St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-07

men were striving to derive either
profit or pleasure out of life for their
own personal ends, it was a remarkable
and commendable TACT that there were
body of men in the world
bonded together, taking as their
watchword, honor and purity. If we
were to listen to pessimiSts, there was
no longer any heroism in the world, no
one willing to sacrifice himself for the
good of fellow being, but each man
was for himself in the struggle for self
qualification alone. ''If we are to be-
lieve this class of people," said he,
ton is the first law of nature. When
they spoke of honor they did not mean
to refer to honesty, for that was but the
first letter of the alphabet in the broad
meaning of the term. Men might pc
honest and still not filled with sense
of honor.
"There is one class Of men who are
honest because of fear of the law;
another who were so because they
feared public opinion, and the force be-
hind these is Self-eSteem. One fears
the penalty of the law. the other the
penalty of the public, but there was a
third class who paid no attention to
the law, no attention to what the public
might say, yet they set up their princi-
pies of honor and purity, governed by
that sincere voice of conscience, or what
is better, the eye of the unseen God.
Yet there are those who in their
business are devoid of every sense
of honor. They claim that it is just
to undermine the business of another,
so long as they actually do not dip their
hands in their money. Great corpora
lions are robbing each other in this way
to-day. Is it honorable for men to cut
each others threats in business and
politics? Yet there is an abundance OF
this in the world. Men excuse it under
the plea that it is for trade, and trade is
the god of the nineteenth century. How
many people amoug you all would close
their places of business on the Sabbath
If they knew it would interfere with
their business, or that they could not
make it pay if they did SO. Let
every man remember that he is
not only his brothers. keeper,
but the child of the same God, and he
who is not doing what he can to lift up
his brethren, is like the Dead sea, that
receives everything and gives nothing.
An organization such as that which
you and | represent should have more
to do than to simply herald themselves
as opponents OF honor and purity.
There is more to be done than this. Can
it be that they have only blazoned it to
the world for the purpose of catching
the unwary. A mere declaration of
principles amounts to nothing. Alas
that it is so.
We are told that drunkenness is the
greatest evil of the present day. l
could wish that it was SO; but there is
an evil infinitely greater-impurity.
Drunkenness affects but the one, while
impurity the many. We hear, with
bated breath, stories told of houses of
ill-fame, but it is not alone confined
there. Its consequences are in our
midst, and can only be guessed
by the tales that might be
told by the physicians of our
city. We often hear of fallen
women, but never a word of the men
who wrought the fall. Men say it is
necessary. Can 1t be SO, because there
are SO many women in the world? What
are the feeders of impurity? 1t is the
drinks with which men excite woman's
passion; it is the current literature of
the present day; it is worse than vile
language that is whispered into their
ears by the vulgar. Oh keep yourselves
firm in that purity; that is the gem Of
your watchword. 3.