Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1886-04-16
dog and yellow 10 fight over the we'll

ana second mortgages given. Poor trust
ing ones, they see the authority OF the
State--it is surely safe, they must NIL take
some oil he stock ior interest, benefit and
all that u will he 10 them. 1t il worked
mp aud down for few years and finally
bonhd over by the court to those first
mortgage fellows and all the rest cent
home with their papers In place Of their
honest money. Yon can never get the
Legitimacy oi that business clear to the
minds OF those innocent trusting people
who have always before thought of the
State and Legislature and all the courts as
sort OF general orphans court to see that
the helpless got no harm, Now these sus.
pect that may be after all, the powers that
be are coverts for big thieves. You look
nj avenues our government has opened 10
The great west and 40 carelessly guarded
lhls whole pre.emption and homestead
business has fo-tercd a degree Of greed,
perjury and theft, that would pale the face
OF any mortal except that of New Mexi.
co cowboy or Stephen Dorsey, OF Star
Route fame, WHO was relieved, us he
thought from lying TO the Holy Ghost, by
the instructions Of his infiiel council
that he might take oath upon his own
honor !! 1t was not enough to carve out
millions of acres TO railway corporations,
these unprincipled landgrnbbers moved up
every water-course, set their cowboys each
upon his homestead ~ for few days,
who would put up n roofless, doorless pile
and in due time swore for his master that
the law was compiled with, and 80 section
| after section under government title would
be joined to the feudal domain, while the
real settler would be driven off at the muz.
zle of the Winchester rifle, so by this get
on -thls-world philosophy, this sacri6c
ing of the overtime principle that "every
man must look not on his own things, but
also on the things OF Others" we have
taught people to feel that the poor man is
not better than liar, although the Bible
says he is. By such processes of rapid de-
| velopment we have given 10 many in
America, and some OF them Star rout
| thieves every franchise of king except
the crown. We have money kings, rail-
way kings, land kings, cattle kings, We
have wrought and are still working a
| chasm between classes of our people TOO
deep for safety, and somebody is going to
fall into it-kings of ill-gotten wealth and
power on The one side will provoke the
rise of demagogue kings on the other
The cure for tyranny of ancient mon
archy was revolution to Republicanism.
| But what shall cure oppression on one side
and anarchy on the other in Republic ?
No less philosophical historian than Gui-
zot fears the destructive power OF reyolu-
| tion in our social fabric. IL we cannot
trust our Representatives, TO care for the
peoples domain and interests, what is left,
II return 10 monarchy or advance to Greek
democracy We would lie between a
Scylla and Charybdis. Our only appeal is
for better individual hearts. The country
needs more conscience, religion is the
guardian of law and order, and only in the
extension of her influences over the hearts
of men will you ever find sale solution OF
our troubles. That life which the Etern-
| al has drawn as meridian across the
moral heavens for tue ligh. of men, teach
es by precept and example that the whole
damning power of the moral universe is
arrayed against constituencies greed on the
one hand and lawless destructive envy on
the other. That each, whether as master
or servant, employer or employe, must, IL
fear of God, who will search all hearts anC
try all reins, do unto the other as he woult
the other should do to him If their places
were changed. On the one hand, the poo
classes must learn that while unwise leg
islation has had somewhat to do with the
condition of many OF them. it has not had
all to do with 1t. Much of our poverty i,
due TO laziness and waste-but more, al
hundred fold, TO intemperance. Ii tn,
laborers' portion of the zoo, 900, 900 gallon
of intoxicating drink yearly consume,
were laid up in homes and comforts, ,her
would be little suffering or need of com
plant.
On the other hand, the weal,hier mus
learn to put premium upon that higher
| nnhlpr af ff lifa yph in fba
3 more than meat, and the body more tha
the raiment to be struggled for /; TO be Sal
istied with d competent portion OF the goo
things of this life, and Gods blessings wit
them. And after this, they must devot
some time, energy and means, to guidin
the lives and amelIoraling the lots of feeb
Ter ones. Nothing makes rich man nc
7, bier, or greater than becoming father
friend and savior to humber people. III
will be immortal IN their memory an
, have his monument in all hearts. 9Th
poor shall never cease out of the land,
saith God, and all ideas OF equalizing me
is folly-lmpossible as TO equalize brain
and grace. And yet wealth Is not by an
means the index Of superiority it may
the index OF shame for while some ar
) poor through ltziness, others from incom
= potency, yet others by sacrificing gain 70
principle, others by devotion OF life I
others good, they are not then TO be de
spised. 1t is necessary that some shoul
control large money for the public goot
, They know better how to handle it IL
, good. And while some are miserly an
mean ms the swine they own, while som
are luxurious and prodiga 10 their sham
yet there are men possessing wealth an,
power who stand with the dignity o
princes by the Lord of the whole earlI
and adorn the Office of stewards of Iii
bounty and lieulenants of His treasury
dispensing it with grace and wjsdom-ne
that must receive our honor and enjoy on
praise. But TO those who cannot rise up Il
the nobility Of thinking also on The thing
OF others, that society may make progres
by the meridian line of light that strelche
across the moral heavens to guide ever,
man in harmony with his fellows, the Hol,
Ghost bringeth this message, "Chargt
them that are rich IN this world that the,
be not higlI-minded nor trust in uncerlaiI
riches, but In lhe living God who giyetl
us richly all things To enjoy that they dc
good, that they be rich IN good works
ready TO distribute, willing to Communicate
laying up in store for themselves good
foundation against The time to come tha
they may lay hold on eternal life" e
Tim. q, l7-1e.) Let your business be with
ont covetousness and be content with
such things as ye have, for God hath said
81 VIII never leave thee nor forsake thee. ,
(lieb. Is, 81 "For godliness with COR
tentment is great gam. For We brought
nothing into this world and we can carry
nothing ont, II Ia certain. And having
food and raiment, let us be Herewith con
tent" But they that will (sre determined
TO be rich, work all means TO get i) fall il
To temptation and a snare and into many
foolish and hurlrul lllsts which drown mel
in destruction and perdilion. For til,
love OF money is the root of all (kinds of
evil, which, while some coveted after, the,
have erred from the faith and pierced
themselves through with many SORROWS
II Is not simply the curing of present evil
but The preyenlure Of future that calls u
to follow that blessed life which WINS 10 b
the light OF men, while the poor and toll
ing M asses are encouraged to temperance
economy mud COulenlmpnt ma tlle lipht a