Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-12-20
TWENTY YARDS OF THE LATE
PANIC.

This is not discussion of the Woman
Question. Its confines are women's cX-
travagancc i'll dress on one hand, and
the higher education of women ON the
other. The conservative reader need
not be deferred by any apprehension OF
fhe suffrage Flea and he or she who
sees the Woman Question radically
who constantly beholds in the remote
and impossible-future q revolution un-
doing nature and wiping ont divine
statutes-a revolution that is to demon
strate the superiority of Il little class of
mad theorists over God, and, hardly
less amazingly, over Matter, such a
mind will not be indignant with an at
tempt to show that somewhat of radi
calism may be urgently demanded, i'll
adjusting the privileges of women to the
rights of men.
Ministers do not often say very sensi-
BILE things on practical subjects. There
is no time and little room for robust,
vigorous and trenchant thought i'll
speculative theology, that includes
banking and stock speculations. In
handling the late panic, the evangelical
pulpits issued from their legal. tender
reserve a curious sort of currency, with
Il scripture text in its face, its back
green, intended to be the religious les
son on the causes, the nature, and the
consequences of financial tempests.
The spectacle they presented may be
illustrated by an imaginary parallel. Ii
n convention of gamblers held an active
professional convention in the Chicago
Exposition building, and that beautiful
structure were to tremble and totter and
fol1 I,,ry tho ,,,rltitulA pf 1,
in its ruins, the ministers should pro-
ceed to make sermons on the principles
of architecture, taking for their text the
caccrH domttna, IN U0no labOraUera3at
qui edifcam ea'n." Unless the Lord
build the house, in vain do the-con-
tractors worry. The reverend speakers
should enlarge then on the universally
of rchitecture-civil, military and naval
OH the tendency of mankind to live
III simple truth, to live in houses and
the various kinds of these, their cost,
with and without Easements, the appro-
pirate furnishings, the harmony to be
observed between carpets and frescoes,
and the unity of the upholstery with the
style of the exterior, including the pat
tern of the fence pickcts; all this should
be detailed with the dignity and force
inseparablc from the Office of modern
apostle. The more learned might enter
into a succinct history of architecture.
There We're the pyramids of Egypt and
of Mexico, the cairns of Britain. Fol
lowing these, perhaps cotemporaneous
with them, the Druidical temples, the
dolmens of Brittany, the Notifications
of Mycen@, and the mounds of Arizona
and Central America. Then the simple
Doric pillar, and the multiform varieties
Of styles with which imagination and
luxury have adorned religion and beau
tilted the public places and the woods
the distinctions being properly noted
among entablatures, colonnades, cor
nlces and capitals. This could be am
plitied sufficiently to occupy all but the
final five minutes of the discourse and
the word OF God might be alluded to
with gloves on during this fnalc. The
sin of gambling should form no portion
whatever of the discourse, precisely as
the sins which induced the panic, and
the direct lesson of simplicity of life to
be derived from its consequences, formed
no part of the discourses of these rever.
end gentlemen on that very recent
event.
One OF this class was exceptional in
what he said. He walked through his
Sunday school, rejecting on the panic
and observed that the children were at
tired in satins and laces and silks aut
he uttered in his sermon the reflection
that this observation gave: "Thes,
children are taught nothing of the vir
tue of self-denial. The little girls whom
he saw before him are to be the young
ladies', the wives, the mothers of hi,
church gaudy milliners' miniatures o.
all the Sunday schools are to be becom,
the women of all the churches Will,
these churches last. Few of them hav,
the faintest perception of the virtue o
self-denial
Jay Cooke himself will not dissuad,
us that sefdenial is at the bottom o
the panic. No need of financial permu
tations to prove this. Every man know
it in his own breast every woman il
hers.s Extravaganza caused the panic
Women's extravaganza bears a larg
portion of the responsibility, and mel
are ready enough to tell their wives SO
and fathers and mothers to tell thei
daughters. Let those who cry out