The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-12-18

lncelcd at the chancei rail with .
negroes. | don't say il would not occur .
here for | am stranger, but | do atlrm
that il would take the Christian heroism
of Martin Luther, fresh from the grave,
torrproGuce the spectacle next Sunday IN
Boston. Mr. Tlton next attacked lying
in all ITS branches. Social and mercsn-
tile lies are as mulutudinous and pcst-
ferrous Us last summers army OF potato
bugs. .Jeunie Deans might have saved
her sisters life by telling lie, but her
refusal merely proves sublime capacity
in human nature t. tell the truth. Jeanne
has been hated for her fidelity to prlncl-
pie by thousands of readers of the Heart
of Midlothian, but she was right IN the
eve Of Heaven. Now, these We
call cardinal virtues, but they
are never spoken of as cur
rent to-day. 1t would be a blessed thing
for society if we could make some OF the
old virtues regent once more, such as
were typifed by the olympic laurel
wreath Of glory, for which even kings
lonpcd TO contend. In those intellectual
DAYS the same audience which watched
the dust Of the glowing wheel, listened to
Herodotus read the nine books OF bls
history. Fancy crowd in Barnum's
hippodfome listening TO Mr.. Bancroft
recite his books! 1t is written as the
greatest crime in the old laws of the Par
sees for man to hoard his grain till 1t
rises in value, for that causes famine.
You will be dcvoutly thankful to-mor-
row that YOU can get up corners on
everything. To come nearer home,
it is written on the tomb
of Jefferson at Monticello that he was the
Trainer of the Constitution-not that he
was PresIdcnt-in strange contrast with
the modern notion of greatness, which,
in both leader and mcky, clamors for u
third term Bishop Clark latel y startled
the merchants of the country with the
statement that the spirit OF American
trade is fraud What answer can We
make? You cannot reply with Burke,
that 10 Indictment can be brought
against the Nation at large. 1t can.
Business Is rotten to the core. The
ethics Of Wall street are nothing
but reflection OF the old Spar
TAN psllNli' tNS Va Lll'aN' N'lll5 -S''N''''N'
by laws of attack and de.ense, though
they are stripped Of its courageous hon
cstv. What We need is higher estimates
of personal honesty in every relation OF
of life, and this must come from honoring
parents. Boys consider it among their
latent privileges to be rude To servants,
to hog the teacher, and act against the
paternal edicts; thereto change the boys
ov putting the right kind OF instruction
in their heads and the nObleSt models III
their hearts.
Plato recommended .Esop; Montague
advocated Piuturch; | would add John
Buayan to the list Tell your children
of Socrates and the Hcmlock, Leon idas
ana Thermopylw, Arthur and EXcaliber,
Chcvuler Bnyard, Henry Of Navarro,
John Howard Patrick Henry, Captain
Lawrence, Lady Franklin, Florence
Nightingale, Furragut who sailed ut the
masthead OF the Hartford in the battles
front, and Lincoln, more iliustriOus than
Wi,beriorce. The child is father of the
man. On youth dawns 'the light that
never was on sea or land, the con-
secratlon and the poets dream In early
days, too, it, radiance gathers splendor
around us, and there Is founded that re.
vercnCe which constitutes the great ele.
menL of character. SOlomoR has said,
spare the rod and spoil the child; but |
suggest detcrentlally, that the rod has
spoiled more chIldred than ii ever i'm
proved. The maxim was delivered when
-. ~ hgl,.
and don't believe that Solomon, with
his thousand wives and concubincs, was
IN condition to understand
the quOtatioE true inwardncss' ofdomcS-
tic discipline. The lecturer
then argued that society needed revo-
luton IN the relations of man and wo-
man, and specially in the standards by
which their chastity Is measured and
their offences judged. Man must submit
to the same standard Of purity he imposes
upon woman; and until he does, the
larger part of the social question will re-
man uusolvei, a woman falls, and,
though every body sympathiIeS with her,
no one fOrgivcs. The demands Tor woman
are waves and reimbursement, and the
demand on women Is the enforce
mcnt of rigid standards of pUr.
Ivy a2airst men. He spoke OF the
rottcnne,s OF present poht'cs-how the
caucus governs the nation and the nation
inspires the caucus, and why Washing
ton is So rotten that Bailey feyton SAID
the man in the moon held his nose when
ever he passes over It. NoN popull voX
Del has become Il libel on the white
throne. He believed in first finding out
the voice Of God and then making 1t the
voice ofthe people. Years ago Daniel
Webster had been app!uuded by saying
il was useless to re-enact the laws of God,
to which sentiment Frederick Douglass
sagely replied that it was useless to re-
enact any others.
Mr.. Tiliou then concluded with fin.
ished and beautiful pcroration, express
ing his belief Of the Immortality of the
soul and its eternal existence in world
beyond the stars, as the final solution Of
the problem of Life"