Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-04-05
sATuRDAr MONT .oLnoQUIEs

SATURDAY NIGHT sOLILOQUIES
IL is a satisfaction at the end OF
the week TO drop matters Of a con
tIOyefsial character and for a few
moments exert ourselves to get up
on broader grounds. Once week
we would leave political and secta.
Tian distinctions aside, and walk
along together on the broad and
general highway ol common hu
naDity. IL Is pleasant 10 strip ones
self OF all narrowness and bigotrJ
occasionally and feel at perfect liber-
ty 10 address every human being as
though we were all out on holiday
together, with no personal ends 10
adyance, no ambitions TO serve and
no selfish interests to guard. Un-
der such circumstance we are the
more able to speak frankly 10 our
fellow man, and, face to face, and
heart 10 heart, TO unburden Oursouls
TO each other ana exert all those
kindly aud beneficial influences
that 80 readily and helpfully re-
spond from each breast. Until we
try II we cannot realize how diff
cult the task Of bringing ourselves
into an attitude Of perfect sympa-
thy, or even Of unprejudiced toler-
alton toward all the rest Of man
kind, or even our own town neigh
bors The worldly-wlsest finds that
somehow or other he has been get
ting himself into All attitude of hos
tility toward Il good share OF the
community. Some he has thought
beneath his notice. Others he has
counted high above the reach Of his
associations. Others were alienated
from him by business difficulties,
professional riyalries, needless re-
marks, or the machlnatons of ene-
mics. If he studies the situa tion lac
realizes the painful fact that perhaps
a majority of all he has known are
by his fault or neglect, or that Of
others, thrown beyond the reach OF
his sympathy aud influence. They
have from one cause and another
passed from the circle Of touch, and
come no more into his contact.
Whatever of human good he might
do them has been rendered impossi-
BILE and he IL shedding the light
that IL within him upon a small
and limited fringe Of acquaintance.
II we examine ourselves closely
such will be found TO be the case.
The demagog may seek TO try 10
please everybody, but his efforts
VIII only clrcumscribe him the more
closely, because they are not made
Ia II sincere manner The trades
man may seek to win every man
and woman In the community, but
II he attempts II from the stand
point Of business interest In them,
and nothing else, he will soon find
that the design of his approaches
was quite well understood and ac.
cepted for what IL was worth, IL
would seem as tho the minister Of
the gospel could keep up the sweet
relations of universal sympathy |
with all mankind around him.
Yet how often do the clergy, by
greater devotion 10 dogma than ~
the rights and wants OF humanity,
limit this influence which they
should be able to exert on each and
every one within their reach. Gen
orally speaking, what right have
any OF us to cut OF any human be-
ing from our circle of interest, friend
ship aud sympathy? In our politi-
cal work We are asked too much 10
men only within the lines OF
party, when the whole object of
party organization is TO draw upon
men outside OF the party. Some
would not allow the editor TO NJ
main on terms Of friendly cam
nlunlon even with all of his own
party. They would have hlm repre-
sent this faction or that, this ism
or that, and yet by every
such step he only cuts
on a body OF voters here and
body there, that he Is ex-
pecled 10 have some influence over
for good, Why shall We not rather
address all men regardless OF party
IN our political discussions, angering
none. aud Insulting none; for. no
matter how skillnIl our use of Ian.
gauge, wo can never wipe the cloud
We have Ialsed on the brow of AN
lthe 10 n shall he as tho Z, had