Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-09-20
COW MUNHSM.

The poor against the rich Why? Is
il envy2 Do the rich sncer at and abuse
the poor? Are the rich the masters Of the
poor2 Do the rich keep the poor in pow
erty? Do the rich despise or hate or tram
pie the poor under foot? Would the poor
be better off If they were now rich, or II
all were poor? All the communist does
not reason in this way. He says, here is
the bank, let us take possession aud divide
the money in common. We want the bank
ers money. We are poor and need it. lie
is rich and don't need it. The banker is II
criminal. lie locks up his money and
won't divide with us--that ia his crime.
Nature and natures God designed that al
possessions should be equally distributed.
No one can own anything in which his
neighbor has no show. 1t is the fiat Of
heaven that property should be common
stock. Every man who has golden wedge
or n Babylonish garment hidden away
among his stuff ought to be stoned. Out
with him Let all the people be in at the
"Saths tlhS hlhu u oIGbCINNu iluJ Il,
burn it, Has any man paddock on his
grocery, break it open; let ME and that
man and the other Teller' over there, fill
our bags, Has any man stored away ready
made clothing? Bring it out, we must be
clothed Ms well as fed Natures God never
designed that any man or woman should go
ragged, or naked, or hungry. Now all this
speaks well of natures DEGREES, and of the
merciful designs of natures God. Now this
sounds very fine in the ears of 1t certain
class OF men; men who don't like work,
who had rather steal for living.
Now permit me to say right here, my
dear friends, burn a few more hay-stacks /;
fl your bags by breaking a few more pad
locks; take, without leave or license, all
the reNdy-made clothing you want rob n
few more banks, and you will tiud that ma
ture and natures God has supplied The peo-
pie with hemp for special purpose. The
working men OF these United States will
not suffer themselves t. lie cheated out Of
their hard earnings under the cover of that
kind OF logic, however me it may lie. We
do not deny that the wrongs OF the poor
are very great. This is, Indeed, II cold and
hard world for the poor. They are crushed
bnC lbut vi Tue ODITPSSOT. OlnefS
besides Cowper haveobservcd the sorry fact,
that "man's inhumanity to man makes
countless millions mourn" For these
ills there is no remedy if the christian re-
ligion proves failure II the life and
death OF the poor, despised Nazarene does
not touch the hearts and lives of the peo-
Pile both rich and poor, nothing else will
It's the old story over and over again; the
oppressor and the oppressed; the slave and
his master; the rich and the poor; the ty-
rant and his victims. Could the human
race believe the doctrine of the Great
Teaher-"that no one is great but God :"
that He is Our Father, and we are hischil-
dren, belonging to his great family and
equally dear to him snclI a faith would
OF itself go great way toward the removal
ton Of society. But all the nations of the
earth are "slow OF heart to believe" The
doctrine OF common brotherhood is un-
popular. The Bear ponnces upon Turkey.
The Lion roars, and the Eagles scream, not
because they feel sorry to see the Turk eat
EN- up, but because they cannot have full
share in the feast, for the Eagles and the
Lion love Turkey as well the rs Bear. The
United States, generally admitted to be
more fully under the influence of the chris
tian religion than other nations is far from
perfection in both her National and State
sovreignity. Not only the poor Indian and
the poor negro, and the poor Chinese, but
the poor white suffers for the want of pro-
lection. In some of the States there does
not seem to be enough of the spirit Of
brotherly love or of the christian religion
to save the people. Not the organized
caste of India but the mobocrntic or satanic
caste which leads one man to shoot down
another for entertaining different opinion
or living in the skin with which his Crea
tor clothed him and all in the name of the
christian religion. EN- ROUTE.