The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-28
THE APPEAL UNTO CESAR.
The Lecture by Rev. Myron W. Reed at
Plymouth Church Last Night.
lnjustices Practiced Upon Glasses of Society
Under the Protection of the LaW-1he
Negro, Indian and Chinaman.

Negro, Indian and Chinaman.
| AS Rev. Myron W. Reed passed down the aisle at
Plymouth Church. last night buzz of pleasure went
| over the large audience, which soon broke into q
hearty welcome of applause AS he stepped upon the
platform this applause repeated with redoubled
emphasis almost breaking into cheer. The title of
his lecture THE Appeal to Cesar"
He began with describing the mining camp of Car
Donate, which consists in summer, of twenty seven
men, but in winter falls off somewhat. 1t is peace
full, honest camp and has been made interest
ing by crime or misdemeanor There is law in
Carbonate but complex machinery of law. The
law is simple and natural only what is needfu being
recognized as law. Sometimes miner goes away into
the valley He leaves behind him twenty-six men
who will that his property remains his, and what
technical defect in title may result from the
absence is not dangerous, except to the
man who ia, es advantage of it. When
Alfred Tennyson said, 1.-THE common sense Of
must shall hold fretful realm in ave. u
he saw the little Carbonate camp magnifed. What
works well with twenty perhaps, will work
well with the world The of public opinion
like the sources of the Nile many and obscure. You
may trace the public opinion of Carbonate to the post
office where the meet and converse and discuss.
Nothing settled by vote of majority by decree of
but all things settled by persons in person. by
slow made convicton-a sort of natural club; and
have seen many like it.
4 remember one of similar club asking again the
question Of Carlyle why it is that horse, able and
willing to work. always has food and lodging, and
looks sleek and satisfied, while many men. able and
willing to work, do not look sleek and are not salts
fed. stray horse is generally taken up and adver-
tised Suppose you take stray and advertise
him. who would come for hims From this humble
club may be traced influence that has had effect on
many men. 1t is source of the Nile
You remember the coming of Uncle Toms Cabin
INTO the houseg Father, my brother and myself were
hoeing potatoes. Father thirsty that day, and
went often to the house for drink. He found mother
negiecting her work-readng novel The power OF
example great. He neglected his work to read q
novel When he returned to the field l was seized
with thirst, and once in the house sezed the book
and returning after while, met my brother coming
in for doughnut. Never book so read at once
Slavery was doomed Public opinion starts in obscure
ways.
Edmund Burke advised professional lawmakers to
ride less in cab and more in omnibus to know
the Carbonate bhouse the twenty-seven dis
cussing the game law passed by the Legislature. 1t
seemed to be the general opinion that far the law
unwise it was useless. TO hear those men talk
you would think that public opinion must sustain
statute or it was helpless. The game law they were
be killed for term of years Now it seemed to those
men that nature had protected mountain sheep
sufficiently. All they had ever, seen
protect the hunter of mountain sheep would be the
thing. You have noticed the desire of member of
Buckles remarks legislation, Every great reform
which has been effected has consisted not in doing
something new, but in undoing something old" It
would seem, in fact that If statute if good simply
registers what the people think The mercury in the
tube does not create hot day. 1t declares hot
tits. 1t is the surrounding summer that does the
business. Of course fanatic hide the thermom-
eter under his arm and show how the mercury
jumps. That is merely sign Of his private personal
fever. It doesn't make much difference whether the
legislator heeds the people or not If the statute is
too severe there is conviction under it, the people
moderate it, if it is too lenient there is not of
right thing is done. Where there is statute law
exists. as in isolated camps of miners and lumber
Rsno sed in sas e TRspss f o DR.
80 much food, and many men to be kept alive by
it. 1t is the question in extremity that Henry
George deals with before it is question in extremity.
1t is the question that the Duke of Argyll does not
answer Natural law, springing up in the breast of
man. and executed by his strong arm, does answer it.
Riel died ON land which, if any owned his fol-
lowers owned He is legally put to death for treason
against the Queen. He is really put to death for
shooting at the agents of robbery and missing them.
The men of Lexington shot at the same kind, in the
same uniform and hit them. If you do not wish to
raise such men do not feed them when they boys
on books like the History of the Crusades, "Plu
tarch's Lives" and 'The March of Israel Out of
Bondage" Better keep the whole Bible from them,
and give them the Political Economy" of Professor
Sumner.
Mr. Reed then referred to Ireland and the hopeful
outlook for that country. Continuing he said that
law that colored shall sit in the jury box existed
in Boston in 1852 but that it not until Colonel
Shaw buried with his niggers in the trench at
Fort Wagner that they did sit in the jurybox. There
was cold fact. poor of a rejected of
men, private of the Fifty fourth coiored wac as
loyal brave. as willing to die for the flag Colonel
Shaw, white and descended from first family That
settled it: Can a woman write novel worthy the
reading of mani 1 would not go to the Legislature
with bill to settle that question. would simply ask
Marion Evans Miss Murfree to write couple of
stories, and to dsarm prejudice sign man name to
them. That settles it. Mr.. How ellis and Mr.. James
now find their task somewhat heavier to make their
place, in the novel, of the men who
live on and about the Great Smoky Mountain"
provisions of the Declaration of Independence ask
him to read chapter of Adam Bede. to add another
line to the hymn that begins with Mine eyes have
the glory of the coming of the Lord, to paint
Norman horse, to sing song of Miriam to invent
wiser charity than that of Octava HILL AS to the
negro in America. Salem much as Richmond is
responsible for him. One furnished ships and a
TO steal men, and the other the money to buy them.
Let make national thing of it-educate the slave
made and the citizen made.
Let the colored man then get into affairs the He
brews have got into Parliament and into trade-by
native faculty. Let him do what the Chinese in Amer
lea do not seem me likely to do. We have not had
a valuable thought from one of them since Con
fucius In small quantity in city they add to the
pctpresqueness of the Streets but in quantities he
compete with him. we shall need to raise class of
Americans who can live his rations breathe his air.
and it will take us many years to breed down Amer
cans to that and when we have done it we shall not
be proud of it. Of course stand by it that America
is the refuge of the oppressed. l stand by
the spirit of the word and not the letter.
America is the refuge of those who feel oppressed
feel cramped and need air, light and food The China
man likes misery, money and misery. We cannot
make Amerman citizens out of them No law can
make Chinaman's life pleasant in the West. In
Leadvile when the Chinaman arrives he is informed
the air too for him. He skips down to Denver
joins the Sunday school, and makes himself solid with
the religious element. daughter A short pause