The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-11-21

Li--s'1Ne
il is common to say that lessons are
enforced in the darkness of adyersity
WHICH 90 unheeled or unthought OF IN
tha sunlight of prosperity. Tins is often
true. Individual consciences are quick
/ end by bereavement and the result is q
/ Increment toward the higher life lndi-
/ vidual perceptions of the truth in ordin-
AIRY living are also awakened, and the
4 pinch OF tralghtcned circumstances some
/ times teaches &C 5rOmy and tTugaIity.
/ Bat while these salutary influences are at
/ work among indiyid Jais, and thus must
7 IN degree work effects Of national
/ breadth, it is also fact that in the time
( ot eciipSes IN general prosperity there
I afISz. ------.-v .-vf riIU u1UoJ fCIuUQS ideas Ald
WIN auaerents among disconnected minds
which would not have cherished them in
/ prosperous days. Here IS an apparent
anomaly: single condition working both
good and evil. 1t is not uncommon in
the affairs of men. 1t is not without ana
Iogv IN the tirmanent above. The eclipse,
shutting out the great iuminary. brings
naught but depth Of darkness to some Vi
slons, while to Others 1t reveals lights un-
seen before, says the Pacific Rural Press
In life, as IN astronomical observations.
the results depend upon our fitness to OBJ
serve and 10 understand what we see.
Let us call that little star which the
eclipse brought to view Truth, and the
bearings OF the phenomenon upon the al
fairs OF life will appear. In its individ-
uai and national life for the last few years
the world has been undergoing an eclipse.
Depression has been felt everywhere, but
IN varying degrees, Just as in the solar
echTse there are degrees OF observation in
all directions from the path OF totality
Perhaps the densest shadow has been cast
upon this favored land and California has
caught partial shading. The question
IS what has been learned from the expert
ence. Who has caught sight of the ltd.
star, TRUTH VINO las seized upon
darkness and is propagating it,
y Ie| years ago we were basking in the
sunllg,lt of apparent prosperity in this
country. Money was plenty and expen-
dituro was lavish. Men learned to play
with millions as with marbles. We are
taught to expose evil, and yet in the full
glare OF this prosperity mems eyes were
daZZled and the most magnificent struc-
lures Of fraud, corruption and injustice
were reared. In individual interests
there was evil ingenuity to secure and
SINFUL extravaganza to expcnd. The
eclipse came on apace. Wise men dis
cerned the feeble light OF truth and have
laDOred to Tetrench and reform their own
fortunes and the nations. Evil was laid
low and Injustice warned of its downfall
by the vigorous, determined and vet lava
iul measures to reform which have been
set in motion and will be farther pressed
onward. While this has been the work
Of the wise, there has been seen the ill-di-
rected and dangerous action of the un-
wise. In Individual cases they have
aimed 10 TestSe their prosperity not by
the si-.e method, OF labor and economy,
but 3rn p55ere thf hjEa aEfp2s 2steffiag at ffbiaa9ff5 70
entral - 1bcb. ;, ',Fatented and unwary. In
wider re dis Cdl1y have sought, by the
propa5"Rs< Of base fallacies, to enlist
men inn Adherence to doctrines which
are false and can lead only to the outer
darkness.
We should all have a care, when the
briIIiancy and hue Of the lights are
changed, that we do not see falsely and
embrace q delusiOn. If we do this the
suffering of adversity will only be ex
changed for the vcxation OF defeat, the
desperation Of despair Rather let those
vino have caught new rays Of light amid
the passing gloom prove that the light is
of truth, and then pursue it in their daily
life OF manhood and business and in their
lives as citizens OF our common country
Let item see to it that they are not de-
c-ived by false ideas Of tn rights of prop
ety and the true method to acquire them;
1T them not persuade themselves that
speaioUs frauds instead OF honest thought
and honest substance are the tools by
which true success is carved out.