The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-05-10

Of life Let tho markets Of the world %
open TO the fruits OF our toll And may the
timS soon come when the idea Of mans uni
yersal kindship shall shpplant the narrow
and selfish thought Of foreign exclusion and
national isolation Then commerce will ex-
pand the bounds Of inter change and encir-
Gle the earth with o white zone Of American
argosies. Then will our land grow green
under the hand Of honest toll
hut no legislation can supply what society
must accomplish BY it's own inherent ener.
Is the principal agent for the elimination OF
social weakness Call 1t what you will, it Is
the power that has revolutionized bad
government, dothroned tyrants, given TO
the flames their martyrs and TO the scaffold
It's victims. It may ut times assume grim
and revolving forms 1t may take the form
Of apparent wrong. But it fs necessary
wrong It's roots strike deeper than the
mob. They penetrate into the deranged
and poisoned pool OF civilization ITSELF
Beneath the furious passions OF hate and
diacontcnt that bubble in the caldron OF
civilized society progress Is fcrmented
From under the dark clouds that hover IN
the horizon of commune sshOut rays uf
light parallel TO the eternal laws of right
and Justice and truth. Communism Is
truth fraternizing with vengeance to assert
itself by the upheaval OF society. The vio-
lence Of comnlunistic convulsions only in
dicates the power Of the evil to be ex-
Plunged i.
But society has moro peaceful methods Of
growth The world is still advancinf,
though fettered and blinded and dazed by
the bisotry and superstition and fntoler-
ance OF the cruel past There are now no
tortures for the troaomer, no cells for the
chemist no faggots tor the { mixer. But
the millennium Is not here. Saturnine and
unhappy must be tho temper: cold, dull and
dead the heart that cannot discern, even
bn nnfa hv-nn f7n n0litiCS
and religion of to-day, firm, rcsolute spirit
of progress yet alive How Tar, by the pow
ers Of association and fellowship, may this
60? How far may it work relaxation In
the exclusion and selfishness that has hith.
erto governed the laws OF social life? May
not the associated energies OF mankind go
OH increasing in power and productiveness
until they shall irrgate the Sahara with the
waters of the Nile and render the deserts OF
Africa the garden spot OF the world! May
we not go on peopling the earth and molii-
| flying its climate until the sleeps OF Siberia
shall bear population as numbcrless as the
plains Of Europe, and along the frozen seas
| shall wave the fields of yellow grainy Until
| the earth. with its circle Of habitility
widened and its beauty refined shall be re-
deemed from the curse Of selfishness and
hate and encircled with justice and virtue
| and truth.
The rrecepts Of the great philosopher OF
/ Nazareth are q whitening rebuke to the hu-
manly -legalized expressions of property,
ard will gradually assert their power over
| the hearts and minds Of men to stay the
| hand OF this social robbery The chorus Of
| Bethlehem, sPeace on earth and good will
/ among men, should receive an interpreta
/ ton as broad as human intercourse. 1t il
| the keynote to the ideal development OF the
race, the grandest philosophy OF human life
in all the volume Of the past. The yibra
tions of that chorus dispersed themselves
into history, and oil subsequent inanifesta-
tions of human sympathy, in charity or phi
lanthropy, are but the mOdulations Of III
rhythm They have flowed along with thu
current of humanity, cooling avaric'
and healing the selfish passions of the hu
man heart. They come to us to-day, aftel
200 wears sweeter than the strains of al
Eolian harp and grander than the chorus Q
The morning stars Their spirit tells us tina
England has no right to feast while lreian'
staryes 1t tells us that legalized robbery i
worse than bloodshed, and famine is wors
than war. 1t commands hospitals for tn
sick and alms-houses for the hungry.
brands monopoly AS an extortion an,
oppression rs crime. 1t demands school
for childhood and colleges for science.
admonishes all these as links In the tripl
, chain or charity, love and law, the cmpsel
. OF the brotherhood of man and the father
hood of God And when its teachings attat
their destined power, humanity will b
spared the cry Of the hungry in land c
plenty and the tear Of the homeless ami
, palaces of wealth.