The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-12-02

by committee and asked him if he would
not stop singing, as he disturbed the
choir.
Again, when the city is redeemed, the
low haunts of vice and pollution will be
eXtinguished. Mr.. EtZler of England
proposed, by the forces of tide and wind
and wave and sunshine, to reconstruct
the world. In book of much genius.
which rushed rapidly from edition to
edition, he says: "FellOw- w-citizens: |
promised to show the means of creating
paradise within ten years, where eV.
erything desirable for human life NAV
be had in superabundance without labor
and without pay; where the whole face
of nature shall be changed into the
most beautiful forms, and man live in
the most magnificent palaces, in all i'm
aginable retinements of luxury, and in
the most delightful gardens; where he
may accomplish without labor in one
year more than hitherto could be done
in thousands of years; may level cOnti-
nents, sink valleys, create lakes, drain
swamps and intersect the land every
where with beautiful canals and roads
for transporting heavy loads of many
thousand tons, and for travelling thou
sand miles in twentyfOur hours; may
cover the ocean with floating islands,
movable in any desired direction, with
an immense power and celebrity in per-
feet security, and with all the comforts
and luXuries; bearing gardens and pal
aces with thousands of families, and pro-
vided with rivulets Of sweet water; and
explore the interior of the globe, and
travel from pole to pole in fortnight
provide himself with means yet unheard
of for increasing his knowledge of the
world, and so his intelligence; leading
a life of continual happiness, of enjoy
ment yet unknown, free himself from
almost all the evils that attlict mankind
except death, and even putting death
far beyond the common period of human
life, and finally render it less affecting.
From the houses to be built will be af-
fcrded the most enrapturing views to
be fancied; from the galleries, from the
roof, and from its turrets may be seen
gardens as ia as the eye can see, full of
fruits and flowers, arranged in the most
beautiful order, with walks, cOlonades,
acqueducts, canals, ponds, plains, am
phitheaters, terraces, fountains, places
for public amusement to delight the eye
and fancy. All this to be done by urg-
ging the water, the wind and the sun
shine to their full development Mr..
EtZler gives plates of the machinery by
which all this is to be done. He prOpO
ses the organization of a company, and
says small shares of 500 will be suffi-
to create the first establishment for
whole community of from 1900 to 1000
individuals. AT the end of five years
we shall have a principal of $200,OO0,0OO
and so paradise will be wholly regained
at the end of the tenth year." There is
more reason in this man than in many
of the plans proposed; but mechanical
forces can never Tecreate the world.
shall take no shares in the large COM
n E0,fA hot
Christianity will yet make the worst
street of our cities better than the best
street now is.
Archimedes consumed the enemies of
Syracuse by great sunglass. AS the
ships came up the haTbOr the suns rays
were concentrated upon them. Now the
sails are wings of fire, the masts fall
and the vessels sink. So by the great
sunlight of the Gospel, the rays of heav-
en- will he so concentrated upon all the
filth and unchastity and crime of our
great towns, and under the heat they
blaze and expire. When the day comes
that have shown will come, suppose
you there will be any more midnight
brawlsp Any shiVerjng mendicants
kicked off from marble steps? Any
dTOves of unwashed, uncOmbed, unfed
chiIdren? Any blasphemers in the
streets? Any staggering past of inebri-
ates? No! No wine-cellars; no lager
beer saloons; no distilleries where they
make the xxx; no blOated cheeks; no
blOOd-shOt eyes; no fst-battered fore
heads. The grandchildren of that wO-
man who now walks up the streets with
curse as the boys stone her, will be
great philanthrOpists and heal the sick
and manage great commercial enterpr1-
ses. When our cities are so raised we
shall have in many of them different
styles of municipal government. The
great question in regard to the execu-
tion of the law in most cities now is:
what is pOpularp You have but to
pass the City Halls of some of our cities
or look in upon the rooms of some of our
city officials, to see to what sort of men
our cities have been abandoned. Look
at the swearing, blOated, sensual wret-
ches who stand on the outside of some
of the City Halls of this country, pick
ing their teeth, waiting for some crumbs
of emOlument to fall at their feet, and
then tell me how far it Is from some of
our cities to SOdOm. Who are those
wTetched women sent up in the city van
to the Police Court, apprehended for
drunkennessI They will be locked up
in Jail, but what will be done with the
grOggeries that made them drunkp Who
are these men in the city prison? That
man stole q pair of shoes; that boy one
dollar from the counter; that girl snat-
ched purse-all villainies of less than
500 or $50 damage to the community
But for that gambler who last night
took that young mans $1,O00-nOthing.
For that man who broke in upon the
purity of Christian household, and by
a perfidy and adrOitness that beat the
strategy of hell, flung that soul shrek
ing to the bOttOmless pit-nOthing! For
those who "fleeced" young man, and
induced him to filch from his employers
vast sums of money, until, in his agony
he came to an officer of the church and
frantically asked what he should do
nothing! Verify, small crimes ought to
be punished; but it were more just if
our authorities would turn out from our
jails and penitentiares the small villains
the petty criminals, the infantile often
ders, the $40 desperadOes, and fill their
places with these monsters of iniquity
who drive their roam span through our
fine streets until honest men have to fly
to escape being run over. Oh, the dam
nable schemes professed Christians will
engage in, until God puts his finger into
the collar of the hypOcrite's robe and
rips it clear down to the bottom.
Rut all thaGa wrOnpS shall he riOhtad