Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-22

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Mrs Ruth Ward Kahn, who is the first
American writer distinguished by an hon
orary membership in the Association Of
Authors and Actors Of London. contributes
to the current number of this excellent
magazine thoughtful review of "Milton's
Poetry" This author, Of whom it has been
said that he is much talked of and little read,
deserves to be brought into prominence be-
cause Of high merit and for the reason that
there is growing up generation who are
ignorant Of the bard and prophet who was
true to his ideals and who in an age of
sycophants maintained the dignity of his
art. The review is just and shows on the
part Of the writer not only an intimate
knowledge Of the work OF one Of the great
est of England's poets, but a rare under
standing ST the real man. The style is de-
ightful, and reader and publisher are to be
congratulated in contribution by so able a
pen as Mrs. Kahn wields. The varied esti-
mate put upon Thomas Jefferson. and the
conspicuous place he occupies in the his
tory Of the United States, make anything
relating to his life OF general interest, and
the paper on him by J. r. Alphin,
who pronounces him the "Democracy's
greatest apostle" will find interested
readers and hearty Endorsement by the
admirers of him whom all must admit to
have been great man.
After an interval of a year Davis S.
Waite gives "a Second Phase of the
Tariff The tenor Of the article is best de-
fined in the writer's own assertion that his
design is to prove 'that the wages of labor
in the United States are generally higher
and better for the laboring man than in any
other country" and: THAT the chief
cause Of this superiority is our protective
tariff The tariff question. like the shield
nf IA ha har oifb a,.e
and the disputant in this instance has in
dustriously endeavored to fortify his posi-
ton by an array Of figures and statistics
that are most depressing to the average
mind, but to the believer in protective
tariff are likely to prove convincing.
SAT the Temple Door, is a well written
story by Alva Milton Kerr, in which little
waif who was born and lived in the lowest
slums, creeps out of the filth to get his first
glimpse of other life in public garden and
then to die at a church door. While the
story is in the main well written and the
contrasts wildly rendered, truth is in a
measure sacrificed; rose bushes do not
flourish in the precincts of a city's poor,
neither are burials beneath them permitted
then it is a grave question
whether the cause of philantrophy is ad-
vanced by arraying class against class as is
done when the rich and the churches are
represented as needless of the call of suffer
ing humanity. 1t is well to bear in mind
that while it is true two men went up to the
temple to pray, one a Pharisee and one
publican, it was the latter who was accepted.
And it was he who had money to buy wine
and oil and to pay the reckoning at the inn
who befriended the man at the wayside.
Hypocrites get into the churches and hard
ness of heart is often the associate of
money-bags, but there are majority who
love their kind and are able and ready to
extend helping hand: to teach other than
this is to turn away the poor and the I'M
fortunate from those who would be their
benefactors and to sow seeds of bitterness
that will result in stone-giying for bread
and scorpions for fish.
The leading article by Hon. ]. ". Deane
is q query: els Revolution Imminentl'
The writer seems to cherish the belief that
the tendency of recent legislation is to fos- |
ter a spirit of rebellion among laboring
classes. In short, it is the old cry of labor |
against capital, and while declaiming all in |
tention of being an alarmist there runs
the entire article cry of dis |
content that could be easily converted into |
a rallying cry to attack the defenses and |
level the barricades.