The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-04-11

| others and to see the young men being
educated by your beneficence and to gel
the sublime satisfaction of your own
charitiesl / do not wonder that Bar.
zellai, the wealthy Gileadite of the text
lived to be eighty, for he stood in the
perpetual sunshine of his own bene,
| ficenee. do not wonder that Peter
| Cooper, the modern Barzellai, lived to be
eighty, for he st cd In the perpetual
| sunshine of his own beneheence. do
not wonder that Peter Cooper, the
modern BarZellai, lived to be ninety
two years of age, for he felt the health
full reaction Of helping others. Doing
good was one of the strongest reasons
for his longevity. There is many man
with large estate behind him who calls
up all his past dollars as q pack of
hounds to go out and hunt up one more
dollar before he dies. Away! awayl the
hunter and his hounds for that last dol
lari Hotter and hotter the chase. Closer
on the track and clOserl Whip up and
spur on the steedl The old man lust
ahead and all the pack Of hounds close
after him. Now they are coming in at
the death, that last dollar only a short
distance ahead. The old hunter with
painting breath and pale cheek and out
stretched arm clutches for it as il turns
on its track, but missing it keeps on till
the exhausted dollar plunges into hole
and burrows and burrows deep, and the
old hunter with both hands claws at
the earth and claws deeper down till the
burrOwed embankment gives way and
he rolls over into his own grave. We
often talk of old misers. The most of
them are comparatively young. Avarice
massacres more than war. In contrast
behold the philanthrOpist in Ae nine
ties and dying ofa cold caught ia going
tn of hn OF ofwg nP fho
tiOn which he himself founded and
which has now about $500 persons per
day in its reading rooms and libraries
and 1000 students in its evening schools.
Again Peter Cooper has shown the
world good way of settling the old
quarrel between capital and labor. the
alteration between rich and poor.
There are two ways in which this con-
fiict can ever be settled. One is the vic.
lent suppression of the labOring classes
and the other the violent assault Of the
rich. This is getting to be the age of
dynamite. Dynamite under the Kremlin.
Dynamite in proximity to Parliament
house and railroad track. Dynamite
near lOrdly mansions. dynamite in Ire
land. Dynamite in England. Dyna-
mite in America. The rich are becOm-
lag more exclusive and the poor more
iIate. prescribe for the cure of this
mighty evil of the world large allOpa-
thic dose of Peter COOperism. You never
heard Of any one scratching the cellar
of that mans house for keg of dyha-
mite. At times of public excitement,
when prominent men had their houses
guarded, there we're no sentinels needed
at his door. The poorest man-with hOd |
on his shoulder, carrying bricks up a
Wall-begrudged not the philanthrOpist |
his carriage as he rode by. No one put |
the torch to Peter COOper's glue factory. |
When on some great popular occasion |
the masses assembled in the hall of |
Cooper Institute, and its founder came |
on the platform, there were many hard |
hands that clapped in vigorous applause. |
great misses of England, Ireland and |
America ~ generous and kind a hand |
as that of Peter Cooper and the age of |
dynamite will terminate. What police |
cannot dO,and shot and shell cannot do, |
and stringent laws severely executed |
cannot do, and armies cannot do, will |
yet be accomplished by something that |
| see fit this morning to baptize as Peter /
COOperisin.l hail the early twilight of |
that day when man of millions shall
come forth and say: "There are 10000 /
destitute children in New York and here
l put up and endOw out of my fortune a
whole line o. institutions to take care
Of them" Here are vast multitudes in /
filth and unVentilated tenement houses
for whom will build a whole block of |
residences atcheap rents" "Here are
nations without Christ, and 1 turn my
fortune insid out to send them flaming |
There shall be no more /
hunger and 10 more sickness and no
more ignOran,e and no more crime If l |
can help it. That spirit among the Opu-1
nj y fri 1
would stop contention, and the last in
torch would be extinguished |
and the last dagger of assassination
would gOlO slicing bread for poor chill |
dren and the last pound Of dynamite |
that threatens death would 90 to
work in qharries to blast foundation |
stones for lIylums and universities and
churches. Nay the spirit'of William f.
Dodge and Peter Cooper come down
ment securities, and railroad companies |
and great business houses of Americal
Again, thisBarzillai of the nineteenth
century shows US more sensible way |
of monumental and epitaphal cOmmem-
Grafton. 1t would not be a pleasant |
thought to usOr any one to feel that the |
moment yOusre out of this world you
would be fOrgetten. II the executors of
Peter COOpershOuld build on his grave
q mOnumenLPOSblnB SzU,UUO,UUU, IL WOd
not so we'll Commemorate him as that
the junction of Third and
Fourth avenTes. How few people would
pass along TIN silent sepulcher as cOm-
pared with tlOse great tides that will |
ebb and flow round Cooper Institute in |
The ages to cOhe. OF the tens Of thou
sBnds to be educated there will be one
so stupid as lot to know who built 1t,
and what gHat heart he had, and how
he struggled % achieve a fortune, but
always mastend that fortune and never
allowed the prtune to master him?
What ls monument of Aberdeen mar
BILE beside a mQument of intellects and
sOulsp What 8 an epitaph of a few
words cut by lculptOr's chisel, beside
the epitaph of iOming generations and
hundreds writiig his praisep
Beautiful andadOrned beyond all the
crypts and cata0mbs and shrines of the
dead. But the sperfluOus and inexcus-
able expense of catafalque and sarcO-
phagus and tumlltS the world over put
into practical hep, would have sent in
telligence into very dark mind and
provided hOm for every wanderer.
The pyramids Egypt, elevated at
great expense, WIRE the tomb of kings,
their names n0wpbliterated. But mon
uments of good Ist forever. After old
MnrtoIftu' has txr1rs out hto nj, l. -. i