The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-04-07

the enemy { his fellow toier on the morrow, for
after all, il is VOW to acquire capital and how to
use ii properly hat We are epdeayoring to learn.
The man of CAP al is not necessarily the enemy
of the sborer on the contrary they must be
brought cl.--- together
have taken the trouble to observe carefully the
attitude ofthe poor man, suddenly-or otherwise
by some lucky speculation, for you know it IS bet
ter to be born lucky than to be born rich. raised
to the pinnacle of the capitalist and almost in
yarably have found him TO be An oppressor of
the very class he recently sprung from. and yet
while ne WAS poor he could not find words ex-
pressive enough to voice his wrath and indignn-
ton towards capitalists.
tail depends upon whose OK Is gored and .
man true to his nature VIII prove himself a
poor man or as a rich man TO be tarred with the
stick OF either class, his fortune changes. A
house in this town delayed for weeks In its COM
pletion because some of the workmcn would not
work with man who did not belong to some
labor organization or other What tyranny, what
oppression of the poorer classes by the poorer
classes
We therefore repeat our former statement and
say that every poor mnn wants Ia be rich, aud If
he is nctuated by sinister motives he will stoop -
low that none are to poor TO do him reverence.
Dissatisfied with himself, dissatisfied with his
neighboring poor men. dissatisfied with the
world. dissatisfied with the rich man, dissatisfied
with every body. he is an exact type of the man
depicted in orr text, the grave and decay are
never satisfied and the eyes OF man are never
satisfied
Again the rich rnan wants to be richer The
millionaire is not content with what he is but
struggles 10 become u Millionaire. Give poor
man riches and he will cry for more. suppose
that is one of the reasons Why il is hard for the
rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Riches
engender avarice. Each man gets all he can and
keeps all he gets, and strives to get more. Avar-
lee brings forth selfshncss and sclfshness in turn
produces intidelity, for true Christian is wick
edly selfish. The desire for riches begets n spirit
of unholy ambition, such an ambition that VOL
sely possessed who, when overwhelmed by his
fall from the favor of the bluff King Hal declared
to Cromwell what had ruined him cxclaiming;
Cromwell, Ichargc thee fling away ambition:
by that sin fell the angels. How can man. then
the image of his Maker hope to win by it." Setting
his heart on the papal throne, he had sacrificed
everything that was noble and good and honest
on the altar Of ayaricc. and II is no wonder
that hear him crying: IL see the matter against
me. how IL is framed: but il had served God as
diligently as served the king, he would not
have given me over in my gray hairs" After adj
ding few more words his eyes grew fixed and
glazed, and shortly after the broken hearted Car
dinal passed away. Says Brewer: "The body
was placed in rude coffin of wood with inter
cross and ring and other archicpiscopal orna-
ments. He lay in state until five o'clock in tho
afternoon, when he carried down into the
church with great soemnity by the abbot and
convent with many torches. Here the body rest
ed all night in the Lady chapel, watched by four
men holding lights in their hands while the con
vent chanted the old solemn office for the dead.
About four in the morning while it was yet dark
they sung mass. By six they Ind laid him in
his grave, on that cold and dreary November
morning, unwept and unlamented by ALL except
by the very few who for the glory of human ma
ture, amid so much of baseness greed ingratitudc
and cruelty remained loving and faithful to the
last. have dwelt Wolsey's case to illustrate
the avarice of man. He had amassed an immense
fortune by questionable means and had built
Hampton Court, vertable palace whittier he was
to retire in his declining years. but falling from
favor and suspected of replenishing his purse
from the rayal Golfers, King Henry hunted him
down TO the death
This same ambition too often characteristics
the modern politicians. Not for honor nor for
patriotism do men seek Office but to rcplenish
their exchequcrs from the peoples Golfers Nun
icipal corporations brbed, legislatures manipul-
ated, congress coerced. all for the purpose of
making the rich richer and the poor poorer, and
so Dryden expresses real truth when he says
wild ambition loves to slide, not stand,
And fortunes ice prefers to virtues land"
Everything sacrificed to avaricc, and if this
spirit ofunrcst and dissatisfaction was sought for
still for further should find it in the career of
a Napolean, Il Benedict Arnold, an Aaron Burr.
Gniteau, and Thousand others who throttled
the good and noble within them for empty hon
ors and gilded bauble without them
On the eth of November 1875 Pope Plus TX,
then Father Mastai, with others, arrived in full
view fthe island of st. Helena en- route for
Chilli whether they were bound as papal embas-
sailors. This was the island where few yenrs
previous Napoleon Bonaparte had ended his
eventful life. Just as they arrived OFF the island
they encountered a Brazilian vessel f~>~hted
with negro slaves, and adds Father Brennan his
biographer: There stood the lonely island Civ
sng silent and suenyet eloquent warning to men
not to yield themselves exclusively to pride and
ambition; on the other side sailed the slave snip
from the depths of whose hold came forth the
piteous wall OF human beings both living proofs
Of the degradation to which civilized man will
descend when influenced by undue desire for
gain or power"
If we come to home lfo the thought of our text
IS just as true Man is never satisfied. The rush
of life seems so great, that all drawn into this
seething vortex of dissatisfaction and unrest. If
rs some say, the face is the index of character.
look at everybody you meet, and sec if dssatis-
faction is not written on the curved forehead, or
wan cheek, or restless gait, or furrowed brow or
nervous conversation. Now and again you will find
n happy looking face, a contented countenance
an exhilaratng movement indicating saisfac-
ton, but not so often in the palaces of the rich
ms IN the cottages Of the poor and ten to it is
happy Christian we gaze upon The flourish
ing tradesman worried with outstanding debts.
the lady of fashion perplexed about the style of
her dress, the busy lawyer porting over statute
books and meeting you with vacant eye each
and all revealing the reign of dissatisfaction AS
the supreme ruler Of their bodies md in too muny
cases, of souls too.
With this picture before we may be inclined
to or accused of pessmism, and yet there stands
the fact. Nothing but unrest, disqui.tude. dis
satisfaction. Is there no deliverance from this
state Of wretchedness and misery, ard troubled
man replies No" Is there no help for the heart
ofunrest and the reply comes in sepulchral
tones, None but in the grave Is there rest in
the grave? and the language of faith replies,
only to those in Christ Hear the declaration of
Agnosticism as propounded by Ingersoll. Life is
a cold and narrow vale between the barren peaks
of two eternites. We strive III vain to look be-
yond the heights. We cry aloud and the only
answer we receive is the echo of our wailing cry.
From the voiceless lips of the unrcplying dead,
there comes no word but in the night of death
hope sees e star and listening love can hear the
rustic ola wing Compare this with the cry of
Faiths heart: THE sun shall, no more go
down on the believers path. Why? Because
his heart is consciously enlightened whatever
may be his outward circumstances This is the
secret of his soul-rcst. Pillowed upon the
bosom of Jesus, yet mounting upward-up the
steps of life toward the final goal-his rest even
here is unbroken. And this sweet calm within
isboth the forecast and pledge of that higher re-
nos vi iph e. tI,a- Of a,