The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-01-18


came long age.
Next to the influence OF wicked aris
tocracy comes the influence OF wees. The
love OF riches has OF late years held the
little Eden of man in check. The
simplicity of our fathers will no longer
satisfy the heart. The heart sails like
the sailors who went in quest OF the
golden fleece and Will build q home only
when it comes back in all the glory OF
success. Many of these modern Argon~
auts never return, or when they 10 the
victory they bring with them proves in
| deed Medusa, beautiful to behold, but
with desolating power in her heart
Where this modern vice pauses other
vices begin their work. and between the
demons of intemperance ana licenti0us~
ness many thousands OF homes 60 down.
In the annals OF last week there was re
corded the submergence OF 3 group OF
Islands and The blotting out OF villages
and towns and hamlets. Some mystcri
Gus powers of the Sea either drew the
islands down or else lifted the ocean up
ward. But that calamity would at once
be erasced from memory conld you see
/ what homes are daily emptled OF their
inmates and ralned utterly by the up
sprnging flood OF that wave called in
/ temperance--tlat wave OF fire!
| Hence the whole face OF the globe is
| covered now with the ruins Of nations.
Man would not permit them to bring
liberty and industry and education and
| home and happiness but he has always
fastened to harness them Tor war or tax
| them for the support Of vice, or fasten
~ II
thus one by one these Infinite benetac-
| tors. these creatures OF God. have been
slain. these fabrics of marble have been
handed over 10 the lizard and serpent by
day and the lonely owl BY night, Trav>
elers, even in the New World, find that
here once happy race lived, lived III
greatmarble houses which once resoun>
ded with the prattle and mirth of chill
dren, but 10 which man as destroyer
| came Thus a continent where once
perhaps as many millions lived a. now
inhabit ii was all desoIated by its own
children; it was handed over 10 solitude
and then to savages. And now this con-
\ tinent comes forward again, bearing
once more nation upon its bosom, but
man as destroyer will follow IL with
vice. with selfisnness, with Ignorance
with Injustice. and to-day and to-mor>
! row will attach It's inner and divine lite
1t certainly comes with q momentum OF
II good never before known. Is impulse of
school house and printing press and
learning and Christianity, but so man,
J the destroyer, comes with an awakened
intellect and intense passions, and hence
| the struggle for national life returns as It
came to the Aztecs 500 years ago.
History contains the picture OF great
! nation. powerful in the arts and in imor-
ais and overlooking with happiness. The
Incas ruled in nildness and peace, q
peaceful multitude. but In oGe single
bright day IN September all this happi'
, ness sunk under the butchering sword 0
, the Spaniard. Thus one, by one, the ma
tons which have been founded in tbs
name of right and progress and happi'
/ ness have faded away into wrong ane
: decadence and misery.
The human family has always moved
through the centuries iii two column
! marching little apart. The Advance col
, POUNDS states, literature, home, church
D and peace 1t breathesIout poetry ans
/ whispers leye and tllls the soil and make
d feasts, and, as old poet says: Weave
. marriages and IouEds homes and laws ].
B In this column are found the Homer;
!, who sing the songs, and the pilgrims
n ahe utter the prayers. and the philosc
0 piers who write down the wisdom (
: many generations. But oy thetime tht
5 song is sung and tile prayer
0 said, and the wisdom written, and tn
d home fouE jed, the second column comes
i hot with injustice and ambition, and
,r desolation sets in with blood and tears
il and all that remains IL few n1arbl
Ii columns To mark the place where sena
10 house or d temple oncestood.
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