The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-29


proportional size weaken all the body-politic,
but the evil is nothing as compared with monop-
oistic oppression abroad. Great ecclesiastic
monopolies The Popes income is 100000
year. Cathedrals of statuaryr and braided
arch, and walls covered with masterpieces of
Rubens. and Raphael and Michael Angelo against
all their sides dashing seas of poverty, and
crime, and filth, and abomination Ireland
one vast monopolistic devastation. About 3D.
600, goo people in England, and yet all
the soil owned by about $4,000 Duke
of Devonshire owning $4,000 acres in Derby;
Duke of Richmond, 100000 acres at Gordon
Castle. Marquis of Breadabane goes on jour
ney Of hundred miles, in straight line. and
all on his own property Duke of Sutherland
has an estate wide as Scotland, and reaching to
the sea on either side Bad as we have it here,
it is thousand times worse there
MERELY THE BEGINNING OF PROSPERITY.
Beside that, if here a few fortunes overshadow
all Others we must remember there Is a vast
throng of the people being enriched, and this
fact shows the thriftiness of the country. The
most of people here will be rich themselves, or
their children will be rich Besides that, the
domains of Europe and Asia are already full
every place occupied. unless it be desert or vol
cano, or condemned barrens-while here we have
plenty of room, and the resources are only just
opening. In other lands, if fortunes fatten they
fatten out of ilimitable prairie and out Of mex
haustibe mines We have only Just begun to
set the family table of this country. We have
put on cua silver fork, and one saltcellar, and
orc loaf of bread, and one smoking platter Wait
till the fruits come in from all tho orchards
and the meats from all the markets. and the
vegetables from all the gardens, and the silver
from all the mines and the bell rings out saying:
Come al the people from between the two
oceans Come from between the Thousand
Islands and the Gulf of Mexico! Come and
dine!
This Christmas finds us more thoroughly at
peace than any other nation of the globe. AT
least fifteen million men belong to the standing
armies Of Europe Since our war on this side
the sea, the other have occurred the Zulu war,
| the Afghan war, the Egyptian war, the Russo
Turkish war, the German French war, and they
have certainty about the future. All the
| governments of Europe watching each other, lest
| one of them gain too much advantage. Di-
| ploinacy all the time nervously at work; Four
| nations were a long while watching the Suez
| canal as carefully as four cats watch one rat.
| In order to keep peace iEtermarriages OF royal
| families some bright princess compelled to marry
some foreign dignitary in order to insure the po-
| litical balance of power, the lily matched pair
| fighting out, on small SCALE that which would
| have been an international contest Europe
crowded, cities crowded, governments crowded,
| learned institutions crowded, nations crowded,
! Packed in between the PyreneeS and the Alps.
| Packed in between the Rhine and the Danube.
| Packed in between English channel and Adriatlc,
| so closely they cannot move without treading on
each others heels or toes Scepters clashing, char
| lot wheels colliding the nations of Asia and Eu-
| rope wondering what next But on this continent
| plenty of room and no one to fight with. Eight
million square miles in North America all but
| one-seventh capable of rich cultivation Imply
ing what fertility and what commerce, foul
great basins pouring their waters into Atlantic,
| Pacific Arctic and Mexican Gulf Shore-line OF
| 20, 500 miles. The one State of Texas with more
square miles than all France, than all Germany.
| Peace over all this continent Sumter, and
| Moultrie, and Pulaski, and Fort Lafayette, and
| Fortress. Monroe, and all the other shaggy lions
of war asleep on their iron paws. Gunpowder
out of fashion save for sporting purposes The
| land is struck through and through with peace.
| By intermarriage the North and the South
united as never before. The child of the coming
| generation half Mississlppian and half New
Highlander and to make any division between
the North and the South possible, you would
have to do with the new child as Solomon pro
| posed with the child brought to him-divide it
with the sword, giving half to the North and
half to tho South No! No The hardest thing
in the world to split is cradle Intermarriage
will go on and consanguineal ties will be multi
| piled and the generations to come will wonder
that we of this generation could have got in such
a wrangle as that in which few years ago we
engaged
But while we thank God that amid so many
| alleviating circumstances this Nation keeps hol-
iday wish you an especial happy time in your
households. Merry Christmas for all your
homes! Let middle and old age during these
seven holidays, rally all their sprightly feelings
to put themselves in accord with the young.
Make such days for them bright memory.
| They will soon have to put their shoulders under
the burdens of life and harness themselves for
the worlds battle Help them gather up now a
surplus of exuberance for the time when life
shall become as serious for them as it has be-
come to Prolong their boyhood and girl
hood days as much as possible Clear the way
for them as long as You can. When we are
through with the struggle, and the holidays of
the far future come down, let not our children
| think of grouty and dull, sitting round
i with sour vsago, discoursing of our aches and
pains, when we ought to have been sympathetic
in the merriments of tho holiday. And when
these times of household reunion and gift be-
stowment shall have gone for us. and gone for
them, and we no more light the Christmas can
dies, or on earth rejoice in the childrens glee,
may it be because we are como in our Fathers
house, keeping eternal celebration! May not
one of the family group be absent but all there,
safe and blessed, because of the birth and death
of Him who was the Son of Mary-who was the
| Son Of God