The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-15

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PUBLIC BENEFACToRS.
The Mission of the world-Renowned
Philanthropists, Railway & co.---How it
has Redounded to the Good of Mankind
and to Their Own Pecuniary Profit,
It is DIFFICULT for many students of
human nature to grow reconciled to the
tendency of mankind to greet conspicuous
triumphs in war by lavish adulations of the
victor, while men who peacefully strive,
through enterprises suited to their facul-
ties or means, to improve the happiness of
their fellow men, are suffered to labor, and
often to expire, with none but stinted
honors. A tranquil citizen often carries
on his unpretending benefactions in the
very shadow of some laurel crowned hero
of battle field, and, while the caprice Of
the populace may reward the winner of an
hours combat with lifetime of royalty,
the modest citizen, who chooses to engage
in labors far more conducive to the public
good, is reverenced only by those who eX
perience his goodness, and blessed alone
by the recipients Of his bounty, Occas-
ionally an unassuming contriver of peace
full works redounding to the public good is
treated to a wide celebrity, and saluted
: with expressions of esteem in every public
gathering. A portion of his countrymen
J may in reality respect him more highly
: than the proudest conqurQer, hut the mass
, OF the people are inclined to very transient
: acknowledgements, and fasten their mem
cries more firmly on successful soldier
than on a lover of their race. This is not
!: unnatural, tor personal fear has uudoubt-
eddy some share 10 the matter, and fear is
motive of colossal power. The suppos-
ed superior strength or skill of victorious
: general touches the self interest or safety
of those who are near the scene of his ex-
2 PLOTS, and excites in his friends and
, enemies a diversity of feelings calculated
to array him in an immediate and extreme
S Importance. In other words, there is
an exigency in the concern that others
; take in him which gives him great
2 present figure, and the continuing
S Difference Or following generations, long
: after he has died, is materially prompted
by the unconscious and very easy realiza
t ton by posterity of the emotions with
E which the people of his time regarded
r him.
e The operations Of philanthrophist,
j however, seldom inspire any urgent con-
e siderations, for they do not endanger the
I personal or financial security of citizens al
C large, and they excite but little interest
e except in those whom they are to benefit
: Nevertheless, the habit of multitudes il
: the past need not restrict the preference
" of an individual IN the present, and il
c modern times the honors bestowed CT
| horpos Of nY,H hapooc Of -.
" less disproport0ned than formerly. L.
e fact, it is not impossible that those whC
- benefit their species may yet be as muci
r, esteemed as those who mark their lives BY
IS legitimate hloodshed.
IS There are maay ways Of substantially
e bcnefting the world, ana it is not necessary
= that man must be a philanthropist By
1t profession in order to entitle him to tn,
y distinction Of having acceptably benefited
the human family Some persons fount
ST libraries or hospitals, while others expenC
IS their funds in extended characters; ant
e there are sti II others who do rot prove
x their impulses IN ways 50 direct, but EN-
- ploy all their accomplishments and powers
IS IN enterprises which are intended TO ado
ID to the happiness of mankind, to al!eyiat,
r; the suffering of the sick or infirm, or t,
le hestow good health and physical freedom
lie Bodily health Is OF such vast importanc,
rs to mortal, whether he be rich or poor
< that DO honest efforts to extend the mean
lie for its preservation or recovery should g,
,r unnoticed or unrewarded There are il
II the land gentlemen Of great learning ant
II ability who have made efforts of this kint
4 the sole pursuit Of busy lives, and to whom
r, wellwisher Of the species cannot b.
e otherwise than profoundly gra eful.
4 If it were intended to form a group o
living benefactors of the world, it would
y not be hard to find appropriate figures
ly among gentlemen of this class At thi
or moment a name suggests itself which a
ID once proves the security of this claim, ant
OF fifty illustrates the previous allusion to in
e. direct philanthropy. Indeed, what plac
he in such group would be too prominen
III or dgnifed for the members of such firm
rs as Railway and Company The mere men
1T ton Of their name is reminder that the,
ii arefully worthy of foremost place in sucl
If a group, and their widely known enterpris
D, is as humane as it is colossal. Indeed
TT their establishment is more useful than
d hundred hospitals, for the fruits oft ar
Re not only more extended than the local ben
ID efits that flow from hundred hospitals
l. but they tend to render any resort 60 sucl
tie institutions quite unnecessary
l. The wonderfully effective medicine
lie which this eminent firm supply to thu
s. world are used by so many myriads of PEG
'e pie, and their use is SO effectual in dissi
d pating physical distress everywhere. thai
S a casual consideration of the good thu
y produced is actually startling, and give
= rise to a feeling of which gratitude is mixet
, with wonder. There are tens of thou
+ sands of human beings all over the globe
" who will never utter the name of Radwa,
and Company without thankfulness, anc
70 never beinducsd to think of them excep
1t as dispensers of good. 1t is hardly neces
9f sary to allude to the various preparation
!. whose virtues have resulted in such fat
g tering state of public feeling, because tn,
" names of all of them have not only becom,
't a part of the languages of Europe, but
e part of tongues heard only in lands n,
lie whose people, among whom there exists /,
medical talent, these medicines of Radway
re and Company have come like the sunlight
IT on summer morn. Railways Read,
,, Relief has undoubtedly conferredfreedon
l. from pain on millions of mortals, and tn,
;, excruciatiDg torments of infammations
Ii congestions, and pains of every kind, neet
no longer be endured. It is not in this de
partment, however that Radway and com