White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1868-07-02
Correspondence.
(For the Chief.i
Letter From Occasional,


THE HOT wEATHER-LEAvING THE CITY
MoRALIzlNG-sT. JOSEPH AS IT IS-HE
sLEEPs-THE NEW DEMOCRATIC NEWS
PAPER THE CONCLUSIONS -
POLITICAL NEws-THE DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTION, sc &C.
ST. JOSEPH, No Juus %, 1868,
We are now in the full summer tide.
The sun glows down upon us with a
fierce, unwinkiug eye. Business is about
at a stand still. and there is great de-
mand for ice. cream and soda water.
mint juleps. and "claret with ice."-
People are rushing out of town; some
to the country. others to the watering
pace, Of the E sst, while many prefer a
trip to the cooler regions of the North.
l have reference here, to the 6eau monde:
The poorer classes. the mechanic and
the laborer-the canaiNe-seldom, If
ever. share in any of these luxuriea, or
summer recreations. Oh. no. For them
the heat Of the city the dust, and sweat,
the toll and aching limbs. the sunburned
cheek, and hardened hands. But better
poverty with q clear conscience. than
riches with On i'll one. Better . little
bsck-ache,a a brown cheek and patched
clothes, with an honest heart, than the
fairest outside that ever graced city or
palace. which bot covers q stained.
wrinkled, aud hardened soul. The lsbo.
rer and mechanic are Gods uoblemen.-
Would I could say as much for the
wealthy. Do not understand me to be
sweeping in nay conclusions. There are
some liberal. noble men and women
among the wealthy classes. Their re.
ward is to come. But there are many,
yes, very many. who have smassed rich
es by fraud and unfair dealings; who
have built themselves op, upoe the tears
of the widow and the father,ess who
have robbed the mechanic Of his Just due,
and the lsborer of his hire-these are
the kind spoken Of 10 holy Writ, that
"devour widows houses" and drive the
beggsr from their door. What
shall be said of these Sooner or later,
when time unfolds the book-when ON.
uiscience opens the Register of Heaven.
they may read the record there, and bow
to the justpess Of their punishment
But why morsliss? Will it change human
nature? Will it make man deal Justly
with bis fellow man? Alasl we think
not. IT'S hard to turn the drifting cur.
rent Of "man's inhnmanity to man."
This city may now be styled. and
justly. too. the "Gothsm Of the West"
inssmuch As concerns fast men, still fast
or women crime. and all the tinsel.
frippery. and gingerbread splendor which
constitute the "msks up" of fast town.
And st. Joseph, be il remembered. is
fast merging from the town to the city
assuming metropolitan proportions
with swiitness that stsrtles the "oldest
inhabitsnt." Oldest inhabitant, did l |
say? Pardon me be sleeps. Peacs to
bis ashes. In vulgar parlsdee. when . |
man shuffles of this mortal coil We say
'he's dead" We err. Man never dies.
Suspended snnimation is not deaih.-l
Lazarus was mot dead, bot sleeping."i
And I bold to the theory. that it is i'm
possible for anything to die or be ami
,ilated. Webster to the contrary. not
outstanding. II the snnihilation doc
rine WAS true. OF correct. nature would
opg since have ceased to perform her
mites /; vegetation would refuse to come
ortb. the streams would become st.g-
ant. the cir would bs humid, and reek-
% with psstilsnes. ssd every living
hing on the face Of the earth cease to