The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-02-26
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The Famine ir Ireland--A Plea From tho
Pn.pit--ono OF Taimhges Grandest
Efforts.
was n-inngefed. and 20 gavo me n,ent.--s..
Matthew ky, e5.
Owning California, Australia, aud
Golconda, all the reindeer Of the forest
and all the buffalo Of the plain, all the
wild duck of the marshes, all the plover
and robbin.redbre:s SITS of thelsky, all the
fish of the five oceans, I'll the grain
fields oftwo nepispheres, all immensity
for space, all etarnity for duration--yet
] hungry. Why did Christ submit tn
this faintnezs and gnawing and physi.
cal torture. It was that He might per.
auada Ill nations that He is In full
sympathy with anybody that has not
enough to eat.
Every moral and indul.rious man
has right to enough To eat. ] lay
down this principle, whatever social or
political theory 1t may seem to crowd.
If in all earth there is q moral and
industrious man that has not enough to
eat, it is because somebody else had
more than his share. God spreads His
table three times day all around the
earth, and thereiS plenty on It for the
fourteen hundred million of the race !;
but the trouble is that some aeizc the
piatters and the pitchers on the table,
and having supplied their own hunger
put the rest In their pockets, and leave
millions to rise UP .snsed. The great
question In Anerica, England, Ireland
aud Scotland, and thsgrent question in
every civilized country to-day, is the
gather up, and then by law roll it down
from generation to generation, the lar.
ger estates swallowing UP the smaller
the principle be uniInpeded, one man
nents in conflict; after awhile one man
the capacity, IL no desires, to sell the
water at SO much per gallon, and put
tax on sunshine aud fresh airl Thore
are estates rolling up in this country
which set hll political economists to
thinking about The future. Tho reason
things With us are not as ominous as
they are aboard is because we have not
yet had time enough to mako them omi.
noua. One man 10 Wall street, q few
weeks ago, turning over with one hand
tWenty.million dollars worth of stock, 10
very suggestive. Willie shall not this
morning attempt to grapple with the
political phase Of this subject, / win cay
thatiR which you must oil agree, that qs
long as the Sultan OF Turkey has o Gala
~ Of 5,0o0, QUO per year and the Empe.
rorof Russia has e Balary of Sc, ,240, 900 per
year, and ihirty-two thousand people, In
Great Britian own all the soil, though
Ehere is q population Of tbirty-aix mill
ion,s and the Dnke Of Norfolk owns fiyef
huDdrcd thousand acres aty the Hebrides,
: and tho Duke Of Soathefiand, Ia Scot
land, owns from sea to sea, and the Duke
OF Richmond owns three Hundred tiou.
sand acrea st Gordon CASTLE there must
DO a6na ething dep plorabiy wrong in the
condition which allows q great many
people to stagvs. It 10 q question SO vast
that you and II cannot settle it, nor
AmeEicR; nor Eng land. There is only one
being In all the universe chat .aris settla
4 it, inl that ii God, anu settle e He will.
North and South, politicians SeFy busy
aEores of ysara etud lying how TO set rid
OF American slavery, aud thcY ciphered
aud ciphsreSi and ciphefed aud accon-
piished nothing. Then God ruse mn 10
eztiFpate Agner riean elagefy, and He did
the Work, but ono million fye-h hundred
Thousand men, North and South, brave
yneh, dropped into their graves. Vheths
crit will require Il greater or Lesser eacri-
fee OF hnlan life, or no sapFihce at
all--as I pFay God it may be--to
settle this land question, 4 viii not Of
tamEL to psop hRsy.s But this knoyt !