Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-20

| goodness and grace in one volume, elegantly
bound Although IL may be dear, every man
should have copy"
It's door work allavs settin' the dead above
the livin.' We shall all on us be dead some time
reckon; it 'ud be better if folks 'ud make muca
on us beforehand. instid o. beginnin. wnen en-
we've gone. It's but little good you'H 90
a-waterin' the last years crop.-Mrs. PdySer' I"
AdGns Bede.
A bad characteristic of our time is insub-
| ordination. An Irishman writing home to
| a friend in Ireland, said, "Pat, come to
America. Here one man IS as good as
another-and better, too" We have no rule
and no ruler.
Especially is this true of young America.
This young gentleman explodes the old fogy
notion of obedience and Difference with his
hre crackers on the Fourth of July. Go
where you will-enrer the home of poverty, or
abide beneath the celled roof of wealth, and
| you shall surely find self wiled and unruly
cnndren- Paris Communism is exemplihed In
countless nurseries
Think OF the discomfort of such homes;
| homes which else would be delightful, but
spoiled by these little tyraDts in pinafores. In
such circumstances, the most humane person
must secretly symDathize with Charles Lambs
toast, offered at a dinner party which had been
ruined by gang of insubordinate youngsters:
Here's TO the memory of that much maligned
king. Herodr' Think of the future of these
children. thus permitted to grow up pampered,
self-indulgent, uncontrolled. What kind OF
fathers and mothers will they make ? Nur-
tured in habItual disobedienee to law and or
der, what shall prevent their becoming chi onic
disturbers of law and order? These dear ones
shall they mature into tenants of jails and
food for the gallows?
Here a question of gravest interest to every
thoughtful patriot is touched. Based as our
Government is upon the ballot box, and there
fore dependent, at last, upon the sobriety and
virtue anu self-control of the individual voter,
what hope of the permanence of republican in
stitutions. if the future voters, the government
of tomorrow, are drunken, or lack virtue, or
are without self-contrOl
national stability masquerades in this insubor-
dinaton of Young America But the precise
time to form habits OF obedience, and OF re-
spect for Justly constituted authority, is IN the
plastic hour of youth. As Pope says:
"Just as. the twig is bent the trees inclined"
And a wiser than Pope afirms: Train up a
child In the way he should go; and when he is
old, he will not depart from it," The place,
therefore, in which TO meet and stihe th rs latent
peril is the nursery. Stamp out this spark or
childish disobedence, and the general con-
hagration-the Chicago or Boston fire OF aduls
conflict with legitimate authority is prevented.
Parents, and above all Christian parents. this
is your work. The command of God, the ex-
ample of Christ, the comfort of home, the good
government of the country, unitedly dictate
the duty of ImplantiDg early habits Of obedi.
ence. Faithfulness here quiets the present
and secures the future.
Since the dawn of authentic history, AZ
rica has been acommon prey. In the interior
wars have been perpetually fomented in
order to secure captives for the slave mar
ket. The rakish slave ship,
Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses
dark,
has ever haunted the coast. The seraglios
of the East and the hearthstones of the West
have been stocked with servants, the plum
der of Africa The Western world is now
closed to slavery. The barbaric East still holds
the door open. Christendom is at last united
in the purpose to close that door.
At last, the great poweSs, under the inspira-
tion of benevolent Cardinal of the Roman
Catholic Church, have formed an alliance whoss
object is the final suppression of the slave
trade. England. Germany, France, Austria,
Italy, Greece and Portugal (this last for cenGu-
ries the European agent of the slave tradersl
have agreed to maintain a naval blockade Of
the east coast, the exit of the inhuman traffic.
Presently the patrol is to be reinforced by
pushing repressve expeditions into the inte-
rior. The young German Emperor. ill his lat
est address to the Reichstag. makes himse
the Peter the Hermit of this crusade. Another
generation will probably open Africa to civil
ization. and Christianity will go in and possess
the land.