Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-26

on "Ihe Wastes and burdens Oh OOcleLy.
It would be better for society if multitude
did not stand ready to flock to listen
to a man who has done more
than any one man living to bring
the Christian religion into disrepnte.
We hope. to see the time when there is a suf
fciently aroused moral sense to render it un-
profitable for this man to appear on the
rostrum. In the interest of morality the |
GLOBE this morning appends report of the
lecture which is announced to be delivered
tonight. We do this on the ground that
there are still many who wish to hear what
this man has to say, Notwithstanding his
career, and it is better that they should read
his utterances instead of encouraging his
continuance before the public by their per-
sonal presence
REPORT OF THIS EVENINGS LECTURE.
He begins his lecture on 'The Wastes and
Burdens of Society" by saying that the ques-
ton of the organization of society, after all
these ages of the world, is yet unsettled. The
question of living together--how all men shall
live best together for the good of all, is the
question of ages. The solution has never been,
and is yet to be found. To-day, foolish essays
could be guided by thought. But society never
can be made first theory and then a fact. 1t
must be found out by evolution. 1t can only
be perfected by development There men
who think society can be brought up to pat
tern, but it is as preposterous as for mother
to look in the cradle and picture her infant
she wants him at "a, and then to try to bring
him up to it.. The interior nature of society
belongs to itself. 1t is spontaneous. and you
cannot meddle with it.
But society carries many burdens. The
squandering of wealth, the squandering of in
tellect, of energy. few of these needless
wastes he would try to point out-only few.
Time would not permit more. And he should
discuss them not from religious or social
standpoint but in the light of political econo-
N.Y. He should therefore regard society
community banded in pursuit of wealth.
First he took up
WASTE LIFE.
Society ought to promote long life. This ma
chine is set up for long life, and really man
ought to be ashamed to die before he is 70; yet
the actual average is but 33. Here is waste
Of over half; subtract the usefully wasted
years, and we would find three-quarters squan-
dered, and only one quarter preserved. Society,
therefore, naturally intended to prolong life, is
attended by dangers. The civilizations of the
human body, when in dense crowds, is more
dangerous than the miasma of sWamps. Yet,
how few audience rooms g i've ventilation suffi-
clent to COunteraCt these exhalatiOns. Still
there is nothing an audience dislik es more than
open windows and fresh air. In New York, half
the population live in tenement houses-the
very epitome of everything unceanly and I'M
wholesome-and the death rate in them is
double that of those in single dwellings on the
same street. Where sanitary laws are strictly
enforced the mortality is far less. This was
not matter of humanity or philanthropy, to
his view, bnt one of money; cannot afford
to have men die off in this way. In America
every wholesome man is supposed to represent
productive value of 5000 year. While at a
funeral, he would not allude to this, for senti-
mental reasons, still, the fact is there and
every man who dies wipes out production to
the amount of 500. The city of New York
loses tive millions year in the unnecessary
destruction of the lives of producers. Two
thousand feet of cubic air is required by every
person, yet in many schools but 200 or even
less is allowed our sons and daughters, when if
they had been thieves and gone to jail, they
would get 600 This is subject that had
ought to be theme for conversation, for the
pull pit and the press. And what is done should
be done for those who will not do for them
selves. 1t is q reformatory, too, that must
begin at the bottom. 1t is not enough to have
few fine streets where the rich live, but you
must go down to the very bottom, and begin
where the poor and the vicious live. In these
places disease is Matched, and when Matched it
flies where it pleases. No man has the right to
be us happy as he pleases-the top has no right
to be happy without taking care Of the bottom.
The parlor has to ask leave of the cellar whether
it may be healthy.
THE NEXT WASTE
is that which comes from ignorance Not such
as comes from individuals. but with reference
to the community. Ignorance retarcls the growth
and thrift of community. You cannot move
the top of society without taking the bottom.
1t is not the lines of the best intelligence
whence progress moves. 1t is the average; and
where there is ignorance that line runs very
low. Society must have it's circulation Just as
the human body. In about three or four ger
erations wealth makes complete circle or
turn. Where there is dense mass of igno-
rance, the circulation il impeded. You
cant get current through ignorance
Either it does not know how to produce prop
erty, or it produces property of the lowest
grade. Property is merely understanding
which stands over against some want. to wi ;eh
it has been trained by the skill of inan
Through the whole round of industry the value
lies IN the quantity of brain put into the work
He whose property bears the highest price pro-
duces that which requires the highest quality of
brain. And this is an effectual answer to those
who claim that they produce while white
headed gentry accumulate the property. The
men who think are the producers-the men
who do not think are the slaves. 1t may sound
harsh, but is none the less true The man that
works without skill and thought and taste is at
the bottom, and must stay there till he rises by
acquired skill and taste. He said this not be-
cause OF want of sympathy for the working
classes, for not drop of his blood but came
from the working classes. He knew himself
what labor was, and the object of his life was
to stimulate the laboring classes and bring
them up from out of their low estate.
AS one of them he had right to
find fault for their false doctrines. Come mn
but come up the way of the school,
house-by way of intelligence and manhood.
and then they would need no BOOSTING He
therefore advocated instruction, not merely in
literary forms, but in the forms of labor. 10
Withhold 1T was parsiminous. The way to make
rich men is to educate them.
Ihe next waste was that which comes from
PARASITES.
parasite animal that don't bey-it
sucks. Every vegetable and animal has its
parasites. SO has every man, without or with
IN. The vicious and criminal classes are para
Sites The great lazy classes are parasites
Every man who does anything to produce Grim
lnallty is a parasite maker. We see organized
bands, year after year, producing parasites
The next waste is that which comes from the
incorrigible
PROPENSITY TO QUARREL
among men. DIR. Watts had advised to let dc GA
delight to bark and bite, but he had heard that
man had exceeded the animals in capacity for
quarrellng. Men in all stages of society quarrel
tine whole OF society is busy more or less in
making all the rest of society uncomfortable.
AS much of the forces of nature have been
eeauandered IN quarreling as have been laid out
IN progress His own profession was not ex.
empt. There was nothing of which there ia so
little as peace. Eighteen hundred years ago 6,
band OF young and inexperienced angels began
singing over the world praises: but when thew
saw what world it was they went back and
never have been heard of since. The causes of
quarrels in the churches are trivial bnt tine
differences are great for each sect believes God
is with them only and the other fellows haven't
got him except by their permission. Is it not