The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1889-05-17

hlntng III very rare elrgre" That tho
"bunlp IS Which caused his recent utteranccs
before the president the rlrenoloElsts must
decide, but thia is not the first time its pres
eMCe has been manifested; for In his many
addresses in So and previously, calling for
church action upon the relations ot capital
and labor, he repeatedly said.
Tie growth Of wealth among rs las ,41t
resulted in binding men together. but III
driving tlcm apart; The rich are further
from the poor, the employer from his work
men, capital from labor, now than ever be-
fore. Too rany know less and less how the
poor live. The manners Of lic poor, it is
said are more ins0leut and ungracious than
of Old TO tic rich, and this naturally dis
couiaSes efforts 10 know aud servo tlcnln
Very naturally ms conclusion was and is,
that the solution must be furnished by the
c,Iurci: ANA lest the conclusion should not be
drawn by all who heard him he took caro- to
administer some severe slaps III socialism,
'demusogisnl "lcyeling theories and the
"l{nmrv Grcrge land theorcs'' Of I'll thrs,.
he aays:
Now never before. there is in the air !.
sentiment which teaches men to tlesp!se ;ll-
tt!orIty, to diao"n restraint, TO lIatc and re-
sent nll social and material inequality,
but which With ali its noisy championship Of
SO much Il, ti!.. tips of its fingers
The two passages i'll Bishop lottcr's sermon
of April 80 Which are most severely criti-
cisel urr t!lesp
We have. ,:chanscd the WashingtoniaI dignity
fot the Jcfcrsouiau simplicity, which Was, In
truth, only another for the Jacksonial yt.l.
garity, and what have we got in exchange for it,
In the elder states am. dEnaSties they Ind the
trappings Of royalty and the pomp and spclIsiUr
Of the Kings person 10 fill mems hearts with 10y
atty We'll, We have dispensed with the old tit,I!ar
l!guiteS Let lis take care that do not luirt
with that tremendous force for which they stood,
If there be not ttular royalty all the more need is
there for personal royalty,
Then, proceeding to Il rather pointed con-
trast between Washington and his successors,
he said:
hugo machine existing mainly for tho purpose of
rewnr,lins partisan scrvice-this conception
alien to the character and conduct Of Washing
ton and lis associates that it seems grotcsquc
even to speak Of it. 1t would be interesting TO
imagine the first president Of the United States
confronted with some one who had ventured to
approach him upon tho basis of what Is now com
Irsenly called practical politics."
Another enormous difference between this day
and that Of which it Is tho anniversary Is to be
seen III the enormous difference in the nature md
influence Of tho forces that determine our ma
tional and political destiny. Then IDEAS ruled the
hour Today, there indeed ideas that rule
our hour but they must bo lnerchautablo idens.
Tho growth Of wealth, the prevalence of luxury,
tho massin2 of largo material forces which by
their very existence standing menace to tho
freedom and integrity of the individual, tho In.
finite swagger OF our American speech and ulan-
ners, installing bigness for greatness and sadly
confoundns gain and godlincss-all this Is con-
trnst to the austere simplicity, the unpurchasabe
Integrity of the first days and tho first men of our
republic, which makes 1t impossible to reproduce
today either the temper or tho conduct OF our
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