The Northern Pacific farmer., 1880-03-04

trenched by law, was preferable to the
grandest estate in a country under
which thundered the volcano of COM
munism or where the doctrines of social
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 q 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 misled
men were predestined failures,
and only forged chains for those who
conducted them. Cooperation was the
oaiy 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" as 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 tho 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 alleviating the distress of the
poorer classes. The bread-and-butter
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 It
was his opinion that three months
of prosperity had turned the heads of
men and women whom hard times had
severely taxed. Daniel Webster's
name would never have been written
on the roll of imperishable fame, but
that in bis youth he had been taught
the lesson of self-sacrifce 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 in putting drug store cigars,
and loading their lady friends with per-
fume and fattery 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
to have good times was to accept an
unqualified hard time at first. Boys
were coddled in their youth by doting
mammas, aunts and cousins, and grew
up in q parboiled state, leaving them
at mans estate, q walking gravestone
to indicate the edectua! burial Of their
manhood.
Referring to grasping employers, the
speaker said that the man who COM
PEELED sewing girls to make shirts at
fifty cents dozen, ought, he supposed,
to be allowed to extract all the pleas
ure possible before death, as he certain
ly could not expect to have much en-.
ioyment 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 which to locate them
when away from their fireside. 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.