The examiner., 1886-07-17
FL NJ MORE UZVFORZU
MITES.

How many of US while sitting be-
meath the mighty oak whose out
stretched branches afford shelter for
hundreds in its cooling shade from
rays of scorching sun, connect it
with the little acorn kicked about be-
meath our feet? How many Of US,
too, connect the most appalling catas-
trophe in the life Of human being,
with some act of his during life, in
itself the most seeming Insignificant
and unimportant. Yet, as the mighty
oak is but the full development of
the trampled little acorn, SO is many
crisis and catastrophe in human at
fairs attributable to some sin of COM
mission or omission of the unfortu-
nate victim.
Read the following, all clipped
from one heading, in New York
paper:
A poorly dressed man shot himself at
r--ss.ssp4sessr- -sfescwtsffs
in front of 332 East Forty seventh street.
He died in Bellevue Hospital. He was rec
lille, aged 80. He had failed to support his
three children and wife, who had left him
and taken refuge with a relative named
Holleuburg in the tenement in front OF
which Behile shot himself
Shortly after o'clock yesterday morning
the dead body of an elderly man with Ten
tonic features was found in sitting pos
ture on the river wall at 103d street, near
Twelfth avenue, with blood oozing from
the mouth and nose. A pistol, which had
been recently discharged, was clenched in
the corpses's right hand. The suicide was
apparently q tramp. He was without a
hat, and his long hair and beard were tan
gled, while coarse shoes without stockings
covered his feet. An old diagonal coat
and waistcoat and much worn gray trous-
ers completed his costume. There was
man had been.
Valentine Burrell, one of the recent stri-
kers at the Reid & Barry Print Works in
Passaic, grew very respondent because he
could get no work His wife had to 60 out
washing to earn something to eat. He
therefore hanged himself to beam in his
cellar ON Saturday night. The couple had
four children.
Couldn't support his family "a
tramp "a striker the pistol and
rope as welcome agents to end the
weary pilgrimage. And why? Be
cause the victims themselves, along
with thousands of others who have
tramped the same road before them
and other thousands now following,
have failed and still fail to drop a
certain piece of paper into certain
little box. Smile you credulous, as
the child or simpleton would smile at
the thought of the mighty tree being
a mere development of little berry,
but deny it if you dare.
Why cannot the man ~support his
wife and children? He finds no
means of labor from which bread
must come. Why does he not find it?
Improved machinery and long hours
of toll of those fortunate enough to
be employed, leaves nothing for him
to do in society, and every foot of
Gods footstool anywhere within his
reach is already fenced around by the
iron rails of Law, so that the magic
wand of his labor cannot reach it to
bring forth the life giving principle
within it's bosom. And why is this
fence permitted to be built around
any portion of the common heritage
of the Creator to all His children to
prevent one of them from its free use,
while none of the others need it? Be,
cause the crafty few desire to live off
the labor of the thoughtless many,
and have led them to believe that it is
in accordance with right and divine
revelation that they should. ''It always
was and always will be-" This is
dinned into the ears of the unthink-
ing mass, and is taken up and re-
echoed by them from generation to
generation. Consequently there is
born stupid belief that things must
remain about as they are,-with the
prince and the beggar, the millionaire
and tramp; the. palace and the hut,
or naught but the canopy of heaven to
cover the weary outcast.