Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-06

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the hopper or use the good to run a
worn out mill.
In the college, at the bar, in the
pulpit, in the parlor, in the sanctum
may be this ESTABLISHMENT; this loss
of manhood, loss Of womanhood,
degradation in life and condemna-
ton before death, whether it be
theological school or political ring or
fashions mandate that letters truth
is of little sequence. The stern fact
rema aims. Man must teach and
preach and write, and woman dress
and smile to order, or the shrill re-
veille sounds and 10! branded
name. Over it billiards gloat and
gossips furnish their adjunct lines
for new campaign. Runners sour
ry out from the mills to blockade
every avenue of escape, and report
every feeble flutter toward recovery
the victim dares to make. He must
stand to be jeered at by every bleary
eye in Christendom; pecked at by
every gallinaceous beak that opens
at sewing society, with not voice
nor pen brave enough to lift itself
in his defense. The old mill is
giant still, awing into silence; tooth
less, wrinkled and bent, it is yet
giant 10 the coward imagination
that peddles out its sodden grists to
a hungry, cheated world. Oblivion
again writes her epitaph over thou
sands upon thousands of these rich,
but uncourageous souls. Pity drops
her tear that they were week, but
contempt smiles to see them die.
And yet beyond these and their
sorrowful servitude, are still grand
er souls and days. Men will not
always have to die for truth. The
gauntlets of ignorance, bigotry,
stupidity and malice, will be abol-
ished, and remembered among the
obsoleteisms as witches and thumb
screws and whipping posts are re-
membered to-day. AS the light of
truth spreads, truth will also rise to
dominion; she needs not now SO
much to be made brighter and
stronger, as the mind to be lifted
from its lair of sense and stupor, and
to have its seeing power awakened
and clarified. Ignorance makes the
battles, truth has to fight; ignorance
is the fruitful mother Of ghosts and
superstitions; the organized armies
of falsehood and delusion march on
| ly in the dark; the weapons of mall
| ice have no power save in ambush.
/ The subtle DISCUSSES which the gen
| Jus of evil weaves in the loom Of
| hypocrisy will not always be able to
pass themselves off as garments of
/ righteousness to "cover our sins" "
| Not even sanctimony shall be able
to belle its pedigree when its face
comes to be unvailed. Time is a
great enlightener; and the right and
the true is going to be able to go
straight to the mark without the
battle and sacrifice it now costs to
reach it. The haggard face of GUS
tom, the dead line Of imbeciles in
the past, and tyrant of towards to-
day, will be transformed into ex-
pressions of shame for her own de-
votess, and zealots and Amounted
prosecutors leave no progeny.
Souls are growing apace with the
right and the true. Simple solid
worth is outgrowing all its counter
feits and shams. Beautiful good
ness and divine occurrences will
win on all opposition as the fight
goes on, till the battle is ended, and
the all hail! salute the victor in the
name of God.
Then shall golden lips speak I'M
challenged, and the mufaed music
of true hearts break into clear song.
The saviors of to-day will no long
er be the martyrs of the past, but
salvation shall be, without scar, and
without price.