The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-11
500 ~ !
ro.,ri Picture of New York So
ciety as Draw by n Rev. Or.
George n Hepworth-

Tie following article on the demoraI-
led condition Of the first society Ia New
York is from the pen Of DR.. George ii.
H,pxorth. who has had every means 10
saos whereof he writes:
The iniatuation for the Golden Calf Is
GOT simply au eccentrlcity, but a terrible
Authorization indicating organic weak
ness. We have absolute confidence that
If money 20 before. all ways do he
open, and when we deign TO pray, it i
Mt for daily bread, but for a daily dol
lar The Jingle OF coin throws Us of
our balance, as the full of the moor does
the lunatic. Poverty is the one thing
we dread, and tie consolation do we
get from the fact that, at least, We are
honest. Wealth is the one thing We de-
fire, and il scarcely mars our happiness
that we have run through crooked paths
to get il. We stoop TO "unconhnable
b~aseness" for gold, and W. even marry
for gold. which. If the grim and horrible
truth must be told, is only a mild phrase
which throws the mantle of rhetoric over
deliberate but well paid prostitution.
WhOsoerer gtCeS the person, through TIE
solemn rate Of DtdtrtntOHg rtth0ut the
hedrt, whoS0ecer, Jor the sake Of houses
and lands and e9utpdge and position, md
rot for lore and lore only. puts her hand
into the hand OF a man, Is thencetorward
40 wife. bat something tar other.
W hen a man steals a small sun he Is a
william, without doubt, and WE search the
dictionary In vain for a word with which
Itly 10 express our contempt but when
be steals bank notes by the ton our hOr-
-or at his crime is mingled with admira-
ton for his genius, and the moral result
Jant OF ills combined admiration and
horror Is federation. What the world
wants Is bulk. Nothing petty suits It's
mood CrRsus Is always elected to be
a god by universl suffrage, even though
piracy be behind his gold. A man with
lender mean must needs remaln a bach
elUr, because the devotees of the Golden
CAL have never even deigned to look
lpon him but money with physical and
moral corruption behind it in the dis
gIise of manhood is in such demand that
mancuvering mamma 20 wild in the
co nretitive chase for it, and ambitious
young ladies' stimulate their destinations
to the utmost TIE fond hope of pos
sessinE 1t.
JUST HERE o CRY HAITI
and tell me that | do not keep step with
Il e rest of the world. Thank God | do
at, VI the rest Of the world either ad.
aires or excuses this state of affairs.
Ny language may be harsh, but it is not
y nical. am not looking through a
personal disappointment. There is no
better time to speak han now. There
are seven facts in connection with New
Nnrl iIla rrh,oh houa Sarual tn Sharnnn
the point of my pen, and if | were to
dip that pen IN vitrlol and write with
strokes that should burn every oDe of
them into the paper, | could not with
sufficient sarcasm arraign the Stiffness
bodies and souls for gold. These seven
facts have a CHASTITY family likeness, for
they look, as Portia says, like a deaths
head with a bone in his mouth
SEVEN SHAMEFUL sCANDALse
In what is called good society in the
city of New York (heaven save the
mark What is it good for, with seven
such demons from the pit shaking hands
with it In the familiarity of mutual con-
tidenceP there are, at this moment,
seven divorce cases, In connection with
some of which are rumors SO Incredibly
vile that even men speak OF them In a
whisper. If you had seen those seven
couples married, and had known ever
the h~earsay about them, you would have
lost your respect tor yourself as a proph.
ct if you had not declared that three
year or five years from that 'dicer's oath
of loyalty, they would separate in I'M
speakable disgust, and thus saith the
Lord" Shall we pirate Of a mysteriou,
dispensation of Providence? If We are
idiots, yes; but if we have common
sense, we shall recognize the vigilant
and
SUCCESSFUL PROVIDENCE OF SATAN.
The laws of well-or6ered society were
tempered with In the very beginning, and
the result was at least one heart broken
beyond meDdine. / say one broken
heart, because, in a majority of these
,.a>es, the man has no heart to break.
His marriage was only the freak of a
-poiled child with a lap full of dollars. d
whim, something to do in a life made up
OF nothing to do. 1t was a new excite
ment, the novelty of which lasted 4 few
months, and Their came neglects, insults,
such as no pure woman has any right to
endure, and, In more than one instance,
blows cruel, wicked biows-from a brute
who did not have even beastly drunken
ness for an excuse. This is not a no
nance; it is history. There is more, and,
if possible. worse vet. In one case.
year followed year, filled with patient.
dumb endurance. and children were
born into the world with indispensable
horrors OF HomeieSs disedSe ongjng IN
their systems, the mothers only hope. as
she looked into the already ~wrinkled
faces through her binding tears. that
they would not lives God wa too
good to leave such souls in such bodies
and let them die
ALL THIS Is GOING ON
in ranks whose complacent boast is that
they can afford 70 be idle. The class
which needs not to earn its living. be-
cause il has money enough-fairly OF
foully won. | know not, though the air
is full OF reports-the class which AFRO
gats to itself the right to lead society.
IS simply leading it to perdition. 1t is
setting an example for fools to follow.
and the world is iull of them; and the
result of 1t all is something which w ,uld
shock harbarism itself. Fashionable
society has left its brains and its heart
in the keeping of its ancestors. 1t is
az leprous as the mar in Scripture; only
he went to Christ for cleansing, while il
nurses leprosy, and never heard of a
God.
OF me- dis criminate yVa hove :,