Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-26

friend again" "Don't you remember
when our Charlie died he sent his carriage
to take US to the gravel" ooh, is it not
dreadful for his wife and children: God
pity them" And that night in all the
cabins where the toilers have family
prayers the widowhood and ~orphanage up
in the mansion are remembered. No lrate
population scowling through the iron fence
of The cemetery, but lowering over all the
scsne the benediction of sod and man.
"Whatsoever We would that mcn should
do to you, do we even so to them"
WHERE CHART BEGINS.
"Oh," you say, Chat is Arcadlan'
apocryphal, impossible" No. can Jake
YOU to the storehouses, the factories, the
mines, the great enterprises where this
Christly rule is practiced. and you could
10 more get the employer to impose on his
mel, or the men to conspire against their
employer, than you could get your right
hand and left hand, or your right eye and
your left eye, or right ear and left ear into
physiological antagonism. The place to
begin is in our own homes and in our own
store-houses, and in our own banks and on
our own farms, and in our own factories,
no. waiting for others to do their duty.
AYE your parlor and kitchen at divergence?
Then there is something wrong either
ABOUT the parlor or the kitchen. Are the
clerks of your store out of patience with
,he firm? Then there is something wrong
either at the counter or in the private Of
flee. What the world wants most griev-
ously, wants to-day and wants every
where, is the golden rule that Christ pro-
mulgated in his sermon Olivetic. All the
political economists under the archivault
of the heavens in convention for a thou
sand years will never silence this mad
dened controversy between fist and brain,
between operative and m~onopolist.
You say the law'of supply and demand
will control every thing 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 Proserpine,
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 go to
Uu0 DOUCOlu.' IOu are 1ulllIR III OuoluCos
for the lack of five Thousand dollars. They
say: "Pay us usury or become bankrupt"
This robber firm of Supply & Demand
says: THE wheat crop is short, and we
have bought it up and put it in our bin.
Pay our price or starvew Supply G. De-
mand 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
children as it can scoop up out of the
centuries, and their blood and bones red
den all the valleys as the grinding goes on.
AS sure as the ages roll coward millennial
release that diabolic firm will lave to step
aside for the law of love, the law OF CO.
operation, the law of mercy, the law Of
Christ.
LISTENING.
AS that law takes sway you will see
more mon consecrating their life to human
itarian and evangelical purposes, like
James Lenaox and William f. 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 crashing out of his teeth. That day
will surely come. Once, crossing the AL
legheny Mountains, it was said that Henry
Clay, while the stage coach vas hating,
went to the edge Of the mountain and put
his hand behind his ear as if to listen, aud
some one asked him what he was listening
for, and he said: ~ am listening to the
coming on of the future millions of this
country" To-day l stand ON the mount
ain top of Christian privilege, and on the
rock of ages, and I listen to the coming on
OF the happy Industries and the conse-
Grated fortunes of the closing nineteenth
and the opening twentieth centuries.
A GREAT MAN.
While l speak there lies in state the great
author and patriot of France-Victor
Hugo. The ten thousand he left to the
poor of Paris in his will were only u hint
of the grand work he has done for all
nations and all ages. No wonder they al
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 for
ever stand the terror of despots, the en-
couragement of the struggling. He has
made the worlds burden lighter and its
darkness less dense, and it's chain less
CALLING and its thrones of iniquity less
secure. But, after oil, he was not the
great and overtowering friend of man
hood.
MANS FRIEND.
The greatest friend of capitalist and
toiler, and 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 an
| gelic. Owning all the universe, the great
continents Of worlds and the isles of light,
the Capitalist of Immensely. 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 afterward calling
fishermen from their nets to be his chief
attendants, with the hammer, adze, saw,
ak and chisel of a carpenters shop, show
ing himself to be a brother tradesman, ac-
cepting entertainment at the house of one
who AIMED hides for a living, and, though
having owned I'LL things, surrendering ev-
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