The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-02-26

Twas a-hungered, and yc gave me ment-st,
Matthew XIV: s5.
Owning California, Australia, and
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.redbreasts of the sky, all the
fish of the five oceans, all the grain
fields oftwo hemispheres, all immensity
for space. all eternity for duration-yet
hungry. Why did Christ submit to
this faintness and gnawing and physi-
cal torture. Itwas that He might per.
suade all nations that He Is in full
sympathy with anybody that has not
enough to eat.
Every moral and industrious man
has a right to enough to eat. ! lay
down this principle, whatever social or
political theory it may seem to crowd:
IF in all earth there is o 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 OF it for the
fourteen hundred million of the race; ;
but the trouble is that some seize the
platters and the pitchers on the table,
and having supplied their own hunger
nut the rest in their pockets, and leave
millions to rise up unfed. The great
question in America, England, Ireland
and Scotland, and the great question in
every civilized country to-day, IS the
question, how much property 8 man may
gather up, and then by law roll it down
from generation to generation, the lar
ger estates swallowing up the smaller
estates until in the far distant future, If
the principle be unimpeded, one man
will own continent, and all the conti-
nents in conflict; after awhile one man
will own the whole earth, and will have
the capacity, if he desires, to sell the
water at so much per gallon, and put
tax on sunshine and fresh air!, There
are estates rolling up in this country
which set all political economists to
thinking about the future. The reason
things with US are not as ominous as
they are aboard is because we have not
yet had time enough to make them oml'
nous. One man in Wall street, few
weeks ago, turning over with one hand
twenty-million dollars worth of stock, is
yery suggestive. While shall not this
morning attempt to grapple with the
political phase of this subject, I will say
that in which you must all agree, that as
long as the Sultan of Turkey has o sala-
~ of S6,0O0,000 per year and the Empe-
rorof Russia has salary of So .24O, 600 per
year, and thirty-two thousand people IN
Great Britain own all the soil, though
there is q population Of thirty-six mill
ion. and the Duke of Norfolk owns five
hundred thousand acres at the Hebrides,
and the Duke of Switzerland, in Scot
land, owns from sea to sea, and the Duke
ofRichmond owns three hundred thou.
sand acres at Gordon Castle, there must
be something deplorably wrong in the
condition which allows a great many
people TO starve. It is question so vast
that you and / cannot settle it, nor
America, nor England. There IS only one
being in all the universe that can settle
it. and that is God, and settle it He will.
North and South, politicians we're busy
scores of years studying how to get rid
of American slavery, and they ciphered
and ciphered and ciphered and accom-
plished nothing. Then God rose up to
extirpate American slavery, and He did
the work, but one million fve-hundred
thousand men, North and South, brave
men, dropped into their graves. Wheth-
er it will require greater r lesser sacrl-
fee of hman life, or no sacrifice at
alias pray God it may be-to
settle this land question, I will not at
tempt to prophesy. But this know,
that Christ is in sympathy with all the
distressed, and a voice to-day comes
thrilling through every American cabin,
and every Irish peat hovel, and every
destitute English home, saying: IT was
a-hungered." This rage of afronted ap-
petite which men call hunger is ter
rife demonstration. 1t has often been
seen on shipboard when, all the food ex-
hausted, lots have been cast as to who
should die and with his own body fur.
nish food to others. It has been seen
again and again among the Arabs, when
children have been roasted for food by
their own parents. Famine in Jerusalem.
Famine in ancient Utica, entirely in
Canaan. Famine in lands entirely de-
populated by it, leaving the whole
country to the jackals hunting for
corpses. Famine Leyden, Holland,
where the Spaniards for months besieged
the city, and the food was gone, and
rather than surrender to the tyrant the
burgomaster came out into the presence
Of the famine-stricken, and said: "My
life is at your service here is my sword;
pluge it into my breast; take my flesh /;
tear apart my body, and appease your
hunger; but surrender the city I will
not" Famine is monster that has at
some time put its paw on almost every
nation, with hot tongue tapping up the
fevered blood of the starving, and this
morning it is bowling for its prey, and
its voice comes shuddering across the
Atlantic. Last Tuesday I received
cablegram from the Lord Mayor of
Dublin, saying: "Famine is inevitable;
aid needed" Last Sabbath I received
cablegram from Lord james Butler,
of Dublin, who said, "Fuel and food
needed in the west of Ireland" while at
the same time in that telegram he depre-
ciated political agitation as, in his
opinion, doing great damage. I have
received this week also cablegram
from the Earl of Kintore, the great
Scottish philanthropist, who confirms
all these tidings; so it is very certain,
in my mind, that this is not political
dodge, as some have protested it is not
even a quarrel between landlord and
tenant; it is an unmistakable, agonizing,
overwhelming, stunning, million-voiced
shrek for bread. Ireland once had
plenty. In the seventeenth century she
had superhuity of grain-helds, herds
of cattle and aocks of sheep straying
through her valleys and up and down
her mountain sides. Prolonged wars,
but plenty to eat. The tale of woe of
Irish famine began in the eighteenth
century. Famine in 1927, and hun.
dreds perished. Famine in 174l, and