Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-01

A horseman riding along said to him /:
why don't you lay hold yourself and
help those men lift; it is more than they
can dor" "OhV replied the officer, Il
am Corporal" Then the man on horse
back dIsmounted, and laid hold of the
timber and lifted with all his might. The
work done, the man said: Corporal,
when you have not men enough to attend
to a job like that, send for your Com
mander-in-chief" 1t was Washington.
On, let us give each other lift!
You say the law Of supply and demand
will control everything to the end OF time.
No; it Will not unless God dies and the
batteries Of the judgment are spiked, and
the throne Of the universe is taken by
Pluto and Pr0serpine, the King and
Queen Of the internal world. Supply and
Demand have Joined partnership, and put
their wits together to rob the world. You
are drowning, and they stand on the shore
beside the only boat and say: PAY what
we ask or 20 to the bottom" You are
failing in business tor lack of five
thousand dollars. They say: ''Pay us
usury or become bankruptw This rob-
Der firm Of Supply IL Demand says: "The
wheat crop is short, and we have bought
1t up and put it in our BIN. Pay our price
or staryev Supply & Demand own the
largest mill on earth, and it rolls over its
wheel all the rivers, and puts into its
hopper as many men, women and chill
dren as IL can scoop up out Of the centu-
ries, and their blood and bones redden
all the valleys as the grinding goes on.
AS sure as the agesrOll toward millennial
release that diabOlic firm will have to
step aside for the law of love, the law of
cooperation, the law of mercy, the law
of Christ.
AS that law takes sway you will see
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manitarian and evangelical purposes, like
James LennoX and William +. Dodge and
Peter Cooper and George Peabody. More
parks and gardens and picture galleries
will be opened for the peoples holidays.
The pallor will go out of the cheeks of the
workman and the frown Off his brow and
the gnashIng out of his teeth. That day
viii surely come. Once, crossing the AL
leghany Mountains it was said that Henry
Clay, while the stage coach was halting,
went to the edge of the mountain and put
his hand behind his ear as if to listen, and
some one asked him what he was listen
ing for, and he said: 81 am listening to
the coming on of the future millions of
this country" To-day | stand on this
m9untain-tOp of Christian privilege and
on the Rock of Ages and listen to the COM
ing on Of the happy industries and the
cOnsecrated fortunes and the smiling pOpu-
latiOns and the innumerable properties
of the closing nineteenth and the opening
twentieth centuries.
While l speak there lies in state the
great author and patriot of France
Victor Hugo. The $4,000 he left to the
poor of Paris IN his will were only a hint
of the grander work he has done for all
nations and all ages. No wonder they
allowed ten days to elapse between his
death and burial, keeping him under
triumphal arch, for neither France nor
the world can hardly afford to let him go,
though for more than eight decades his
unparalleled genius has blessed it. HIS
name shall forever stand the terror of
despOts, the encouragement of the strug-
Cling. He has made the worlds burden
lighter and its darkness less dense and its
chain less CALLING and its throne of in
iquity less secure. But after all he was
not the great and oVertoWering friend of
mankind.
The greatest friend of capitalist and
tOiler, and the one who shall bring them
into complete accord, was born on a
Christmas night while the curtains of the
sky swung as there moved among them
the wings angelic. Owning all the uni
verse, the great continents of worlds and
the aisles of light, the Capitalist OF i'm
mensity, He crosses over to the poor
mans condition, coming into our world
not by palace gate but door of barn,
spending His first night among shepherds
and atterward calling fishermen from their
nets to be His chief attendants, with the
hammer and adze and saw aud AK and
chisel of a carpenters shop, showing
Himself a brother tradesman, accepting
entertainment at the house of one who
tanned hides for living, and, though
having owned all things, surrenderlng
everything for others on the hillOck back
of Jerusalem, and without a sheckel
left to pay for his obsequies was buried
by charity in the suburbs of a city which
had east him out. AssuredlY at the cross
and grave of such capitalist and car
peDter all men can afford TO shake hands
and worship. Here is an every mans
Christ. None so high but he was higher.
None so poor but he was poorer. AT his
feet the hostile extremes OF society will
their animosities, aud counte-
nances that glowed in the prejudices and
revenges of centuries shall brighten into
the smile of heaven as he saws to them:
Whatsoever We would that men should