The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-02-08


mer house tbut with all the gliding real
gold and all the plate glass diamond5 and
set In the center OF it loud voiced arg,l-
initiative, very shrewd creation that he
called God. One sentence at this point
caught my delighted ear. 1t was apropos
OF some question of the Judgment and ran:
mol tell you God doesn't do business
that way" He was giving them deity
whom they could comprehend and a gold
and jewelled heaven in which they could
take natural interest. He interlarded
his performance with the slang of the
streets, the counter and the exchange, and
ne said that religion ought to enter into
daily life. Consequently, presume he in
troduced 1t as daily life-his own AMI the
life of his friends.
Then escaped before the blessing. de-
sirIng no benediction at such hands. But
the persons who listened seemed to enjoy
themselves, and understand that | had
met with popular preacher.
Later on when / had perused the SER
mons of gentleman called Talmage and
some others, perceived that | had been
listening TO very mild specimen. Yet
that man with his brutal gold and silver
idols, his hands-in-pocket, cigar-in-mouth
and hat-on-the- back-of-the-head style of
dealing with the sacred vessels, would
count himself spiritually quite competent
TO send mission to convert the Indians
All that Sunday listened to people who
said that the mere fact of spiking down
strips of iron to wood and getting a steam
and iron thing 10 run along them was
progress. That the telephone was prog
ress, and the network of wires overhead
was progress. They repeated their state
ments again and again.
STRUCK PRorEcrIoNIsT.
just when the sense of unreality and
oppression were strongest upon me, and
when | most wanted help, man sat at
my side and began to talk what he called
politics.
had CHANGED to pay about six shillings
for travelling cap worth eighteenpence,
and he made of the fact text for SER
mon. He said that this was a rich coun-
try, and that the people liked TO pay 200
per cent. on the value of thing. They
could afford it. He said that the govern
ment imposed protective duty of from 10
to 20 per cent on foreign made articles,
and that the American manufacturer con-
sequently could sell his goods for
healthy sum. Thus an imported hat
would, with duty, cost two guineas. The
American manufacturer would make hat
for seventeen shillings and sell it for one
pound fifteen. In these things, he said,
lay the greatness of America and the eff
feteness of England. Competition between
factory and factory kept the prices down
to decent iimitso but | was never to forget
that this people were a rich people, not
like the pauper Continentals, and that
they enjoyed paying duties.
To my weak intellect this seemed rather
like juggling with counters. Everything
that | have yet pure ased costs about
twice as much as it would in England and
when native made is of inferior quality.
AN OBJECT LESSON IN TRUSTS.
Moreover, since these lines were first
thought of l have visited a gentleman
who owned factory which used to pro-
duce things. He owned the factory still.
Not man was in it, but he draws a hand
some income from a syndicate of firms for
keeping it closed in order that it might not
produce things. This man said that if
protection were abandoned tide of pauper
labor would flood the. country and as
looked at his factory l thought how en-
tirely better il was to have no labor of any
kind whatever rather than face so horrible
a future.
Meantime do you remember that this
peculiar country enjoys paying money for
value not received? l am an alien, and for
the life of me cannot see why 8 shiilings
should be paid for ls-penny caps, or 8
shillings for half-crown cigar cases. When
the country nils up TO decently populated
level few million people who are not
aliens will be smitten with the same sort
of blindness.
But my friends assertion somehow thor
oughly suited the grotesque ferocity of
Chicago.
CHICAGO VERSUS INDIA.
See now and judgel In the village of
User Jang, on the road TO Montgomery,
there be four Changer women who win
now corn--some seventy bushels a year.
Beyond their hut lives Purun Dass, the
money lender. who on good security lends
as much as 5000 rupees in year. Jowala
Singh, the smith, mends the village plows
some thirty, broken at the share, in 365
days; and Hukm Chund, who is a letter
writer and head of the little club under the
travellers tree, generally keeps the village
posted in such gossip as the barber and the
midwife have not yet made public prop
erty.
Chicago husks and winnows her wheat
by the million bushels, hundred banks
lend hundreds of millions of dollars in
the year and scores of factories turn out
pillow gear and machinery by steam. Scores
of daily papers do work which Hukm
Chund and the barber and the midwife
perform, with due regard for public opin-
ion, in the village of User Jang. So far
as manufactures go, the difference be-
tween Chicago on the lake and Isser Jang
on the Montgomery road is one of degree
only and not of kind. As far as the I'M
derstanding OF the uses of life goes User
Jang, for all its seasonal cholers, has the
advantage over Chicago.
Jowala Thigh knows and takes care to
avoid the three or four ghoul-
helds on the outskirts of the village; but
he is not urged by millions of devils to run
about all day in the sun and swear that his
ploughshares are the best in the Punjab
nor does Purum Dass ny forth in an ekka
more than once or twice year, and he
knows, on a pinch, how 10 use the railway
and the telegraph as we'll as any son of Is
rael in Chicago. But this is absurd.
The East is not the West, and these men
must continue TO deal with the machinery
of life and TO call il progress. Their very
preachers dare not rebuke them They
gloss over the hunting for money and the
thrice sharpened bitterness of Adams
curse by saying that such things dover
man with larger range of thoughts and
higher aspirations. They do not say
Free yourselves from your own slavery"
but rather, "If you can possibly manage it,
do not set quite so much store on the
things of this world" And they do not
know what the things of this world are
FE, Fl, 70, FUN!
went of TO see cattle killed by way of
clearing my head, which, as you will per-
celve, was getting muddled. They say
every Englishman goes TO the Chicago
stockyards. You shall ind them about
six miles from the city; and once having
seen them you will never forget the sight.
As far as the eve can reach stretches
township of cattle pens, cunningly divided
into blocks so that the animals of any pen
can be speedily driven out close 10 an in
clined timber path which leads TO an ele-
waited covered way straddling high above
the pens. These viaductS are tWO-Storied