, 1873-05-07

"OUR FOLKS AND OTHER FOIKs.v
Mucturo by n obcrs Collyer Mt tho Union
Park congregational Church Lust
Evening"
Yestprday oVoning tha noy. Robert Collyer
aeliverod tho concluding lecture of tho Star Loc-
turo Courao, at tho Union Park Congregational
Ohuroh. In spite Of tho opera, thcro WAS
an e1colont audience proscnt. 1Io prcfaccd
bls 1eoturo by fow Introductory remarks.
Flo spoke as an old fricnd who had been with
thom through the sunshine and shadows Of
many years, and Ind rather live or dio with
thom and 70 to uenvon than go to Boston.
Tlon ho said kindly word for the Young mon
who had naungod tho Star Lecture Course, and
hoped thoy would rocciyo encouragement enough
to induce thorn to repeat tho oourso uoxt year,
with tho speaker loft out.
Ho commenced by saying that Humboldt
thought TINT but for ali accident Column
bus would have landed in Virginia. Americn
would hayo boon all spanieh, and thero would
have boon no locture. Tho flock OF birds which
guided tho Admiral southwark was providontfa1,
md North America was saved for The picked
mon Of the world. It's hiatory had boen acontin-
ual wonder. It lad bad it's great mon. It had
kept, Its doors always .opor to tho
world receiving md onnobns sorofgn,nrs
was no chance for himself or his children abroad,
and he was compelled to atoop to those who were
By accident wealthior than le. Coming to Amor
lea, ho bud been barkemith, preacher. and loo
the livea of tho common people there, and know
thom thoroughly So ho Ind thought Of COM
pairing tho two. What struck him irst In Amor
ica waa thet oyery ono was 50 well-to.ao; There
II ND spite ii A Of 'S iana.sraos, i 1 Americans had
managcd go that Europoan poverty was un-
known: In 1850 ho could carn twice rs much aa
In England in two-thirds Of tho timo, and living
waa q little cheaper; 30 he ut once hogan living
veil. Out Of tho English income much had to
be takon to aond tho children to poor schools.
There eyeyy workingman rented his home,
owned their houses, or wore SAVING. money to
got them. There, farmers rented farms, a1,d
wore hnrd put to 1t to 1.-Two, existing on oatmeal
and blno milk. md meat four times q year::
improved, but not advanced as much us
hero, and got they lived better In England
than on tho Continent. In America they gayo
every man . fair show. Tho toughest man vas
pol}tost gentleman abroad. Every man wanted
to mako Lis children better than himself. Ho
bad noon a plcasant-1ooking 1rishman step in
snow-drift to lot colorca woman havo tho
narrow path. Twelve and half million people
srore cngaged In gainful occupations, and about
half Of them In what that great, sweet soul, Mr.
Greeley, perferred, farm work.
Tho boet buildings IN the country wero achool-
gent faces. Ho never woasied Of looking ut tho
noble rosults OF tho free school system. Tho
mobile hoart Of tho American people had touched
him when no first landed in Amorioa, though ho
had been cautioned against their Helt}shneBs.
He went out for medicine for his sick wifo, and
tho druggist, after learning ho had just como
over and intended to stay, gave him the medi-
Gin, clne for nothing, and told him ho was
wife worked as sewing-womnn in Philadelphia.
She wac taken very sick, and tho 1ady whero she
was stopping put hor in her best room and waited
on her horself. Whoa DO came back they told
anything, since thoy had not done 1t for money.
They wore glad to soc them doing tho best they
knew, md did not want them to mention money.
Nothing had got befallen him to mako him take
back his 1..rst judgment about Americans.
Yet there wero many things he did not Like,
for this vast prosperity brought it's punishment.
Tho children across tho water wore fed on oat-
meal and brown bread, but thoy were stronger
They worked harder over thore. II tho man
failed, tho woman worked. They had little no.
Gtlcal power there, but they elected honest men !;
while hero thopeople elected JudaBes, whodid not
to check those easy-going sentiments about
marriage. There wero divorces rs saored as q
marriage, and tho sooner they wore through with
the bettor. Nowadays 80 many young people
X
neved In love Vt first sight, and going direct to
the pnrson. 1t was Ill wrong. II he had
married his fret lovehe should hayc mado mess
OF It. Occasionally woman would snare man
something oleo, people would forge chains TO
bind them forever. poople must take timo
and trouble to find out whether they wero
fitted for ono another. In the country,
good points and failinga Of ono another Mar
Tied folks must remember, too, that marriage
license was not license to DO what they wanted
to, but what they ought to. Husbands and wives
things they, would let no one elso suy. They
could not always Hec alike. When people said
they had never had d difference in twenty-n -nyo
yoars he was nuro there must be a good deal Of
woro.- aud, not what they wero told to
be-: 1t Was tic good mother that made the good
child. It Was very little difference what the
3sther was, # the mother got hold Of the boys:
Il they could not get hold Of their minds, tion
The father had to tako his part in doang with
tho child, but ho was very much puzzled to say
what It syas. Tlogginng ho did not beliovo III,
ne bvea "y h.hts te taps whio showed th
son, much wiser, and yet compantonnblo.
Woman IN Amesica was claiming d larger place
THAN ever before, and hc believed that II slc
obtained it, her influence would no productive Of
good. sho had takon to tho lecture platform
and it took good man to keep abreast Of hor.
She had gone into the everyday work Of tho
world, md shown what she could do there. She
did It. for she felt It to bo her duty. The
result Of admitting woman to tic larger
life, would DO to elevate mon. II womon
voted, primary mootings would be hold In par
tors rot grog-shops, and the whole standard Of
were partly responsible for the Credit Mobiliel
business. It was no better for man to be alone
in public, than in private life.
THE CITY IN BRIEF,