The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-09-15

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| fields, or think Gods universe wonderful
and thus they lose reverence and faith. 81
| much is hourly seen that is the product Of
| mans ingenuity and skill. while the silen
and mysterious workings OF natures laws
seldom gladden. the sight with golden fruit
or fragrant blossom, that the inhabitant Of
the city, influenced by his surroundings, is
prone TO forget the duties due to nature
Aethor, and the homage that belongs to ma.
lures God. Human character is shaped by
its surroundings. This is the meaning Of
| the proverb that we are creatures of circum
stance. Ia the great ocean Of humanity
that floods our cities, thousands upon thous'
ands have no home, no family ties, no hal,
| lowed recollections to render dear the family
| Preside. A house that is occupied but moi
owned is not home. A true family ought
to be abiding; it ought to endure while the
| nation exists. 1t reposes upon love and re
lIgion; it is nurtured by traditions of honor
and virtue; and the symbol of Its perma
nence is the home owned and transmitted
from generation to generation. The poor
and the laboring classes of our great cite:
have no homes. Hired rooms which are
changed from year to year are not homes
The operatives cottage, without yard OF
garden. without flowers or privacy, is not q
home. The house which is empty day after
day, because the mother and her little ones
are chained to the great machine in the fac
try mill, is the grave of the family, not its
home. Where people have no settled home
and no local traditions the loss of good name
is often looked upon as q mere trihe; and 9
sense of shame is stifled in the young, who
| from their earliest years have lived in an at
mosphere polluted by foulness of speech and
| OF conduct. In the city domestic morals anG
simple manners, which are Of priceless value
erase to be handed down as sacred heir
| looms.
Moral degradation accompanies great ply
slcal wretchedness, and the low moral state
of cities and manufacturing towns affords
inexhaustible matter for sad and serious
consideration. "The city population o.
France" says statician, (which is bu
one fifth of the nation, furnishes two-6fths
of the criminals" The air of the city, with
the stir of the multitude and the whirl oil
business and pleasure, intoxcates. and meI
| are drawn into the vortex by the craving fol-
excitement, which is often so great that honor
and all that is most dear to men are sacra
feed to the indulgence of fatal appetite
Those who desire to lead life of dissipation
are drawn to the city by the feeling that il
will offer them better opportunity and greater
security from the consequences of evil-doing
and those who have lost their good name are
| anxious to bury themselves in the promiscu
Gus crowd from the sight of those who have
known them. The farmer is his own master
and must do his own thinking, and intelli
| gently labor in union with nature that moth
| er earth may return him hundred. fold fol
the little treasure he has entrusted to hel
generous care. He must plan for the future
or fattened granaries and joyous herds will
never tighten his loping heart. There are
numbers for whom to act and think for them
selves is weary burden, of which they long
to be relieved. They ask only that some one
hire them, and are content to eat the bread
Of servitude, which too often is for them the
bread of sorrow. They have no thought Of
the morrow, no care for the growing or ripen
ing grain. They never suspect that theil
condition is wretched until no one will pay
for their labor and they are left without
shelter and food. The city or manufactur
ing town is the natural abiding place of this
large class, Nowadays the workman is only
a part of machine. He requires little
training and less skill. Machinery has
done away with trades. and the machine asks
only little encouragement from intelligence
to complete its allotted task. And because
anybody can do this work it is easy to fnd
people who will do il cheaply, and so wages
sink until the operative receives barely
enough to keen him from atarvafiop TT
from whatever cause, he can no longer fill
his peculiar place as part of the machine, hi
is at once pauper; and yet there are mum
btrs waiting to take his place. This race o.
men, upon which human ingenuity and in
! ventive genius depends to complete the per
feet machine, forms o people apart nothing
like it has been seen until our day in ancient
or modern civilization. They have the name