The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1886-12-02
SAYINGS BY BOB fNcERsoLL

hoarcely and Interestingly to abou
a thousand we'll dressed men an,
women at Chickeriug Hall for abou
an honr last night. The laugbte
and appl, uso were pretty nearly con
tinuous Among other things b,
said we're these:
" nobody haa too much every
body will have enough.
wonld like TO see this world st
that man cuuld die and no, fee
! that he had left bis wife aud child.
rem prey 10 the greed Or avelice OF
necessities Of mankind
There is something wrong 10 the
system when idleDess 10 burdeued
With wealth and industry with fam
ine.
Get ont OF your minds that old
nonsense about mans free moral
agency. A man is no moro respon-
sible for bis character than for his
height, or for lis acts than for his
dreams. Then you will have charity
for The whole human race.
Wealth ia not crime por is pov~
erty a virtue, although virtue has
generally been poor
There is only one good-humau
happiness.
TO do right is tho bud blossom
aud frnits of wisdom.
No perfectly civilized man could
bc happy while there was an unhap-
.py being 10 the universe that Le
knew.
The poor imagine that the rich
live in Paradise. | know that tho
most of them live in gilded hell.
No man has the genius or the
brains to osn Eve million dollars
The money owns him. lie is the
key to safe. Yet these men 20 on
accumulating. 1t is sort of insan-
ity. Imagine MANA good intelli-
gent man with two million coats, six
or eight million hats, a billion neck,
ties. Then imagine him getting up
mt 4 o'clock in the morning and
working hard all day to get another
neobtiA..
Great wealth ;s the mother OF
crime.
The gulf is growing wido between
lazarus and Dives, only tho two
have changed places. Dives is in
Abrabams bosom.
The rich have scorn aud contempt
for the poor } tue poor envy ard
hatred for tho rich. There must be
some way for the loving poor md
the sy mpathetic rich to get acquint-
ed. II there is anything that should
bring mankind together it is CONS
mon belief, but in this Christian
country there is no welcome in the
velvet for the rags. | would think
much of any religion that would al
low the rich and the poor TO clasp
hands. if only for Que instant once a
week
All men are not capable Of getting
II living now. Some are not cunning
enough, not strong enough, not
stiney enough,
Millions of machines have been
Invented TO save labor, but the labor
er does not own the machine. The
owns the laborer.
No man should be allowed 10 own
any land that he does not use; but
l would not take an inch of land
from any one without paying for it.
Ii it were possible to bottle the
air there would be great American
Air BottliDg Association before SUM
down tomorrow, and millions would
be allowed to die for want of a breath
II they were unable TO pay the
monthly air bills.
l would not only see homes made
free from attachment for debt, but
FREQ from taxation also. Then we
would be nation Of fresides aud
nation Of patriots.
There ID something about money
that dries up the affections. | sup
pose that one reason Of it is that the
moment man got any money there
arc 30 many trying to get it away
from him that no thinks tho whole
race are his euemies.
/ don't blame the rich, mind you !;
they are the natural products of the
s. stem. Blame the system.
The first great remedy is in the
ballot. The poor are 10 the major
ity. If the law Expresses them it is
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