The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-12-15

tells you candy is bad for the teeth, 1t
is only because she wants to save the
sugarl Who would think that from such
an unprOmising plant as the sugarcane,
there could be expressed so lujc1Ous, so
crystalline and so etherealiZed lux
uryP In the old fashioned pulpit of the
churches there used to stand on the
shelf, under the Bible, a glass contain
| ing Jumps of loaf sugar, with which the
minister used to clear his throat before
preaching, exciting the envy Of us boys
i In the gallery who had nothing to allie
viate the length of the service. There
the pastor would stand, rolling that
| lump of deliciOusness around in his
mouth, and with uplifted eye and maj
esty of crunch, as much as to say: This
is not for the sheep of the pasture; this
is only for the shepherd" Two humid
red and twelve million pounds OF sugar
this year; fifteen million swine slaugh-
tered, and yet so many hogs left. But
not only for the people has there been
munifcence. For horses and cattle and
sheep God has filled the hay rack OF t is
| continent. The hay crop equals The
corn crop, am told by those who can
| give authentic statements. The horse
! will not whinny nor the cow below,
nor the sheep bleat for lack of supply.
He who fed the raven feeds the quadru-
ped. Gold and silver products this year
| $S0O00,0O0. Hear it, all the earth. Ne
vada, Colorado, New Mexico, only hint
| ing what they propose to do. Gold and
silver are going to be so common in the
country, if you live long enough you
will eat off of silver plates and drink
out of gold chalices. The mineral
wealth now developed, as compared To
the mineral wealth yet to be developed,
| is less than fifty cents, which Cornelius
Vanderbilt got for rowing a passenger
! across from Staten Island, as compared
! with the millions of dollars he left at
| his decease. The earth has only made
| its very first payment, and its smallest
payment, of magnificent resources.
But | come to more stupendOus
statement. 1t is the expectation of
country as compared with the impOrta-
tiOn, that decides the relative wealth of
a nation. Breadstuffs exported this
year, 2S3,OOO,OO0 bushels; pounds beef
| exported, 144,OO000O. Glasgow, Edin-
burg, London and Paris, have their but
cher shops, not next door, but in Amer
| lea. Exports of lard, pork and bacon,
| 1,048,0O0,000 pounds. This is the bad
year they have been telling you about.
This is the Thanksgiving when you
ought to complain. Butter exported
ported this year 10000, 900 pounds. And
now strike the balance. Hear it, all
you men and women of families-all
you friends of the poor, all you patriotic
and philanthrOpic and Christian people
of America. Hear the two aggregates:
Dome tic exports 1924, 900 coo; imports,
$64O,OOO,OOO. Making $1S4,00OO00 on
our side the sheet, June 80, 1881.
| display these facts on this Thanks
giving day to show you that it ought to
be Feast of Trumpets." When Han
delPs Messiah was first performed in
London in 1880, the people were moved
to tears and shouts, and when the great
band of musicians came to the words:
"FOr the Lord God 0mnipOtent reign
eth, the whole audience sprang to their
feet, and the King of England, who
was present, arose with them and stood
until the OratOTiO ended. 1t seems to
me if this nation could appreciate all
that God has done for it from November
1880 to November 1881, they would arise
amid the cOrn-fields and stOrehOuses and
the houses and churches, and in an ora
tOria that would roll from the Atlantic
to the Pacific and back again, and from
earth to heaven and back again, seven
ty millions of people would acclaim:
"Hallelujahl for the Lord God OmnipO- |
tent reigneth." And while the people |
arise in the OTatOrio, let the American
King rise with thpm-King Corn, King
Wheat, King Cotton, King Rice, King
Petroleum, King Sugar, King Cheese.
If there has been airy diminutiOn in
the crops this season, it may be the
worlds fault. 80, nOp' you say, "the
damage done was done by the lack of
rain" But the world might change the
weather by scientific achievement, and
will change it. You and l may live to
see the day when drought will stop be-
cause the people resolve it shall stop.
The clouds are within reach of human
agency. What occurred after the battle
of Waterloo? A food of water. After
the battle of AusterlitZ? A flood of wa
ter. After Gettysburg? A flood of wa
ter. After Atlanta? A flood of water.
After Bunker Hill? After Lexington?
A flood of water. What occurs after
every Fourth of July celebrated in the
discharge of firearms? A flood of wa
ter. Explosions of vast amounts of gun
powder never fail to bring rain. The
time will come when the drought will
come down under the cannOnade. You
say it will cost too much. We have had
in this country $200,OO0,0O0 of property
destroyed by drought in one summer,
and you could get up tremendous
shower for less than that! An extern
pOrized thunder storm would cost fifty
per cent less than drought. The sys-
ance of the atmosphere by great explO-
siOns would make the clouds dis
charge as certainly as the full pitcher
of water turned upside down would
empty itself. Besides this, our latest
discovery of the fact that electricity
can be Gagged and fastened, and made |
portable and carried around and let
loose wherever you will, gives us an
other mode of assaulting the clouds, |
and if there is not enough electricity in |
the sky for the water we need, this bot
tled-up surplus electricity can be let !
loose in great quantities. A third way |
in which we may affect the weather IL |
by letting the forests grow, for these, as |
you well know, have much to do with |
the rainfall. The human race will take |
the Divine suggestion and use coal for |
fuel, and let these great stOrm-breath- |
ing oaks and cedars stand to pass the |
showers down over their shoulders. By |
these three agencies - cannOnading, |
electric stOrehOuses and the unbTOken |
fOrests-the world will decide its own |
weather. Does it seem irreveTent for |
men to meddle with the clouds and the |
hidden forces of nature? Why, that is |
what Franklin did when he lassOed the |
lightning, what Robert Fulton did |
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