The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-01-18
sence of many centuries. The palace
came long ago.

came long ago.
Next to the influence OF wicked aris-
tocracy comes the influence OF vcos. 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 a home only
when it comes back in all the glory Of
success Many OF these modern Argon-
auts never return, or when they do 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 and licentious~
ness many thousands OF homes go down.
In the annals Of last week there was re
corded the submergence Of group Of
Islands and the blotting out OF villages
and towns and hamlets. Some mysteri-
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 emptied of their
inmates and rained utterly by the up
springing flood Of that wave called in
| temperance-that 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 for war or tax
them for the support Of vice, or fasten
them to the chariot Of his ambition and
| thus one by one these infinite benefac-
tors, these creatures Of God, have been
| slain, these fabrics Of marble have been
handed over to 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 in
| greatmarble houses which once resoun>
| ded with the prattle and mirth Of chil~
| dren, but to which man as a destroyer
| came. Thus continent where once
| perhaps as many millions lived as now
inhabit it was all desoIated by its own
children; it was handed over to solitude
and then to savages. And now this con-
tiaent comes forward again, bearing
once more anation upon its bosom, but
man as destroyer will follow il with
vice, with selfishness, with Ignorance
with injustice. and to-day and to-mor-
row will attach its inner and !diyine life
/ 1t certainly comes with . momentum Of
i good never before known. as impulse OF
school house and printing press and
learning and Christianity, but SO man
i the destroyer, comes with an awakened
4 intellect and intense passions, and hence
the struggle for national life returns as il
came to the Aztecs 500 years ago.
n History contains the picture of a grea
nation, powerful in the arts and in imOr-
ais and OVERLOOKING with happiness. Tht
lncas ruled in mildnesS and peace, 2
peaceful multitude, but in one single
bright day In September all this happi'
, ness sunk under the butchering sword o
, the Spaniard. Thus one, by one. the ma
. tons which have been founded in tn
name Of right and progress and happi
ness have faded away into wrong an'
decadence and misery.
The human family has always moved
; through the centuries in two column
| marching little apart. The Advance col
!, founds states, literature, home, church
} and peace. 1t breathesIout poetry an
/ whispers love and tills the soil and make
D feasts, and, as old poet says: Weave
marriages and touEds homes and laws
3 In this column are found the Homer
!, who sing the songs, and the pilgrim
d who utter the prayers, and the philose
} piers who write down the wisdom (
. many generations. But by the.tim th'
4 song is sung and the prayer
D said, and the wisdom written, and tt
4 home founded, the second column come
l. hot with injustice aud ambition, and
IL desolation sets in with blood and tear
il and all that remains ID few marb
Ii columns To mark the place whore sena
ID house or temple oncestcod.