Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-03-05
BREAD AND BUTTER BATTLE.
An IncisiYe and Humorous Lecture by
the Rev. c. l.. ThOmpson-HO1 This
Life Should be Lived-Some Striking
Contrasts.
Chicago Times.

| Pittsburgh, Pa, on last evening lectured
to q large audience at the Fifth Presby-
terrain church, taking for his subject the
"Bread and Butter Battle" The elo-
quent gentleman said that Plato's philo-
sophy should have ruled that the hu.
man brain, under no circumstances,
should have weighed more than fifty
ounces, as history had demonstrated
that persons afflicted with weighty
brains were at all times engaged in
schemes looking to their personal ag.
grandisement and the grinding Of the
poorer classes. Communism was not q
plant of steady growth, but was occa-
stoned by supposed wrongs, brought
about by persons clothed with the re-
sponsibilities of governing the masses.
The idea, superb in itself, of common
government was only despotic gov
eminent under q softer name. In the
United States there are about seventy
distinct communistic societies, all
claiming inheritance from the idea of
Plato, the best known being the Oneidl
community Of New York, which was,
however, more renowned for It's canned
fruits than for an innate love OF moral.
lily. All the writers from Plato down
were unsuccessful in establishing their
peculiar doctrines OF communism, and
the people of the Oneida community
headed by college-bred enthusiast,
were the first to practice their disgust
ing doctrines. All the socialistic pa
pers were substantially in accord with
the demands of European socialism,
and in reality advocated the idea of
placing premium on idleness and
shiftlessness, and tax on industry. A
communist was one who yearns to re-
ceive something for nothing, and be-
lieved in the loafer's plan of getting
living by laundering the camp. One
acre of land hedged about with the
bands of love and industry, and in
trenched by law, was preferable to the
grandest estate in q country under
which Numbered the volcano of COM
munism, or where the doctrines ofsocial-
ism were looked upon with the slightest
degree Of favor.
The speaker drew vivid comparison
between the laboring classes of England
and America. In this country the poor
est peasant, if he did not own farm,
looked forward to the time when he
might by industry and thrift be the own
er of home. Strikes, riots, and kim
dred ventures upon the part of msled
men were predestined failures,
and only forged chains for those who
conducted them. Cooperation was the
only remedy for the poorer classes, and
the efficacy of this remedy was estab-
lished wherever it has been conscien-
tiously tried.
The question of the Bread and But
ter Battle" MS applied to home life was
enlarged upon by the speaker whose
remarks were very humorous, and
heartily enjoyed by his audience. The
hope of our country is that there be
homes for the people, not dungeons. In
most cities the rapacious landlord heed
ed not moral, mental, or physical good
of the people. The Peabody buildings
in London were an apt illustration of
what might be accomplished by men of
wealth in alternating the distress of the
poorer classes. The bread-and-bu
battle was often hopelessly mortgaged
by young married people before the
expiration of the honymoon. A spend
thrift in any house would undermine
the work of the ablest economist or
most thorough machinest II
was his opinion that three months
Of prosperity had turned the heads of
men and women whom hard times had
severely taxed. Daniel Websters
name would never have been written
on the roll Of imperishable fame, but
that in his youth he had been taught
the lesson of self-sacrfce in the family,
and the ties of family love and coopera-
ton looking to the better and nobler
condition of the family surroundings.
Young men who spend their time and
money i'll putting drug store cigars,
and loading their lady friends with per
fume and tlattery were ON ~ sure road
to genuine hard road to travel" Let
them wear all the new-fashioned hats
imaginable, their heads would be bare
enough when the crowns Of real, honest,
hard work were distributed. The way
unqualified hard time at first. Boys
were coddled in their youth by doting
mammals, aunts and cousins, and grew
up in n parboiled state, leaving them
ut mans estate, a walking gravestone
to indicate the eilectual burial of their
manhood.
Referring to grasping employers, the
speaker said that the man who com.
PEELED sewing girls to make shirts at
fifty centsa dozen, ought, he supposed,
to be allowed to extract all the pleas
ure possible before death, as Ike certain
ly could not expect to have much en-,
joyment in the future life.
Ladies can now rock the baby, sew,
scold, their absent liege lord when away
by telephone, and all they needed was
a machine by whicE to locate them
when away from their firesiae. He
wound up his very interesting and
humorous discourse by quoting Bobby
Burns "a mans man for all that"
which was rendered beautifully, and
called upon his hearers to trust not in
the idea OF wealth without honest
effort.
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