The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-23

street are swamped by the residence on
Madison square. The husband and father
has his craft captized because he carries
too much sail Of point.lace and Antille
guipure. That is what destroyed Ketch-,
UNI, and Swartwout, and ten thousand
men not so famous. That is what springs
the leak in the merchants money till,
and pulls down your trust companies,
and cracks the pistols of your suicides,
and halts this nation on it's high career
Of prosperity. arraigr this monster of
extravaganza in the ight of all the PEG.
pie, and ask you to pelt it with your
scorn and denouncc it with your an
athena.
This widespread extravaganza also &C.
counts for much Of the pauperism of the
country. Who are the individuals and
the families who are thrown on your
charity2 Who has sinned against them
so that they suffer? 1t is often the case
that their parents, Or their grandparents,
hid all luxuries, lived everything up,
more than lived everything up, and then
died, leaving their families in want. The
grandparents Of these beggars supped
on Burgundy and woodcock. There are
great many families who have every
luxury in life, yet cxpend every dollar
that comes in, and perhaps few dollars
more, not even taking the common Chris
tian prudence Of having their lives in
surcd. While they live all is well, but
when they die their children are pitched
into the street. l tell you man has
no right to die under such circumstances.
1t is grand larceny, even his death. If a
man has been Industrious and economi.
cal, and has not a farthing to leave his
children as he goes away from them, he
has right to put them into the hands Of
the Father Of the Fathcrlsss, and know
they will be cared for; but if you, With
every comfort in life, are lavish and i'm
provident, and then depart this life leav-
ing your children to be hurled into pau
perism, you deserve to have your bones
sold to the medical museum for anatomi.
cal specimens, the proceeds to furnish
your children bread. 1 know the subject
cuts close. [ expected that some Of you,
in high dudgeon, would get up and 60 out.
You stand it pretty well. Some Of you
are
MAKING GREAT SMASH IN LIFE,
and after a while will die, leaving your
families beggars, and you will expect us
ministers Of the gospel to come and stand
by your coffin, and lie about your excel
lencies but we will not do it. If YOU
send for me, will tell you what my text
will be: HE that provideth not for his
own, and especially for those of his own
household, is worse than an infidel.''
In this day, God has mercifully allowed
those of us who have limited income to
make provision for our families, through
the great life insurance companies all
over the land. By some self denial on
our part, we can make this provision for
those whom we shall leave behind us.
Is there anything SO helpless as woman
whose husband has just died, when, with
her children at her back, she goes out in
this day to fight for bread? Sfallt she
become a mental servant in some
one elsc's household No; not the
one that has been lying on your arm
all these years, and filling the household
with Joy and light. Shall she sew for
living! God kno' s that they get but six
cents and eight cents for making one gar
ment. All no! you had better have your
coffin made large enough to take them all
with you INTO that land where they never
freeze nor starve. How a man with no
surplus of estate, but still enough money
to pay the premium on a life insurance
policy, can refuse to do it, and then look
his children in the face, and say his pray
ers at night on going to bed, expecting
them to be answered. is mystery to me
that I have never yet been able to faith
ON.
This extravaganza is becoming more
and more widespread. A statistician has
estimated that there are in New York
and Brooklyn four thousand five hundred
women who expend annually two thou.
sand dollars each in dress. It is no rare
thing when the wedding march sounds
to see dragging through the aisle bridal
dress that cost it's Thousand or fifteen
hundred dollars. Things have come to
such pass that when VIC cry over sin
WE WIPE THE TEARS AWAY
with a hundred and fifty dollar pocket.
handkerchief. The tendency to extraya.
gance was illustrated wonderfully when
the late James Fisk, jun, sent the bridal
presents to the home Of William NJ.
Tweed, a gentleman now occupying apart
ments at government expense. Fisk sent
an iceberg Of frosted silver, polar bears o
silver lying down on the handles, polar
bears of silver walking over the gold
spoons. There were in the house that
day forty silver sets Of imperial magnifi-
cence. There was a diamond set that
cost forty-fiye thousand dollars. There
was one dress that had in it th1rty-seven
Yards Of silk, with three hundred and
eighty.two bows. Hundreds of thou.
sands Of dollars were expended on that
scene. The reason that we have not