St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-12-06

uoof OF tie oOuth open is gong to let in
on them Il summer of bright, warm
prosperity. In anticipation |
NAIL ON THE FRONT DOOR OF THIS Ma
TIoN
an advertisement.
Wanted-One hundred thousand men
to build South American RAILWAYS. LONG
as from here to San Francisco.
Wanted - Five thousand telapranI,
operatives.
Wanted = Twenty million dollars
New York. - " :. : = o'Aa
Wanted-AIl the clocks you can make
at New Haven, and all the shoes Won
can e; manufacture at Nantick, and all
the brains you can spare from Boston,
and all the bells you can mold at Troy,
ana all the Mccormick reapino ma
chlnes you can fashion at Chicago, and;
all thel hams you can furnish from Gin
cinnati, and all the railroad iron YOU car,
send from Brooklyn and Pittsbure.
Wanted
Wanted right away!
Wanted by express, wanted nv raiYf
tram, wanted by steamer!
Mahted-Lawyers to plead our cases Z
WanteQ-D0ctOrs to cure our sick
Wanted-Mlnlsters to evangeliZe our
population e.'',0
neutrality-suspicious. to establish our
universities!
another door toward tie South. On.
the south three gates " Lift up your
heads, We everlasting gates, and let the
North come South, and the South come
North corrected forever the ge0granh-,
ical blunder Of the centuries which saws.
there are five continents, Wien there
are only fOur-Europe, Asia, Africa and
America. Our Arctic and Antarctic on
ly the crystal latches on front and back
gate OF the one palace yard. Aye, the
continent is one living
QUEEN OF BEAUTY AND POWER.
Though the continent be narrow at
the waist 1t you girdle it at Aspinwall.
It is still one living queen, upon whom
GOD hath put the richest diadem of all
the world. On this Thanksgiving Day
| thought would tell you of your in
herltance. Henceforth put this into
your prayers, tune it into your dOx0lo-
gles, and let capitalists and statesmen
lit lt into their plans. What is the use,
OF gathering a whole feet of laden
steamers at the mouth of a small river
trying to pile them IN, j0stling and stuck
tast,, when there is this great, wide,
southern sea, with room for the largest
merchantmen to spread sail or drop an
Choir?
Without this opening prospects this
day would be very dark for those of us
who are interested in the labOring class
es. To-day one million people in the
country arc out OF work, 10 per cent. OF
the labOring classes with nothing to do
but suffer, and another 90 per cent toll
ing on half wages. shall not take nv
seat at the thanksgiving table to-day
until look at the bare plates of these
multItudes and at their empty ward
robes, and invoke upon them the mercy;
OF Cod and the generous consideration
OF those III comfortable circumstances.
Congress assemblies next week, and let.
1t waste no time on abs ractions, but by
some swift enactment open this door
South and I'll the other legitimate doors
for the relief of luen who can get no.
work and who stand in this November
cold WIinging their numb fingers with
their helpless families at their back.
Hungry men and women never have
been quiet, and never will be quiet, and
never ought to be quiet. Bread they
ought to have, and bread they must
have, and
BREAD THEY WILL HAVE.
With this, the fifth plentiful harvest.
if there be any one man, woman or child
without food and without comfortable
apparel and without shelter, there must
be something awfully wrong. May the
suffering Christ, who once had nowhere
to lay his head, champion the cause of
the helpless and smash the great mo-
+I,o4 hr1Si "a In
and cemented with the blood of poor
wOrkmen, and send a supply this day
from every full pantry to every desti-
tute home, and so change the condition
of those hardly bestead, that when an
other Thanksgiving Day arrives, the
poorest man in America shall have upon
his table twenty pound turkey, roy
ally Drowned and basted, and stuffed
put upon his plates, dashed with cram
berry, and emptied only to make way
for pumpkin pies, sucl as New England
matrons baked, or the more classic and.
Juicy mince pie, such as our dear old
mother made with her own hands, be-
fore those hands were folded ID the last
sleep, lust before they entered upon the
long THANKSGIVING Day OF heaven
where we shall yet throw our arms
around them and the other departed
ones who used to be with us on these,
holidays and give them aTapturous hug
and kiss. all the heartier for the present
nainful separation. I believe no more
in the Fatherhood of God than do in,
The brotherhood of man. For all the
world may there be plenty to veal. and
plenty to eat. Amen and amen Amen
and amen
The National Surgical Ensti.r
EMO win omen q Branch at 1865 ST.