Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-12-04
TWENTY YARDS OF THE LATE
PANIC.

This Is not discussion OF the woman
Question. Its confines are women's ex-
travagance in dress on one hand, and
the higher education of women on the
other. The conservative reader need
not be deferred by any apprehension of
the suffrage Flea and he or she who
sees the Woman Question radically
who constantly beholds in the remote
and impossible revolution un-
doing nature and wiping out divine
statutes-a revolution that is to demon
strate the superiority of 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, in
adjusting the privileges of women to the
rights of Eaen.
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 in
speculative theology, that includes
banking and stock speculations. In
handling the late panic, the evangelical
pulpits issued from their legal tender
reserve curious sort of currency, with
a 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. If
a convention of gamblers held an active
professional convention in the Chicago
Exposition building, and that beautiful
structure were to tremble and totter and
fall, burying the multitude of criminals
in its ruins, the ministers should pro-
ceed to make sermons on the principles
of architecture, taking for their text the
psalm verse ss NSsi DonsS7aaks edit
cnverit Ionsas1,s, in voaao la6oraUeraIat
osti edifco7at cam. Unless the Lord
build the house, in vain do the-con-
tractors worry. The reverend speakers
should enlarge then on the universally
of rchitecture-ciyl, military and naval
-on the tendency of mankind to live
in simple truth, to live il 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-pickets all this should
be detailed with the dignity and force
inseparable from the Office of a modern
apostle. The more learned might enter
into succinct history of architecture.
There were the pyramids of Egypt and
of Mexico, the cairns of Britain. Fol-
lowing these, perhaps cotemporaneous
with them, the Druidica1 temples, the
dolmens of Brittany, the Notifications
of Mycena, 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.
titled the public places and the woods
the distinctions being properly noted
among entablatures, colonnades, cor
n1ces and capitals. This could be am
plifed sufficiently to occupy all but the
final five minutes of the discourse anc
the word of God might be alluded tx
with gloves on during this finale. Th'
sin of gambling should form no portion
whatever of the discourse, precisely a
the sins which induced the panic, ant
the direct lesson of simplicity of life t,
be derived from its consequences, forme.
no part of the discourses of these reve1
end gentlemen on that very recen
event.
One of this class was exceptional i
what he said. He walked through hi
Sunday school, rehecting on the panic
and observed that the children were al
tired in satins and laces and silks an
he uttered in his sermon the rehectio
that this observation gave: "Thes
children are taught nothing of the VII
tue of self-denial." The little girls who1
he saw before him are to be the youn
ladies, the wives, the mothers of hi
church gaudy milliners' miniatures {
all the Sunday schools are to be becom
the women of all the churches Will
these churches last. Few of them hay
the faintest perception of the virtue {
self-denial.
Jay Cooke himself will not dissuad
us that self-denial is at the bottom
the panic. No need of financial perml
tations to prove this. Every man know
it in his own breast every woman
hers. Extravaganza caused the pani
Womens extravagance bears lare
portion of the responsibility, and me
are ready enough-to tell their wives ST
and fathers and mothers to tell the
daughters. Let those who cry out