The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-03-11

FULLY realized the difference between
real art and the daubs which pass fol
paintings.
One soon becomes accustomed in
this great city to thinking and speak.
ing by millions. Tnere are
three or four millions of people to
begin with; this or that building cost
u million dollars; this or that art col
lection cost 4 million to three mlllious
Vanderbilt left STA ,OO0, 600; j. j. AS
tor is worth $l25.OOO, 600; Russell Sage
is worth $5O, ,0OO, 900, and SO on down
through a long list till you come to the
small fry only worth a million. On
one hand things are vast and over
whelming, so large as to be incompre
hensible; on the other hand things are
small. so small as to be both AMUSING
and pathetic. Extremes meet. Ev:
erything and anything to get a liv.
ing, from gambling in Wall street
among millions to picking rags and
searching garbage boxes in the street
For instance. quite a business is done
in cigar stumps. Boys are sent out
early in the morning to gather thu
stumps thrown away tie night before
and these are used in making new ci
gars, and giving extra flavor to ''dne
cut"
New York is at once the greatest
and meanest city on the continent
No other city would tolerate Anthony
Comstock. Here he flourishes, because
as men say, they cannot afford to fight
him in the courts and waste their time
aud money. He has been proven a
fraud many times, but he fattens OF,
stolen goods and hourishes on the
credulity of kind-hearted and soft
pated Christians who think he is doing
good work. No other city would al
low its citizens to 60 to prison for ex.
pressing honest opinions, but New
York allows it. No other city would
allow millions of money to he taken
from the public funds to give to sec
tartan churches, schools or societies
who teach errors obnoxious to the tax
payers. New York allows it. NJ
other great American city would al
low a man to languish III prison TO,
debt. New York allows it. Recently
a Chicago man paid a debt of less than
d hundred dollars and released 4 poor
fellow whom New York had kept in
prison for three years for debt.
But New York is the headquarters
OF the Democracy. New York con-
tains Tammany. And Tammany, af-
ter all means the will-power OF the
party. 1t Is 4 question whether there
will ever again be Il democratic presi.
Dental candidate from the west. The
Horati0 Seymours, the ,en. McClel-
lans, the Sammy Tildens, the Gen.
uancoCks, the Grover Clevelands, OF
the democracy, have all been New
Workers to all intents and purposes.
either from city Or state, metropolis or
suburbs.
But New York IS also the brain and
heart of the innunelable societies to
promote particular views and works
Besides Comstock'S "Vice Suciety''
there is Bergh's for the prevention of
cruelty to animals, and Il society for
the prevention Of cruelty to children,
and the latter two are much need d
and doing excellent work, They should
have Il branch in every community.
We notice, too, a society with head
quarters down near Chatham Square,
ITO encourage the wearing OF clean
Shirts" This society might be ex-
tended over the country with benefit.
lnnumerable pArlurs in the city are
used for club meetings and gatherings,
for lectures and conferences. in the in
terest of every possible ism, every so.
cial, scientific, religious or other tlleo-
ry or work.
Since our last letter, we attended
the celebration of the anniversary of
Paine's birth day 10y the Liberal Club
and heard Il. Is. Wakeman's address.
MI. W. is one Of the ablest liberal law
yers in the country and strikes many
giant blows for intellectual and per
sonal liberty. His address was an eye.
opener even to those who suppose that
they are posted in the history of revo-
lutionary times, and by quotations
from Paine'S works and by the facts OF
history, showed that Paine furnished
the ideas for which our fore fathers
fought, as we'll as the ideas of religious
and intellectual liberty for which mod
ern freethinkers are battling. The
idea of the United States of the World
seems to have been first broached by
Paine, and many of the modern phrases
such as Religion of humanity" art
found in his works.
AS an offset to the Paine celebration,
and the Liberal Club, we attended
Talmage's services the next Sunday
at the Brooklyn Tabernacle. We wert
little late and barely found standing
room. We mounted to the gallery and
between the heads of others who wert
standing got u glimpse of the vast par
quette crowded with people, the large
family circle, every seat occupied, and
the gallery, all 6lleG to over flowing
Talmage preached upon marriage and
we must say that it was we'll done
We saw none of those antics of which
the papers tell, and he was at times
and every thought in that sermon ut
least was pure and uplifting. There
is reason for Talmage's success. He
mountebaDk, as represented, but is
wholesome work in spite Of his erro
neOus theology.
AS to literary people, we meet them
by scores. Women and men who write
for magazines, story papers, newspa-
pers, etc. There are bureaus here
which furnish short stories to scores
of papers. They employ readers to tx.
anime the stories and pay the uni
form price of SIS for any story of 800 tc
1000 words which is accepted. Merit
has nothing to do with the price. We
have met no literary person who is ia
nous. The other day, however, W.
heard Geo. w. Cable, the novelist
read the concluding portion of his new
story, "Grande Pointe," which is soor
to appear in the Century. There were
two or three hundred people present
and we could not help wishing thai
these readings might become genera
and fill the gap between the theatre
and the lyceum or lecture platform
They are infinitely more interesting
and uplifting than the intellectual ant
witty lectures which are peddled owe
the west at fifty cents a head. Herr
in New York there are numbers o
men buying costly houses out of tn
proceeds Of ordinary second hand wi
and thought which they have dishe'
out to western people labeled as ''lec
tures.''
In our last letter we promised ou
readers to investigate and report fur
ther as to full ll-form naturalization
On = recent Saturday afternoon we at