St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-29

his palace car. and is whlrled into Long
Branch. Saratoga or Southern Cali
tornia. 1T that is not sufficient, he
boards steamer for Europe. And he
does all these things without thought
of the expense.
IF he SickenS he brings physicians
from any part of the country. and the
dailieS fling out under head lines the
daily record of his pulse beats. and II
he dies he is buried with p0mp and
Splendor.
But let us take another type. the
American Lazarus, who stood beside
tie rich man in the park. This tramp;
perhaps, has never had full meal
since. he was child. perhaps not then.
His home is i'm a rOOkery where thou
sands are huddled together Ia live and
die in the midst of poisonous gases.
The New York Tribune has just told
us of some instances of this sort i'll that
city. a reporter of that paper found
seven living in an underground
room eight feet square. \ widow
with three children living and
one that had been lying dead in bed tor
tnirteen days was found. Nine brothers
and sisters, ranging from twenty-nine
years down. were found living and
plllS AtSClliOl III biiC lOOlbs IN OhS
place the neither sent her children into
the street at nightfall i'm order that she
might rent her rooms for Immoral pur-
poses and live. This Is the way the
poor man lives, and some day God will
merrifully throw the film of death over
his eyes. If he dies he is thrown into a
box and carted away. This is our
American Lazarus.
lis it necessary for me to say that
this is wrong. and that God calls our at
tenttOn 10 the fact that we are of one
blond. and that He expects us TO live as
brothers on the earth? When Jesus
came to earth it was To show that hui
manity is one great plane. and that all
are equals. All through His word He
teaches us the brotherhood OF man.
Now let us see how the gulf is made:
we acknowledge it is here. The first
reason is bad birth. Oliver Wendell
Holmes asked, when should the train
ing of child begin?" and then ans
wnred il 100 years before he is born"
We have not vet seen the great import
ance of heredity. We talk of the breed
ing of hOrsefleSh, but we have not yet
seen that this can tie as true of
humanity. So this Lazarus started
handicapped from bad birth. lie
fed on vice ami intemperance as a child
and as young man. If he manages to
cross this gulf and get on the Otier side
it is miracle almost. Dives has rea-
sons to look at this gulf and its causes.
1 he insane haste 10 get rich is one.
People are perfectly insane, and this
gives rise TO the demands for large
profits. This does not apply to all capt.
taiStS. but capital as & whole is Shy
lock, and il vii haze its pound of flesh,
even though it is cut from tine heart of
labor.a God will stop it even if he has
TO allow a French revolution to sweep
over this country.
Il find illegal methods being resOrted
to. When it is possible for a man in this
free country to corner wheat, every
dollar of which comes from the pro-
Queer, that man is the enemy OF hui
manity and God. When il is possible
for a man To sell wheat on Change that
the light of Gods sun never shown on.
it is not strange that the police are
called on to keep the SO-called lower
classes quiet. Edward Atkinson said
in the last Forum that our income is
SOTO Tor every three persons. 1t follows
if you use more than that. somebody
must use less. My lady said her rich
dress gave employment to some poor
woman. but she must reform her living
ann argument, II Justice Is done. A man
says he cannot afford 800 for philan-
trophy, and will then drive his friend in
the park in 81, 800 equipage. AristOc-
racy is based upon false principle.
There is q snarling diSdain i'm the capt.
taliSt that is breeding discomfort. 1t is
this Sneering diSdain with which the
capitalist meets the laborer that is caus-
ing trouble. This is the shame of the
nineteenth century. The essence of
the doctrine of the church is equality
for all. lie has told us what the mag
net is that will bring these two cuffs
together and make this plane of hui
manity. We call it fanatIcIsm when
bishop in London gives up his princely
income and goes to live with the poor,
and when TOlstOi becomes shoemaker
and lives with his peasants. But it is
humanity, nevertheless"