The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1858-09-08
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and should know better than to talk such
nonsense in a civilized and christian
land. Others said the poor man was
insane, gone completely daft and would
know better, should reason ever return,
than to suppose that mankind should be
really guided by industry, equality and
sympathies practically humane. That
such might be very nice to talk about
and would perhaps do well enough for
the Scroggses, who were fit only for
laborers and slaves for the better bred,
born and noblsr qualified Aristocracies.
The pure and sweet elite,
Quite too polished and discrset,
Ever to soil their hands and feet,
Or disgracs Themselves with labor.
Still Scroggs waxed valiant, declar-
ing that since man, who is born of wo-
men, is but of few days and full of
trouble. and since there was no other
way Of being born except through these
fallsble and affectionate beings, he was
determined to spend those few days in
such a way as to bring out the best pow
ers of body and mind, and bring in the
best comfort and usefulness of the
Scroggses, remark ing in conclusion that
all those despising industry, humanity
and labor, except 80 far as they get the
fruits of virtues. but really caring for
nothing but gold. pride, pomp and pala-
ces, rolling round in princely carriages
or swinging in bewitching semicircles-
clad in costly silks and satins or strut,
ing and swelling in foreign broad cloths
with long huge chains of gold and splen-
did dimonds, dug from Golconda's dirt
to decorate the clay of decaying sim
pleton, spurning the humble and poor,
no matter how worthy riding with sill.
yer heels and COLDS intoxication over
knowledge, virtue and truth--as but fit
subjects for the gun and swell Of aristo.
cratic dislike and contempt. All these,
said Scroggs, may howl all their thun-
der and pale lightning against the
Scroggses, that henceforth he would
stand up one independent, calm, firm,
freedom loving and freedom having
Scroggs. No sooner had he made this
declaration of independence, than all
the money-princes and aristocracies of
gold, all Judges and Governors with
the rulers in high places all sitting on
thrones of money, and those bowing
down around them begging for, the
crumbs falling from their master 5 table,
said with loud voice, MAY all of the
Scroggses with those of the same faith
be tee-totally damned and thrust out OF
the synagogue, while we shout all glory
honor and dominion be and abide with
us who have the golden presence in our
pockets and the money spirit writer
on our foreheads /" Then ell the prin
ess end rsalers sitting upon thrones and
thousands standing round trying to get
on. put the great horn of Public Opin
ion to their mouths, shouting AMEN to
the voice of money! The voice of spec.
ulation and the voice of their chief an.
gel which saith ''cheat all men out Of
their last dollars as far as is possible in
their times of need and whenever they
will take the bate. Cheat all men in the
christian or inidel way, except our.
selves" Were the Angel of Public
Opinion with towering form and awful
mein descending, drew from the throne
Of money, his rock of ages, a vial o.
wrath red and burning, and poured il
upon the devoted head of Scroggs, who
finding himself still standing alive and
comfortable in his idea of things, told
the angel that he might pour ali he had
OF that red preparation on him, that he
thought the noise and color of his wrath
was the worst part of it, and he guessed
that would fade out in the burning sur
of truth, rising to brighten up and
reveal the true light and joy, and glory
that had began to illuminate the dark
and gloomy pathway of the Scroggses,
with the incoming of knowledge and
happiness of plenty and prosperity
The natural fruit and reward of industry
and humanity prompting a genuine good
feeling and desire for the comfort and
well doing ofour neighbor, visiting him
in prosperity, trials and adversely, Civ.
ing to each a portion of good thing
in due season, so the angel closed ul
what remained of his wrath and ascend
ed to his money God, while Scragas
went on his way rejoicing and saying
to himself, loud enough to be overheard
that he believed he had found good
thing which would be blessing and
prize to all men and women if they would
have patience to wait for him to get lev
er under and pry it up from the rubbish
and caverns where it had been buried
for ages. The buried treasures when
brought out will first produce an in
crease of physical and vital health and
power with greater length of days, while
in the second place there will be also a
vast increase Of moral and intellectual
power. The God given telescope direc
ted through the depths, not of the beau
tiful and blue infinite, but through the
da'KhoSS, ignorance, superstition, Dar'
berism and bigotry ofthe long trackway
of ages past, while countless millions
have changed to corpses and to ashes
whose habits and vices have been trans
mitted to earths living millions, making
the power of conquest and money alike
the principal ambition and pursuit o
both savage and civilized nations. In
view of this Scroggs don't care SO much
if his money boat is a wreck, since he
now proposes to examine into the ele
ments and material which 60 to make
up men and WON IN, to enquire what
those laws are by which the timbers o
the human form divine are united and
combined to make and sustain the struc.
ture. man. and finally to enquire what is
the object Of the human creation. II