The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-02-19


hard to overcome.
When Laban was searching the bag
gage, in the tent upon Mount Gilead, one
of his daughters was very sick. So severe.
ly under the weather, in fact, that she
could not arise from where she sat in or
der to assist her father in the search. The
old gentleman, in his childish innocence
and kindness of heart, did not particularly
notice that she was sitting upon portion
of the baggage, and he did not know that
that very package contained the stolen
trinkets. So he bade them good-by, and
returned whence he came. Some hard
hearted reader of the history of Jacob
may have laid great blame upon the girls
for thus deceiving the old man. True,
the girls might have done vastly better,
| but perhaps all the trinkets they had con-
cealed in that package would not have
amounted to one thousandth part of the
value out of which the great strong man
swindled him in the speckled cattle trans
| action. So the man was the greater sim
ner, as usual.
1t will be seen that. though Jacob had
ings. the Lord was willing to forgive and
| to bless him, in response to his faith. He
| is willing to overlook mortal errors in
| your case and mine, dear reader, but He
will expect US to strive earnestly and
continually to avoid errors. We cannot
base d hope of Divine clemency upon His
treatment of Jacob, because even out of
Iooo1,,c To
according to His plan. By the raising of
the speckled cattle, Jacob was enabled to
return to the land of his nativity in very
good circumstances. But, dear young
gentleman reader, you do not have to go
away into far-Off country, either to keep
your big brother from killing you, or to
get a pretty wife. Therefore there is no
need of any ring-streaked, or speckled, or
spotted, or grizzed conduct, on your part
Remember that when you remain out of
school, loafing about the streets, you are
raising black sheep; when you let an OPP
portunity for honestly earning your own
living pass by, you are ring-streaking
| your cattle, at the "old mans" expense
when you spend your time around the
dens of infamy which abound in many
localities, you are raising spotted goat
which will dump you into an early grave;
| when you take your first drink of beer or
whisky, you are raising spotted bull
which will butt you off of the bridge of
time into the gulf of eternal despair.
And you, young lady reader, see to it
that you keep your pretty fingers off of
the trinkets belonging to the old folks.
Those trinkets do not belong to you. The
same hands that have toiled to feed and
clothe and educate you, and to make your
existence happy one, also toiled for the
possession of those trinkets, through the
medium of honest labor. They are not
yours, and though you might, like Jacobs
wife, hide them from the old gentleman,
there is one from whom you cannot hide
them, and the attempt will be all the
worse for you. Covetousness is crime
in the sight of the Divine Law.
Let all our lives be such as will win for
us the approving smile of the Divine Fa-
ther. Let our lights so shine before men
that they, seeing our good works, may
glorify our Father who art in Heaven.
Let us so live that we may enjoy, from
day to day. the seal of His love, and the
Divine Benediction upon our lives. Let
us SO conduct our affairs that the ring
streaked, and spotted, and speckled cattle
shall go with the rest, and ask nothing
for ourselves but what is honestly due
us. Let us live with d full realization
that the Divine eve is constantly upon
us. Let us live as CHRISTIANS.
A small meeting of dylamiters was
held in Pittsburgh few days ago, at
which an address was delivered in Ger
man by one Joseph Frick, who bitterly
denounced the q. S. Government for show
dynamite business. 10. said that "if the
poor man cannot get his rights by law
and order, he should get them by murder
and revolution" Now it would be inter-
esting to know just what rights 10. has
been deprived of. He has been permitted
to come here and become citizen, with
all the privileges of American citizenship.
so jealously protected by law. He has a
right to earn a livelihood by honest in
dustry, and to get all the compensation
he can for his labor. But possibly 10
wants something more than this. Posi-
bly, he would like to have the compen-
sation, with the labor left out. That is,
if an American citizen, by sobriety, fru-
gality, honesty, manages to save up a con-
siderable amount of this worlds goods,
for his own maintenance in his old age,
and for the use of his family, 10. would
perhaps like TO bring gang of lazy, drunk
Tn loaferS in, and say: Here, you have
more than you need. We are out of mon
ey. We can't buy drink. You shall di-
with US, and if you dare to refuse we will
blow yourself and your family into eter-
nifty, with dynamite" That is style of
sweet doctrine which seems to be gaining
ground rapidly, in many of the cities. The
idea is precisely the same which controls
the action of the foot-pad or the burglar
that the world owes them a living, with
out their going to the trouble of earning
it by honest effort. Such fellows as this
one of whom we speak are the greatest
enemies the laboring men have in this or
any country. When honest laboring men
attempt to take measures for their own
protection-for which course nobody will
find any fault with them-these extrem-
lists and loafers come to the front and as
sumo the whole weight of the labor ques-
ton, and seek notorirty by the advoc ICY
of murder, revolution, and general de-
struction.
It is not to be wondered at, that such
cattle denounce the Government, because
they realize that it is clearly the duty of
the Government to deal peremptorily with
them. The traffic in dynamite, much less
its use, should never be permitted to be-
come an institution in this country, and