The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-04-27

sachusettS and Connecticut will be prom
ised protection for manufactures, and all
the monetary interests-North, South,
East and West-win be told in each neigh
borhOod that the taxes and tariff will be
fixed to suit them, irrespective Of any body
else, and the presidential election over,
all win settle down as it was before. If
you think that all this discussion in public
places is from any 5ssire for the welfare
of the dear people, and not for political
effect, you are grieyousIy mistaken.
Go into all occupations and profess
sions, and if you want to know how much
jealousy is yet to be extirpated, ask mast
er builders what they think of each others
houses, and merchants what their opinion
is of merchants in the same line of busi-
ness in the same street. and ask doctors
what they think Of doctors, and lawyers
what they think of lawyers, and ministers
what they think of ministers, and artists
what they think of artists. AS long as
men and women in any department keep
down and have hard struggle, they will
be family praised, and the remark will be:
| 'Oh, yes; he is good, clever sort of a
fellow" ''She is rather, yes, somewhat,
| quite-well, I may say, tolerably nice kind
of q woman" But let him or her get a
little too high and off goes the aspiring
head by social or commercial decapita-
ton.
Remember that envy dwells more on
small defects of character than on great
forces, makes more Of the fact that Do
mitian amused himself by transfxing flies
/ with his penknife than of his great con-
quests; more of the fact that Handel was E
| gluttOn than of the fact that he created i'm
| perishable oratoriOs; more Of Coleridge's
| opium habit than of this writing ''Christa-
! bel' and 1.-The Ancient Mariner" more Of
! the fact that Addison drank too much,
| than of the fact that he was the author Of
! the spectators" more Of a mans pecca-
| dilloes than of his mighty energies; more
of his defeats than of his victories.
| Look at the sacred and Heaven-de-
! scended science of healing, and then see
DR. Mackenzie, the English surgeon, who
! prolonged the life of the Grown Prince Of
| Germany until he became Emperor, and
/ hope may yet cure him, so that he may
| for many years govern that magnificent
! German nation, than which there is no
! grander. Yet so great are the medical
! jealousies that DIR. Mackenzie dare not
walk the streets Of Berlin. He is under
military guard. The medical students OF
Germany can hardly keep their hands of
of him. The old doctors of Germany are
writhing with indignation. The fact is
that in saving Frederick's life DIR. Mac
| kenzie saved the peace of Europe. There
was not an intelligent man on either side
! the ocean that did not fear for the result
! if the throne passed from wise and good
! old Emperor William to his inexperienced
! grandson. But when, under the medical
! treatment of DR.. Mackenzie, the Crown
Prince Frederick took the throne, a wave
| Of satisfaction and confidence rolled over
| Christendom. What shall the world do
| with the doctor who saved his life? "Oh, .
cried out the medical jealousies of Eu-
rope, destroy him; of course, destroy
him.
What brutal scene of jealousy we had
| in this country when President Garfield
| lay dying. There were faithful physicians
that sacrificed their other practice and
sacrificed their health for all time in
fidelity to that death-bed. Doctors Bliss
and Hamilton and Agnew went through
anxieties, and tolls, and fatigues such as
none but God could appreciate. Nothing
pleased many of the medical profession
| The doctors in charge did nothing right
| We who did not see the case knew better
than those who agonized over it in the
| sick-room for many weeks. /, who never
had any thing worse than a run-round on
my thumb, which seemed to me at the
time was worthy all the attention of the
| entire medical fraternity, had my OWL
ideas as to how the President ought to be
| treated. And in proportion as physicians
and laymen were ignorant of the case,
| they were sure the treatment practiced
| was a mistake. And when in post -mortem
the bullet dropped out Of a different
| portion of the body from that in which II
was supposed to have been lodged, about
two hundred thousand people shouted: 81
told you sop 'Therel 1 knew it all the
time" There are some doctors in all
cities who would rather have the patient
die under the treatment of their own
schools than have them get well under
some other parny.
Yea, look at the clerical profession. ]
| am sorry to say that IN matters Of jeal-
ousy it is no better than other profess
siOns. There are now in all denomina-
tions a great many young clergymen who
have faculty for superior usefulness.
| But they are kept down and kept back and
crippled by older ministers who look
askance at these rising evangelists. They
! are snubbed. They are iOstled. They are
patronizingly advised. It is suggested to
/ them that they had better know their
place. If here and there one with more
nerve, and brain, and conservation and
divine force go past the seniors who want
| to keep the chief places, the young are ad-
vised in the words Of Scripture: "Tarry
at Jericho till their boards are grown"
| They are charged with sensatiOnalism.
They are compared to rockets
| that 20 up in a blaze and come
down sticks, and the brevity Of their
career is jubilantly prophesied. IF it be
a denomination with bishops, a bishop is
implOred to sit down heavily on the man
who will not be nodded; or, If a de-
nomination without bishops, some Of the
older men with nothing more than their
own natural heaviness and theological
avoirdupois are advised to hatten out the
| innovator. In conferences, and presby-
teries. and associations, and conventions
| there is often seen the most damnable
jealousy. Such ecclesiastical tyranta
would not admit that jealousy had any
possession of them, and they take on a
Heavenly air, and talk sweet oil and
! sugar plums and balm Of thousand flow
ers, and roll up their eyes with an air OF
unctuous sanctity whom they simply mean
| the destruction Of those over whom they
/ pray and snuffle. There are cases where
| ministers OF religion are derelict and
criminal, and they must be put out
But in the majority Of cases that I have
witnessed in ecclesiastical trials there if
| jealous attempt to keep men from sur
passing their theological fellows, and az
at the presidential elections in country
places the people have barbecue, which
| is roasted OK, round which the people
1 dance with knives, cutting off slice here,
and pulling out rib there, and saving Of
/ a beefsteak yonder, and having high
time, so most or the denominations oi
Christians keep on hand a barbecue in
which some minister is roasted, while the
church courts dance around with their
sharp knives of attack, and one takes an
ear, another a hand, another a foot, and il
| is hard to tell whether the eccIesiastical
plaintiffs Of this world or the demons OF
the neither world most enjoy IL. Albert
/ Barnes, than whom no man has accom-
| plished more good in the last thousand
years, was decreed to sit silent for year
IN the pew Of his own church while some
one else occupied his pulpit. the pretended
/ Offense that he did not believe in a limited