Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-08-26

tnufcnsS tnat run oy cev0fion.-fhere q
no danger of combustion there. In all
ways religion is the most important ele-
ment in the education OF the human
brain. This nation ia BY reason OF these
things better educated than any other.
We are not educating class: We are at
tempting 70 educate tbs whole people.
here Is I'D parallel 20 our system. and
1t IL from this that the reign of
the common people proceeds. In the
long rnu the wisdom and jddg-
ment the of common people IL
the governments power I'll go farther,
and say that il Is the best government.
In our late war the common pvopLe were
always day ahead Of the government
The sentirnen; of the people was always
ahead OF the acts of lie rulers. Ia En-
rspe they say this experiment will be
disastrous in the end: that We owe our
security TO the easy attainment of land:
that when this gets scarce We shall have
TO change. This opinion il not so gen
eral nov as il was - years ago. Sheri-
dan said, when he saw the battles in
the trauco-German war, that he didn't
see any troops that our boys couldn't
whip. The bravery of the North and
South had marked effect on Europe.
But then they SAID, You'll have trouble
In disbaandinQ them" when behold
they melted away like drifts of SNOW
There were So coo ,OO00D of londed
debt when the war closed. They said
We couldn't pay it. But the nation
provided that every dollar should be
paid, and il las been so nearly paid
that We now fear II will all 5e paid. We
want depository where simple people
poor peopie-oan make investment,
and II the Government has her two
thousands of millions of bonds, then
people can invest in them. Where il
there another nation that could have
done the same ! Where il there another
nation that oooily out off forty millions
OF annual taxes because they didn't
want 1t !! Governments as they become
powerful, become compact. As things
grow to be perfect they becone com-
pick or compact. Was there ever a
government 10 complex "a oursf There
Is no such example Of conplex govern
men. We had G0,000,O0o of people in
1880. The census is always wrong. 1t
always lies before you can complete IL,
We grow 10 fast. There were s,0O0, 900
foreign born, and 100000, enfran-
chised and ignorant. Twelve mil
lions united to manage the gov
eminent, and of the balance
how few are able 10 govern it. The
question Is then, do the people pick oat
the best men to represent themf Did
you ever go int a Legislature aud see
what sort of fellows they aref The first
duty Of a legislator II to see that he
gets back there next winter. The Soc
Ond duty is to serve the party in whose
interest he went there. The third, If
there is anything left of him, is to serve
the people. In New York it came to be
by-word that a law could be passed if
there was no money in it. Yet, with all
these criticisms, declare that this is
the best government that the sun ever
shouo upon. There IL not anywhere,
nor has there ever been, a government
where there was such opportunity to
labor, houses and homes 50 virtuous,
and with so much intelligence. In short,
the average of happiness in the whole
body of tho citizens has never bsen half
10 high.
tempting to teach their subjects any
thing except obedience. We are not at
tempting to have peri sct government.
Our scholars going to school will ere
long have TO govern themselves. the
influence Of universal education among
the oomman people is still growing. In
the days of Pope and Dryden there
wasn't anything but contempt for com
mon people. The literature of the world
today IL pernsated and saturated with
love for tho chnlnon people. When
learning was in class, the government
supported it. The common people do
that now. They say, "Give us your
learning and Well give you your sup
port" When learning goes to serve
the common people they turn right
around and give it support. There was
time when no one WAS expected to
know anything about medicine, about
law or theology. Two hundred years
ago there was no law known except
under the judges wig. Now everybody
knows something abont law. This has
not destroyed the profession of the law.
There never was n time when lawyers
were more trusted, when more import
ant cases we're plaoed'in their hands,
when greater fees were paid, or when
they were more willing to receive them.
The Church IL stronger today than ever
before. Education has not destroyed it.
~ NouAS AAoWS eVil
we'll, il he knows enough to preach, that
he does not know half 80 much as many
mombers of his congregation. Authori-
impossibiiity. Theology is changed,
changing; and it will change. Nobody
can anchor it; nobody can prevent it
from being a thing of growth. As men
are refued and enlarged they will
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they will change them. The old black
sticks standing on the side of yonder
moantain do not change because they
are dead. Growth means change, ex-
pansiou. The ancients said a perfect
being can't suffer ! say II perfect being
can't help but suffer. Our God is the
burden bearer of the universe. He Is
in eternal pain and labor. We hear
less of Gods DEGREES, less of his wrath
and more of his love. In short the New
Testament alone is beginning to be
used. All the changes now going on do
not rack society. They are such chang
e. as are going on in plants and trees
from greenness to ripeness. What il
men are led to cay what are va going
TO believe,is there no stationary thingf"
When men are being developed to a
higher philosophy Ought they not to be
thankful. there Is but one place In
the world where man can be free from
excitement: that is in the Graveyard.
where the dead reign. He that for
ever ID changing, ruling. he that 10 con-
Quoting the entire affairs Of mankind
leading on to a more glorious day. His
hand will never slip from the helm, and
He will finally bring this world. not
laundering nor shipwrecked, into har
Dor Of peace, and then we shall know
Him ~ We are known.
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