The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-12

home consists of one or two small
rooms, you cannot do as those may
who have abundance of room and
every convenience for sanitary and
moral Improvement. Living in
homes SO unlike, the dwellers in
these homes become alike. and SO the
separation grows. One has the con-
veniences, the apparatus for mental
culture, and SO steadily grows in
knowledge. The other, deprived Of
these mental stimulants, falls behind
in knowledge and in mental push and
power, and so the difference grows.
What is true of the mental condition
is true also of the moral. Many a
tired man has left the squalorof his
home for the saloon, the jolly com
partnership of thoughtless friends or
the exhilerant influences of alcohol,
and through these gilded gateways
of vice many go down quick into
ruin! Poverty tempts to theft, and
even to the sale of virtue as a pur-
chasable commodity. From these,
and many other things which you
will easily think=of, you see there is
a constant diyergency between the
higher and the lower classes. "They
think apart, they toll apart and
they have but few sympathies in
common. Out of this lack Of SYM
pathy between the rich and the poor,
the higher and lower classes, there
comes to be feeling which is some
times unjust, but the feeling comes
into the heart of the poor that the
rich care nothing for their needs. Nay,
more, some Of the poor feel that the
heartless capitalist is seeking to get the
most possible out Of the poor for the
least possible wages. You may say the
feeling is unjust, but you cannot entire
ly blame the poor for this feeling when
you remember how unwilling capital
has often been to concede the rights of
labor Serfdom, feudalism, landlord.
ism. corporation, slavery, these words
hold very much which has been, and is
very bitter. Unwilling were the mas
ters to surrender any powers which
wrousfully had been taken from the
poor, and which had been wickedly
kept. There are some chapters in his
tory which show that the poor have
some reason for the feeling which now
lives in their hearts toward the rich.
With this feeling many of these poor
people feel that the churches belong to
the rich, to the upper classes; and SO
feeling, they keep away. You may say
the feeling ought not to exist, but
please notice it does enist, and it keeps
many out of our churches
2. The loose views of the Sabbath
keeps very many away from our church
es. The immigrant from the Continent
brings next to no Sabbath With him,
and is glad to find here about what he
brings All the skeptical, all the So
cialistic and all the goddess forces in
America combine in persistent effort to
blot out the Christian Sabbath They
call it in derision the puritan Sab
BATH the "Jewish Sabbath the "Or-
thodox Sabbath and then they organ
lie "Liberal Leagues" to attack it!
And, what is very strange, some good
people thoughtlessly join this unwashed
throng to undo, to undermine the Sun
day. "Sunday newspapers" "Sunday
recreation" all these are in line with
the skeptical, in effect, if not in intent
to destroy our Sunday. The cry is:
"Need of rest,' "of air." "of outdoor
exercise" and it is said the Sunday was
given for these purposes, hence absence
from church. [ have asked doctors,
employers and laborers if it is rot a
proven fact that those who attend
church services are more rested and
better fitted for the week s work than
are those who spend the day in frolic
and fun, and the answer has universally
been in favor Of the church goers.
s. The saloon is against the church
and its influence is opposed to Sunday
worship. believe that the most pow
erful force in separating he masses
from sympathy with the gospel is the
sale and use of intoxicating liquors as a
beverage. There can be but little real
sympathy between the regular visitant
of the saloon and the services and aims
of our Christian churches. The saloon
and the church are antipodes. Take
away from the Indifferent and sinful
masses all the poor whom the intoxicat-
ing cup has made poor, all the children
whom it has orphaned, all the sorrow
ing women whom it has robbed of hope,
Of home and of husband, all the va
grants whom it has stripped Of home,
bread and bed, call the anarchists
whose brains it has set seething and
spinning with pictures of the glory of
owning nothing and obeying no man, !"
and you would need some power cleo
trio light to find the few who would be
left in alienation from the Christian
church. Let the saloon be banished
from our American soil, and there