The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-22

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viii send enough animals At for human
food to the markets, and the last earth
quake that rends the world viii upset a
bauqueting table at which are seated the
entire human race. Meanwhile, suppose
that some Of the energy we are expanding
in useless and unavailing talk about the
bread question should be expended In
merciful alleviations.
/ have read that the battle field on
which more troops met than on any other
In the worlds history was the battle field
Of Leipsic, one hundred and sixty thou
sand men under Napoleon, two hundred
and fifty thousand men under Schwarze-
berg. No, no. The greatest and most
terrific battle Is now being fought all the
world over. It is the struggle for food.
The ground tone of the finest passage in
one of the great musical masterpieces,
the artist says, was suggested to him by
the cry Of the hungry pOpulace Of Vienna
as the King rode through and they shout
ed, Bread. Give rs breadp And all
through the great harmonies Of musical
academy and cathedral hear the pathos,
the ground tone, the tragedy Of uncounted
multitudes, who, with streaming eyes and
wan cheeks and broken hearts, in behalf
of themselves and their families, are
pleading for bread
Let us take another look around to see
how we may serve our generations Let
US see as far as possible that they have
enough to wear. God looks on the human
race and knows just how many inhabitants
the world has. The statistics of the
worlds population are carefully taken IN
civilized lands, and every few years Of
fcers Of government 60 through the land
nd-cOunt how many people there are in
the United States OF England, and great
accuracy Is reached. But when people
y IN IL IN
| Asia or Africa, at best it must be wild
| guess. Yet God knows the exact number
Of people on our planet, and he has made
/ enough apparel for each, and If there be
fifteen hundred million, fifteen thousand,
| fifteen hundred and fifteen people, then
there is enough apparel for fifteen hum
| dred million, fifteen thousand, fifteen
hundred and fifteen. Not slOuchy ap-
| parel, not ragged apparel, not insufficient
apparel, but appropriate apparel. At
least two suits for every being on the
| earth, q summer suit and winter suit. A
good pair of shoes for every living mortal.
A good coat, good hat, or good bonnet,
/ and a good shawl, and complete
masculine or feminine outfit of apparel.
/ A wardrobe for all nations adapted to all
| chimes, and not a string, or a button, or a
| pin, or hook, or an eye wanting. But,
alas where are the good clothes for three
one-fourth have appropriated them. The
/ fact is, there needs to be and will be a re-
distribution. Not by anarchistie violence.
/ II Outlawry had its way, it would rend
j and tear and diminish until instead Of
4 three-fourths Of the world not properly
/ attired, four -fOurths would be in rags.
/ ] let you know how the redistribution viii
1 take place. By generosity on the part of
| those who have surplus and increased
I sv,T4
from deficit. Not all, but the large
majority of cases Of poverty in this
| country are a result of idleness or
/ drunkenness, either on the part of
the present sufferers or their auces-
| tors. In most cases the rum Jug is the
| maelstrom that has swallowed down the
| livelihood of those who are in rags. But
things viii change, and by generosity on
the part of the crowded wardrObeS, and
industry and sobriety on the part Of the
empty wardrobes, there will be enough
for all to wear. God has done His par
| toward the dressing of the human race
He grows a surplus of wool on the sleeps
back, aud hocks roam the mountains and
valleys with burden Of warmth intended
for transference to human comfort, wheI
the shuttles Of the factories reaching al
the way from the Chattahoochee to the
| Merrimac shall have spun and woven it
/ anu mere tol4At LOE-tu Allc EeOtkg MOUNTAIN
goat and the cashmere and the beaver
Here are the merino sheep, their origin
traced back to the fiOeks of Abraham,
and Davidic times. In white letters Of
snowy fleece God has been writing FOL
a thousand years his wish that Their,
might be warmth for all nations. While
, others are discussing the effect of high Of
low tariff or no tariff at all on WOOL yOI
and had better see if in our wardrObei
we have nothing that we can spare for tn,
shivering, or pick out some poor lad o
the street and take him down to a cloth
ing store and fit him out for the winter
, ! Don't think that God has forgotten to senC
ice and snow, because of this wonderful
mild January and February. We shall
yet have deep SHOWS and so much frost OF
the window-pane that in the morning yol
can not see through it; and whole flock
of billiards., for God long ago declared
that winter as well as summer shall no
cease, and between this and the sprin,
crOcus we may all have reason to cry on
with the -psalmist; ''Who can stand GU
before His cold?"
Again, let us look around and see how
we may serve our generation. What short
, sighted mortals we would be if we wer,
anxious to cfothe and feed only the mos
insignificant part of a man, namely, hi
body, while we put forth no effort {,
} is little piece broken off great eternity
What are we doing for the souls of thi
! present generation? Let me say it is
generation worth saving. Most magnih
cent men and women are in it. We max,
a great ado about the improvements il
/ navigation, and in locomotion, and in ar
and machinery. We remark what won
! ders of telegraph, and telephone ant
stethOscOpe. What Improvement in cleo
! trio light over a tallow candle! Blu
} all these improvements are insignifican
compared with the improvement in tn
human race. In Olden times, once in
while, a great and good man or woman
J would come up and the world has made
great fuss about it ever since, but nov
} they are SO numerous we scarcely speal
about them. We put q halo about the PEG
pie of the past, but l think if the times de
, manded them it would be found we hav
now living in this year 1889 fifty Martin
J Luthers, fifty George WashingtOns, fit
; Lady Huntingtons, fifty Elizabeth Frys
{ During our civil war more splendid war
riors ia North and South were develope,
in four years than the whole world devel
Oped in the previous twenty years.
challenge the four thousand years befor
the flood and the eighteen centuries afte
! the food to show me the equal Of charit
: on large scale Of George Peabody. Thi
I generation OF men and women is NOR
1 worth saving than any of the one hundre
= and eighty generations that have passe
of.
But whore shall we begin: With our
selves. That is the pillar from which W
= must start. Prescott, the blind historian
tells us how Pizarro saved his army 70
, the right when they were about desertin
I him. With his sword he made a lon
? mark on the ground. He said: 'My mer
on the north side are desertion and death
E on the south side is victory; on the mort
I Panama and poverty, on the south sid
4 Peru with all its riches. Choose for your
4 selves; for my part 1 go to the south.
$ Stepping across the line-one by one, hi