St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-11

UOOhiSU man II CApCCtIuS, udl GAdCllIlS,
lifelong constancy from him. In variety
OF other important matters he can do what
ever seems best to his conviction. He can
change his creed, his religion, and the world,
albeit conceding its supreme importance,
cares never jot. He can flop about in pol
lt1cs, and while it is not ultimately profitable,
still his liberty of opinion and action are I'M
challenged by the community. Yet these
are "vital issues,'' as the shibboleth is, and
withal fickleness is tolerated, Inconsistency
tacitly recognized, and the man unmolested
in such paramount changes of sentiment.
But the "world,' society and public op-
inion, make it imperative that what man
loved in his youth land of course the same
holds good of womans lot too) he must af-
feet to love when his maturity of years, un-
derstanding and discernment prove to him
that his early choice was blunder
Meanwhile he has doubled and perhaps
quadrupled the original blunder, and society
holds him stronger than ever through his
children. You see the precautionary meas
ure of society in keeping the unfortunate
being up to the exaction of his responsibility
because it does not want him to be released,
lest it perhaps collectively and by taxation be
compelled to assume his burden, that burden
which he took on with callow inconseouence,
and now magnified into ''duty,'' has be-
come the respectable oppression of his life,
with so much added to the original mis-
take.
Samuel Johnson and Mrs. Thrale were
1OOl.inp Of u,ip1 nd n
drunken man in the street she asked the
sound moralst ''Why do men get drunk?'
'Men get drunk, madame,," quoth the
sturdy sage, ''that they may forget the pain
of being men, Thereby insinuating that
downright contentment was only expert
enced during intoxication. Perhaps, how
ever, this dictum of the strange old object of
Bozzy's immortal gossip may not rate for
much Of anything, since it is well known
that he would rise from his bed in the dead
of the night, when the "boys'' of his ac-
quaintance, headed by that gallant scape-
grace Topham Beauclerck, were out on
lark, and getting his unwieldy figure into
his clothes with all possible expedition,
wheeze, and puff and wadde along with the
gay nocturnal bricks registering about Lon
don stree is.
Men whose whole families have been swept
out Of existence by some accident, or by
shipwreck, have declared themselves grieved
at first, but afterwards what the world took
for resignation was in the sincerest candor
nothing but true relief from a continuance
of conditions and relations which only the
very apathy Of acceptance rendered support
able.
The uppermost feeling Of reaction was one
of liberty to do what they would like to do
unhampered by any ties, which society so Sc
verely construes into duty" and insists
upon our fulfilling as if it was the dearest
impulse of our lives.
They managed things better in patrarchal
times.
Then one of those literal old fellows
looked his ''duty'' over and if he found it
numerous and superfuous he hustled some
of it out of his way with an Indifference that
is accepted without comment by the respect
able world.
When Abraham started Hagar and the boy
out into desert world he did what vast
proportion of the generations of men since
his day would do-if they were not held in
check by the shackles of custom aud conven-
tionality-in brief, if they dared.
1t must be a toerably good sort of world
at the present time-or at least during the
present campaign for the suspicion that a
nominee did what a venerable patriarch did
with the sanction of his conscience, and
whatever public opinion existed at the
period of Hagar's expulsion, is used with vir-
ulent apprehension during the campaign.
| Naturally one might weakly propound-
| If the swag of the patriarch was wise and
benefcent, notwithstanding Hagar and that
boy, why, even were the Nominees asserted
| guilt proved beyond all question, would he be
| incapable of serving as a worthy aud suf
| fcing magstrat,.
| Now, would he though reallyi
thine enough to answer next November"
says Mrs. Harris, and as its men that are
/ going to vote they will be confronted with
both horns of the dilemma. With their
usual and natural esprit de corps in such mat
ters they would, IL unnfuenced by COM
peling hypocrisy, be pretty apt to side with
the alleged Abraham-like Nominee. As it
looks now, hypocrisy and Office holding lc
gions are at the helm, and the outlook is
| foggy.
stFor the rest, some literaist will probably
come at YOU with the statement that home
and family, and affection are the bulwarks Of
our human ways. You remember when you
derided the project of having physicians ex-
/ anime in IN all fhp antpcetient slirrDun1in ~
of their patients, the condition of the
/ premises, the purity of the water, ETC., as
one which despoilcd them OF their occupation,
and impoverished their bonanza, in the be-
nighted public Ignorance Of such matters.
You win recall how that pleasantly was set
upon, clawed up by the commonplace tauca
which is not pervlous TO any statement out
| side Of hard, horse sense
| Cferelaad aud Hendricks Cta5 at Marsh