Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-11-09
TILTON'S NEW LECTURE.

oAN ~ ~ w h<a<> . - hsh<s
''Heart'S-EaSc" Translated to an
Audience i'm Chickering Hail.
Looking at the Hard Times.
From The New York Times.
Chickering Hall was not by any means
crowded with persons who desired to
hear Mr.. Theodore Tilton last night.
The title of his lecture was Hearts
Ease" IL am to speak to you," Mr.
TiltOn said, from quaint, old-faShion
ed Shakcspcarcan text, the old Anglo
Saxon. yet half-forgOtton phrase,
heart 'S-easc;' and as it first falls upon
your ears it may carry some old-tlme
suggestion of lovc-making, OF honey
moon, OF roSc-lcavcS. | say here on the
threshold that propose to speak not at
all in IL romantic or sentimental but al
together in practical vein. My only
object will be To say some heartfelt,
some hcart-rcaching, and, | trust, some
Mountaineering words adapted to these
hard times, for think that this country
is lust now in 4 state OF greater unrest
than it was during the war
In time OF war, he went on to say,
all thoughts, all passions and energies
were harmonized, and anation was new
or so thoroughly III accord as when at
war with an enemy. When the war was
over and the army diSbanded, came Il
killing frost. so now is the winter OF
our discomfort This nation at this
hour was Il rich mans purgatory and Il
I'LL WInt 81 ,, ,nnttnrD
The wolf was ut the door; the sign "NO
thOroughiarc, had been put up on the
most important highway III the republic
the beaten track from hand To mouth;
hall million men stood idling in the
market-place. In this State alone 5000
paupers were maintained at the public
expense. and in Massachusetts, that
paradise OF labor. the statistics show that
one in every hundred of the population
is in the Poor House, and they might
depend upon it that wherever there was
one man within its walls, there were 100
outside. too proud yet not too poor to be
there. The end was not vet; there was
more misery to come. Why? Had ma
ture failed, and did the earth fail to
WELD her increase, or was self-govern-
ment crumbling and liberty at an end?
He called them to witness that the Con-
sttution OF the United States never be-
fore was So worthy OF esteem aS now,
and never before 50 closely knit the
North and south. Nor had our manu-
fartureS or industries persisted. as shown
bv the fact that We had received ut the
baZar OF nations more prizes than any
other country. Il think there is moth
ing the matter with our nation, he at
length said, (which could not he swept
away at this moment, ii only by some
charm | could make this statement true
Iii work were plenty and wages were
high Every body said the question
was narrow; everybody expected the
answer would be plain.
Mr.. Tilton proceeded to consider the
remedies which others had proposed,
among which We're the equal distrbu-
ton OF property, the exclusion OF Chi
ncsc cheap labor, the benefits OF CO.
operation He did not go too lar when
he predicted that the United States
would never in the face OF her treaty
with China, permit her Government
70 plant its iron heel on the peaceablc
wcarcrs of the wooden shoe; and - to
although there were sew
cral instances in which il had been sue
rcssful. il was very like the advice,
plant Il tree. and 4 century hence you
shall sit down in the shade" He had
no wish to trench upon the domain of
politics. but in in this connection there
was the plan OF initiation, The first
President Of the United States called it
"wickedncss and folly" the second, "a
trick OF lcdgcrdermain; and To him
these hard words seemed Very applica-
BILE To our modern soft money, England
and France had from three 10 two and
hall times a. much hard cash MS paper,
and il was proposed to make il eight or
nine times as much. The trouble in
this country was that there waS too lit
tie business to transact, not too little
money to transact il with; to extend the
currency would only be to widen
the distress. Specie payment he
referred to aS spccious pro:
misses only. and then asked
himself, had he plan? Certainly not.
1t seemed To him, in all seriousness, that
rs this mourniul state OF our affairs could
not Immediately b. remcdied, they ought
to be manfully endured. In what further
he had to say he should speak to this
end Thus. after half an hours intro
duction did Mr.. Tilton get down to his
subject. Heart 'S-casc." He first de-
scribcd the action OF the heart. and aver
red that in no nation upon which the
sun shone did that little machine sooner
break down from over-wOrk than here.
The statistics of longevity showed that
the average life OF American citizens was
twentv-SiX TO twenty-seven years, and
even out in the pure air OF the far West
the-mcn died thirty or forty Years before
natures appointed time. The work
American people had been doing during
the last hundred years had been undo
inc them. We lived too fast. As Charles
Matthews said: 1T is 4 country where
everything must be done in twenty
minutes. The three national charac
teristics were hurry, furry and worry"
To show the influence OF this upon the
national physique, he quoted from the
report of the London College OF Surgeons:
Not single impression can be made
upon the senses that is not conveyed to
the heart and registered there" Then
he showed how life was shortened by ac-
celeration OF the hearts action, by the
drinking OF whisky, the excessive ath-
letics. and by unhealthy excitement.
This nation wasted its heart in its hurry