Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-11


and lounging back in an arm chair, our
mouth puckered up around q Havana of
the best brand aud through clouds of
luxuriant smoke reading about political
economy and the philosophy of strikes?
mol Mol By finding out who in Brook
| Ign has been living on gristle and sending
them tenderloin beefsteak. Seek out
some Iamily who through sickness or
conjunction of misfortune have not
/ enough to eat and do for them what
! Christ did for the hungry multitudes of
! Asia Minor, multiplying the loaves and
! the fishes. Let us quit the surfeiting Of
! ourselves until we cannot choke down
! another crumb of cake and begin the
supply of others necessities.
We often see on a small scale a reck-
/ lessness about the welfare of others
! which a great warrior expressed on a
! large scale, when his officers we're dis
! suading him from a certain campaign,
| saying: cit would cost two hundred
/ thousand lives, - replying with diabol
/ ism that can never be forgotten, ''What
! are TWO hundred thousand lives to me?''
/ So far from helping TO appease the
world IS hunger, there are tho whom
! Isaiah describes as grinding the faces of
/ the poor. You have seen farmer or a
I
! grndstone, while some one was turning
it round and round, and the man holding
the ak bore on it harder and harder
while the water dropped from the grind
stone, and the edge Of the ak from being
round and dull, got keener and keener,
and the mechanic lifted the ak glistenng
and sharp and with edge so keen he must
cautiously run his finger along lest while
examining the implement he cut his hand
to the bone So l have seen men who
were put against the grindstone of hard
ship, and while one turned the crank
another would press the unfortunate
harder down and harder down until he
was ground away thinner and thinner,
his comforts thinner, his prospects thin
ner and his face thinner. And Isaiah
shrieks out: ''What mean We that ye
grind the faces of the poor?' It is
AN AWFUL THING TO BE HUNGRY.
It is an easy thing for us to be in good
humOT with all the world when we have
no lack But let hunger take full pos
session Of us and we would all turn into
baTbarans and cannibals and fiends.
l am glad to know that the time is
coming, God hasten it, when every fam
lily in the round world will sit down at a
full table, and it viii be only a question
between lamb and venison, or between
partridge and quail on toast, and out of
spoons made of Nevada silver or Califor-
MIA gold the pastries will drop
on tongues thrilling with thank
fulness because they have full enough.
have no idea God is going TO
let the human race stay in its present
predicament. If the world winds up as
II now is 1t viii be an awful failure of q
world The barren places will be irri-
gated. The pomologists, helped Of God,
viii urge on the fruits. The botanists,
inspired of the Lord, will help on the
gardens. The raisers of stock will send
enough animals tit for human food to the
markets, and the last earthquake that
Tends the world will upset q banqueting
table at which are seated the entire hui
man 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 alterations.
THE GREATEST BATTLEFIELD.
/ have read that the battlefield on
which more troops met than on any other
in the world 5 history was the battlefield
of Leipsic, 100 900 men under Napoleon,
$50 600 men under Schwarzeberg. No,
no. The greatest and most terrific bat
tie is now being fought all the world
over. II 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 shouted,
g Bread. Give us bread!' And all
through the great harmonies of musical
academy ana cathedral l hear the pathos,
the ground tone, the tragedy OF I'M
counted multitudes, who with streaming
eyes and wan cheeks and broken hearts
in behalf of themselves and their fam
lilies, are pleading for bread.
Let us take another look around to see
how we may serve our generation. Let
us see as far as possible that they have
enough to wear. God looks on the hu-
man race and knows just how many in
habitants the world has. The statistics
of the world $ population are carefully
taken III civilized lands, and every few
years officers of government go through
the land and count how many people |
there are III the United States or England |
and great accuracy is reached But |
when people tell us how many inhabi-
tauts there are in Asia or Africa, at best |
it mus. be
WILD GUESS.
Yet God knows the exact number of peo-
pie on our planet and he has made |
enough apparel for each, and if there be |
l 500 ,0l5, 0I5 people, then there is
enough apparel for 500 obs ,0l5. Not |
slouchy apparel, not ragged apparel, not |
apparel, but appropriate APP |
parel. At least two suits tor every being on |
the earth, a summer suit and winter |
suit. a good pair of shoes for every liv-
ing mortal. A good coat, good hat, or
n good bonnet and a good shawl, and
masculine or feminine outfit of !
apparel. A wardrobe for all nations
adapted TO all chimes, and not string or
a button or pin or a hook or an eye want
ing. But alas where are the good clothes
fOTthree- fOuCths of the human race? The
other one-fourth have appropriated them.
The fact is, there needs to be and will be
a redistribution Not by anaTchIstic vio-
lence. If Outlawry had its way it would
rend and tear and diminish until instead
of three-fourths of the world not prop
erly attired, four-fourths would be in
rags. l will let you know how the re-
will take place. By gene
rosity on the part of those who have a
surplus and increased industry on the