takes that rccumbent atti- '
t.nflt!." Search was made and in one ,
apartment, sure enough, such a condition
of affairs existed. The jolly fellow
took up the empty bottle, examined, and
dropped it with a sigh. He gazed at the
snoring, stupefied man on the sofa, and
then flung himself on the bed, boots and
all. "What a temperance sermon must the
blessed Sunday light as it crept into that
boozy lair have preached to the two men
with swelled heads and aching brains, as
the looked at each other! 1
ROSS AND DAISY.
The Daisy lifted her eyes to the Rose
(The Daisy that grew so low),
At the summer day's dim, shadowy close,
When the south wind began to blow,
And the blush of the sky at the parting kias
Of the sun was paling slow.
And she wondered why, as Daisies will,
God made the Rose so fair;
Anrl rirnwailv n/vlrllntr wnnrlprftH ?til!
Till sleep o'ertook her there?
A sleep so deep, she knew it not '
When the south wind touched her hair.
But the south wind's touch aroused a dream
In a heavenly garden plot
Beside a clear and winding stream
That fed the forget-me-not;
rhey two did seem ('twas but a dream)
To grow, and share one lot!
rhey two did grow as sisters dear,
And the Daisy's weary head,
With never a thought ot doubt or fear,
On the Rose's breast was laid?
For the mother-heart stooped aad drew it
near?
The little, motherless head!
But the night wind passed, and 6he Daisy
n urc ,
And queenly above her there
rhe Rose smiled on. The morning broke,
And flushed the sapphire air,
And she wondered still, as Daisies will,
Why Roses grow so fair!
?Josephine A. Caas.
PITH AND POINT.
The skeleton man travels on his shape.
A good place for a loaf?A baker's
shop.
A mor* n*V?r\ oIwtatto Aiifa on ortnnoinf_
?uu ainajo uu ?vvjuumir
mce?The barber.
A clothcs call is made by the laundry
robber ? Waterloo Observer.
Uniform prices?What the tailor
charges for soldiers' clothes.
Poople who throw banana skins at large
ire now called bananarchists.
The cyclone raises everything on the
farm but the mortgage.?Boston Post.
The "melting look" must come from
the man with "tire in his eye."?State*'
man.
Washingtonians are happy people. Every
one of them is a capitalist.?Free
Press.
Love may be blind, but in some way
it generally mauages to get on to a man's
bank account.?Oil City Blizzard.
It must be glorious fun to go courting
in Greenland. The nights are about
three months long.?Burlington Fret
Press.
Speaking of flies, a Burlington baseball
player says: "They come high, but
we must have them."?Burlington Free
Press.
The small boy learning the alphabet
i3 very much like the postage stamp?he
often gets stuck on a letter.?Boston
Bulletin.
First love and first shave come but"
once in a man's lifetime. And neither
usually has much result.?SomeroilU
Journal.
When a man falls in love he courts his
sweetheart. Afterward she sues for a
breach of promise and courts her lover.
?New Haven News.
Although they claim that love is blind,
A sad experience will disclose
'Tia difficult to be resigned
To boils upon your sweetheart's nose.
?Pittsburg Gazette. ,
The bricks with which many Egyptian
tombs were built are as perfect after four
thousand years as when they were made.
They evidently were pressed for time.?
Texas Si/tings.
"Pa. what does nobby mean?" "Stylish,
my dear." "Well, then, pa, youi
nose must be very stylish, for grandma
says you have got the knobbiest nose io
town."?Siftings.
"Isn't it heavenly!" ejaculated ilisi
4-s\ \fJ<- ? Da/^aPq nap.
Urllbll, ill fcicicuuu bis jj.lj.oo jl buat a j^ui
formance on the piano. "Yes," replied
Fogg, "it is indeed heavenly. It 60unda
like thunder."?Boston Transcript.
"Grandpa," said Teddy, as the old
gentleman woke up from a loud soundings _____
after dinner nap, "if you'd give youx "
nose a spoonful of paregoric don't you
think you could put it to sleep too?"
Burdette.
One of the Lynn primary school teachsrs
a few days since asked her scholars
the question: "What is dust?" One little
fellow answered: "Please, marm, it
is dirt with the water squeezed out."?
Lynn Item.
A tramp who had been furnished with
a good breakfast, was invited to saw
some wood alter ne naa nnusaeu.
"Thanks, awfully," he said, "but I don't
consider it healthy to work between
meals."?Siftings.
When you've told your little story
And have settled to the glory,
Of extravagant narration most successfully
displayed,
How you turn a bilious yellow
"When you hear some other fellow,
With his wretched "That reminds me, "lay
you snugly in the shade.
?Pittsburg Gazette.
Again the zephyrs sigh alons the leas,
And blooms the violet ana buttercup,
Now softly blows the balmy western breeze,
And the thermometer is going up.
The golden dandelion nods its head,
Again we feel the odor of the briar,
And "Thomas" re-appears upon the shexi
At night to warble to his loved "Mariar."
?Boston Courier.
Praying in a Hurricane.
I heard a very amusing story the other
day iu connection with the recent hurri
cane. A genueman quue wen iujuwu m
this city was hurrying along to reach hia
home, when the storm burst upon the
city in all its fury. He sought refuge in
a house where there were a number of
ladies congregated, all of whom were
frantic with terror. After a little tho
storm increased in fury, the house rocked
and swayed berore the furious winds,
several windows were blown in, and it
Looked as though the whole building
would be destroyed. The women rushed
iround wringing their hands, crying
md bemoaning their fate, when suddenly
?ne rushed up to the gentleman and frantically
besought him to offer up a prayer,
[n a moment he was surrounded by "the
jther women, who clung to him and
DCgged him to pray. He was not by any
ti fin us collected himself, and besides, not
it all up in prayers, but there was no
sscapc for him, so he prepared to comply
nith their request. He knelt down, but
jwing to the excited condition of hia
xiind and to the fact that he had not
prayed for a long time, he found himself
attcrly unequal to the occasion. Ho
couldn't think of anything. He was
iumb. Soon he became desperate, and
without a thought as to its appropriateness
he pronounced the following brief
exortation, which he remembered to have
formed a part of the grace his father used
to say many yeare ago: "Oh, Lord,
make us thankful for that which we are
about to receive." Just then three or four
windows blew in, a couple of chimneys
blew over and tho prayer meeting broke
up in confusion.?Kansas City JournaL