Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-02-20

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SO as to furnish the skulls. But these tw,
contributions added together made onl,
100, 600 skulls, while into the tower Of tn
worlds wealth and pomp and magnificenc'
have been wrought the skeletons of IN
counted numbers of the half fed population
Of the earth, millions Of skulls.
Don't Sit down at your table with five O
six courses of abundant supply and thins
nothing of that family in the next stree
who would take any one of those iv,
courses between soup and almond nuts anl
feel they were in heaven. The lack of the
right kind Of food is the cause of much o
the drunkenness. After drinking wha
many of our grocers call coffee, sweetenet
with what many call sugar. and eating wha
many of our butchers call meat, and chew
ing what many of our bakers call bread
many of the laboring classes feel SO misera
BILE they are tempted to put into their nasty
pipes what the tobacc mist calls tob scco, ol
go into the drinking saloons for what the
rum sellers call beer Good coffee would
do much in driving out bad rum. Adultera
tion of f'od has got tO be an evil against
which all the health fficers and all the doc
tors and all the ministers and all the re-
formers and al! the Christians need to set
themselves in battle array. How can WE
serve our generation with enough to eat
By sitting down in embroidered slippers
aud lounging back in an arm chair, our
mouth puckered up around a Havana OF
the best brand and through clouds of luxuri.
ant smoke reading about political economy
and the philosophy of strikes? No No
By finding out who in Brooklyn has been
living on gristle and seoding them ten
derloin beefsteak. Seek out some family
who through sickness or conjunction of
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for them what Christ did for the hungry
multitudes of Asia Minor, multiplying the
loaves and the fishes. Let us quit the sur
feiting of ourselves until we caunot choke
down another crumb of cake and begin the
supply of Others necessities.
We often see on small scale of reckless
ness about the welfare of others which a
great warrior expressed on large Scale,
when his officers were dissuading him from
a certain campaign, saying: cit would c. 'st
two hundred thousand lives" replying with
a dIaboism that can never be forgotten,
"What are two hundred thousand olives to
me?"
So far from helping appease the world's 8
buuger, there are those whom Isaiah de
srribes as grinding the faces of the poor.
You have seen farmer or mechanic put
a scythe or an ak Oh a grindstone, while
some one was turning it round and round,
and the man holding the Ak bore on it hard
er and harder while the water dropped from
the grindstope, and the edge of the ak from
beng rouud and dull. got keener and keen
er, and the mechanic lifted the ak, glisten-
ing 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. Sol I'VE seen men who
were put against the grindstone of hard
ship, and while one turned the crank an
other would press the unfortunate harder
dpwn and harder down until he was ground
| away thiDner aud thinner, his comforts
thinner, bis prospects thinner aud his face
thinner. Aud Isaiah shrieks out: "W Dat
mean ye that ye grind the faces of the
pool?" 1t Is an a ful thing to be hungry.
It is an easy thing for us to be in good hu-
NOR with all the world when We have no
lack. But let hunger take fell possession
eff us and we Ionld all turn into barbarians
aad esaBibals and faeds.
am glad to know that the time is COM
ing, God hasten it, when every family IN
the round world will si5 down at full
table, and it will be only question between
| lamb and Vsnison, or besween partridge
and qnail on toast. and out OF spoons made
ont of Nevada silver OF California gold, the
pastries will diop on tongues thrilling with
| thankfulness because they have full enough.
have no idea God is going to let the hu
man race stay In its present predicamenf.
If the world winds up as it now ia it will be
an awful failure of a world. The barren
places will be irrigated. The pyomclogists,
helped of God, will urge on the fruits. The
botanists, inspired of the Lurd, will help on
the gardens The raisers Of stock will
send enough animals fit for human food to
the maj ke,s, and the last earthquake that
rends the world will upset baugueting
table at which are seated the entire human
race. Meanwhile, suppose that some of
the energy We are expeDding iu useless and
unavailiDg talk about the bread question:
should be expended in merciful allevi
atiOns.
THE GREA5EsT BATTLEFIELD.
have read that tue battlefield on which
more troops met than on any other in the
worlds history was the battlefield of Leip
sic, 100000 men under Napoleon, 250, 600
men uuder Schwarsebsrg. No. no. The
greatest and most terrific battle is now be.
ing 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 suggest
ed to h,m by the cry of the hungry popu
lace of Vienna as the King rode through
and they shouted, "Bread Give us brr adj"
And all through the great harmonies of
musical academy and cathedral I hear the
pathos, the ground tone, the tragedy of un-
counted multitudes, who with streaming
eyes aud wan cheeks aud 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 generation. Lot US
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to wear. God looks on the human race and
knows just how many inhabitants the
world has. The statistics of the world 8
population are carefully taken in civilized
lands, and every few years nfiserS of the
GoVerDnent go through the laud aud count
how many people there a in tue DIted
States or England and great accuracy Is
reached But when people tell US how
mauy inhabitants there are in Asia or
Africa, at best 1t must be a wild guess. Yet
GOd kUOws the exact nu unber of people on
our planet aud He has made enough appar-
ell for each AID if there be fifteen hundred
mil ion, fifteen thousand, fifteen hundred
and fifteen people, then there is enough ap-
parel for fifteen hundred million, fifteen
thousand, fifteen hundred and fifteen. Not
slouchy apparel, not ragged apparel, not
insufficient apparel, but appropriate appar-
el Al least two suits for every being on
The earth, a summer suit Snd a winter suit.
A god par of shoes for every living NOR
fal A good coat. q good hss or good
bonnet and a good shawl, and a complete
masculine OF feminine outfit of apparel. q
wardrobe for all natious adapted to all
cliues, and not striog or button or plo
or a hook or au eye wanting. But, alas!
where are he gnod clothes for three fourths
of the human racer The other Que fourth
have appropriated them The fact is, there
needs to be and will be red tiibution.
Not by anarchist violence. If outlawry
had its way, 1t would rend and tear aud
diniDish until instead of three fourths of
the world not properly attired, four fourths
would be in rags. let you know how the
redistribution will take place. By gen.
eros,ty on the part of those who have sur
plus and increased Industry on the part of
those suffering from deficit. Not all, bnt
the large mai ,rity of cases of poverty in